What should we photograph?...the decisive moment

What to photograph is the most difficult question in photography. Most books and website concentrate on the technical side, because this is relatively easy. It certainly isn't a place we can start in photography, and it will take us a lot of work, luck and some talent to get there. Finding our subject in photography is in the end finding the kind of person we are. Let our interests and enthusiasms lead us where they will. I'd advise anyone starting now to start with a digital camera because we can take pictures without worrying about cost, and can see the results immediately. I always advised them to use a simple manual 35mm camera, where we have to set everything by hand - shutter speeds, aperture, focus etc. It still can be a great learning experience so far as the technical side of photography is concerned. Learning about these aspects is still vital to getting control over our images, even with getting the most from highly automated digital systems. But digital photography gives us a new ease of working at the more difficult questions: what to photograph? , and then how to communicate effectively through our images. Start by photographing our life and environment and things that we are interested in. Our own life is a subject to which we have unique access. Most of us also have an appropriate audience for at least some of this work in our friends and family, but we can also make use of it to explore wider issues. We may think our life is ordinary, but so were the lives of most of the people in the classics of documentary photography.
French photographer and father of photojournalism ">Henri Cartier –Bresson , coined the phrase, "The Decisive Moment , it is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression. In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif."
We can elaborate to our present day digital photojournalism as “capturing the decisive moment, capturing in images what cannot be denied in words thus providing the true information. “ The decisive moment is all about recognizing photographic opportunities and seizing those moments by capturing them with the camera. Recognizing opportunities and seizing moments takes an attuned compositional eye and technical competence in order to use photographic equipment -- cameras, lenses and flashes -- to capture fleeting images with both beauty and clarity. In other words we need to have our technique sorted out so we can reliably produce pictures, and we need to be in the right place at the right time. Finding out what is happening; getting to know the right people, gaining access to take pictures is a large part of the job in reportage or documentary work. Our own life and that of our friends and community is the easiest and the best starting point for our work. In it we will develop the technical skills and the personal skills that we need to be a photographer. For many photographers it has been the springboard to greater things. We can come up with ideas for our self, often through looking at our pictures and thinking how we can take them further. Other photographers are also a great source of ideas and inspiration, in books or on the web, or better by actually finding others who share our interests.