Organising your Mac photos

[Sanne2]

I organized everything by era with sub-folders.
The folder for each era opens with live (colour)pictures and has four sub-folders: live b& w pics, photoshoots, and candids. Very often the "candids" folder also has sub-folders, if there are a whole lot of pics from one occassion, for instance the Hollywood Star ceremony from 1979, the Rock 'N Run concert in 1983 or the awardshows from 1977 all have their own folder.
Most pictures in the candids and photoshoot sub-forums are labeled as, for instance, "set1-pic 1", or "set4 -pic 8", pics from the same photoshoot are organized like that as well as candid pictures that "belong together". I put extra info in the comment (like photographer, or event, or who she's photographed with).
All the main folders are for pics that include Stevie. I have another folder that's labelled "Fleetwood Mac" with subfolders for the pictures of the other members sans Stevie. There's also a large "unsorted" folder for everything that hasn't found it's right folder yet.
I hope this makes sense. It takes a lot of time to organize a large number of pics but it really helps you to easily find a certain pic, or to check if a pic is already somewhere in your folders. I currently have 14.840 pictures organized in a total of 160 folders.
I find organizing my pics strangely relaxing.