Chinatown Bokeh

Chinatown Bokeh, originally uploaded by theurbannexus.

Established in the Gold Rush period, in 1854, this is the oldest Chinatown in Australia. This was the period when Melbourne was the biggest and richest city in Australia, and developing into one of the most well established and endowed cities of the world, with the establishment of the University of Melbourne and other socioeconomic and political trends, which culminated in Melbourne being the nation's capital for the first 26 years of the nation's life.

Melbourne's Chinatown is the oldest continously running Chinatown outside Asia and runs on the eastern end of Little Bourke, between Exhibition and Swanston Streets.

There is another large Chinatown in Box Hill (suburban Melbourne) and also several (3) Little Vietnams (in the inner west in Footscray, inner east in Richmond, and south east in Springvale) in the city, as well as Italian and Greek precincts.

Technical: 30mm, f/1.4, shutter 1/25, desaturated from RAW.