Hard Drive Capacity not Changing after moving files

My internal hard drive capacity is shown at 249.58 GB and I only had about 1.97 GB available. I moved 122.89 GB of photos to an external hard drive partition plus many seldom used files and folders (not sure of the MB or GB size). Now my hard drive capacity shows 249.58 GB size with 2.36 GB available.
Having moved more that 122.89 GB off my internal hard, why do I not have at least 122 GB available because I moved the photos to free up that space on my internal hard drive?
How can I regain that space the photos used and/or why can't I regain it?
Thanks for your help and suggestions.
Vernon

After posting the previous message, I remembered that I had not emptied the trash So, that is in the process of happening now since I copied the photos to the external drive and moved them from my internal hd to trash!
I'll check on iPhoto's trash later.
Thanks.
Vernon

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