This is where my Flickr account comes into my loop of organization. I upload something to flickr out of every significant shoot I do and I keyword that so I can find it later. The upload date on the flickr site tells me where to find the image if I need it…

However, like most people, you do something I’ve never quite understood. Your folder naming convention begins with the date. At first this seems fine because it organizes the disk in chronological order. But after accumulating photographs over a period of years this organizational structure becomes cumbersome if you can’t remember what year you took a picture or set of pictures you need to relocate.

Instead, I use this naming convention:
XXXXXXYYYYMMDD where:
XXXXXX-meaningful name
YYYY-Year, MM-Month, DD-Day

Within a meaningful topic the sets of photographs are in chronological order just as in your naming scheme. Btw, if a folder does NOT have a date appended then it is an organization folder that contains folders that do have photographs. This results in a meaningful tree structure that organizes pictures by date within topic(s).

Say, for example, I want to select a landscape taken in Sedona, Arizona needed for some purpose and therefore need to review all of them. Here is how I would find it:

Pictures->Landscapes->Arizona->Sedona

Then within that I see these folders:
Church20031108
Sedona20031108
Sedona20040227
Sedona20040724
Sedona20050507
etc, etc.

This way I find all Sedona landscapes in one place. That makes things a lot easier for me. I can always remember the subject matter of photos but not when they were photographed until reminded using this structure.

My PBase web site above is basically organized the same way as my hard disk. That helps to.