I dunno dude, I'm actually not seeing much of a downswing at all this time around. Usually summer has been down-time ever since I got into the industry but this year is different. Maybe it's the niche where it's better this year. Dunno. I can't explain it. At first i thought it sucked... traffic numbers on various blogs, freesites, etc bombed.. then BOOM.. everything up to normal and then some.
Tell your members and potential members to screw the vacation plans, they can live their vacations vicariously through you and your camera's lense
Now if I could just employ Paul Markspam's magic Join button on every page I build... then maybe I could be working from the beach on a permanent semi-vacation heh