Where Did You Take Your First Picture?

[camera0bug]

Anybody remember the circumstances or are we all that forgetful?

For the life of me...I can't remember!

Lemme think......

[markvm]

Mine was a picture of my mom and dad standing on top of Natural Bridge in Kentucky, taken with one of those old Kodak box cameras around 1958. I think the camera was a Kodak Brownie or something. Gosh, i'm gettin old...

[alexphotos]

Well i remember my godfather gave me a extremely old camera the trigger was on the lens and did not have any kind of light metering on it. He did give me a small light meter that i needed to see who much light was in the room.

Well my first shoot was in the barn of one of our chicken. I think that my mom still have a copy of that photo.

[bobfloyd]

My first picture or my first photograph? Because they are distinctly different things. My first picture is lost in early years of my life when someone handed me a camera and said "would you take our picture?" and I did and some would say I have yet to take an actual photograph.

[pathfindar]

I remember being allowed to push the button the on Brownie box camera when I was about 6 or 7 I think. I got a Kodak Instatmatic in 1968 to take to summer camp with me. That was probably more first real venture into taking pictures, but I have no idea what the first thing I shot was. I got my first 35mm SLR in 1973 which is the first time I got serious about it. Of course, now at my age I am doing good to remember what I shot this morning

[vid64]

Mine was of my friend Philip, standing in the school playing field sometime around 1971. We must have been about 7. My Dad had bought a Kodak instamatic for my sister and I to use, thus keeping my sticky mits of his YashicaMat. I was so pleased with that picture, although I didn't realise at the time, I'd exactly lined up the football crossbar with his ears and looked like he had a wooden pole through his head!

[gpaai]

Oh if only I could remember... I do know it was at least 40 years ago, (not that time has made me any better... ).

[dazedgonebye]

My dad had one of the old bellows type Polaroid "land camera." (I always wondered where the "sea cameras" were? Yes, strange...even as a child).
He let me fire it off once. What a treat. He always acted like those shots were $8 a pop...he took so few.

[zak355]

I dont actually remember but there's a pic of me at about 2 or 3 years old naked playing with a gold camera


even if i find it, no i wont be showing it!

[nature_pix_me]

As I recall it was on a family vacation in the Smokey Mountains, and my mother asked me to take her picture with a Cherokee Indian. I'm not sure, but I think it was a Kodak camera. I'll have to look that one up.

[shelleylauren]

I remember being allowed to push the button the on Brownie box camera when I was about 6 or 7 I think. I got a Kodak Instatmatic in 1968 to take to summer camp with me. That was probably more first real venture into taking pictures, but I have no idea what the first thing I shot was. I got my first 35mm SLR in 1973 which is the first time I got serious about it. Of course, now at my age I am doing good to remember what I shot this morning

This is a fun thread. My experience is somewhat similar to this, except that you got into it seriously much earlier. I still have the first picture I ever took. It has a date of July 1959 on it, and I took it with my Kodak Brownie Bullet camera that I think was bought for $2 and a couple of Ovaltine labels. I was 5, and I got lucky on the first one, because it actually isn't half bad. One of these days I'll scan it and put it up. It's a picture of the daughter of a Coast Guards SPARS friend of my mother who had come to visit right when the camera was brand new, and it's taken in front of our car in the driveway. I wasn't quite as lucky for the next few. They were of taller people, so I chopped the heads off. Vicki was 8, and I can imagine she enjoyed posing to allow this little girl to play with her new toy, because she has a nice smile on her face. I did chop off a tiny bit of her head, but people do that for artistic effect all the time these days.

I too got an instamatic a few years later, I think 1965, but I didn't get an SLR until 1982.

[betsypdx]

Not sure if it was my first shot, but it was with my first camera and is the first photo in my first photo album (which I still have). It was with some camera that took those old film cartridges. The pictures aren't great (but then, I was only 9), but I think I'll try to figure out some way get these into a PaD shot soon.

[1designguy]

I had to have been 8 or 9 (1972) at Fort Sumter in Charleston, SC with my father's Leica rangfinder. I was hooked