The Challenge of the 200: El globo rojo

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200 blips, 1 balloon, 200 fotos, 1 day.

I can explain this sentence in two ways. A general blipfoto way: I have 200 blips today, which urns me one red balloon, because I uploaded 200 fotos, one per day.

I can also explain it in the light of today. This is my 200th blip and with one red balloon I shot 200 fotos on one day. (Not entirely true I am on 186 right now because my battery of my camera was empty, so I still have to shoot the other 14) Click here if you would like to see all fotos (will be updated over time)

While shooting the people I explained a few people about blip, but to the majority I told it was for un trabajo practico; estudio acá. Not a lie if you ask me.

The first foto was a bit difficult but after that it wasn't anymore. The most fun about shooting these people was when the conversation went more than Can I take a picture of you with a red balloon? Thank you

Me and Blipfoto
Blipfoto started for me when Dirk started his adventure down under. I knew I wanted to have a blip too and on the 21st of March, 2009, I finally started. It would take a while until I was really addicted though. I browsed through blip, but didn't shoot, or rather didn't post what I shot. (Although it didn't nearly come as close as one every day) After almost a year without posting an entry I came back but it was the 30th of May that really marks my come-back for me. Since the 23th of June, I have only missed one day (and I remember that day remarkably well)

Now I'm here, at blip 200, addicted and hooked. I will refrain giving a speech about blipfoto and how great it is, how it connects people, how it is more than photos, how it is more than a journal, because this entry is already getting rather long, but it is definitely true.

Let's look at some statistics of my journal (note that I may have miscounted or misclassified some fotos)
- 40% was taken on the street
- 44% contained a person / was a portrait
- 40% of the previous category were strangers
- 7,5% were animals
- 40% was taken in the Netherlands
- 46% was taken in Buenos Aires
- 14,5% was taken traveling
- And very proud to say: 0% flowers