OS X Lion slow on restart

Hi. I am running Lion on a MBP. If I do a shutdown and then power back on, it seems to be about as fast as Snow Leopard was. But if I do a restart, it hangs for about 20 seconds, which was not the case with Snow Leopard. Anyone else experiencing this? Any suggestions on how to improve the speed of MBP restarts with Lion? Thx

It will but it's only a temporary fix, ideally you should get a large external drive and move your photo library to it, do this (info)
Apple Menu>About This Mac>More Info>Storage, you will get a graphic that looks like the one below, post it here.

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