To push your creative thinking,
To practice photographing on a regular basis,
To continue to learn how your camera/mobile device works and interacts with varying light/subject/situations.
To get in close to the subject so that it abstracts it.
I took this photo while I was making an everything bagel and I loved how the seeds pop out with the white background and the tan bagel. I thought that the different seed looked like ants on a hill.
I took this photo before I lit my candle I loved the way the top of the match was sparkly and it made me think how the match sparks when it lights.
For this photo, I went online and looked around at ideas and I saw someone take a close-up of an apple I loved the number of colors and the stem poking up out of the middle.