Changing the way the masonry gallery loads

Hi,

I have a masonry on my homepage, set to load images/titles of 9 recent blog posts. This is the second item down on the page and only the top of it shows above the fold on my laptop.

At first, what was showing above the fold was only the empty grey background space until scroll. I searched the topic in these forums and found some code for making it display on page load. That’s an improvement, since I now see (the top half of) the top row of images not empty space. But these images are loading without the animation then when you scroll down, that triggers the animation and the images reload.

Is there a way to trigger the animation on page load – so that the images drop in place then?

Thanks!