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This post was originally part of Travel Photo Roulette, a competition started by Jeremy at Living the Dream way back in November 2010 as a way for travel bloggers to connect and share their photos (via the Twitter hashtag #PhotoRoulette). Somewhat astonishingly – especially for someone who has a regular feature entitled My Bad Travel Photo which highlights the usual travesties we manage to take – we were chosen as the winners of Travel Photo Roulette 74.
The following pictures were submitted to us when we hosted TPR75 (when The Working Traveller was a standalone blog) on the subject of Work or Working. Most of our readers are interested in working or volunteering abroad so the theme of working was the most obvious one for us and provided a way to document some of the countless daily working lives we all pass through as we travel.
1. Women run the local market in Hoi An, Vietnam. Here they are cleaning their bowls after the market has finished.
Submitted by Denise, The Art of Slow Travel:
2. This man was working diligently on a wooden boat, using hand-made tools, beside the Ganges River, Varanasi, India.
Submitted by Tamara, Turtles Travel:
3. This was taken in the Transylvanian countryside, Romania. A traditional blacksmith and his assistant putting a hot shoe on a horse.
Submitted by Gianni, Nomad is Beautiful:
4. The village of Shirakowa-go, Japan is a Unesco World Heritage site. It used to be an isolated village that employed a unique style of thatched roof architecture to ward off the persistent heavy winter snows, and the town had largely fallen into disrepair. But, over the last decades, since being named a Unesco site, it has prospered from the resultant tourism and the residents have been working hard to restore the original beauty of their unique architectural style. As you walk through the town, you can see evidence of the restoration by skilled craftsmen working on several buildings. In this one, the woodworker was doing finish sanding on a piece of a screen that tops an interior wall. In addition to the lovely simplicity of the cut out design, the screen allows airflow between interior spaces.
Submitted by Tom, Travel Past 50:
5. My photo was taken on a night tour near Sydney in Australia. We had a photographer giving us tips during the whole tour: moonrise, light painting, photographing starts and sunrise. So here he is, working…
Submitted by Claire, Zig Zag On Earth:
6. Wood Carving in Bali (One of our many stops on our Bali Eco Cycling Tour). .
Submitted (via Facebook) by Andrew and Amy, Our Big Fat Travel Adventure:
7. Israeli teen soldiers in Jerusalem take a break from patrolling the streets in front of the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum.
Submitted by Cailin, Travel Yourself:
8. Here’s my entry from one of my favourite places, Hoi An, Vietnam. This old woman had set up her stall and was selling clay whistles at the side of the road.
Submitted by Suzanne, The Travelbunny:
9. To this day the women in Capachica, a peninsula on the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca, weave beautiful and colourful textiles with the same techniques that have been passed on from generation to generation. Their work is precious.
Submitted by Bianca, Nomadbiba:
10. Taken in Vietnam while trekking in the hills of Sapa in the North. I was lucky enough to capture this shot of a man surveying the rice paddies, ready to get to work by the looks of things!
Submitted by Matt, Travel With A Mate:
11. One of the hardest working guys out there is the Zulu King’s Press Secretary. It is his job to go out an hour before the King appears and shout the good virtues and accomplishments of the King. In the heat of the day, and at the top of his lungs, this guy works!
Submitted by Mike, The Fighting Couple:
12. You couldn’t ask for an office with a better view than this one – the lush green hills of a tea plantation in Tanzania providing a background for two tea pluckers on the way to work…
Submitted by James, Fly, Icarus, Fly:
13. Motorbiking around the southern tip of the Vietnamese island of Phu Quoc, I came across “the shack doctor.” My sheer fascination with his apparently primitive methods helped me overcome any fears of being a nosy tourist to snap this memory of his shockingly different medicinal style.
Submitted by Dave, Travel Transmissions:
14. A market vendor uses a homemade blowtorch to cook a python at the Tomohon Traditional Market in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Submitted by Raymond, RNR Travel:
15. Here’s a classic blogger-in-a-hammock photo. I’d rather be surfing.
Submitted by Matt, Matt Gibson:
16. This is a ranger and sled dogs at Denali National Park – the only US park to have working sled dog kennels. Snowmobiles aren’t allowed in protected areas, so dog teams resupply the remote ranger cabins in winter.
Submitted by Jess, Ice Cream and Permafrost:
17. A mother and son street performer team in Gdansk, Poland.
Submitted by Kerri, The Hippie and the Yuppie:
18. This woman is putting the finishing touches on a huge umbrella at the Umbrella Making Centre in Borsang Village in Sankamphaeng, Thailand.
Submitted by Carole Terwilliger Meyers, Travels With Carole:
19. This lady is working or hardly working at the food market in Dalat, Vietnam.
Submitted by Gerard, GQ Trippin:
20. We spotted this guy during our stay in McLeod Ganj in India – The guy standing was a denture (false teeth) repair man! He had his hand shoved fully into this poor guys mouth – no gloves needed! Although it looks like it, he didn’t have his thumb in the guys eye socket!
Submitted by Stuart, Am I Nearly There Yet?:
21. Why not take your work outside? This is a pretty good place for a shave!
Submitted by Sarah, Travel On Your Lonesome:
22. Here are a few fine Parisian public workers trying to remove snow. They’re not quite efficient.
Submitted by James, The Savvy Backpacker:
23. Street food in Yogaykarta was not always easy to come by, but luckily for us this fine gentleman served up delicious, blazing hot noodles nightly. Not only that, but they were the cheapest game in town. We’ll never cease to wonder at what can be done with a simple terra-cotta pot filled with charcoal and an electric fan.
Submitted by Tony, Twenty Years Hence:
24. Our entry is from one of the top lassi shops in Varanasi, India. It was a thrill to watch this man make the lassi drinks as he ground up and mixed in the toppings by hand using the method seen here.
Submitted by Jeremy, Living the Dream:
25. This was from a snowy day in Zermatt Switzerland. Was walking through town and saw this guy getting ready for the work day. It’s not often you see a man pulling horses through the snow.
Submitted by Anwar, Beyond My Front Door:
26. After a long day volunteering in the coffee fields of Colombia I was left with about 10 pounds of coffee berries, after removing the fruit, drying, and roasting all that will be left is about a pound and a half of beans. It makes me appreciate my morning cup more than ever. I didn’t work for the coffee itself, but for the experience, to talk with, and at least for a day, be a coffee worker. My time in the coffee fields is one of my highlights on our RTW trip to date.
Submitted by Adam, Getting Stamped:
27. Sometimes the people making our food go UN-noticed, and under appreciated. Every night Moses worked his high heat gas burner with a smile that radiated near as much as his flame, I always made sure to let him know how good his food was and thank him. I caught this one with a fast shutter, just as he rolled the sauce back into the pan.
Submitted by Hannah, Street Food World Tour:
28. I’m submitting this shot taken in Granada’s Parque Colon. After a day walking the streets of one of Nicaragua’s oldest colonial cities we sat in the central square to rest our tired feet and soak in a little more of the local culture. I sat watching this young girl selling her wares. She stood with such poise and took such pride in each sale. She hadn’t noticed us until the moment I took this shot when her gaze caught the lens of my camera.
Submitted by Ben, Wanderlusters:
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