CFIMAGE CFLOOP Performance

I have a site I am building that pulls large images from a folder based upon a recordset. I am using cfimage within a cfloop to go through the recordset, resize the images and add a watermark. I am experiencing performance problems. I was thinking that perhaps cfthread might be useful in this scenario, but I have not used that before. Anyone have thoughts on how to solve my performance issues?

FYI...here is my current cfloop/cfimage code for your reference.

<cfloop query="rsProofs">

<!--- Read in the original image. --->

    <cfset objImage = ImageRead( "./proof/#rsProofs.FILENAME#" ) />

    <!--- Read in the Stark Images watermark. --->

    <cfset objWatermark = ImageNew( "./images/logoMain.png" ) />

    <!---Resize main image--->

    <cfimage action = "resize" height = "10%" source = "#objImage#" width = "10%" overwrite = "no" name = "objImageresize">

    <!---Resize watermark image--->

    <cfimage action = "resize" height = "75%" source = "#objWatermark#" width = "75%" overwrite = "no" name = "objWatermarkresize">

    <!---Rotate watermark--->

    <cfimage action = "rotate" angle = "-35" source="#objWatermarkresize#" overwrite="no" name="objWatermarkrotate">

    <!---

        Turn on antialiasing on the existing image

        for the pasting to render nicely.

    --->

    <cfset ImageSetAntialiasing( objImageresize, "on" ) />

    <!---

        When we paste the watermark onto the photo, we don't

        want it to be fully visible. Therefore, let's set the

        drawing transparency to 50% before we paste.

    --->

    <cfset ImageSetDrawingTransparency( objImageresize, 60 ) />

    <!---

        Paste the watermark on to the image. We are going

        to paste this into the bottom, right corner.

    --->

    <cfset ImagePaste( objImageresize, objWatermarkrotate, 50, 0 ) />

<!--- Write it to the browser. --->

    <p><cfimage action="writetobrowser" source="#objImageresize#" /></p>

            <hr />

</cfloop>

Thanks,

Clay