If at an event or on vacation, take pictures for 30 seconds and then put your phone/camera away. Don't allow your photography time to exceed 1% of your in-the-moment time. You don't need photos of your kids playing every 5 minutes. Take one or two good photos and then enjoy the moment.
If you're going to take a photo, only do so if the moment is so unique that it has never been captured before, is worth sharing, and it would otherwise be lost. If it can be found on Google image search, there's no reason to take the photo. Taking photos of static subjects (paintings, statues, animals at the zoo acting normal, etc.) is pointless. If you really want your own photo of a "thing" that much, make it a selfie, or put someone you care about in the frame.
Never film something like a fireworks display or concert, especially when that event is being professionally filmed and broadcasted. You will never ever watch that footage and neither will anyone else.
Always try to include a person that you care about in the frame. When I watched the home movies my father shot, all I wanted to see was myself and my family. Most of the footage of our visit to Disneyland is just footage of the rides. The rides are still around. Five year old me is gone. Capture photos of loved ones reacting to things, don't capture photos of the things themselves. Capturing the expressions on people's faces is how you capture a moment.
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