Download these documents:

                        Tutorial on Keywords in Lightroom (PDF here). Read this first.

                        Keywords | This is the current complete list. This is a PDF only... so cannot be used for importing into Lightroom.


The keyword list is designed for New Zealand photographers.

The most recent addition is under Geography ~ New Zealand. This is a complete list of place names in New Zealand and also topographical places. This has added about 30,000 words to the list!!

There are many reasons why you should keyword the images in your Adobe Lightroom catalogue. If I had done it before now then I could have saved myself many hours looking for an image or just giving up (one of my catalogues has 130,000 images and grows daily).

The keyword list is being developed primarily by myself. If you would like to help with a section in the keyword list then please contact me.

If you follow the proceedure described in the tutorial, and import the current list then this is how it looks in Lightroom. These are the first level 'main' categories. I don't expect these main categories to change.

Note that the imported list does not have to be in alphabetical order (though you can easily sort entries on one level). When the list is imported into Lightroom, the software sorts everything under each level in alphabetical order.

This is a project taking hundreds of hours of work (by various contributors). If you would like to help with this project, then please email me, and I will send you the respective section. At some stage in the near future you will be able to download the the keyword list for a small fee.

Animal Keywords

There a number of great keyword lists for this section that can purchased from http://keywordworkflow.com, or directly from this web page by clicking on the link below. I suggest that you purchase the list that interests you...

Birds of the World Keyword List (30,000 species) - US$24.99

Mammals of the World (5,600 species) - US$24.95

MarineLife Keyword List (12,000 species) - US$99

Download one of their free lists first. See that you need to copy the txt file into Word and then into an Excel spreadsheet to easily insert a column (which will become a tab when exported back into a Word/txt file, to fit into the structure of our keyword list.