An image recording apparatus includes an imaging unit to obtain captured image data; an image configuration determining unit to determine an appropriate image configuration; an image configuration acquisition control unit to execute image configuration acquisition control to obtain captured image data of image content having the appropriate image configuration; a capturing/recording unit to record the captured image data when the captured image data of the image content having the appropriate image configuration is obtained; a capturing history information holding unit to hold capturing history information; an image configuration exhaustion determining unit to determine whether the captured image data of the image content having the appropriate image configuration has been recorded a predetermined number of times; and a recording setting unit to prevent recording of captured image data of image content having the appropriate image configuration determined to have been recorded the predetermined number of times.