The road to your photographic niche can be long and winding. Who among us hasn’t brought back 150 photos from their first plein-air shoot, 200 of which were good for nothing? You’re probably thinking that I got the numbers wrong. Of course, but on purpose. I really liked one of the New Year’s resolutions of Marek Waśkiel, a landscape photographer from the Podlasie region: “I will photograph slower and less”. The idea, he elaborated, was that we should not bring back hundreds of similar photos from a plein-air location where almost every tree delights us. After all, we don’t mean to glue together a whole forest at home from the multitude of trees photographed. There will be monotony and nostalgia for the analogue era, where film imposed tough (thrifty) rules and was merciless to mistakes. With a capacious memory card at my disposal, I also sometimes (still) succumb to this temptation to “immortalise for posterity” my every outdoor delight. Naturally – the words “slower” and “less” do not apply to every type of photography. A reporter will not forgive himself for sleeping through the “decisive moment” when “THIS” is happening at a demonstration of folk in a sports arena. A reporter or editorial graphic designer will select the ones that go for publication from the many photos. In this photographic space, that’s what it’s all about, being quick to be where the story is made. A photographer observing street life will want to ‘catch’ an interesting shadow, a reflection in a shop window, light, silhouettes embedded in the geometry of the city. The portrait photographer will often spend more time preparing the scene, the background and the model himself. He or she will talk, study the temperament so that the portrait to some extent also reflects the interior of the person. So what to photograph? The cover of one of Tomasz Tomaszewski’s latest albums reads: “Everything can be everything”. This is the best answer. Whether you are capturing vanishing cultures, photographing people, nature, objects – if you find joy in photography, you are in the right place. If you additionally tell a story or draw people’s attention to important issues you are more than just a person with a camera.