If you're on holiday, you are going to love this contest: photographing people who are doing manual labour. In other words, people doing work by hand. Examples could be fruit picking, building a house, cutting a tree, ...

There can be only one person in the picture, and it's allowed for that person to use a tool for the work. The tool is not a requirement, labour such as fruit picking, building a house or cutting a tree, are also considered on-theme. Important is that it has to be physical labour and not mental labour. So a person typing on a computer is not considered on-theme

So get searching and find the hardest working person who is completely caught up in the work he/she is doing

To get some inspiration, have a look at this contest on Pxleyes: here

This theme was suggested 2 years ago by user photonot on Pxleyes.

Good luck!

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Drying Rice Stalks created by Olga.L

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Tailor. created by Adampleasance

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Marble cutter created by Zizounai

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Chainsaw man created by photonut

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Concreter created by Skyangel

Spraying concrete.

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Cleaning the Engine created by photonut

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Cobbler. created by Adampleasance

Street cobbler - Madurai, Tamil Nadu.

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Glassblower. created by Adampleasance

Mario at work - Medina Glass, Malta.

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Mom's Home Cooking created by Olga.L

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Harvesting coconuts created by hallomega

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Toil and Moil created by Olga.L

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Welding the Rail created by photonut

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Wood turner created by Zizounai

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Earthworks created by Skyangel

Excavating for a swimming pool.

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G O L D I found gold! created by Olga.L

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Adampleasance avatarLevel 8
Adampleasance

Great fun - what a good 'capture'.

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Olga.L avatarLevel 17
Olga.L replied to Adampleasance :

Thank you. :-)

photonut avatarLevel 12
photonut

I could say this was a bum shot but i won,t lol

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Skyangel avatarLevel 15
Skyangel replied to photonut :

I had to laugh at your comment.

Olga.L avatarLevel 17
Olga.L replied to photonut :

LOL

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Wayne-Cheah replied to Olga.L :

I could understand why this was not a close-up shot.

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Olga.L avatarLevel 17
Olga.L replied to Wayne-Cheah :

I wish we had emojis here.......LOLOLOLOL

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Skyangel replied to Olga.L :

You can copy and paste them from https://emojikeyboard.top/ 😄😁😆🤣

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Olga.L avatarLevel 17
Olga.L replied to Skyangel :

How do I do that? copy and paste to where?...to downloads.?

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Skyangel replied to Olga.L :

Find the emoji or as many as you want on the site. Click on them and they will appear in the window above the emoticon choices. Beside that window you will see a button that says copy. Press that button and it copies it onto the clip board which you cannot see but trust me, it is there. Then you just come back to this comment window, press Ctrl+V and that will paste them directly into the comment on this site. 👩🏼‍🏫👩‍🎓🍎

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Olga.L avatarLevel 17
Olga.L replied to Skyangel :

. aggggrrrrhhhhhh

IEatRawEggs avatarLevel 16
IEatRawEggs replied to Skyangel :

You can also use a Chrome plugin called EmojiKeyboard by Joypixels

You can then use a keyboard shortcut

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Olga.L avatarLevel 17
Olga.L replied to IEatRawEggs :

Thank you kindly.

Skyangel avatarLevel 15
Skyangel

A very unusual, interesting and amusing POV. I wish we could find gold under our concrete. I presume by the plumbing fittings, that he is doing some plumbing?

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Olga.L avatarLevel 17
Olga.L replied to Skyangel :

I dunno what he was digging for, maybe plumbing.

IEatRawEggs avatarLevel 16
IEatRawEggs

I can talk about his bum, but... where are his shoes?!

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Olga.L avatarLevel 17
Olga.L replied to IEatRawEggs :

This is life in the tropics...😉

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IEatRawEggs avatarLevel 16
IEatRawEggs replied to Olga.L :

But snow...

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Olga.L avatarLevel 17
Olga.L replied to IEatRawEggs :

no, not here in Tam Coc, Vietnam.

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IEatRawEggs avatarLevel 16
IEatRawEggs replied to Olga.L :

Ok I had to zoom in on his butt to see the surroundings.

It's concrete, not snow, ok!

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grasshopper1

Good shot. What makes it also interesting from the practical side is that he is going to replace an shut off valve hence the one lower right with fresh teflon tape on the threads. Also up by his right knee is the other piece that connects to the lower one. The only problem is there and is a little ironic is that there are no tools showing in pic that to complete that install. What's showing are his excavation tools..lol.
I've been there before when I first bought my house and had to replace stuff with no tools.lol
Good get with the pic and the blue and soft colors.

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Olga.L avatarLevel 17
Olga.L replied to grasshopper1 :

I so appreciate your comments thank you.

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grasshopper1 avatarLevel 11
grasshopper1 replied to Olga.L :

For me this pictures provokes more questions than answers and would look awesome hanging in a hardware store somewhere.Classic.
Just love it :)

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grasshopper1 replied to self:

oh sorry....or hanging in a gallery :)

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Olga.L replied to grasshopper1 :

...or in my bathroom !

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Tough Work created by Olga.L

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Car Mechanic. created by Adampleasance

Car mechanic plus audience - Mussoorie, Uttarakand.

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Grocer. created by Adampleasance

Grocer calling in the customers - Pushkar, Rajastan.

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Grinding Away created by photonut

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Hot Job created by Wayne-Cheah

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De-Stemming the fruit

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Serving people getting a late night snack.

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