Photo folders on iCloud

Hi and hope you can help!
I am trying to organise my photos into albums and folders to share among my devices but I cannot seem to find a way. Maybe what I am trying to do is simply not possible Here is the info to see if anyone can help me!!
1. I have a Mac, two ipads and two iphones
2. My Mac is running OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 and the two ipads (Air 2) and iphones (6 and 6 plus) are running iOS 8.
3. I am an event planner and have thousands of photos stored in my Mac, which are categorized into subfolders, for example:
     A. Venues
          aa. Hotels
               aaa. Hotel x
               aab. Hotel y
               aac. Hotel z
          ab. Villas
               aba. Villa x
               abb. Villa y
               abc. Villa z
          ac. Restaurants
                aca. Restaurant x
               acb. Restaurant y
               acc. Restaurant z
          etc etc
4. I would like to be able to share my folders and subfolders among all my devices
5. I would like all devices to get updated when the Mac folders are updated
IS THERE ANY WAY TO DO THIS?!?!

The new Photos.app will be able to store a photo library in iCloud, and allow you to define smart albums based on keywords.
If you tag all your photos with keywords, you could have smart albums based on keyword "Hotels", "Villas", "aaa. Hotel x" etc. These albums will automatically update if you add a keyword to a new photo, and the smart albums will automatically be the same on all your devices that are using iClous Photo Library.
If you wait a little longer, until the new Photos.app will be available for the Mac as well, you may get what you want for free.

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