Weekly photo challenge: unexpected

This is my seventh participation in the Weekly photo challenge. This week’s theme is “unexpected.”

(Non-edible) mushrooms

Actually, I don’t know whether they are edible or not. I’m no mushroom expert, so I’ll just guess we better all stay away from them. If you happen to know what these are, please feel free to jump in!

Weekly photo challenge: layers

This is my sixth participation in the Weekly photo challenge. This week’s theme is layers.

La photo du mois: ensemble

This is my seventh participation in the “photo of the month” challenge. Since this is a French-speaking group, I put the translation below. On the 15th of every month, bloggers from all over the world post a photo on a predetermined subject. This month’s topic is “together.”

Bay Bridge by night (and some…)

Last weekend, I finally went to the Bay Bridge at night to check out the Bay Lights installation. This little night adventure allowed me to realize I probably need to buy a new tripod that will be able to hold my D7000 and the 28-300 lens that is attached to it. Ha!

De Wand neighborhood’s magic wand

I know the title is totally lame, but I couldn’t come up with anything cool.

Oakland’s Produce and Waterfront District

I don’t even know if the Produce and Waterfront District is actually a thing. I looked it up on a real estate website. I guess those websites get it wrong a lot when it comes to naming neighborhoods, but I’m just going to have to trust them for now.

Resting Rolls-Royce

It’s not every day that you see a Rolls-Royce on the streets of San Francisco (or anywhere else, really). So I thought I’d take a few shots of the one I spotted in Chinatown last weekend.

San Francisco by the docks

Well. I don’t really know how to start. I was supposed to get on a plane back to my country (Belgium) this morning… but obviously didn’t since I’m writing this. My girlfriend proposed to me about 10 days ago so we are going to get married.

UPDATED: Banksy in San Francisco —or the best hide-and-seek game

UPDATE: Jeremy Novy got back to me and said the other pieces were vandalized and couldn’t be fixed. Read what follows, keeping that info in mind.
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Banksy, a street artist with an international reputation, just finished a month long residency in NYC. For a while that’s all we could hear and read about . Even Justin Bieber managed to get some of the Banksy hype.

Brussels: Tour Japonnaise

I wish I’d taken pictures of it during the day… and I did when I visited the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken. You’ll find the photo here. But here, you’ll see photo of this rather unusual landmark taken at sunset.

Weekly photo challenge: eerie

This is my fourth participation in the Weekly photo challenge. This week’s theme is eerie.

Halloween: oranges vs. pumpkins

All right! I know I’m not in the habit of posting two sets of pictures a day, I felt like I need to make an exception. Being from Belgium and being part of that older generation, I never really celebrated Halloween as a kid.

La photo entre amis: made in China

La photo entre amis is a small Facebook photo group that a friend and I just started. Each one of us gets his/her turn to pick a theme. The theme being treated here is: made in China.

Halloween: (creepy) dolls

Some might say they are not that creepy. Well, yeah. That’s right. They are regular dolls. But to me, there is something about them that feels a little strange and disturbing when they are shot at a certain angle or even just in black and white.