I took this photo with my new Canon EOS Rebel XSi.
It's through the lens of my old Pentax ME, which my parents bought for me when I was in 6th grade. I went to a Middle-Magnet School in Deer Park, MD for half a year, and photography was one of my classes. I still have some of the negatives and prints that I made. A photo of one of my classmates looking pensive won a little contest.
My Pentax ME is older than I am by about 10 years. My dad bought it used somewhere. But it served me well for that class and a few field trips after we moved to Pennsylvania and I had to finish 6th grade in a normal elementary school.
I broke it out a couple of years ago and started snapping away with it. But when the film was processed, all that showed up on the paper was brightness. So I had 24 pieces of shiny white paper. I was a little disappointed. Upon examination, I found that the dial that allows me to select the film's ISO was broken and stuck on 200.
So now my little Pentax ME sits on a shelf by my desk, reminding me of my first lessons in photography 13 years ago.
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