Photographing a day out

Source A: an original contemporary non-fiction-style account.

“We took the train to the coast on Saturday, carrying a picnic and two folding chairs. I photographed the station sign, our sandwiches and the first strip of sea visible between the houses. By lunchtime, I had taken sixty pictures. My sister asked me to put the phone away while we walked along the pier. I agreed for half an hour, although I kept reaching towards the empty pocket where I usually held it.

Without a screen, the afternoon stopped arranging itself into evidence. A gull stole a chip too quickly for me to frame it; my sister laughed without waiting to be recorded. I noticed how the wind changed the colour of the sea, a movement no single picture could keep. Photographs can hold details that memory loses, and I still treasure them. But a day need not prove that it happened by producing a report. Sometimes the most faithful record is the attention we give while there is nothing between us and the moment.”

Source B: an original nineteenth-century-style letter or account, written for practice; this is not an archival document.

“Our excursion was delayed repeatedly by a companion devoted to his camera. At the ruined abbey he required us to remain still beside an arch while he arranged his apparatus. We obeyed until a sudden shower dissolved the composition and drove us beneath a tree. The resulting photograph, when shown later, contained neither the rain nor our hasty retreat.

I value the image nonetheless. It recalls the shape of the arch more accurately than I could draw it, and the solemnity of our faces is an excellent joke. Yet it is a fragment, not the day itself. The wet sleeves, the argument over directions and the relief of hot tea live elsewhere. A picture is a useful guest in memory's house, provided we do not allow it to claim every room.”

Refer to both sources. Infer the differences in the photography and what it records during the outings. Write a summary supported by details from both sources.