I think you are in Preview, you've chosen Export (or maybe Save), navigated to the Pictures folder, and want to choose an album in your Photos Library to receive your export-- is that right?
If so, it turns out that this isn't the way to get a picture into Photos. The thing is, Photos doesn't use folders in the same way that everything else on a Mac does. You can't access the albums and pictures with Finder.
One way to add a picture from Preview to Photos is to use "File>Share>Add to Photos." You can then open Photos, go to Recents, and drag your picture to the 2023 album.
By the way, you can crop a picture right in Photos. Just select the picture and choose Edit>Crop--it's pretty powerful. You can also reduce the number of pixels in a picture when you export it for other uses-- in File>Export>Export nn Photos, you chose size>custom.
Hope this helps...