If you’re looking for a photo collection tool that is highly focused on helping you manage your photos then Phraymd could be thing that will help you. F-spot covers a whole lot more when it comes to managing photo collections with all those features such as editing your photos so that they could rotated, etc. But Phraymd seems to be more focused on your metadata.
The design philosophy of Phraymd includes the following:

The user interface must not be a blocker.
It keeps the metadata in the images.
There is a database that keeps track of data for faster searching.

It looks really nifty to me. It also is said to be designed so that one could easily call other applications when needed. For example, image editing tools that will enhance your pictures. Or maybe viewing it using Firefox.
If you take a look at page about using Phraymd
you will see [...]

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