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This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.
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I totally understand what you are saying. When I photograph, I do it very intuitively. It's often, not always, only after looking at the images at home, that I can explain what drew me in.
When posting on Instagram, I mostly just write the year and place, but sometimes a caption just springs to mind when I'm looking at the photo. A little story of how I took the picture, why, or what I like so much about it. Sometimes just a general thought about photography itself.
I enjoy reading this from other photographers as well. It provides a little bit of context for the work, which is not always necessary, but sometimes does make you look twice at a photo and puts it in perspective.
In general, putting emotions, feelings into words, in writing, helps me understand and deal with them.
I once took one of those elaborate personality tests at a job center and my profile was "artistic-intellectual". I also studied languages. This might explain my inclinations...