The Lenscratch Summer Exhibition

Martin Frech, farewell, Berlin/Germany


Ah summer...4th of July BBQ's, a dip in the pool, time slowed down. I have to say that living in Los Angeles is sort of year round summer--the lure of the ocean, an afternoon in the sun is not what I think of when June, July, and August roll around. To me, summer is a lake on the east coast, packing a suitcase, and cocktails on a dock. The image below is of my godson, Roy, participating in an annual tradition of the summer purchase and reading of some meaningful literature--literature that I notice everyone in the house at some point, sprawls out on a couch and reads.

Aline Smithson, Inquiring Minds, Longpond, MA


Happy Summer! Thank you for your submissions. It's terrific to have submissions from all over the world, celebrating this time of year. Please submit to future Lenscratch calls...Visual Pranks and Puns is due August 15th, School Days is due September 1st, and Masks, Costumes, and Halloween is due October 24th. Think about making some work to fit these themes and who knows where it will take you! And now, here's to a great summer with cameras in hand.....

THE SUMMER LENSCRATCH EXHIBITION

James Friedman, © 2011 Summer Solstice, Fort Lauderdale, Florida



Valery Rizzo, Pool Party, Crown Heights, Brooklyn



Steven C. De La Cruz, A Great Bite, My bedroom, Los Angeles, CA



Lauren Henkin, Summer, Nova Scotia, Canada



Dave Jordano, Woman Sleeping in a Parking Lot, Detroit, MI 2010



Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Pride Lemonade Stand Without Prejudice, 2011, NYC



Magali Duzant, Alice; One Way or Another, Pittsburgh, PA



Carolyn Hampton, Little red fish, Montecito, California, August 2009



Alex Nelson, Mom and Moe in the pool, Orvieto, Italy July 2010



Sarah Hadley, Fire, Indian Lake, Indian Lake, Ohio



Warren Harold, Snorkel, Houston, TX



Claire Mallett, Sunbather, Venice Beach, CA



Maura Brennan, The Deep End, Los Angeles, CA



Linda Plaisted, Luna Park,



Richard Allen Ashmore, Childhood, 2010, Telluride, Colorado



Susan Wides, Sheeps's Meadow, July 2, 2007, Central Park, Sheep's Meadow, NYC



Nikki Gardner, Cousins, Papoose Lake, Heath, Massachusetts



Constance Hobbs, Summers Fence, The Swordfish Club, West Hampton Beach, NY



Matilde Soligno, Late Summer, Strait of Messina, Italy



Bea Fresno, Dutch Summer, Rotterdam, The Netherlands



Rudy Ramos, Mid-Air, Cork, Ireland



Yoichi Nagata, Boe and Tupa, Tuvalu



Zeb Andrews, Salmon Street Springs, 8 seconds, Salmon Street Springs fountain in downtown Portland, Oregon



Ali Donnelly, Luna Moth, Durham, NC



Colin Aherne, A New Summer, Mallow, Co. Cork



Jason Reblando, Parade, Greendale, Wisconsin, from the series New Deal Utopias


Laura Burlton, Seaweed, Galveston, TX



Balazs Sprenc, I wanna go back, Szigetbecse (Hungary)



Sylvia de Swaan, Espejismo/Mirage, Moose River, The Adirondacks, New York State Summer 2001



Patricia A. Bender, Ella (19), Lake Michigan



Vito Pasquale, 13 feet 3 inches, New York



Katya Evdokimova, Reflection, Hyde Park, London, UK



Christin Boggs, Crocs in the Greenhouse, Mud Creek Farm, Victor, NY



Jim Marx, Cousins, California



Gerry Smith, Coloour my World, Dublin, Ireland



Consuelo Mendez, Reinaldo's summer, Lake of Maracaibo, Venezuela



Aaron Hobson, Chartreuse Nights, Adirondacks, USA



Joanna Black, Scotland on the beach, Edinburgh, Scotland



Susan A. Barnett, BYE, from the series "Not In Your Face"2011, Coney Island, NY



The Large Format Group, Bigfoot, Alsea, OR



Sabrina Lau, Dream Ship, Warnemünde, Germany



Bernd Reinhardt, Fourth of July, Oceanside, CA, 2010



Jeff Friesen, Waterborne, Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia, Canada



Jack Nelson (photo taken by my father Jack Nelson), Waterman's Lake, Rhode Island, 1958, Rhode Island



Marilyn Sanders, Surfers Greet Baby Seal, Hermosa, Beach, CA



David Westrop, Taking the time, Vancouver, Canada



Keith Prue, Coney Island, New York - 2011



John Neel, Floating Man, Florida



Suzanne Revy, Waves, 2010, Plum Island, MA



Natasha D'Schommer, Park Pool, Minneapolis, MN



Kelly Burgess, Gordon Street, Brighton, MA



Monica Denevan, Pendulum, Burma 2007



Ken Rosenthal, 4 July, 2010 , Colville, WA



Steven Keirstead, Cool Summer Day, East Blue Hill Maine, MMVIII



Russell duPont, Nantasket Beach #1, Hull, MA



shāna, Levitating, Huntington, NY



Paul Romaniuk, That Summer at the Lake, Victoria, BC



Jamie Johnson, Betty, Topanga Canyon, CA



Jim Brammer, Paradise Found, Acapulco, Mexico



Jessica Tremp, the idea was to terrify but not touch, Goldfields Victoria Australia



Gina Kelly, Denali’s Favorite Toy, Minneapolis, MN



Anne Berry, Crab, Cumberland Island, GA, 2011



Liz Devine, Pool float, El Paso, TX at a hotel pool



Jon Kersey, Alice, Scott's Valley, CA



Tabitha Soren, Action Off the Field, Modesto, California



Martin Cox, Ambiguity in front of the manor house (after Manet) June 2011, The Great Hall, Northern England



Katie Shapiro, Boy on rock, Tahoe, Lake Tahoe



Jason Hynes, Americano, York, U.K.



Kimi Kolba, Bask, Oregon



Michael Werner, Summer Sale, Forster NSW, from the series Greater Lakes, Forster, Australia



Jeremy Chandler, Spring Divers, Branford, FL



Laurie McCormick, Summer on the Cape Cape Cod, MA imagined



Kevin Messina, Fishing, Belgrade, Maine



Silke Hase, Männer! , Island in the River near Hamburg Germany



Rina Shapira, Tandem, Summer 2010, Venice Beach, CA



Jane Gottlieb, Malibu Hills, wide-lux shot in Malibu Hills 30 years ago,
recently scanned & photoshop enhanced



Mike E. Spitz, Fishing Time, Ohio



Kristianne Koch, Bathers From the Pier, San Clemente Pier looking toward Cottons Point



Louise Daddona, Goggles, Boca Raton, Florida



Emma Powell, Where I Leaned to Ice Skate, Middlebury, VT



Jim Robertson, Fountain Heads, Columbus, Ohio



Greg Zauswoz, Summer Keeps Fading, Wollongong, NSW, Australia



David Ranc, Bergamholidays, Bergamo, Italy



Isa Leshko, Dangling Legs from Thrills & Chills, Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, OH



Jessica Tampas, JPLobsang, Lakeside, MI



Amber J. Anderson, Hampshire Road Community Garden, 2010, Cleveland Heights, Ohio



Panos Lambrou, Beach Soccer, Cadiz, Spain



Chuck Mintz, Kid/Legs, Ocean City, MD



Alek Lindus, svala beach, Samos, Greece



Kati Mennett, Sparkler, Sandwich, MA



Roland Jackson, Billy, Burlington (Secret Spot)



Francisco Arcaute, Fair, San Bernardino, CA



Cynthia Wood, Night Swimming, Palm Springs, CA



David Miller, Glass Olive + Fish, Redondo Beach, CA



Larry Torno, Pink Hydrangea, St. Louis, Missouri



Erin Tyner, Wake, Atlanta,GA



Christy Karpinski, Untitled (iris), Minneapolis, MN



Mark Eaton, The Race, Namyul Beach in South Korea



Janet L. Pritchard, August, Rhode Island



Winky Lewis, Harry at the drive-in, Saco, ME



Bill Chapman, Fan, Fenway Park, Boston, MA



Walter Beckham, Pool, Gulf Shores, AL



Michael Younker, Duel, Savannah, GA



Tamar Levine, Little Boxes, Los Angeles, CA



Robert Bright, Raining down on me, Latigo Shore Drive, Malibu, CA



Andi Schreiber, Fast Forward, Scarsdale, NY



Bjarte Edvardsen, The Rhubarb Pie Day, Ålgård, Norway



Robbie Kaye, Boy in the Sand, Los Angeles, CA



Donna Rosser, Peachtree Road Race Girl, Atlanta, GA -- Peachtree Road Race July 4, 2010



Fran Forman, The Lost Sailor, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and my imagination



Christopher Mellevold, Gracie, Willamsport, PA



Sharon Johnson-Tennant, Seagull, Block Island, Rhode Island



Suzanne Harrison, Karolina, Ludza, Latvia



Kent Krugh, Child and Ocean, Folly Beach, South Carolina



Marjorie Salvaterra, Uncle Dan's Beach House, Malibu, CA



Mitch Karunaratne, From the Escape series, London



Meagan Cignoli, Ana and the Volcano, Iceland



Danielle Kelly, The Chase, Outer Banks of North Carolina


Mark Lozier, Uncertain Times, 42St New York City



Magali Duzant, Alice; One Way or Another, Pittsburgh, PA



Pekka Nikrus, The Legs Of Summer, Helsinki, Finland



Julien Marie, Longing..., Plage des Chevrets, Saint-Coulomb, France


Valery Rizzo, Pin-up girls, Coney Island, Brooklyn


Marla Bane, Bane Family, Atlantic Beach Club
Learning to swim at the Atlantic Beach Club outside NYC (maybe Queens or Brooklyn) circa 1956 with my wonderful family. It was the kind of place you can imagine from the 1950’s and that movie whose name I forget that takes place in one of these archetypal beach clubs outside on NYC on the Atlantic during this time. We had a cabana for the summer. The women played mah jongg. The men played gin. The woman tried to out dress each other. The men wore hats. Everyone ate a lot of food and I remember gales of laughter. Whatever happened to bathing caps? Me in front. L-R: my maternal grandfather Jack Levine, my aunt Sara Solove Podair, my mother Lois Bane Ross, my father Sylvan Bane, my uncle Ruben Solove and my maternal grandmother Beatrice Levine. This is what I did for a few summers before I started going to overnight night in the Pocono’s. It was heaven. The world most certainly has changed.