Wednesday Walk make me smile post in Soho

This post if for Wednesday walk challenge And Make me Smile Collaboration challenge, initially our collaboration was once a month but due to the popularity of it we have decided to make the collab a weekly thing :)

Note I want to thank @bluemist for sponsoring this challenge starting from this week, due to their support I will be from next week sending out Steem to a selection of people who partake in the Wednesday walk as I will explain in the guidelines below all of the liquid rewards for this post will be shared with a selection of participants.

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.

Note: I think this past week was the biggest yet for Wednesday walk with over 60 people doing posts, thank you all for joining I do love seeing the walks from all around the globe. Just a reminder I do not have rules but rather guidelines, but now that I am getting so many entries and able to give out more as a token of thanks for those that join, I will just remind people that I do ask if possible to share a few shots and a little writeup about your walk, not just one photo

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

Add a bit of a write up about where you walked

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

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.

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

I will try and visit, and upvote all who take part in the Wednesday Walk, plus I will be sending some Steem to a selection of those who participate, please note this is a change from sending out SBI shares, as I did in the past.

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

Make me Smile Collaboration

As I mentioned above Wednesday Walk is collaborating with the [Make Me Smile] hosted by @elizacheng,

Here are the rules for her challenge

Your post can be writing, singing, video, poem,drawing, photography etc.... the most important part is your post Make me" smile, Remember, the ME is whoever read/view/listen to your post and this includes YOURSELF.
b. Your content must be ORIGINAL CONTENT
c. Please include at least 50 Words in your post

So the collaboration giveaway is as follows
As well as the SBI shares normally given away from the Wednesday Walk and Make me Smile Challenge, we will send one SBI Share each to one lucky winner who joins both challenges in one post

This weeks walk

For this week I am actually sharing a walk I did on a Wednesday all be it last Wednesday and my first photo walk of the year, the weather and being busy with things means I haven't been walking as much as normal and it was a chilly morning, but I wanted to make sure to have recent photos for this weeks post, starting with this shot showing the Jenga Building and Tower one of the World Trade Cente.

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This walk took me through Duarte Square, which has this statue

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Duarte square is a small Park in or borderign Soho to honor Juan Pabloe Duarte and hence why this statue is there.

Juan Pablo Duarte was a Dominican writer, activist, poet, military leader and liberal politician who was one of the "founding fathers" of the Dominican Republic. and was born on January 26, 1813, and died on July 15, 1876.
Furthe ron my walk I passed by this above a shop entrance

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And a little further along i came across some cobblestone streets, and I could not resist getting a couple of shots of them

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I know these days cobble stone streets are probably expensive and hard to maintain and quite frustrating for people drivign or cycling on them but i do love seeing them.

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Weekly giveaway of shares

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I have sent Steem to a few people selected through a random draw so on the weekend all people who joined in last weeks Wednesday walk. this week I am sending 5 Steem to @elizacheng, @joanstewart, @cloudblade, @offgridlife, @olivia08, @iamraincrystal, @ellenripley, @joalvarez, @leeart, @steemflow,

@elizacheng will send one Steem to @dswigle

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As @elizacheng and I collaborated with our Wednesday Walk and Make me Smile Challenges

And one person is randomly drawn who joins both challenges to receive one Steem from me and this week it is @TBA

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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unless stated otherwise all photos used in my posts are taken and owned by myself, if you wish to use any of my images please contact me.

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