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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Mario at work - Medina Glass, Malta.

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Mom's Home Cooking created by Olga.L

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Excavating for a swimming pool.

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

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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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Adampleasance

Good capture of the sparks in this shot. I always like to see more of the faces if possible. If you had squatted down would you still have got the sparks but more of the face as you would have been looking up.

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photonut replied to Adampleasance :

True but did not want to get in the way,

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Olga.L

It is the bend of his body and the sparks flying that give an exciting emotion to this photograph. The gray head of hair jumps out at us and declares itself too loudly. I agree with Adam about the importance of including more face versus a head of graying hair. Had you just crouched down a bit lower you would have succeeded in capturing his face. Technically this image is spot on and I can almost touch him and feel the texture of his blue work clothes. Lovely.

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photonut avatarLevel 12
photonut replied to Olga.L :

thankyou for the comments

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Novitiate silversmith created by hallomega

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Dismantling the Bus created by photonut

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A farmer washes his cow created by hallomega

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Hot Job created by Wayne-Cheah

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Preparing for Crush created by MyMindsEye

De-Stemming the fruit

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Taking Orders at the Food Truck created by kyricom

Serving people getting a late night snack.

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Stylin' created by MyMindsEye

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