Thanks for reply Tim. The stretched image posted by Gary has the .jpeg file extension, all my camera photo's have the .jpg extension but it shouldn't make any difference. In any case I've suffered the stretch issue on a portrait aspect image of mine uploaded to tm-img, solved as you suggested by reducing aspect ratio a tad. Problem is it keeps happening time and again to a range of TM folk - they can't all be using an incompatible format. I re-itterate never had this issue with other image servers even ones using the same server software.
To muddy waters further I can't reproduce the stretch with any of the two or three portrait photos I've just tried
