Image displays with incorrect orientation

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Apologies for the incredibly basic question but I have searched the question bank and I honestly can't see a comparable question (or at least, if it is comparable I'm too new to this to discern the relevance).I'm trying to learn how to insert an image into a webpage. I'm using straight html at the moment not RoR. While I am able to embed an image in my html file and get the image up on screen, I can't seem to preserve the correct orientation - essentially it reproduces my jpg in landscape when it should be portrait.I'm using the following code:\[code\]<img src="http://stackoverflow.com/Users/user/images/image.jpg" width="259" height="193" alt="Image" /> \[/code\]Which presents the image with what should be the left hand edge as its base; I have tried switching the dimensions but that simply leads to a taller version of the image, still sitting on what should be the left hand edge. I can't see anything in the html Dog pages that explains this issue...