The photo that matters later may be the one you took for the people in it.

Pictures made for an audience and pictures made for the people in them age very differently. The composed shot is judged against everything else that was posted that week, while the ordinary one, badly lit, half laughing, taken because somebody wanted it, becomes the only record of how a kitchen looked or how someone sat. Value shows up years later and rarely where you expected. What was worth keeping was seldom the impressive frame.

Take a few pictures this week with no thought of showing them to anyone. Send one directly to the person in it and say nothing clever.