Aha! perfect, thank you so much.
It is using a timthumb script although I have extremely limited knowledge and no idea what this means.
Here is the page source view-source:http://www.uponmybiz.com/ if I right click where the image should be and copy the image url it gives me this: http://www.uponmybiz.com/wp-content/themes/Myst/timthumb.php?src=http://www.uponmybiz.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/64068408_640684071.jpg&h=250&w=670&zc=1
The theme is called Myst The theme user guide says that those images on the homepage are featured images. I followed the steps in the video it supplied http://www.screenr.com/0IR but no luck.