My Very First Camera

This was the first picture I remember taking. It was at girl scout camp and that is my girlfriend in the tree.

I must have just gotten my first camera and I was eleven. I probably got it to take on this trip. It was a Kodak Instamatic. I can't remember the model or anything but I know the first pictures I took with it were in black and white. That little Instamatic was a trooper. Even a kid couldn't kill it.

When I was about 15 I got a Polaroid. I was excited because it meant I wouldn't have to depend on my parents to get my film developed and the results were instantaneous. But the pictures weren't very good and the film was expensive. I went back to using the little Instamatic. I finally drowned it in a river on a canoe trip when I was in my 20's.