Trying to import fotos from a nas drive into iphoto

OK folks.
Seems that I'm taking the long road instead of the short but here it is ....
I have a mac mini with a SSD drive on which I store the OS in one partition and user data in another. No problem.
I also have a non-partitioned Time Capsule that I use to store a slew of photos that I shoot in RAW, JPG and TIFF. Some of the files are duplicates at different exposures, non-edited, etc. So, I really don't want to get into the habit of storing all my photos on the SSD drive.
What I would like to do is share some recent photos via a photostream to allow team parents to grab copies remotely. According to everything that I've seen, I can only open a photo stream from my Mac with iPhoto. Step 2.
So, the initial question is how can I get iPhoto to recognize that NAS mounted disk to even import the pictures? Step 1.
(I'm really not up for copying all those photos to my hard drive.
A future option is to take one of the many HD and install it in the second bay and use it as working drive but I don't really have that kind of time right now.
Knowledgeable enough to follow UNIX type instruction and do the hardware but right now I'm looking for the 'this evening' solution.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Have you tried the File -> Add to Library command? Or drag and drop to the iPhoto Window? Or drag and drop to the iPhoto icon?
But you need to think this out carefully.
You do not want to run iPhoto with the Library on your internal drive and the images on another one. This article has information on how to do that and why you shouldn't.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6361
The best solution is to run a Managed iPhoto Library, and you can do this from a directly attached disk (read USB/Firewire/Thunderbolt) but not a network share like a NAS.
iPhoto needs to have the Library sitting on disk formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Users with the Library sitting on disks otherwise formatted regularly report issues including, but not limited to, importing, exporting, saving edits and sharing the photos.
See this article
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5168
for more. Note also the comment:
“Additionally, storing the iPhoto library on a network rather than locally on your computer can also lead to poor performance or data loss.”
Are you sure Aperture won't do photostreams?
If you're thinking of sharing via Photostream well Flickr is nearly as good, free and simple.

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