Any recommendations for running a blog efficiently with posts that include images? I've cut my website down to some very basic styling, but since it's a personal blog, my picture is on the front page. That picture takes up more space than I'd like, but I feel like it's important for readers to see me on the front page.

Maybe I should just remove it? But I still have a lot of blog posts that include multiple images, and I don't want to reduce them to tiny thumbnails -- they're nice photos!