Wednesday walk challenge 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.

Actifit

A good App that works well in conjunction with the Wednesday Walk or any day walk is @actifit, which rewards you with Actifit Tokens and Steemit Upvotes, if you use the app to track your steps and do a post of your actifit total each day.

If you do a lot of activity I do recommend you check it out

My walk this week - Street SHots of people

Now one thing I am not comfortable doing is taking shots of people on the street but this week I forced myself out of my Comfort zone on one of my walks and took a few shots of people on the street, admittedly with most of these I turned on silent shooting on the camera and was shooting with the camera down at waist height, so many didn't come out but I got a few to share

I start off with one that was easy as this guy at midday in the city was relaxing and taking a break and completely oblivious to me taking the photo.
Now maybe when I was younger i could have laid down on a boulder on the street and chilled out like this but nowadays I like my comfort LOL

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Now just along a bit fromt he snoozing guy was this guy playing his guitar and this shot he knew i was taking and smiled and seemed quite happy with me taking his photo, he was having fun strumming and singing

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These next coupld of shots are in the Dag Hammerskjold Park, this first one taken from a distance, of this guy relaxing in the park.

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Can you imagine what someone from 100 or even 50 years ago would think seeing someone with ear Pods in the ears as this guy has, that would probably be wondering what is growing out of his ear, times sure have changed.

This guy is taken a bit of a break on one of the benches, now I could be wrong but the take I get from this shot is he looks like he has the worries of the world on his shoulders

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And this last shot is just outside of Grand Central as I was about to head in and catch my train, this one definitely was taken with my camera down at waist height as I tried to make it look I was checking something on the camera as I snapped this shot in silent mode so there isn't that telltale click sound as you take the photo

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Now do not expect to see many posts like this with candid shots of people on the street, I went out on this couple of walks for these shots but it is not something I feel comfortable doing and hence will not do too often

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 send some Steem Basic Income shares to 5 people selected through a random draw so on the weekend all people who joined in last weeks Wednesday walk. @porters, @starjewel, @dswigle, @kamrunnahar, @davedickeyyall, all people who joined in last weeks Wednesday walk . And a bonus this week @elizacheng will send one SBI share to @manorvillemike,

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

I hope a few of you may find this an interesting challenge and decide to join in.

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