Have you ever looked at your old photos?

I started going through my Lightroom catalog this morning after browsing my photography haunts on social media looking for inspiration on what to write about today. I noticed that I had kept so many crappy photographs. I began deleting the crappy photos thinking to myself, WHY?! Why did I feel the need to keep crap? I deleted just over 3,000 photographs and freed up 20+ GB of storage. My next goal is to go through images as I upload them. If a file doesn’t get a single-star rating it will be designated for the trash bin.

I’ve still got over 31,000 images in my Lightroom catalog so it isn’t like I’m really losing anything. In addition, I’ll be adding more in the coming months and years. Why keep crap?