photo organization

I think that an important point to keep in mind about using Photos is that pictures can be in multiple albums without taking up any extra space. In Photos, an Album is a list of pictures that you like to see together. So you can have a folder with albums by dates, and you can have another folder with albums by location, and you can have another folder with albums by families, etc. Apple provides Person albums already, but you might like to have albums for families together.

So a picture of "Joe Schmoe at the Grand Canyon in June 2014" can be in the Schmoe album, in the Grand Canyon album, and in the June 2014 album. Since Jane Doe went to the Grand Canyon in April 1999, she can also be in the Grand Canyon album but not in the other two. But there is only one of each picture-- they are each listed in multiple albums. It's like the card catalog at the library (now replaced by computers) where a book could be listed by author or by title or by subject.

Pictures can also have keywords to help you find what you want-- maybe Schmoe is a keyword, and GrandCanyon, and 1999. Short titles can be shown under the pictures, so it's worthwhile to think about how you can use that for organization, as well.

Also, folders can have folders in them-- so I have decade folders with year folders which include event albums & event folders with albums.

Do you want to use the Photos.app as your photo manager? Then you may want to have a look at this user tip:

New to Photos? Some Considerations on How to Design your First Photos Library in Photos 5.0

It has been written for Photos 5, but the general ideas will apply to the newer versions of Photos as well.

Try googling. But it's a very broad question. Try narrow it down. Why do you want to organise your images? To make the findable? Well then categorise them in your terms: Date? Who? Where? What? Once you've figured out why you want to organise them then the principles on which you can organise will become more clear. Then more practical questions will arise - how - and folks here may be able to assist.

Perhaps to devolve a bit and look back into roots of publications

such as books &/or magazines, to see what they've been up to?

Good examples may appear from selective search results..

Photography Tips and Techniques | Popular Photography

https://www.popphoto.com/category/how-to/

Some authentic ideas from yesteryear have been updated to advantage.

How to back up your iPhone photos without using iCloud | Popular Photography

Previous involvement in film photography, and darkroom hands-on

helped me to resolve basic questions; into higher solutions at times.

Formulae cause-and-effect, such as the Zone System, is harder to

accomplish in the digital world; where you choose the path ahead

by study of patterns of light, by the numbers. Then replicate same.

[At least the learning curve, away from harmful chemicals and the

like, makes digital a great tool; while I miss processing and results.]