diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
index f984400ae..568137391 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ submit the change with your pull request.
 - Harry Brodsky / [hbrodsk1](https://github.com/hbrodsk1)
 - Jeff Kingswood / [ancyentmariner](https://github.com/ancyentmariner)
 - Logan Gingerich / [logangingerich](https://github.com/logangingerich)
+- Mark Taffman / [mftaff](https://github.com/mftaff)
 
 ## Bots
 
diff --git a/app/controllers/photos_controller.rb b/app/controllers/photos_controller.rb
index 2866c1549..57b10e5d8 100644
--- a/app/controllers/photos_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/photos_controller.rb
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ class PhotosController < ApplicationController
     photo = Photo.find_by(flickr_photo_id: flickr_photo_id_param)
     photo ||= Photo.new(photo_params)
     photo.owner_id = current_member.id
-    photo.set_flickr_metadata
+    photo.set_flickr_metadata!
     photo
   end
 
diff --git a/app/controllers/plantings_controller.rb b/app/controllers/plantings_controller.rb
index 0853b897a..f50083213 100644
--- a/app/controllers/plantings_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/plantings_controller.rb
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ class PlantingsController < ApplicationController
     @planting = Planting.includes(:owner, :crop, :garden, :photos)
       .friendly
       .find(params[:id])
-    @photos = @planting.photos.order(created_at: :desc).includes(:owner).paginate(page: params[:page])
+    @photos = @planting.photos.order(date_taken: :desc).includes(:owner).paginate(page: params[:page])
     respond_with @planting
   end
 
diff --git a/app/models/photo.rb b/app/models/photo.rb
index 5800ec6f9..07531672b 100644
--- a/app/models/photo.rb
+++ b/app/models/photo.rb
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ class Photo < ActiveRecord::Base
       license_url: license.url,
       thumbnail_url: FlickRaw.url_q(info),
       fullsize_url: FlickRaw.url_z(info),
-      link_url: FlickRaw.url_photopage(info)
+      link_url: FlickRaw.url_photopage(info),
+      date_taken: info.dates.taken
     }
   end
 
@@ -49,7 +50,11 @@ class Photo < ActiveRecord::Base
     end
   end
 
-  def set_flickr_metadata
+  def set_flickr_metadata!
     update_attributes(flickr_metadata)
   end
+
+  def to_s
+    "#{title} by #{owner.login_name}"
+  end
 end
diff --git a/db/migrate/20180118112809_add_datetaken_to_photos.rb b/db/migrate/20180118112809_add_datetaken_to_photos.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b8cb09118
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/migrate/20180118112809_add_datetaken_to_photos.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+class AddDatetakenToPhotos < ActiveRecord::Migration
+  def up
+    add_column :photos, :date_taken, :datetime
+    update_flickr_metadata
+  end
+
+  def down
+    add_column :photos, :date_taken
+  end
+
+  private
+
+  def update_flickr_metadata
+    # Fetch from flickr, the photos updated the longest ago will be fetched first
+    Photo.all.order(:updated_at).each do |photo|
+      say "Fetch flickr data for #{photo}"
+      photo.set_flickr_metadata!
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/db/schema.rb b/db/schema.rb
index 473e756fa..be74dabfc 100644
--- a/db/schema.rb
+++ b/db/schema.rb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 #
 # It's strongly recommended that you check this file into your version control system.
 
-ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20171129041341) do
+ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20180118112809) do
 
   # These are extensions that must be enabled in order to support this database
   enable_extension "plpgsql"
@@ -405,6 +405,7 @@ ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20171129041341) do
     t.string   "license_url"
     t.string   "link_url",        null: false
     t.string   "flickr_photo_id"
+    t.datetime "date_taken"
   end
 
   create_table "photos_plantings", id: false, force: :cascade do |t|