How many photographs are enough?

I don’t know how many photographs I have taken in the past 40 years but I currently have 33071 in my Lightroom catalog and this doesn’t count the boxes of pictures I have from film days. I have over the years deleted many of the pictures I’ve taken with digital cameras. Most of those deleted were experiments, tests, or pictures that didn’t work out.

Occasionally, I will go through my catalog and find something I vaguely remember taking, and find a new life for it. If I stuck with the photographs I have currently and developed one photograph every day of the year I have 90 years’ worth of photographs. Of course, I’m not done taking photographs. I have many things I want to accomplish. So to answer the question of how many photographs are enough? The answer is more than 33071 for me.