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 2021416,732,388
August 2021668129,515,332
September 202111113137,577,803
October 202130824179,247,467
November 202176429,940,684
December 202119214113,667,204
January 2022891251,438,766
February 20228310218,799,291
March 202296736,736,655
April 202216019151,337,434
May 20221781186,997,098
June 202219655,260,272
July 202252832225,535,466
August 202268742570,148,670
September 202274687,545,298
October 202226518163,611,150
November 202218416139,236,859
December 202218810173,080,737
January 202318010261,333,598
February 20231286216,730,308
March 202311710312,096,814
April 202318611314,881,669
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
Total5,1763815,238,190,744

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 bit8813141,077,748,919
8 bit38415870,611,290
8 bit add-ons28224516,591,981
BeebShop525115,279,357
Domesday24371208,635,785
Econet738151,139,756,042
Elk24082,378,645
Finds115,074,087
Laserdisc11109173,082,489
Hard Drives17340199,427,644
Master 51231325,345,881
Misc21201274,600,996
Monarchy112103,940,458
Programming49980210,103,966
Second Processors1320452,344,530
Shows120108,291,191
Tea31230,691,900
Teletext27941,544,079
Who112,741,504
Total3815,1765,238,190,744

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

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

January 2022
January 2023
May 2023


Updated 1st January 2024

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