The PhotoBank is the name I give to the stack of images I have built up for future updates. Even when I'm not sitting in front of the P.C. churning out pages of new HTML, I'm at it with the old Canon Powershot taking new piccies for future!

So much so, in fact, that over the last eighteen months, the stock of new pictures has rapidly outstripped the rate of updates. The information in this section gives a flavour of how many images I have in reserve for more updates in the months to come!

The data below relates to the main images selected from the best pictures taken by the camera, then cropped and sorted into picture sets. Just before I create the new pages for each picture set, I generate a set of small 200-pixel wide thumbnail type images and resize the main pictures and save them at a reduced image quality to save space. Usually the maximum size of the big images is 800 pixels across, occasionally 1,024 and, very rarely, 1,280. I have an unofficial maximum file size of approximately 100K, although there are a few exceptions. I think many more people are using a broadband connection than when I started BeebMaster, so I don't worry too much about picture size, although I rarely allow a picture to go over 200K. If I didn't do that, I'd need my own server and it would take you months to look at all the pictures on my site!

So, whilst the information below is a sort of "to do list" of future updates, the eventual number of images uploaded will be roughly double the amount given, and the total size of the pictures will be very much lower!

The reason, by the way, that the average picture size for the 2007 images appears to be a lot lower than previous years is because many of the images from January 2007 onwards are screenshots extracted using my D.V.D. recorder which produces much better quality pictures at a much lower size than the traditional method of pointing the old lens in the general direction of a screen!