Say cheeeeeeeese!

So now that my hard copy photos are somewhat under control, I've moved on to dealing with the digital photos that are on my computer. How to organize them - that is the question.

I decided that the best method would be to organize them by year, month and event. So for example, 'My Pictures' contains files that look something like this...

2011-01 January (Mustang Convertible)
2011-01 January (Robbie Burns Party)
2011-02 February (Miscellaneous)
2011-03 March (St. Patrick's Day...I've already made this file in anticipation of the upcoming holiday)

This way the files appear in chronological order, and as long as I know when an activity happened, it should be easy to go back and find it. Now if I had a photo named, for example, "Leprechaun Peggy" and had just saved it as a random photo instead of under 2011-03 March (St. Patrick's Day), it might be difficult to find it a few years from now.

It's not a perfect system. For example, if I want to go back and find photos of myself, they could be scattered throughout various files by date and I'd have to hunt for them...unless I had a separate file named "Pictures of Peggy". But hey, what system is perfect?

Organizing my photos this week has been cleansing and it feels nice to have an organization process in place.

This link contains some good tips for organizing digital photos:

http://www.digitalphotos101.com/organizing-your-digital-photos.htm

I found this going through my digital photos. I took it a few years back on a trip to Halifax. Hee hee.