Using the Photo library
Explore Field Chronicle wildlife photos by date, species, outing, or place—your field gallery with EXIF still attached.
Field Chronicle isn’t trying to be “another photo gallery”—it’s trying to be the operating system for your time in the field.
Photos is not a second Lightroom. It is the field gallery for selects you attach to Field Chronicle: sighting photographs and journal-location pictures, owned by the outing—not by a folder. Browse by date, species, outing, or place. EXIF stays on the image.
April 2026
Browse by date — month groups and a jump rail help you land on the day you remember.
Browse the way you remember the day
Switch modes when your memory is a date, a taxon, a trip, or a pin. Open a photo to see it large, step through neighbors in that group, and read EXIF chips (ISO, shutter, aperture, focal length, often camera and lens). That metadata is why a photographer can reconstruct exposure without leaving the journal.
Search by field context, then refine
Start broad—“every frame of this species”—then narrow to a place, a season, or a lens. Attachment to an outing and a sighting is what makes that refinement possible. A photo without that link still lives in the library, but it behaves like a camera-roll dump again.
Why photos belong in the field journal
Keep RAW culling and editing in the archive you already use. Field Chronicle answers long-term retrieval: “the east scrape in March,” “sharp images of that owl,” “this taxon only with the long glass.” Species, Field Journal, and Photos tell the same story because the outing is the hub.
See Field Chronicle for wildlife photographers, Gear, and Sightings.