I only noticed this after scrolling my phone and realizing I knew the picture more than the afternoon it captured. When you rely on a photo as proof, your brain skips the deep encoding that makes a memory feel alive. Try not taking one thing this month and see which experience you actually remember more vividly.
The brain is incredibly malleable and, for a lot of people, memory is a vague image or a concept of something which happened. For a smaller subset, visual memory and visual imagination is not possible. Pictures are a more permanent visual representation, which can be additive to an experience. That’s not to say you shouldn’t live in the moment or that you should take pictures in lieu of making memories. You do you. I’m biased because I’m a photographer though.