Undesired pagebreak between section header and figure

Question

I am trying to compose a page with a section header and a couple of figures: they should stay on the SAME page, but there is no way to force them to, an extra page is always added between the section and the first figure. Here is the incriminated code:

\subsection{Lipsum} % this works OK
\lipsum[1- 3 ]

\FloatBarrier  % attempt implementing suggestions from this forum
\newpage
\subsection{Graphs}
\begin{figure}[H]
      \centering
      \includegraphics[width=0.5\hsize,height=0.3\vsize,keepaspectratio] {Figures/fig00001.png}
      \\{ Figure 001: Pipponzolo }
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[H]
      \centering
      \includegraphics[width=0.5\hsize,height=0.3\vsize,keepaspectratio] {../Figures/WashEagle.png}
      \\{ Figure 002: Washington Eagle }
\end{figure}  
\FloatBarrier

the suggestions from Latex Section header and figure won't print on same page did not work.

Wrapping the page between \begin{samepage} and \end{samepage} did not work either.

I am at the end of my rope: any suggestions?

Answer 1

You need the float package to define the [H] option.

Also it is always better to let latex handle the numbering and caption, so formatting is more consistent and as it knows it is a caption it can then handle cross references and lists of tables, etc.