Wednesday walk challenge Benches, and Steem Basic Income Give away

Wednesday Walk is a challenge started by me, the idea is to get out for a short walk and get some shots of what you can see within a short distance of your home office or wherever you start. And this is my entry for this week, but first, let me explain the challenge.

This is my post for the Wednesday Walk challenge hosted by myself, let me first explain the guidelines

Try and get out once a week for a short walk, can be from your office, home or anywhere really and walk for a few blocks or a few minutes looking for things to get shots of.

Your walk does not have to be on a Wednesday I just ask if possible to share your walk photos on a Wednesday.

Try and get a few shots not just one

You can look for anything in general or decide on one subject you want to get shots off.

Try to limit yourself to a set distance or time from the starting location, say 5 Blocks, 5 Minutes walk or whatever and see what you can find in that short distance

Make a point of looking around and up and see what you can find to get shots of that otherwise you may miss

Do a post with the shots you get on a Wednesday and tag it with #wednesdaywalk, also if you happen to join, please leave a link to your post in a comment on this post and I will try and visit them all.

Following me and resteeming the post so more see it would be appreciated but isn't a rule just a suggestion, but you may have a better chance of receiving a Steem Basic Income Share if you do.

I am not strict on these rules and hence why they are called guidelines and not rules

I will try and visit, resteem and upvote all who take part in the Wednesday Walk, plus I will be sending @steembasicincomeshares to a selection of those who participate.

And if you are looking for another fun challenge, check out the Make Me Smilehosted by Hive account@elizacheng, coming soon we will be working to collaborate on occasionally on these challenges, watch for an update in a future Wednesday walk

This weeks Walk, well this weeks walk Post

This past week although I did a lot of walking to and from various work buildings, the weather was not that conducive to photowalks, so for this weeks post I looked through some shots I had never used, so its sort of on out take post but focused on something if you go on a long walk you might appreciate seeing.

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When visiting NYC it is quite possible you are going to do a lot of walking getting to and from all the places you may want to visit, and it can get tiring and coming across somewhere to sit can be such a welcome sight, and that's what I will focus on for this post.
Now this bench is in Carl Schurz Park on the East Side of Manhattan up near 90th Street, and I did something I do not often do with mono edits I went with a high contrast look for this one, and I kind of liked the moody feel to the end result.
Perhaps it was my mood or I was partially frustrated with not having got out to take new shots that lead to this darky more moody edit, but I still kind of like the mood of this shot.

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And another bench, built around a tree in Battery City Park, and I went with a mono Edit for this one as well, but I think its less moody with the bright light behind the trees in the background.

If your not a fan of Mono or moody images don't worry there is come color coming :)

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And again we are in Battery Park City and with some color, and lots of benches, and yes those are poll tables infront of the benches, no felt on them and pretty run down when I saw them.
Now when I edited the first couple of shots what I said at the start of this walk post about not getting out for a photowalk was true, Andon Sunday when I finished editing the photos for this post it was still true as I started preparing this post, but Sunday afternoon I managed to get out for a walk downtown, it was cloudy for the most part, but the temperature had risen up to 45F so I got out for a walk, around Downtown here, so my Mood picked up a little, and I have some new shots to edit, but I know I won't have time to edit them all between now and Wednesday when I share this post, so sticking with the Wednesday Walk out take shot post :)

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And here we are still in Battery Park City and as you can see there is no Shortage of benches here if you need to stop for a minute and rest your legs, they looked in pretty good condition to me but I seldom stop and sit when I go out for a walk so I never tried them out.

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And I finish off back in Carl Schurz Park where I started off at for this post, as you can see it has a nice promenade alongside the East River, and plenty of benche sif you want to sit, relax and watch the world go by.

Steem Basic Income give away

I mentioned in the guidelines that from this week I will be sponsoring a few who join the #wednesdaywalk challenge with shares on Steem Basic Income

What is Steem Basic Income you may ask well here is how they explain it

Steem Basic Income is a social experiment to bring a basic income to as many Steemians as possible. Members join by sponsoring others into the program. Steem Basic Income is delivered through providing regular upvotes to member content. so I have decided to randomly send some Steem to add shares for some of my followers so on the weekend
I sponsored the following people, Hive account@jurich60, Hive account@leylar, Hive account@singa, Hive account@bxlphabet, Hive account@kaminchan, all people who joined in last weeks Wednesday walk .

And a special bonus this week Hive account@elizacheng will send one SBI share to Hive account@steven-patrick,

I would love to be able to give everyone who joins a Steem Basic Income share, but I don't make enough steem each week to do so, but I will try and share them around fairly between those that join the challenge