Changing Photo order?

Hi folks,
Right now, the photo application displays all of my pictures for oldest to newest, so in order to see the most recent pictures, I have to scroll all the way to the bottom. That leads to two questions:
1)How can I reorder the pictures so that the most recent ones are on top?
and
2)Is there a way to skip down to the bottom of a page without having to scroll manually?
Thanks!

In my opinion, Apple really screwed up here. I see that some of you think that the photos are placed in date order, but I find that not to be true. The JPG image files that I have placed on my iPad are in no discernible order. I thought they would be placed in alphabetical order, so I painstakingly renamed them to show in the order I wish, then re-synced, but that did not work. I tried deleting the directory where iTunes stores all the re-formatted images (the folder with all the F01, F02, etc directories) but that did not help. And the files do not show up on my iPad in date order either. It is a mystery. Perhaps if you just take photos from your camera and load them directly onto your iPad they will be in date order, but if you manipulate the photos and collect them from different locations, they are in no order that I can determine. I am trying to create a professional presentation of our portfolio, and it is very frustrating. It also ***** not having subfolders.
So I downloaded two apps to see which might work. Guess what - only one downloaded. The other just sits on my iPad saying "waiting". Nice.
I'm not an Apple user, and it looks like I never will be. Apple needs to figure out how to make computers that work before I'll be sold on their technology.

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