Does iPhoto 11 have event hierarchy organization capability?

I asked a similar question in 2009 with a "no" for iPhone 09. Link: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2089635&tstart=0
Since I started organizing my photos in iPhoto I enjoy the events feature, far more than the folders aspect of organizing. I would like to categorize my pictures through a hierarchy of events instead of folders. For example, if I take a series of pictures of various landscapes, each photo session would be a self contained event, and then all of those events could be placed within a large event named something arbitrary like "nature." If I click on "nature" it will unravel the sub-tier of events all containing landscapes, which I could then click on to view the pictures.
I know this is an option for the folders menu. But to me it seems more visually logical and efficient to have this concept in events format.
So I'm curious to know if this is a feature or if there is something similar to what I am looking for in iPhoto '11.

So in other words no. iPhoto still doesn't have events that you can make in hierarchy form. Why do you think events are a "very basic organization"? I personally find events to be far more intuitive than folders because they use two forms of communication: written language (label) and visual (key photo), as opposed to folders which use just one (label). I'm not sure how even how events are more basic than a folder in that respect. I'm a very spatially oriented person so it helps to target both sides of my brain with the language acquisition (label) and the spatial orientation (photo) side of my brain at the same time. Is this not efficient to you?
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The answer is YES - not to your specific question but to what you want to accomplish
but not using events - they are just the automatic very basic organization
you can create albums and albums can be placed in folders and folders and be placed in folders
for example using keywords every photo can be categorized in any number of ways - then smart albums can collect the photos for display
Likewise you can use smart albums for many different ways of finding the photos your want
and places shows your where the photos were taken
and faces shows you who in in them
Events are very basic because they are inflexible, automatically set up by date and can not be nested - albums and folders are very flexible and can be nested and can hold what ever you want
Just because event can not be made hierarchal certainly does not mean that one can ignore the existence of albums and folders which are hierarchal and a part of iPhoto - iPhoto has an extremely strong and flexible hierarchal organization - it simply is not named "events"
LN
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