There is plenty of down time when we are visiting on the farm. I took the opportunity to start trimming out photos that I didn't need. I use Lightroom, which I like a lot. I started with the oldest ones and just started deleting unwanted frames. I was amazed that I sometimes took the exact same composition and exposure many times. I don't know what I was thinking at the time. Those were the easy ones to eliminate. I also had tons of airplane photos where the airplane was just too far away to make a useful exposure. Those were also easy to cull. I also had lots of photos which were just technically crappy, out of focus or motion blurred. They all went to the trash. I managed to get through two years worth of archive and reduced my number of photos from 86,500 to 79,500. It also bought me and additional 16 gigs of drive space. I have a long way to go to get the project done, but at least I made a good start. From now on I am going to do the culling when I download the pictures. That will save a lot of time and space in the future.

p.s. If anyone is using Lightroom 3, let me know what you think. I plan to upgrade eventually.