We are lucky to live in a house with a great view of Liverpool cathedral [see picture in ‘Two for one‘ on January 2nd, 2019]. Hundreds of tourists visit every day and take pictures of the cathedral with their smart phones. A few even turn around and take a picture of our house! It is a modern disease: capturing pictures of a spectacle without actually looking at it and then probably never looking at the photograph. There is some small level of fulfilment in having taken the photograph; however, 120 years ago there were fewer tourists and they had no cameras. Instead, when Charles Rennie MackIntosh visited Naples on April 8th, 1891, he admired the tower of the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine and ‘took a sketch’. It must have taken him some time and concentrated effort. The level of pleasure and fulfilment from taking a sketch must have been much greater than from our modern experience of snapping a photo.
Of course, there was no Liverpool Cathedral in 1891 and ten years later, Rennie Mackintosh was disappointed that his proposals for it were not selected from the 103 submitted.
Photograph taken on 17th August 2019 by the author at the Rennie Mackintosh Exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
Realize Engineering 
A contemporary way of illustrating your thoughts – by having taken a photo of the sketch! I think we have traded in courage to focus for fear of missing out something.
I thought that someone would comment on my photograph of a sketch; however, my sketching skills are sufficient poor that I doubt you would have recognised the subject.