Benjamin de Groot

A glimpse into what perhaps might've been and a reminder that a story does end at the final period and note, as long aa you keep the fire burning.

Fly your flag 📷 #pentax67 w. SMC 200mm f/4 🎞 kodak #portra400 #leidencity #pride #filmphotography #filmisalve #shootfilmstaybroke #analoglove #mediumformatfilm

Tea pavilion; calling geese 📷 #pentax67 🎞 #portra400 #filmphotography #mediumformat #filmisalive #believeinfilm #shootfilmstaybroke #analoglove

All I can say today...

Rundfunk 📷 #pentax67 w. #105mmsmc2.4 🎞 #cinestill400D #berlin #berlinauffilm #fernsehturm #filmphotography #shootfilmstaybroke #shotonfilm #mediumformat #analoglove #filmisalive #sovietarchitecture

James Simon gallery on the #museuminsel in #Berlin 📷 #Pentax67 w. #55smcf/4 🎞 #cinestill400D #filmphotography #mediumformatfilm #believeinfilm #shootfilmstaybroke #filmisalive #analoglove

It's not that Pratchett was prescient; it's that we're dumb monkeys who keep falling for the same tricks over and over ...and over.

Silent Green The old crematorium-turned-cultural hub in the Wedding suburb of Berlin. (2024) 📷 #nikonfe2 w. 50mm f/1.2 ai-s 🎞 #ilfordhp5 #filmphotography #filmisalive #grainisgood #shootfilmstaybroke #analoglove #silentgreen #berlin

Elysium #nikonfe2 w. 50mm f/1.2 #ilfordhp5 #altenationalgalerie #doricorder #filmphotography #berlin #believeinfilm #shootfilmstaybroke

Listening to the latest @wtyppod.bsky.social and I had to make a quick 'n shoddy drawing, to get it out of my system.

Matsuri The annual #Japanmarkt is a place to encounter Japanese crafts, food and martial arts in #leiden #leidencity #japanmarkt2026 #fans #ceramics #canallife #photography #nikonzf

Book of Fire #kendo #japanmarkt2026 #martialarts #rmo #rijksmuseumvanoudheden #nikonzf #demonstration

It's time to do that thing you've been wanting to do

Memories of better times in early morning #Venice. #filmphotography on the Riva degli Schiavoni with #Sangiorgiomaggiore across the water 📷 #NikonFE2 w. Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 🎞 Kodak #Gold200 #filmisalive #shootfilmstaybroke #analoglove #travelphotography #throwbackthursday

The last of the spring poems. #cherryblossoms in #amsterdamsebos in their last week of bloom. Just enough time for some #hanami and #flowerphotography

The Flower Thief A #roseringedparakeet eating #cherryblossoms at the local Museum of Ethnology

For #caturday here's a mini lion I ran into this week.

It's #hanami season over here. The #cherryblossoms at the Museum of Ethnology are starting to bloom properly. 📷 #nikonzf 🔍 #zmc105mmf/2.8

Ghost of the mountain 📷 #pentax67 #165mmSMCf/2.8 🎞 Kodak #portra400 #filmphotography #mediumformat #filmisalive #blackcat #shootfilmstaybroke

Hooglandse Kerk: Lingering Snow 📷 #Pentax67, #55mmSMCf/4 🎞 Kodak #Portra400 #eightviewsofLeiden #雷電八景 #比良暮雪 #lingeringsnow #mitate #見立 #winterinleidn #shootfilmstaybroke #filmisalive

Kodak Gold loves autumm foliage. First experience with #homescanning and playing with NegativeLabPro, and enjoying how it does turn the Leiden park to gold.

I'm no political strategist, but the datadump of Epstein e-mails feels like some people on the Hill are just done and have chosen the nuclear option. I get the sense this is the political equivalent of the Hiroshima strike: play ball unless you want us to drop another one like this.

The average university student's email reminders for due dates are more securely protected than France's premier museum. That tracks, I suppose...

Zeer schizofreen stukje journalisme waarin Kirk worden geschaard onder "radicale vrijheid van meningsuiting" terwijl zijn uitspraken in NL wettelijk haatzaaien en discriminatie vallen, en Nollkaemper's opmerkingen over zelfcensuur uit hun verband getrokken lijken om een cryptofascist tot nut te zijn

www.reuters.com/world/uk/new... Few things underscore "tyranny" quite like a state institution fearfully and desperately suppressing the work of a world-renowned artist

www.reuters.com/world/americ... Indiscriminate murder like this got Dutuerte on the ICC's wanted list, and Venezuela could probably just take this to the Maritime Tribunal as a violation of seafaring rights. If you aim to be cruel at every level, you *will* end up finding the one that punishes you.

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

youtu.be/016ZJtdgiCs?... All.systems.nominal.

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.

Today we lost a photographer who was capable of capturing both the romance and the rawness of Italy and Venezia in particular. Addio signore Berengo Gardin. May your work forever stand as a testament and a legacy. www.reuters.com/world/italia...

Day at the zoo

bbc.com/news/article... While non-binding, this is a rare spot of actual good news and a small ray of hope in holding nations accountable for their inaction on climate change.

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

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.

The Asphalt Oasis 📷 Nikon #FE2 w. #50mmf1.2 🎞 Kodak #Gold200 #film #filmphotography #analogphotography #filmisalive #believeinfilm #shootfilmstaybroke #shootfilmbenice #analoglove #egypt #desert #gasstation

Zouden ze zich tegenwoordig blind staren op het Oude Testament?

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

#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

"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

Still missing Venice and all its characterfull little surprises. #venezia #filmphotography #shootfilmstaybroke #filmisalive 📷: Nikon FE2 w. 28mm f/2.8 🎞: JCH #streetpan400

Cannaregio in 2022. I miss la Serenìsima #filmphotography #filmphoto #analogphotography #shotonfilm #filmisalive 📷: Nikon FE2 w 28mm f/2.8 🎞: JCH #Streetpan400

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.

Having some fun with #waterreflections #leiden #canal #lugdunumbatavorum #praesidiumlibertatis

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.

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.

They say you should start off as you mean to go on.