BeebMaster - PhotoBank


BeebMaster PhotoBank

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 Beebs churning out pages of new HTML, I'm at it with the old Canon EOS taking new piccies for future!

So much so, in fact, that over the last few years, 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!

I select the best pictures taken by the camera, crop them and sort them into picture sets. In some cases, the source material for the picture set is a set of screenshots instead of a set of camera photographs.

The table below shows the number of sets, total images and total file size of all the images in the PhotoBank broken down by month.


MonthNumber of ImagesNumber of SetsTotal File Size
June 2022213,188,228
July 20223311,014,982
September 202268586,962,202
October 202252456,440,788
November 202218416139,236,859
December 202218810173,080,737
January 202318010261,333,598
February 20231286216,730,308
March 202311710312,096,814
April 202316610206,590,478
May 202316710119,805,022
June 2023748174,993,462
July 202324921370,311,281
August 202324018391,694,473
September 202311710243,724,213
October 202312611136,929,119
November 202344117,312,284
December 202324012121,969,927
January 2024927304,136,560
February 202413579,769,318
March 20241094705,091,044
April 2024464373,511,274
May 202442422358,989,223
June 202417311969,952,975
July 20241059457,944,306
August 2024403122,228,750,267
September 202426219831,030,613
October 202443726891,441,027
November 202481836524,272,662
December 202415810810,591,691
January 202535028897,047,114
February 20258911284,466,439
March 2025566531,272,700,888
Total6,39042314,033,110,176

I've also categorised all the picture sets, to give you a bit of a flavour of the subject matter:

CategoryNo of SetsNo of PicturesTotal File Size
32 bit505721,122,910,722
8 bit819683,397,744,725
8 bit add-ons474131,860,604,023
BeebShop424112,020,022
Carry On372338,734,766
Domesday14212801,705,309
Econet9012941,732,608,041
Elk24082,378,645
Finds115,074,087
HTMLGEN2347,149,421
Laserdisc44983,892,066
Hard Drives28603479,670,252
Master 5129200192,052,736
Misc13113758,406,968
Monarchy112103,940,458
Programming571246254,067,315
Second Processors55629,021,626
Shows388445,675,393
Tea1211,968,436
Teletext27941,544,079
Who63122,171,941,086
Total4236,39014,033,110,176

Now a bit of comparison over time, showing how the PhotoBank is changing as I start to catch up with the backlog, but also as I seem to add more pictures at an increasing rate!

DateNumber of ImagesNumber of SetsTotal File Size
January 20215,6533053,795,869,045
January 20224,4632803,084,581,195
January 20235,3233824,503,326,564
May 20234,8403724,680,938,526
January 20245,1763815,238,190,744

Finally, a new addition for 2025, a table showing the total number of new picture sets created per year since 2010:

YearNumber of ImagesNumber of SetsTotal File Size
20101,52378401,968,846
20112,494126372,034,942
20121,37973370,458,081
20132,35881745,053,550
20142,486681,661,708,393
20151,935521,510,262,394
20162,3261061,365,857,920
2017936491,227,367,777
20181,23571505,072,522
20191,079491,117,193,069
20201,164771,053,373,472
20211,315106966,538,305
20222,5571931,977,375,918
20232,4861434,819,239,902
20243,1211679,122,599,389
20251,005922,454,214,441
Total29,611155229,715,561,002

For a further bit of comparison, I have kept some historical versions of this page here:

January 2022
January 2023
May 2023
January 2024
January 2025


Updated 1st May 2025

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