Save photos on external HD, not internal HD for iPhoto

I just purchased my first Mac, 13.3" MacBook.
Is there a way to view my pictures in iPhoto, but keep all my photos on my NAS, not my macbook HD?

Importing is more complex because you can not use iPhoto to import photos from your source device - you must use some other means to move the photos to disk and then put them on the NAS where you want them and then import to iPhoto from there
And if the NAS is over WiFi you may encounter speed issues
Deleting photos required that you first delete them from iPhoto and then delete them from the NAS device - two steps with a chance for error rather than a single step in an iPhoto managed library
And you take responsibility for assuring that the path to the original photos never changes in the future
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