The two pictures below was made whilst I was on a poodlewalk in my local coastal area along the southern Fleurieu Peninsula. They were both made with a 1970s handheld Leica rangefinder with Kodak Portra 400 ASA film. Its bare bones photography. The film was then processed in a commercial lab and the negatives were scanned to create a digital file (jpeg).
This classical and hybrid approach to the photographic is in marked contrast to the AI and computation that has entered the aesthetic realm in the second decade of the 20th century. Aesthetic machines such as Midjourney's Discord server can generate images that appear to be human made. This AI imaging is a machine-learning system, and it's software enables you to create images that look like photographs, oil paintings, cartoons, etc. You can leave your expensive camera in the cupboard.