
You still may have a bunch to wade through. Search for holiday and focal distance less than 5 feet.

If all your holiday shots are tagged 'Holiday' and your program can search existing metadata, your problem is solved.

It was an incidental pic on some holiday, but which one. **Tagger** But what do you do when you are looking for the closeup of a butterfly. Often remember that the shot took place on your trip to Italy, or that it was the Smith & Brown wedding is sufficient. Many people will use some combination of Year/Month/ and string to describe event. **Browser** Pix initially come in in bunches, and as such they go somewhere in some folder structure on your computer.

So let's look at what I mean by a photo manager: I'm starting to avoid the word 'DAM' as it increasingly refers to industrial sized software costing tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. I've been thinking a lot about photo management.
