When I started into this...

[alexvaras]

... thing of photography I was around 14 years old, I found three photos that I printed in a dark room but I gave them away as someone wanted them.

This first is night train between Hendaye and Paris, at some point the train stopped and I took out my Yashica Minister D for this photo, Ilford FP4, hand-train held.


Night train.

Second when I was around 16, one day with my brother we went to the sea sea for taking photos, he was a real support to me on my hobby these days, I see this now. First SLR, a Pentax MV with some 28-70mm zoom, Ilford HP5.


Low tide.

Third I was 23 years old, my first week in Madrid when I moved, a friend I had over there wanted to go for a photo rally in the city and I had my Lubitel 166U (again gift from my brother) and Ilford HP5, we were in a cafe and I couldn't resist to take this candid.


Life is sweet.

Thank you for looking,
Alex

[Dismayed]

Nice! I started with a simple Kodak Instamatic that I received for Christmas when I was 11 or 12.

[LarryD]

I started with a Brownie 127 camera. Those are nice photos.

[GrahamS]

Alex, I congratulate you on your superb eye for composition and tonality. All of these are wonderful images proving that you had the gift from an early age. Bravo!

[titrisol]

Those are amazing, I love the picture in the cafe!
The facial expresion of the old man sends me back in time to my childhood

[titrisol]

Can we also contribute with the "When I started"???
Mine, taken with an Instamatic in Xmas 1978
My father had a massive heart attack in August that year and went to the US to have surgery about a month later, he came back "healthy" at the end of november and I got a camera (Instamatic 104) for Xmas.
He would use the same running suit for years


As a side note, that was the year our street went from cobblestones to paved and we had sidewalks for the 1st time



Also if you saw the pictures I posted of my grandparents, it is on the same place where they had the "country home" which was overrun by the city in the late 60s

[alexvaras]

Thank you, all
Of course, you or any other can add photos or information, the more the better