As a landscape and travel photographer, I take a boatload of pictures. Sometimes I take a series of shots when I do not want to miss a moment. Other times, I take multiple shots to properly expose a scene or to capture a panorama. The result of it all is a photo catalog with tens of thousands of pictures each year. While storage is cheap and I run everything off a fairly beefy NAS (Network-Attached Storage), my photo catalog over the years has bloated to many terabytes. In this article, I will go through what I had to do to significantly trim my photo storage.
