In this article, the author describes his experience when Kathy Nichols contacted him seeking suggestions, recommendations--really anything he could think of--that might help her seize control of a bewildering and rapidly surging torrent of digital image files. The challenges that Nichols described interested him, and he felt they might be addressed by the creative application of open source technology. This article also contains a list of publications for further reading and a list of PHP (an open source tool used to build web-based systems) coding tips.