How to speed up NextGEN Gallery?

Hello,

I had a quick question regarding the speed of my website and I was hoping you guys could help me out!!

The site is written in WP and using NextGen for gallery display. It works great but my problem is that the user doesn’t see anything until all images are downloaded.

Since some connections are quite slow it means the user stares at a black screen for quite a while and sometimes it just stalls until you click the refresh button. Not very professional

Is it possible to download the images in the background so to speak. So when the first picture is downloaded it’s displayed for the user while the rest of the images download unnoticed?

http://www.johnmichaelfulton.com

Thanks so much for your time!!!

John Michael Fulton