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Alex Grove
@photoalex.bsky.social
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Film photographer, darkroom dweller..
Based in Bristol UK
-Prints available, DM ✌️
https://alexgrove.photography/
(He/Him)
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Street ghosts in Bristol..
Experiments in urban long exposures, work in progress (looking forward to shooting more on medium format in future)
🎞️ #filmphotography #ilfordphoto #longexposure #bristol #believeinfilm #filmisntdead
Black and white long exposure photograph of grafitti wall with the blur of passers by Long exposure photograph of train platform with blur of train. Graffiti on rooftop in background Long exposure photograph of train blur heading into distance Long exposure photograph of underpass with blur of grass in foreground
July 29, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Transport ghosts on Stapleton Road, Bristol
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🎞️ Delta400
#filmphotography #ilfordphoto #longexposure #believeinfilm #monochrome #photography #grainisgood #10Foot #Bristol
Black and white long exposure photograph of a railway bridge, the blur of a bus driving under the bridge with the blur of a train going over the bridge. 10Foot and Shrub tags cover the bridge.
July 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Romanian rail riding prt2...
🇷🇴❤️🚂
🎞️ #filmphotography #believeinfilm #streetphotography
Lady looking at her phone on train platform at night A little dog in front of some decaying steam trains Train departures board with mannequin heads on a market stall Many sleeps on bench in front of grafitti covered train
July 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Romanian rail riding..
🇷🇴❤️🚂
🎞️ #filmphotography #believeinfilm #romania #trains #streetphotography
Train conductor waves a yellow flag from train door as it approaches station Ladies with shopping bags are surrounded by pigeons on a train platform Shot from train window of man in cap on platform A dog sits on train tracks in the snow
July 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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A handsome lad being a very good boy..
🎞️ #filmphotography #dogsofbluesky
Black and white photo of my Jack Russell puppy
July 5, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Skatepark Crow 🐦
Bristol, UK
🎞️ #FilmPhotography #ilfordphoto #blackandwhitephotography #Photography #BelieveInFilm #Monochrome #Bristol #Delta400
Black and white photograph of a foggy concrete skatepark with a crow sitting on a ramp
July 4, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Wanderings..
Bristol, UK
🎞️ #filmphotography #Bristol #Streetphotography #Believeinfilm #monochrome #darkroom
Black and white photograph showing a small dog walking past two sets of mannequin legs. Other peoples legs are showing in the background. Black and white photograph of a man dressed as the Mad Hatter, smoking outside a building with pillar. Black and white photograph of a lady in a striped top carrying balloons on a high street. Black and white photograph of a collection of people on a street corner in fancy dress.
May 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Bristol wanderings..
Bristol UK, 2025
🎞️ #IlfordDelta400

#filmphotography #IlfordFilm #StreetPhotography #Believeinfilm #Photography
Black and white photograph showing graffiti on a fence saying 'Be Gay Do Crime' with two birds on ground Black and white photograph of man jet washing a wall of an office building Black and white photograph of two signs in a shop window saying 'We Got Fish, We Got Salt Beef' and 'On Sale, Cow Foot, CH Foot, Oxtail, Goat Foot & Tripe, Cow Skin' Black and white photograph of a lady on the high street smiling at camera, wrapped up warm in beanie and white puffer jacket, carrying a teddy bear and bag with dog photo on
May 16, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Street daydreams..
Bristol UK🎞️
#filmphotography #streetphotography #believeinfilm #photography #filmisnotdead #bristol
Photograph of a statue of two swans in a front garden Photograph of a lady approaching a butcher with a newspaper covering her head. Photograph of a pink cowboy hat full of sick in a shop doorway Photograph of a man dragging a pig carcass from a shopping trolley into a van
May 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Street daydreams..
Bristol, UK
Home developed C41 🎞️
#filmphotography #believeinfilm #photography #Bristol #streetphotography
Photograph of The 49p Shop on a residential street A man feeding birds in a graveyard A Jack Russell dog peering through some railings A decaying watermelon lying on an abandoned mattress, surrounded by rubbish
May 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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My new muse Bram 🧛‍♂️
I'll try my best not turn this account into purely dog photos, but I can't promise anything #dogsofbluesky
Picture of a beautiful good boy Jack Russell cross puppy with his tug toy
May 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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M32 Motorway on a foggy night, Bristol UK
🎞️ Delta400
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#filmphotography #nightphotography #believeinfilm #Bristol #photography #monochrome
Black and white photograph taken at night in fog overlooking the M32 motorway in Bristol, with light trails from passing cars.
April 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Under the Eiger, Switzerland
2024
🎞️ #filmphotography #landscape #believeinfilm #filmisntdead
Colour photograph of a house surrounded by wildflowers and mountains. Lots of lens flare from bright sunlight.
April 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Burnout, Bristol UK
🎞️ 5x4 (DSLR Scan)
#filmphotography #largeformat #photography #bristol #believeinfil #filmisnotdead
Black and white photograph of a burnt out moped under a motorway flyover.
March 31, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Night flight..
Bristol, UK
🎞️HP5+ 5x4
#filmphotography #nightphotography #believeinfilm #bristol #photography #blackandwhite #largeformat
Black and white photograph of an industrial estate at night where you can see the front of a passenger plane behind a fence.
March 28, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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🎞️ Ghost sign/Pyracantha
(Home-developed in some Bellini soup)
#filmphotography #streetphotos #believeinfilm #photography #filmisnotdead #shotonfilm
Photograph of an abandoned yellow and blue frame of a old sign, standing up straight, surrounded by pyracanth berry bushes.
March 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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There's something special about train travel in Romania..
🎞️ #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #believeinfilm #photography
Photograph looking down foggy train tracks as an old engine carriage approaches. The image is framed by an arch shaped silhouette.
March 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Underpass, Sinaia
🎞️ Kodak Vision 500T, home developed in ECN-2
#Filmphotography #BelieveInFilm #Photography #filmisnotdead
Image of an empty underpass with yellow tiles with green stripes, lit only by two strip lights.
March 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Bușteni, Romania 2025
🎞️ Ektar100
#filmphotography #photography #documentingspace #believeinfilm
The corner of a building in sunlight, surrounded by snow on the ground, with a bright red door with a yellow handrail.
February 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Bulking up! 💪💪💪🎞️🎞️🎞️
18 (and a bit) rolls of 35mm from 30.5m if bulk Delta400 ain't bad..
#filmphotography #believeinfilm
My desk, where I've been preparing photographic film canisters which have just been loaded with bulk film.
February 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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As much as I love the Fuji GS645S it's such a pain to shoot long exposure!! Needs must when you're traveling light..
My method is:
-Use an L bracket for landscape
-Cover the lens with a dark cloth
-Use donor/credit card to trip the T button
-Uncover the lens
-Close shutter with cable
-Lock shutter
💆‍♂️
January 29, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Me seeing people I followed on Insta now setting up Bluesky accounts..
January 27, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Some street portraits of couples taken a while back..

It's been a while since I've asked random strangers for their picture but something I'm keen to get back into this year (one of many resolutions relating to photography projects!)
🎞️
#filmphotography #streetphotography #portraits #believeinfilm
Photograph of a young couple holding ice-creams Photograph of a couple sitting on a bench Photograph of a couple sitting on a wall, leaning theirs heads against each other Photograph of an older couple, the man is wearing a flat cap.
January 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Łódź, Poland
Portra 400, Medium Format
🎞️
#filmphotography #photography #cityscape #landscape
Cityscape of Lodz in Poland taken from above, showing buildings with murals, graffiti in the windows of a tower block, people walking below and a tram driving past
December 19, 2024 at 12:04 PM
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Out of season..
Poland, Kodak Porta400
🎞️
#filmphotography #photography #streetphotography
Man carries large planks of wood in the rain through a dinosaur park
December 17, 2024 at 1:25 PM