Justfolk's photos with the keyword: 8965-004a

I think my father never bought a ladder in his life. He *made* them, always out of scraps of wood lying around. This was one of his. I learnt the habit myself and used homemade ladders until once, a couple of years after I took this picture (in June 1989), I went up one of his older and longer ladders to take down a big wooden storm window on the second storey of his house. And just when I got the window into my arms at the top of the ladder, the rung I stood on gave way. Of course so did the next one, and all the others, until I found myself standing on the ground shaken, bruised, a little abraded and cut up from nails and splinters in the ladder, and holding the window intact. His ladder became firewood, or compost, more likely. I soon got my own first store-bought ladder. This was Kodak Plus-X in my Bessa 6x9 camera. I probably used T-Max developer but I am not sure.