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Benjamin de Groot
@blbdegroot.bsky.social
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Art historian, cynic, camera monkey, mini ruiner
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Kodak Gold loves autumm foliage. First experience with #homescanning and playing with NegativeLabPro, and enjoying how it does turn the Leiden park to gold.
A picture of a park along a canal in autumn. A large tree stands in the foreground. The view along the canal extends to rowhouses on the opposite bank. A picture of a park along a canal bathed in evening light in autumn. The park path runs through the center of the image, with trees lining both sides. A close-up picture of some branches of a gingko tree in autumn, its yellow leaves bathed in autumn light.
November 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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To quote the late Terry Pratchett's work.
September 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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In an age of social media enshittification and the wave of AI slop, suddenly those words from 1930 art historian dissidents like #Horkheimer and #Adorno seem almost prophetic. Per Cothren and d'Alleva, Methods and Theories of Art History, 2005
August 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Some more #Battletech mini's "finished". My #periphery #magistracyofcanopus based mercenary unit is reinforced by a 'dedicated heavy recon lance' and very definitely not whatever they found in the bargain lots at Discount Dan's Pretty Okay Battlemechs and Bubba J's Mechoplex.
August 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Day at the zoo
August 3, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Missing mornings like this at #luxortemple in #Egypt. Nothing beats the play of light and shaow created by the morning light.

#nikonzf #travelphotography #ancientegypt #ancientruins #ancienttemple
A pidgeon flies over the main courtyard in the ruins of luxor temple. In the background a row of colums leads towards the pylons that form the main entrance.
July 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Had a half second to sit down again and get some more #battletech minis done. A lance of #galedonregulars to join the coordinator under the #draconiscombine banner.
July 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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The Asphalt Oasis

📷 Nikon #FE2 w. #50mmf1.2
🎞 Kodak #Gold200

#film #filmphotography #analogphotography #filmisalive #believeinfilm #shootfilmstaybroke #shootfilmbenice #analoglove #egypt #desert #gasstation
July 4, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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The #amorphophallus in the #hortusbotanicus in #leiden is in bloom for the briefest of moments. Time for a trip through the gardens. #leidencity #botanicalgarden #tropicalgreenhouse #titanarum

📷: #Nikonzf
June 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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#Felucca at dawn, moored up on the west bank of the #Nile at #Luxor.

📷 #NikonFE2 w. 50mm f/1.2
🎞 Kodak #Gold200

#egypt #analogphotography #filmphotography #colorfilm #filmisalive #shootfilmstaybroke
June 14, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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"Nothing beside remains. Round the decay"

The Great Temple of Amun-Re or the #karnaktemple at #Karnak.
📷 Nikon FE2 w. 50mm f/1.2
🎞 Fuji #NeopanAcrossII
A black and white photo of the great temple of Amun-Re in Karnak. On the left the remains of a pylon from the main entrance. In the centre a view towards the remains of the central complex, with two obelisks, matched in visual height by two palm trees on the right of the imagd.
May 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Still missing Venice and all its characterfull little surprises. #venezia #filmphotography #shootfilmstaybroke #filmisalive

📷: Nikon FE2 w. 28mm f/2.8
🎞: JCH #streetpan400
A black and white picture of a front door. It is bisected by a stone doorpost. On the left side, five doorbells of different shapes are set in the wall. On the right a fabric ribbon has been attached to the door.
April 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Gimme a shout if it ever happens, I can probably rustle op a couple of recommendations from folks in the know.
April 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Cannaregio in 2022. I miss la Serenìsima #filmphotography #filmphoto #analogphotography #shotonfilm #filmisalive

📷: Nikon FE2 w 28mm f/2.8
🎞: JCH #Streetpan400
April 18, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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I don't often get up to much with 'em, But I like to paint me some stompy robits for #battletech from time to time. Mostly satisfied by how these #1stsomersetstrikers turned out.
A photo showing five Battletech miniatures painted up in various greens, blues, tans, yellows and black, in order to depict them as battlemechs from the Battletech saturday morning cartoon show that aired in the 1990s.
March 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Having some fun with #waterreflections

#leiden #canal #lugdunumbatavorum #praesidiumlibertatis
February 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Lucky break at the store finding some (for now) OOP #jch #streetpan400 for sale. Guess I better shoot it wisely and don't keep it at the back of the fridge like my goblin brain wants me to.
January 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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The #Prunksaale of the #Nationalbibliothek in #Vienna ranks high on the list of dream libraries. A room the size of a cathedral, decorated like one too, full of books, old globes and secret doors to reading rooms. It is on public display so unfortunately no sneaking off for an hour to read.
January 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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They say you should start off as you mean to go on.
January 21, 2025 at 6:59 AM