Weekend readers' pictures: Work

Alice Walsh : “Desks, chairs and typewriters abandoned in the ­Californian desert” Photograph: Alice Walsh Steven Lochrie : ­“Seventh Avenue, New York” Photograph: Steven Lochrie David Chittenden : “Ants hard at work” Photograph: David Chittenden Zoe Crompton : “My boyfriend has our Staffy on his Facebook page, captioned ­Working Like A Dog” Photograph: Zoe Crompton Fiacra Quinn : "Taken next to Darling Harbour" Photograph: Fiacra Quinn Chas Perrett : "I was impressed by how he managed to steer straight with such a curved load" Photograph: Chas Perrett Paul Dobson : "Taken in my back garden in the spring, this honey bee was working so hard it could barely carry its pollen load" Photograph: Paul Dobson Dion Gifford : "Not the best quality pic, but made me smile - This chap was at work just off Tottenham Court Road" Photograph: guardian.co.uk John Ellis : "Early in the morning when most people were still travelling into London this girl was already hard at work" Photograph: John Ellis Phil Woolway : "I was stopped in my tracks with the sensation that I had stumbled across dinosaurs feeding as they mercilessly ripped into the building and pounded the earth" Photograph: Phil Woolway