My name is Vlad and I love photography. Even though I’m not a professional photographer, I love taking pictures of my family and also I love taking pictures when we travel. My regular job is an engineer and this alone should qualify me right away as an organizer. Well…at least that’s what I thought a few years ago when I bought my first digital camera. Read my story and learn how I went from being completely overwhelmed by my pictures to being an organized photographer. Now, over 30 thousand pictures later, I keep my pictures organized and I can enjoy them a lot more.

It all started with…”I love my digital camera…this is great!”

I bought my first digital camera in 2002. It was a great little Canon PowerShot S45. I loved my camera and I started taking lots of pictures everywhere. The whole digital photography experience was great for me. The ability to take lots of pictures and keep only the ones I liked felt like true freedom. So, pictures started coming into my computer, and they started coming fast and in large quantities.

Then it turned into: “Where is that picture?”

It wasn’t long however, until I had my first frustrated moment. I had some friends come over and wanted to show them some of my pictures and guess what? I couldn’t find the pictures I wanted to show them. Well eventually I did find them but I was frustrated because I couldn’t find them quickly. I kept saying: wait, it’s in this folder…oh no…maybe here. But oh well, I loved my camera and the pictures kept coming.

Afterward, frustration sets in: “I have too many pictures!”

By now, the one episode with the missing pictures, becomes very frequent. I started realizing that I have too many pictures to keep track of…and I wasn’t keeping track of them. I would pile them all in folders that didn’t have any rhyme or reason at all. I would name them differently every time and searching for pictures became pretty hard very soon.

The fundamental reason why most people are frustrated with digital photography is not because they take terrible pictures, but because they are overwhelmed by the large quantity of pictures they can take. There are simply too many pictures to keep track of and unless you learn how to organize your pictures you will also most certainly be overwhelmed and frustrated as well.

Aaaahhh! “I have to learn how to organize my pictures!”

After a couple of years, we had our first baby and I realized immediately that I would be overwhelmed by all the baby pictures I started taking. WE were taking literally hundreds of pictures every day for months on end. As a consequence, I said to myself: “I have to learn how to organize my pictures!”.

And I did! I started thinking, reading, thinking, testing and slowly I developed a great method to organize my picture folders. That was a great first step toward organizing my pictures and that’s how OrganizePictures.com was born. In August 2006 I started OrganizePictures.com to share what I was learning…and indeed there was a lot to learn about.

I can show you how to organize your pictures…really!

OrganizePictures.com captures my journey from a frustrated photographer to an organized photographer. Along the way I learned about folders, tags, geotags, metadata and I also learned a lot about taking better pictures. You can also learn all these things but most of all remember the most important reason for learning how to organize your pictures.

Why learn how to organize your pictures? It’s simple: learn how to organize your pictures so you can be free to enjoy your pictures. If you can always organize and find your pictures, you can really enjoy sharing them with your friends and family.

What to expect from OrganizePictures.com:

My goal is to provide practical advice and coaching for all who want to learn how to organize their digital pictures. I focus on suggesting free solutions and when free is not possible I’ll try to find an affordable solution.

I have created 4 convenient ways for learning how to organize your pictures.
1. BOOK. If you have more than 1000 digital pictures on your computer then I guarantee you will become very frustrated if you don’t learn how to organize them. I used to be frustrated too…very frustrated! However, for over three years I have been developing and perfecting the method I use now for keeping over 40,000 pictures organized and securely backed up. You too can learn this straight forward approach to keeping all your family pictures, children pictures, baby pictures, old scanned pictures and travel pictures all organized and backed up. Then you can be free to enjoy all your digital pictures.
   “I wanted to tell you that this book is FANTASTIC! I wish I had a resource like this when I first started getting my pictures together! I might now re-read it and go through all my pictures with your thoughts and words in mind.
   (Cassandra from Massachusetts)” Download my book now!
2. Free E-mails. Get new articles and photo organization tips & tricks by e-mail.
3. Free Tutorials. Step-by-step tutorials for managing your pictures.
4. Free Articles. Fresh articles about nideas for organizing your pictures.

What OrganizePictures.com is NOT:

This is not the best site for learning how to take great pictures. There are many other resources for learning photography. While I would offer great tips on how to improve your photography, the primary focus of OrganizePictures.com is to help you learn how to organize your digital pictures.