Many of my photographs are not about the photograph.....
I have been enjoying old, manual focus lenses as toys- they aren't that expensive and I can sell them for half what I paid for them, or so.
Commonly I throw an old lens on and just go out and take photos of anything, to see how the lens feels and looks. I delete most of them, but some are keepers, especially my pets, or spring flowers. I currently am waiting for a perennials crop in a neighbors yard that I have tried for 3 years to adequately capture. Early July.....
A few lenses are really nice. Later when I go on a photo trip I know my lenses better, and which ones to take.