Out of interest, how many photos do you tend to take on a trip, and how long do you spend processing/sorting them out afterwards? It's hard to tell as you post consistently high quality images, but also state about needing time to sort them out, but you only ever post a few at a time
For me I think I don't necessarily take "too many", but I don't seem to be able to whittle down the number that well afterwards to just a select "good" few.
I took just under 2k in a week on this holiday
checked a few previous holidays and sometimes its only 1000 in a week, few others closer to 2k again. Most trips out for sunrises etc I've noticed I'm taking a lot less than I used to, some of my last few trips out I've only taken 20-30 where as it was more like 50-60 last year but that'll be down to me improving my eye I guess.
As for how long to sort them, well the holiday ones take a fair while, I normally sort them into date then put them into folders named after where or what so I can remember when I look back at them. Doing all that can take a while but then doing that I'll pick out photos I want to edit and go back over them later on. Normally it can be a few weeks inbetween trips out so that's normally why I end up posting in batches, might only get out once or twice a month, sometimes more though.
I sometimes find it hard to work out which ones I want to edit, especially for say sunrises/sunsets since the light changes quite quickly I'll try and take a few shots around what I think then try a few 'shooting to the right' as I'm just starting to get my head around that one. But sitting down looking at them on a computer I can't always pick out the 'one' to edit so sometimes have to do it a few times, sometimes though I can just pick it straight out but its quite hard usually.
Had some good news at work tempered by some bad news at home, good news is I got a promotion which is a couple of £k extra a year and less hours, along with just paying off the last of a loan this month means I'll have some spare money for some new toys (looking at the Tamron 17-50 f2.8 and the Samyang 8mm f3.5, can't afford full frame yet I don't think so I'll stick with crop stuff for now) also bought a new tripod/head over the weekend in Costco that's a bit lighter than my old tripod. Bad news is my Mam's got some health problems at the mo which we're waiting to find out how serious over the next few days which has put a bit of a downer on the end of the year.