I feel somewhat the same. Not necessarily with photography, but the act of planning it makes the experience better. You can go somewhere, look at it, snatch a p

I feel somewhat the same. Not necessarily with photography, but the act of planning it makes the experience better. You can go somewhere, look at it, snatch a photo and leave, and be perfectly content. But the payoff when you achieve what you planned makes it an even greater memory. I don't do much photos, but for me it's action shots with gopro. An example https://youtu.be/oCXlwJYt0mg https://youtu.be/oCXlwJYt0mg The shot is not super spectacular, but it was lots of planning. Building the contraption, iterating on it, then trecking up the side of a mountain multiple times to get the shot I wanted. The skiing/conditions weren't out of the ordinary that place, but it's still one of the things I remember the best from that trip.