If I call a FLICKR picture to my site, does it load on my server?`

Server Config
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This will probably be a naive question, but…

If on my HOSTGATOR site I call in pictures from my FLICKR account, when the page is viewed by a visitor, does the webserver download the images to itself to “compile” the page then present them them to the viewers web-browser ( i.e. down, then up, double bandwidth), or does all the bandwidth of the images bypass my webserver altogether?

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If you call the picture directly from flickr using HTML code, the image is loaded just once, directly from flickr to the visitor’s computer.