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Very often we do not understand other people - maybe if we knew how they see it would be easier to understand. All the more so because the image shows not only what someone saw, but also what they felt...

What does photography mean to me? I guess it's impossible to tell the whole story, especially since I don't know the end yet, because I hope it's still a long way away. For now, it gives me a lot of fun and even more satisfaction. Capturing the beauty of Nature and showing others phenomena they have no idea about is, in a sense, educational work.

Reading people and showing them who they are when they can't really see it in themselves is also very exciting. When they start to see themselves differently, like themselves more, when they lose their complexes and move forward into the world more bravely - with their heads held higher - that's IT - I really like this aspect of photography...

I have one photographic dream - a bit crazy, but potentially not impossible... I would like to photograph Halley's comet... it will be possible to catch it in our sky in 2061, I will be 95 years old then... Who knows...

Marek Stan

Freelance photographer

By birth a Masurian - an eternal child of the Pisz Forest (hence the love of nature), a resident of Gdynia for over 50 years, zodiacal Aquarius, Horse by the Chinese horoscope, an artistic soul, an eternal observer, an introvert, persistently and patiently striving for a goal, the Ocean of Tranquility - that's all I can write in no uncertain terms about myself... well, maybe also skilled manually (a handyman having nothing to do with King Midas), but it's a feature that helps in all kinds of projects.

I had my first contact with the magic of photography in my Father's amateur darkroom, where he showed me how, after being dipped in some liquid, an image appears on a clean white cardboard.

I made my first, more or less successful shots, around the age of 15... and then it took off and it's still going on.

Technological progress has been made along the way, digital photography has entered the picture, which has shortened the path from catching something in the frame to showing it to others the way I see it.