These are from my own camera and I'm not sure how to reduce their size without lowering the Pixels per photo, which may hurt their quality. Any ideas out there on how to do this?
Use just about any picture viewer/editor (iPhoto if you're Mac) - open each pix, then export as jpg for web use - most have this as an option - if not, there'll be an option to pick size in KB - try to go no bigger than 200K, and rename them so you know they're the smaller versions - also put the pix in a separate folder so you can find them without grabbing the mega pix by mistake - then replace the originals in the post (or on the server - whichever it is)

good luck