That kind of free-form description is perfectly fine. An 80-character description is no problem at all - a Short Text field can hold up to 255 characters, and you can use Long Text if you ever need more.

Access doesn't have a built-in Google-style search syntax with plus signs, quoted phrases, and so on. A criterion such as:

Like "*" & [SearchDescription] & "*"

is great for finding one word or an exact phrase anywhere in the description. But if someone enters "rock beach," it looks for those two words together in that order.

If you want "rock beach blue" to find records containing all three words in any order, that requires splitting the entered text into individual words and building separate criteria for each one. That's very doable with a search form and a little VBA. I do cover this in some of my more advanced developer lessons.

For a photo database, I would also seriously consider using keywords/tags in addition to the full description. For example: beach, rock, blue, hat, person. A proper keyword table with a junction table gives you much cleaner searching than trying to make every description read like a Google search. You can still keep the Description field for the human-readable notes.

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Thank you!

Image searches are probably best done with AI nowadays.  Your phones probably can already do it.  On my Galaxy S25, I search for "pictures with rocks" and it will show pictures on my phone that fit that description (see picture below).  But it's not always accurate.  Sadly, Access is not likely to get these AI capabilities.  Traditional keyword search is problematic due to synonyms, conjugated words, misspelled words, etc., that you have to account for.  Not to mention, all the data entry you have to do for all the keywords, not pleasant if you have thousands of pictures and/or pictures with complex visual elements.