Hi guys, As a hobbyist wildlife/nature photographer, I was looking for a solution to my problem, which was that it was really cumbersome to keep track of all the species I photographed, search by them, etc. I tried using tags/keywords for that, but quickly that got out of control, they were too lon…

I’ve thought about doing something like this in the past, but the biggest drawback is taxonomy splits and lumps. Within a few years your tags would be out of date. What I do is just post pretty much everything to eBird/ and iNat, and use the dates as a reference to quickly find the original pictures…

maybe relevant: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/naturtag-organize-your-photo-collection-with-inat-metadata/33959

I am using Digikam for more than 770.000 photos.

When I come home from a photo session, I will: Create a folder with the data and location, e.g. 20251016_manassas_battlefield Copy all photos from my camera Create a subfolder for each species photographed (e.g. 20251016_manassas_battlefield\symphyotrichum_undulatum) and sort photos into these sub…

Thanks for your feedback! It sounds like a good workflow, I think I used Picasa some time in the past, but then I didn’t have photography as a so strong hobby yet. Maybe it’s time to revisit :D It’s good to hear that you like this on-the-fly search solution, I really missed something like this too,…

Thanks! It is, somehow I didn’t find it by myself. Good to see that somebody else also thought of something like this. I’ll look into it better.

Thank you for all the replies so far! Just realized I didn’t even write the name of my app. Its name is Wild Vault, it is available here if anyone is interested: https://apps.apple.com/app/wild-vault/id6757435893

I take photos with a digital camera and process them in Adobe Lightroom before uploading to iNaturalist. I tag all the photos in Lightroom using hierarchical tagging, with common names as the lowest hierarchical level, which automatically matches common names unambiguously to scientific names. When …

Hello, thank you for your reply. I am curious as to what metadata should be written in a photo file to automatically fill the species name when uploading observations ? I am not using lightroom, but it would save me some time.

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