Help on two items please

[Garry]

Hi, first posting of the year, and almost a year since I started Bird watching.
Highlights for me, was seeing a Whitethroat, Spoonbill and Little Egret for the first time.

I need help, advice on two items please.

1. How do you file or name your Bird photos, ie The place, date and name of Bird?? or just Place + Date? (These will be stored on my PC.)

2. End of Feb I be staying in North Devon, is there any good Nature Reserves to visit. I be on the edge of Exmoor, so I be there and I need a few places to visit. Any help be great.

I know I can rely on you to help me, as you did last year in ID a few Birds for me.

Thanks
Garry

[KeenTeen17]

yep its always a pleasure to help out.

I only usually name photos species.jpg and have them in a folder called place

I can't help with the nature reserves sorry Im a northerner

[Dae]

All my stuff is in folders by location, then named if I've done an edit - as I shoot in RAW.

Can't help with reserves, I'm from wales.

[Garry]

Thanks for the tips on naming my photos. Ones I have taken, I just put them under the bird name. I will change this over the weeks to place and then the bird name.

Thanks

[DaiTheDragon]

The way I organise my photos are first I have a folder for month, in that folder I have other folders named by location and date. The photographs all have keywords assigned to them. All these are kept on an external hard drive. On my computer I have folders for birds, butterflies, ect. and in each of those folders I have folders for different species, one for Blackbird, Wren ect. so I have all photographs of one species together. Sound complicated but it's not really and if I want a photograph of a Red Admiral butterfly I can see all of them in one folder.

Dai

[Garry]

Many thanks to all your help.

Now have a few ideas what to do.

Thanks

Garry

[Ruth Daniel]

I organise mine by trips and dates.......it helps with my bird lists too.
Sorry can't help re Devon.....I too am a Northerner!

[Hobjob]

I do it the other way round.

File by common name and scientific name (a la WAB) and name file with place
and date ..............

Its consistency tht really matters - and I hae lots of birds still in my
"unsorted" directories