Over Labor Day, lots of you went to work together with your cameras to capture the last word moment of R&R.

Lead Shot – ‘Definitions May Differ’

The Seekonk Speedway annual end-of-summer Thrill Show. Not away from Boston, but beyond the suburbs lies the Action Track of the East. While you’re within the crowd, you don’t care in regards to the project deadlines, how the economy is doing, or whether you left the oven on at home. You’ve got something to your mind: watching cars get ****ed up. Go ahead, embrace your inner red neck. Cheer when the pools of fluid that have collected on the track within the night begin to ignite from the sparks of the automobile that lost a front tire; Cheer when that bumper that’s been dragged around the track finally lets go; Cheer when there’s one car left, rocking backward and forward as the checkered flag drops. Just cheer – you don’t have a care on the planet. Nikon D90, 18-200 VR-II, 36mm, f/5.0, 1/25th sec, ISO1600
[Ed note: If fishtailing around a field of asphalt and dirt in attempts to decimate other cars/people isn't R&R, I don't know what is.]
-Ryan Powers

Why Every Couple Needs a Fulltime Photographer

With a big music festival and game convention in town, relaxation for me meant escaping the crowds and sound. It is a random couple (and seagull) who had an analogous idea, watching the setting sun finally break through a cloudy day. I used Camera RAW for the hearth sky. Shot was excited by a Nikon D90 and 11-16mm Tokina @f18, 1/80, ISO 160, 11mm.
[Ed note: I am hoping that I looked this adorable last weekend with my wife on the beaches of Michigan.]
-Nick Sprankle

70s Postcard

Here’s Napili Beach on Maui. I didn’t would like to come home. The water is warm and the sun is hot. Concerned with my Nikon D50 with my 18-55 lens. I just walked around the hotels and shore trying to find fun photos to take.
[Ed note: That (glass?) end table can be a little anachronistic, but just choose it. We wanted a palm tree in this collection.]
-Chris Zempel

Two-tone

Shot on a Canon 500D with a 50mm f1.8. ISO 100, 1/2000 at f4.5. It was the one lens I’d brought with me to Co. Kerry for the weekend, for my friend’s 21st. I was just after popping over to the automobile to select up the camera and was walking back across the beach. I truly liked how every identifiable detail of the scenery was lost inside the exposure (Take that HDR!). My white balance was complete shite, so the photo was desaturated and a cream and purple gradient was mapped on to it to warm it up again, but maximize the contrast between light and dark areas.
[Ed note: Loads of post processing involved, but hey, it works.]
-Cian Markey

The Feet In Hammock Shot

This was taken yesterday resting in a hammock staring at the Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica. Later that night we actually got to work out it erupt! Yay vacation! Not eager for getting back home to the important world… haha. Shot with Hipstamatic for iPhone (iPhone 4).
[Ed note: The rounded line of the hammock coupled with the matching color of the volcano keep it interesting.]
-Dan Jackson

Sleeping Like a Baby

Canon 5D Mark!! with 24-105L IS shot at 4.0 bracketed. +2 0 -2. Processed in photoshop CS5, Silver EFX Pro. Our family was all relaxing poolside this weekend, but none of us could do better than this.
-Jason Reed

Cramming

While people were out relaxing during their labor day weekend, my friends and I were studying all weekend long. Here’s a shot of my buddy as he performs a physics experiment. Canon XSi, 10-22 mm @ 17mm, ISO 400, 1/60 sec , f 4.0
[Ed note: I admire how a sophomoric activity was elevated by the intense execution of this photo alone.]
-Mark Lee

Winner – ‘Labor Day’

Although it could seem like, this photo is absolutely not quite from ” a day at the spa” . My wife was in labor on Saturday and I took this while she was resting inside the labor&delivery room bath. The irony of the weekly theme and the act of labor seems quite appropriate for this contest. Desirous about a Canon 5D and 85mm f/1.8 USM lens. ISO 400, f/2 at 1/80 sec, no flash just natural daylight. It truly is obviously submitted together with her permission and in honor of our newborn son, Theo!
[Ed note: a superbly executed shot, however it's the context that made it a winner for me. The play on Labor Day was clever, and the juxtaposition of relaxation in a most nerve-wracking of time made it something I'll remember for most of the time so long as I remember things. Also, Wesley clearly risked his life and future happiness for this photo, which need to be worth something.]
-Wesley Duffee-Braun

Following that brief respite, dare I say that we should always all come again to work. (Find full-size shots on flickr .)

The Gallery

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This post is tagged: checkered flag, fulltime photographer, game convention, project deadlines, seekonk speedway, watching cars