Behind the photographs

Photography Data Lab

The choices behind the archive: equipment, photographic rhythm, and the way I review my work.

Photographs in the archive: 47,479
Photograph years: 2007–2026
Cameras recorded: 5

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An archive, year by year

Cumulative Growth (Live)

The running total of photographs currently in the archive, grouped by their recorded photograph year. Refreshed on page load—not an upload-history or deletion-history chart.

Cumulative photographs

47,479 dated photographs across 20 recorded years.

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Annual and cumulative counts by photograph year
Year	That year	Cumulative total
2007	10	10
2008	47	57
2009	170	227
2010	265	492
2011	1,316	1,808
2012	1,221	3,029
2013	401	3,430
2014	577	4,007
2015	692	4,699
2016	1,135	5,834
2017	715	6,549
2018	1,514	8,063
2019	3,416	11,479
2020	1,484	12,963
2021	4,876	17,839
2022	4,991	22,830
2023	2,846	25,676
2024	7,231	32,907
2025	9,577	42,484
2026	4,995	47,479

The photographs behind the numbers

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Photographic DNA

Cameras, lenses and recurring choices. Follow a camera or lens back to the photographs made with it.

Camera & lens distribution

Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL

100 photographs have recorded lenses for this camera.

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EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

EF75-300mm f/4-5.6

Focal-length fingerprint

47,477 photographs with a positive recorded focal length. Archive-wide, not camera-filtered.

Up to 24mm

5,160

25–49mm

3,559

50–99mm

11,201

100–199mm

13,753

200–399mm

10,936

400mm and above

2,868

Landscape: 42,540 · Portrait: 4,938 · Square: 1

ISO working range

47,478 photographs with a positive recorded ISO. Archive-wide, not camera-filtered.

ISO 100 or below

8,450

ISO 101–400

34,968

ISO 401–1,600

3,022

ISO 1,601–6,400

728

ISO 6,401 and above

310

Gear evolution

Absolute photograph counts by year and camera—not percentages. Years open matching photographs in the data table.

Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL
Canon EOS 50D
Canon EOS 7D
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
Canon EOS R5 Mark II

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Recorded camera use by photograph year
Year	Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL	Canon EOS 50D	Canon EOS 7D	Canon EOS 5D Mark IV	Canon EOS R5 Mark II
2007	10	0	0	0	0
2008	47	0	0	0	0
2009	43	127	0	0	0
2010	0	265	0	0	0
2011	0	163	1,153	0	0
2012	0	0	1,221	0	0
2013	0	0	401	0	0
2014	0	0	577	0	0
2015	0	0	692	0	0
2016	0	0	1,135	0	0
2017	0	0	715	0	0
2018	0	0	832	682	0
2019	0	0	2	3,414	0
2020	0	0	0	1,484	0
2021	0	0	0	4,876	0
2022	0	0	0	4,991	0
2023	0	0	0	2,846	0
2024	0	0	0	1,319	5,912
2025	0	0	0	0	9,577
2026	0	0	0	0	4,995

Lens handover

The recorded transition from an EF lens to its RF successor. Actual counts only; no forecast.

No cumulative crossover yet. EF: 3,633 photographs · RF: 1,740.

Annual use

EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
RF100mm F2.8 L MACRO IS USM

Cumulative archive use

EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
RF100mm F2.8 L MACRO IS USM

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Lens handover by recorded photograph year
Year	EF that year	RF that year	EF cumulative	RF cumulative
2019	965	0	965	0
2020	487	0	1,452	0
2021	908	0	2,360	0
2022	654	0	3,014	0
2023	350	0	3,364	0
2024	269	40	3,633	40
2025	0	1,137	3,633	1,177
2026	0	563	3,633	1,740

Light & Season

When photographs were made, using the timestamps recorded in the archive. These times are not corrected for travel timezones and do not identify the best time to photograph.

Seasonal rhythm

28,737 dated photographs in this slice, grouped across all years.

January

1,331

February

1,753

March

2,454

April

1,330

May

1,778

June

1,101

July

1,148

August

1,404

September

5,791

October

7,187

November

2,183

December

1,277

Capture rhythm: month × hour

Darker cells mean more photographs. Recorded hour, 00–23; not a measurement of available light.

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Photograph counts by recorded month and hour
Hour	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
00:00	12	0	0	2	18	0	5	9	14	4	1	0
01:00	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	1	10	3	0	0
02:00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	7	4	1	0
03:00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	0	7
04:00	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	22
05:00	0	0	0	1	7	13	13	16	12	9	1	4
06:00	0	10	10	11	15	14	14	30	41	63	6	11
07:00	10	35	52	28	40	47	76	82	69	119	11	32
08:00	45	113	93	75	96	64	91	144	180	277	69	17
09:00	77	66	240	89	109	74	102	63	399	546	154	111
10:00	199	83	201	81	90	66	33	53	584	686	161	104
11:00	248	170	329	211	195	94	68	48	880	910	197	147
12:00	163	234	244	156	232	36	42	123	763	1,027	201	211
13:00	157	301	256	145	240	46	95	181	550	923	344	172
14:00	167	239	238	136	211	39	110	109	632	769	357	222
15:00	128	177	283	138	111	73	84	116	460	606	362	44
16:00	65	115	99	102	64	54	57	85	379	437	139	73
17:00	38	117	210	68	78	59	37	124	275	309	53	11
18:00	3	34	155	19	123	79	72	58	243	159	32	25
19:00	0	12	28	32	77	128	77	20	139	72	35	25
20:00	4	19	5	6	15	101	42	65	51	47	14	21
21:00	8	13	2	4	13	79	84	44	48	30	26	12
22:00	7	15	7	10	29	30	28	26	26	110	10	6
23:00	0	0	2	16	14	5	14	0	26	77	9	0

Curation Lab

The archive’s final QC classifications, including manual review decisions—not averages of model scores or an independent rating of artistic quality.

Final QC status

47,479 photographs have a QC status; 60.5% are currently Top or Good.

Top

7,896 · 16.6%

Good

20,841 · 43.9%

Average

11,967 · 25.2%

Low

4,944 · 10.4%

Very Low

1,831 · 3.9%

Category portfolio density

Top + Good as a share of each category. Categories below 100 photographs are excluded; the largest 12 are shown. Counts and denominators stay visible.

Nature Landscape Photography

56.6% · 7,206/12,725

Cityscape Photography

78.6% · 5,948/7,570

USA Nature Photography

72.1% · 3,186/4,421

Western USA Nature Photography

67.0% · 2,706/4,040

Macro Photography Close Up Nature

21.8% · 471/2,157

Night Photography City Lights and Stars

41.7% · 593/1,422

Architecture Photography

78.5% · 1,088/1,386

Miscellaneous Photography Collection

57.6% · 785/1,364

Aviation Photography

9.0% · 119/1,327

New York City Photography Portfolio

75.7% · 1,003/1,325

People and Creative Photography Collection

52.3% · 662/1,266

North America Cities Photography

60.0% · 656/1,093

Final QC status over time

Current final classifications grouped by photograph year. Absolute counts—not a history of how ratings changed.

Top
Good
Average
Low
Very Low

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Current final QC classifications by photograph year
Year	Top	Good	Average	Low	Very Low
2007	0	4	1	1	4
2008	1	8	14	10	14
2009	7	38	62	44	19
2010	4	35	80	95	51
2011	54	347	485	318	112
2012	107	460	439	182	33
2013	75	191	97	27	11
2014	143	280	112	34	8
2015	227	335	103	22	5
2016	272	637	171	39	16
2017	154	455	85	18	3
2018	367	773	268	69	37
2019	770	1,511	728	256	151
2020	208	475	442	240	119
2021	1,110	1,866	1,038	597	265
2022	1,031	2,212	954	538	256
2023	571	1,179	488	405	203
2024	1,085	2,545	2,370	992	239
2025	1,077	5,061	2,299	891	249
2026	633	2,429	1,731	166	36