Time capsule for iPhoto and time machine

My iPhoto library is 80Gb and I have no space on my mac. I would like to move the iphoto library to two external hard drives and a time capsule. I would like to know if it is possible to put an iPhoto library on a time capsule and access it occassionaly, aswell as using the time capsule for time machine backups.
Thanks

No offence taken at all, and Pondini is definitely the expert on TM.
However, his question:
3. Can I use my TM disk for other stuff?
leads to this answer...
Yes.  Time Machine will not delete anything you put there.
But it's much, much better to partition an external drive into 2 (or more) parts, also called volumes.  Assign one to Time Machine, for its exclusive use for backups;  use the other partition(s) however you want.
Which is what I was aiming to say...
Regards
TD

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