Why do my Flicker images looks sharper than my embedded?

[HSakols]

Hi,
I notice on my last post that the images linked directly to flicker are better than the ones imbedded in my post.  Why is this? 
Hugh

[Michael West]

Hi,
I notice on my last post that the images linked directly to flicker are better than the ones imbedded in my post.  Why is this? 
Hugh

I have had other posters mention that it appeared that flickr had over sharpened images I had stored there.

Apparently they do sharpen  the reduced sizes. That seems a bit presumptuous to my way  of thinking, given that any changes to an image should be the images owner's choice.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Would be nice to illustrate it. It is pretty easy to do so. Just use the same image, with the same dimensions, and post it twice in the same post: once from Flickr, the other attached.

[HSakols]

Would be nice to illustrate it. It is pretty easy to do so. Just use the same image, with the same dimensions, and post it twice in the same post: once from Flickr, the other attached.

I went ahead and attached 3 of them.  I guess there isn't much of a difference. 

Hugh

[HSakols]

No the attached image of the oak trees is a better rendering. 

[drmike]

I thought Flickr applied its own sharpening to images?