Using FINDER - Organise photos in ascending chronological order

In windows you can put your photos in filename order, date created, modified etc the same as Finder, however I cannot find how to choose to put photos in ascending chronological date order. When you choose Date created it organises them backwards from the most recent photo. I would never show holiday snaps backwards nor read a book backwards. I have multiple cameras and would like to collate all the photos together in the order they were taken.
When you go into Adobe Bridge CS4 you can put into ascending or descending order and I tried to save this order into my Finder folder but it does not keep it.
I was trying to avoid renaming my originals at this stage. I did a test and renamed a batch of photos in Adobe Bridge and it renumbers the photos etc but when you go into finder under list view the numbers are like 1,3,4....19,2,20,21 Bizarre.
As I have too many photos and always change and add folders, I prefer not to organise albums etc through programs like iPhoto. I'd rather store the originals in FINDER (which is the equivalent to Windows). This way I can draw upon my photos via a photo organiser program if I want to for a specific project but can always find ALL of my photos at any time even if I've changed around the folders.
Why can't APPLE allow something so simple as date created ascending and keep their numbering systems in order??? I just want my photos in date order for storage in FINDER. Can anyone help?

...but only for date modified not created.
Not true. If you elect to have the Date Created field shown by checking the box for it in the Finder's View menu > View Options, it works exactly the same way for that field as for any other: just click the arrow to toggle the direction of sorting.
There is no "thumbnail view" in the Finder (again, see the View menu for the four view options: icons, list, columns, and cover flow. I presume icon view is what you mean. You can sort the icons in icon view by creation date, but you can't reverse the sort order in that view. If that's what you're complaining about, then you're simply discovering belatedly that the Finder isn't a photo management application and doesn't meet your need for one. You'll need to use one to do what you want to do, and when you choose the right one, you'll realize how much better it is for that purpose than the Finder — not just in that one way, but in lots of others as well.
Note that I'm not putting in a plug here for iPhoto, Bridge, GraphicConverter, Aperture, or any other app in particular: there are so many of them available that you should try a bunch and see which you like best.

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