I love to take photos while travelling and at events. I've got about 6TB of photos accumulated over the years of shooting with digital cameras.

I often come back with 1000+ photos from a trip or event, and find the editing process (selecting, post-processing, summarizing) to be more arduous than the actual event in many cases, especially with high speed shooting and large format memory cards.

I like how google photos will occasionally make a curated photobook with the photos that are backed up from the phone camera, but it lacks any form of controls and often selects some pretty odd photos to highlight, and it would not be practical given the library size.

Has anyone found a good workflow for reviewing thousands of photos in a set, identifying the "context" of them ie: catamaran trip, day in the rainforest, ski trip to <hill> etc, then grouping and selecting the best image from a group of the same "shot", and then possibly retouching them? Even if the tool can't retouch, eliminating the duplicates and contextualizing them would be great.

I've played with comfyUI and had minimal success and felt like I was building an application vs using one.

I've also used Luminar Neo which has a really nice editing suite workflow but it's quite manual as well and struggles with 10,000+ image sets.

Hoping to find an intersection of photographers and AI tool users here!