I am amazed, Dennett, that Medium does not offer minimal editing effects such as cropping and rotation. There are many programming libraries (free code a programmer can copy & paste) that make this easy to add to a website. Apparently this is all part of the "we do words, dammit, not pictures! [except for thumbnails that are basically required if you want people who are browsing to click on your story, sorry about that, hey did you know there's a obscure trick you can use for that which doesn't work most of the time?]" mindset of the Medium powers.