I spent the better part of the weekend crouched over the laptop organizing two and a half years worth of digital photos.
I didn't have any plan for handling the number of pictures I was taking.
I just tossed them (electronically) into a folder and left them there, in the order taken.
About six months ago I started to organize by shoot and date, as I added to the collection.
Now the rest are sorted, too...

Man, I had a bunch of pictures!

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