Street Photography from Manchester. #2 Piccadilly gardens and Market Street.

These photos were taken around the Manchester Piccadilly gardens area, and the main shopping street, Marlet Street, near the Arndale Shoppping Centre.

Hope you like them !!

All pics were taken using my Nikon D800, Sigma 1.4 50 mm and edited in Nik collection mostly using Analog Efex Pro 2 .

Week 3 - Celebration - Culture and tradition.

A photograph that helps to celebrate our local cultures and traditions. The photograph could be modern or traditional.

We are all different and we all should celebrate the things that make us special and unique.

Week 3 Celebration.jpg

RULES

USE THE TAG ctwphoto for all entries please !!

I will accept up to 3 weekly entries per contestant. Please hashtag each entry #1, #2, #3. You can add these in one post or separate posts.
This post, or a post by damnthatbanana with the rules should be resteemed and liked.
You may add a SHORT Paragraph explaning the photograph. Please keep it short!! (around 150 words or less) This paragraph may be taken into account when judging the photograph, but don't worry about grammatical or spelling errors, that's fine.
Your own creative work only please!! I will be checking online and if your other posts have a connection to your blog.
Judges decision is final!!!
Due to time differences you will maybe not recieve your SBD prize until the Tuesday after the competition.
Their will be a different theme each week, but always the photographs will need to provoke thought in the viewer.
If you want to add your photograph in the comments below, that's fine, but please also create a new post with your photograph.
I will take the quality of your camera or phone into account, so don't worry it's the message of the photo that is important, but blurred or really poor quality photographs may not do so well.
Please use the correct tag #ctwphoto for your photograph.
11.Prize Money may vary from week to week.
If you want to post the photographs in the Steemit flickr group then great, any new memebr apprecitated.

CLOSES EVERY SUNDAY EVENING - FIRST WEEK WILL BE EXTENDED.

G - PACIFIC TIME (GMT -7 hours) to give everyone a chance to enter on a Sunday evening.
As this is the first week I am giving a few extra days , the competition will close weekly on a Sunday evening.

CLOSING DATE WEEK #3 - Sunday 15th October

WEEK 3 - 10SBD 1st, 5 SBD 2nd , 2 SBD x Runners up

CLOSING DATE WEEK #3 - Sunday 15th October

WEEK 3 - 10SBD 1st, 5 SBD 2nd , 2 SBD 3 x Runners up

Any questions please comment below, I will try my best to answer all questions.