Add photo to existing catalog

I'm sure this has been asked a thousand times, and if you can just link me to the answer, I would appreciate it.
I am using LR3. How can I import additional photos to an existing gallery of images, or can't it be done?
I want to shoot a football game, import them at half time, then go back and import the rest of the game at the end and have them all in the same gallery.
Thanks.

clvrmnky wrote:
dj_paige wrote:
The only issue was having a way to keep all the images together after the game. Sounds like I need to take a closer look at collections.
And here I am arguing that collections is a waste of time in this scenario, as in: extra work, no benefit. You already have kept the photos together by putting them in the same folder.
These depends, at least partially, on maintaining a specific pattern of Folders. i.e., one couldn't just easily use a dated folder system because you could go to two matches in a day.
Collections preclude this, and actually make the DAM easier, so not necessarily a waste of time.
I agree there are many possibilities here, but if the goal is to keep football games distinct, and the user does this via folders (subfolder names football, football2, etc.) then I see no benefit to using collections. I would like the Mort3770 to think about these issues, and to help him avoid unnecessary or redundant or inefficient steps in his workflow. Further, although Mort3770 first mentioned "collections", and we described how to use them, I think he may have been using the term generically, rather than using the term "collections" as a specific Lightroom construct, in which case again his folders may be sufficient.
I also agree with you that I would prefer to use the DAM capabilities of LR (keywords, metadata and collections) rather than folders, as I think LR offers more power and flexibility than folders, but there are many ways to do this.

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