5 reasons why you should start tagging your images now

Photo: my Flickr tags

Searching
OK, so you want to enter a contest with the theme "yellow". You know that you have a great picture with a dominant yellow element, but how do you find it? Do you look through 50.000 pictures trying to find it, or do you just do a search for "yellow"?
Or your friend is getting married, and your're making a slideshow of all his drunken failures. Just do a search for "joe drunk faceplant in stripper lap", and pick from the 251 hits you get. Joe is awesome!

Archiving
Just because you remember the names of the people in the picture now, doesn't mean that you'll remember then in 50 years.
Not to forget your grandchildren that will find a disk with 100.000 pictures on it, but no way of knowing whose in the pictures. It's a shame!

Geotagging
What is geotagging, you ask? It's a way of storing the location that you shot the picture. It's not the most important form of tagging, but it's funny as *something-really-funny*.
Many cameras today have built-in GPS, and does the job for you. The hardcore photo-geeks manually tags their pictures (e.g. on Flickr or with Google Picasa).

Start now, not later
You should tag your images immediately after transferring them to your computer! Tagging 10.000 images once a year is boring as h**l.


You'll sleep better at night
Knowing that your images are tagged, makes you sleep better at night. Trust me!