Too much white space between figure and text

I am using REVTeX’s APS format, so a two column document, and have not steered away from it too much. At the end of my document I have some text which just barely spills over the next page, perhaps a paragraph or so, and I follow it up with some images and that portion of the code looks something like this:

A bunch of text
begin{figure}[H]
centering
includegraphics[width=linewidth]{picture1.png}
end{figure}

begin{figure}[H]
centering
includegraphics[width=linewidth]{picture2.png}
end{figure}

begin{figure}[H]
centering
includegraphics[width=linewidth]{picture3.png}
end{figure}

The issue I am having is that the paragraph spills over to the new page so it is near the top, but then I have a ton of white space and the first image is inserted at the very bottom of the first column. Is there anyway to cut down on the white space?

Here is my preamble:

documentclass[%
 reprint,
%superscriptaddress,
%groupedaddress,
%unsortedaddress,
%runinaddress,
%frontmatterverbose, 
%preprint,
%preprintnumbers,
%nofootinbib,
%nobibnotes,
%bibnotes,
 amsmath,amssymb,
 aps,
%pra,
%prb,
%rmp,
%prstab,
%prstper,
%floatfix,
]{revtex4-2}

usepackage{graphicx}
usepackage{dcolumn}
usepackage{bm}
usepackage{amsmath}
usepackage{amssymb}
usepackage{float}
usepackage{array} 
usepackage{old-arrows}
usepackage{listliketab}
raggedbottom
begin{document}

A bunch of text
begin{center}
  includegraphics[width=linewidth]{example-image-a}

  bigskip
  
  includegraphics[width=linewidth]{example-image-b}

  bigskip
  
  includegraphics[width=linewidth]{example-image-c}
end{center}

rule{0pt}{0.9textheight}% Overly large strut to fill final column > ragged bottom look