Here is a small exercise for a quiet moment. Give the same simple task to two tools you already have access to, such as Claude and Gemini. Ask for three themes for a photo walk near home.
Read the answers with three questions in mind: What makes me curious? What feels possible to do? What would never have occurred to me?
Then choose one detail from each answer and make something of your own. A suggestion about shadows might meet one about small splashes of colour. Suddenly, you have a theme neither tool suggested in the first place.
This exercise is not a fair test of which model is best. Responses can vary from one attempt to the next. But it can show how AI works as a sounding board: you gather possibilities, choose a direction and take responsibility for the final idea yourself.