Took me a while to take the first photo

The process I went through since I got the hands on my camera and the moment I was (emotionally) able to take the first photo, was anything but peacefull.

It took me about two weeks to choose a film, and about two more weeks to decide to place it into the box. Then, with my loaded camera, I started to wonder arround my house, trying to focus various objects, set exposure times or diaphragm values, but had no ideea of what I was doing.

One day, my brother came to visit and asked if I got the chance to take some photos yet. As you probably have guessed, I couldn't lie ...

He gave me then the first lesson of photography. I noted down everything he said, and I still keep that piece of paper at home, just in case I might need again the best short course of photography I ever "attended".

Brother also gave me a pocket book (size of an identity card) about photography, which I failed to read up to this day.

But the next weekend I was visiting the local botanical garden and guess what: had my photo-camera hidden in my bag (there was a poster that threatened "200.000 ROL photography tax").