I think this is the first image I ever took I was proud of. I vividly remember the setting: I was sitting on top of the fence, waiting for the sunset moment I wanted to capture for a while. I'm a bit unsure of the year - I believe it was 1991, which makes me 6 years old when it was taken. The camera was a fix-focus, 35mm film soap box; it didn't even have automatic film forwarding, but it must have been able to do some automatic shutter speed setting.
(Oh, by the way: this entry was written by Peter Molnar, and originally posted on petermolnar dot net.)