Beauty that you want to share.

Well, to each their own. But I find it really inconvenient to scroll through a small piece of background or a cluster of samples that are only three pixels high (the other extreme) and then have to open them separately, and that's only if I'm not feeling lazy. In that time, I'd rather scroll through a dozen moderately sized images.
Although, this is a recurring problem for me; I rarely stay in a museum for very long, I usually just stroll through at a leisurely pace.