That's a great rule for general purposes, but it's intended for situations where you have lots of small assets that you are asking the client to download. In t

That's a great rule for general purposes, but it's intended for situations where you have lots of small assets that you are asking the client to download. In this instance we're talking about 2 megapixel images, so the extra HTTP requests are not even going to register in the mix. With modern browsers pulling down 6+ parallel downloads, breaking the image up might make plenty of sense.