An ordinary outing can be worthwhile without producing photographs worth showing anyone.

An afternoon does not have to produce anything to have been worth having. There is a quiet pressure now to come back from things with evidence, and the evidence has to be good enough to show, which changes what people choose to do and how they behave while doing it. Plenty of the best hours look like nothing from outside: a walk, a slow lunch, a conversation with no conclusion.

Go somewhere this week and take no pictures. See what you notice when you are not looking for a frame, and let the account of it be that you enjoyed yourself.