I love taking photos. I'm usually tempted when I want to share something. With absent people, with a later self. Sometimes the result is pictures that not only show something, but have an artistic, at least creative touch. That makes me happy... But it's not an end in itself! It really does lie in the moment, in real life and in fully concentrating on exactly what makes it, the moment, valuable...
I second every word.
I don't usually go through my photo archives but I do see the pictures I created for my blog often. It was my best creative work in photography.
But I can't deny the pressure I feel sometimes when I'm fully invested in writing an experience but I didn't take pictures because I was "experiencing" it.