At the end of a day of photography, I import everything into Lightroom. My files are stored on disk in a structured, date‑based system organized by year and shooting day. For example, a photo taken on May 15, 2025 at 10:34:14 would be saved as: Images/2025/2025-05-15/REC-20250515_103415.nef“REC” is simply the photographer’s initials. This structure makes it easy to find any image later, no matter how far back it goes.
For storage, I use three identical drives. I synchronize my primary photo drive to the first backup drive, and then I keep a second backup drive at another location. Every so often, I bring the master drive to that off‑site location and update the backup there. It gives me peace of mind knowing that my entire archive exists in multiple places.
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