OK, so I had recognised the need to properly manage my growing collection of images. If you’re paying attention you would have noted that I said “images”, not “photos” (despite the title of this article!). Hmm. Remember, that includes a number, soon to be in the hundreds and eventually in the thousands, of scanned photos up to maybe 100 years old, as well as my own scanned slides and prints from the last 50 years, not just photos taken since my conversion to digital cameras about 10 or so years ago.…
Adobe Lightroom is my image processing and asset management application of choice. As at version 5 however, it doesn’t provide face recognition, which I want. Picasa does a very good job of that, but by default doesn’t save the face rectangles or names to the image file itself, rather it uses a proprietary database and folder-based text files (picasa.ini)… 
In about 1962 my grandfather gave me a Kodak Box Brownie Flash II camera, just like the one in this picture. I was only about 8 years old at the time, and I never quite did get the hang of winding the roll film to the exact spot to make sure each exposure didn’t overlap the previous or next one :-(.…