Time Machine: is it possible to leave some data on time machine, but remove it from my mac?

At the moment I have around 60gb of photos on my 250gb macbook pro, which I have been told is slowing it down. I would love to have it somewhere safe away from my mac but I'm scared to use an external hard drive because of many horror stories I've heard.
I'm currently in the process of backing up my photos online (snapfish), so when I do eventually man up and transfer them to a hard drive there will be a back up there, too.
I have a WD My Book 1tb hard drive for mac that I use with time machine. However I was wondering whether I could keep using it for time machine, but delete the photos off my mac and keep them on the hard drive only, somehow?
If not, can anyone reccommend a relatively inexpensive external hard drive for mac (500gb-1tb) to store my photos? How do others back up important data, is it common to keep two hard drives?
Thanks in advance.

markwmsn is right.Time Machine is only a rolling backup system, not an archive system. If you have data that should never be deleted, do not rely on Time Machine because old data will be purged eventually.
I am not sure why you feel Time Machine is safer than a "scary" external hard drive, since the Time Machine backup is on...an external hard drive.
Here's what the professional photographers do, since their lives rely on not losing photos. At least two backups on external media, with at least one offsite. Having at least two exact copies of the photo archive is how photographers get around the very real fear of hard drive death. It means that you can survive the loss of both your original and one backup drive simultaneously, because there will still be one more backup out there. Because while hard drives do fail, there isn't any other type of backup media that's so easy and fast to update. So you use redundancy to mitigate any failures and then stop worrying about it.
The other solution that is used is online storage through companies like Crashplan or Carbonite. They guarantee your data won't be deleted because they maintain redundant backups themselves.
Of course you can combine hard drive and online cloud backups, and then your data can survive almost anything that doesn't take out civilization itself.

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