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Tech monthly readers' pictures: construction

a swan building a nest
Swan building the nest: 'Collaboration male and female swan working together'. Photograph: garethnprice/GuardianWitness
a man on top of a pylon
Linking to the modern world: 'Staying in the Chinese mountain village of Ping'An, we decided to walk through the rice terraces and to the next village. En route we came across a group of 3 or 4 men putting up wires to the higher buildings of the rice terraces. They were happy for us to photograph them at work and as the rice terraces were not in their 'glorious green' at the time, the people added colour and character to the scenes'. Photograph: cavegirluk/GuardianWitness
olympic site under construction
Olympic Site Under Construction: 'Stratford. August 2011'. Photograph: freddygunn/GuardianWitness
a stork in a nest in germany
Stork's Nest: 'As seen on a rooftop in Endingen, Germany. Photo taken using Canon EOS 5D Mark ll (200mm, f6.3, 1/500s iso 100)'. Photograph: Jenny Downing/GuardianWitness
wasps building a nest
Teamwork: 'Wasps building their nest around the eggs laid'. Photograph: hennetjie/GuardianWitness
workers exchanging tools and materials
Path Construction 2: 'During the Kumbh Mela 2013, the workers who were supposed to have finished making the whole camp hadn't done so even after we had been there for a week. This meant that it was up to our rishikumars to finish building the path. After a lot of messing around, they finally completed it and the whole place was finally finished'. Photograph: kalyanil/GuardianWitness
men working on a construction site
Men at Work. Photograph: incognito_traveler/GuardianWitness
a boardwalk on Thursley common
New boardwalk at Thursley Common NNR: 'I love the way this new boardwalk over some boggy areas at Thursley common NNR has been constructed along an old hedge line to wrap around the existing trees and seems to float above surrounding marsh. Very popular with the local lizards too when the sun gets up a bit more'. Photograph: DaveRoberts/GuardianWitness
a crane in Santa Monica
Crane: 'Saw this crane on our resent trip to Santa Monica, CA. They were working on new supporting pillars along the pier. Used my iPhone camera app with one of its filters'. Photograph: vla7007/GuardianWitness
construction on reclaimed land in Hong Kong
Construction on Reclaimed Land, Central, Hong Kong 2010: 'This shows ongoing construction on reclaimed land on the site of the old (now demolished) Star Ferry Pier in Central, Hong Kong'. Photograph: terencech/GuardianWitness
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