How do you organise your photographs?

I just use Aperture for the majority.

Processed pics churned out by aperture are just saved under 'Pictures -> Subject name'
 
This is how i store mine!

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Lightroom changed the way I deal with photos, I now have everything from the last few years in one place with the dated directory structure; it deals with all the photos from all the digital cameras I have had and keeps them in one place and enables me to manipulate RAW files and set up slideshows. Picassa screwed up my directories so badly it was only when I started using ALR which detects duplicate images that I was able to sort everything out properly, my photo directory and my lightroom backups are not copied nightly on to another drive to keep them safe :)

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Correct me if i am wrong. But i hate how lightroom can’t pick up a sub folder.

Say I have a folder within say "Rally 2009" with the edited photos. It doesn’t pick this up and just adds them into the one library
 
Using Adobe Lightroom 2

F:/Photography raws/"landscapes, portraits, artisitic, unsorted"/"unsorted"date & name of shoot/001.cr2

1, go through them once to pick out the terrible ones and delete
2, move them into the correct catagory
3, go through them again and star them 3 - 5 based on quality/impact. 1 - 2 based on bad but wants to keep them for other reasons
4, process and burn full res tiffs to a sister folder structure identical to the raw one but only contains print ready tiffs.
F:/burnt/"landscapes, portraits, artistic,"/oo1.tiff


Thats my routine

as for renaming them.. probably best as when you get another camera you could end up overwriting file names. Its how I have lost so much valuable work.
I haven't got into key wording yet as I am still in an ongoing battle to perfect up the catalogue.
 
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