Suburb in the Sky

After my marathon sleep yesterday, I awoke feeling surprisingly good. I'm still a bit bunged up, but otherwise I was ready to attack the day.

Today my blip image is purposefully somewhat mundane.

I embarked upon this blip journey essentially alone with 4Sam3388 (note that I'm unfortunately not "his" Sam), and I am slowly acquiring some fellow blippers to travel along with, and I'm very happy to be along for the ride. I started out wanting to put up the best photos that I possibly could each day, and maybe reach the popularity of some of the amazing blippers that I have the pleasure of following myself each day, along with hundreds of other people.

I've come to realise that my involvement is changing. I'm less concerned about how many people subscribe to my diary (which is a good thing, considering! :-) ), and I'm realising that it's a fantastic daily challenge, and it keeps me involved in and improving my photography, which essentially fell to the wayside when my travels ended. Most of all, I've realised that it needs to reflect my life, and some days, by necessity, are just less interesting than others. So today's blip goes out as a celebration of the 'every day'. That's not to say that I don't like it. I had a few images to choose from today, and this one somehow rang through to me most.

The image is of Atherton Gardens in Melbourne. They have been called the 'suburbs in the sky'. They are, as you can probably guess, public housing high-rises, which rise up 20 stories into the Melbourne skyline. They were built, prefabricated, in the 1960s, and have always held a population of ethnic minorities and people who are hard up. As the name suggests, there are some great open spaces made available to the residents. I pass along this road every day on my bike, and as a testament to what I believe my blip should be, they deserve to be in my 365. Furthermore, I love that the outer facade, dull, boring, and (some would say) ugly, gives away nothing of the fantastic ethnic diversity that inhabits it. Today, I pointed the camera upwards. In a future blip, I'll keep it at the street level and show you the amazing array of colours, sounds and joy that surround these buildings.

The contrast may well baffle you.

Hope that all's well in Blipland.