The Gorge, near Portland, OR © Justin Nunnink

Honolulu, Hawaii © Adrian Mueller

French Riviera © Laurent Roch

For our latest group show, we invited you to submit your photographs of summer vacation. Judged by April Jenkins, Photo Editor for Offset, a new collection of high-end stock photography and illustration from artists around the globe, the images selected for this collection capture locales as diverse as the French Riviera and the Bahamas, Romania and Cinque Terre, Italy. It’s said that the human brain is more likely to hold onto memories that are new and exotic than those that are familiar and routine, a theory that might help explain why so many of our most cherished recollections are associated with vacations abroad rather than day-to-day life at home. For many, the most meaningful part of a summer vacation is the opportunity to make memories that are hard to forget, that will stay lodged in our consciousness for years to come. For this reason, photographs have become a key ingredient in summer vacations around the world, meant to be mounted and remembered long after we have returned home.

Congratulations to winning photographer Justin Nunnink, who will receive a GoPro Hero4 Black, and to first runner-up Adrian Mueller and second runner-up Laurent Roch. All submitting photographers were considered to join Offset.

© Aaron Wax 

© Aaron Wax

Puglia, Italy © Alberto Bernasconi

Kefalonia, Greece © Alberto Bernasconi

Liguria, Italy © Alberto Bernasconi

Vama Veche, Romania © Andrei Nacu

Vama Veche, Romania © Andrei Nacu

Beach at Monterosso al Mare, Cinque Terre, Italy © Ashit Parikh

Manarola, Cinque Terre, Italy © Ashit Parikh

Spanish Steps at Rome, Italy © Ashit Parikh

Boston, Massachusetts © Belle Carlson 

Guemes Island, The San Juan Islands, Washington © Belle Carlson

Cinque Terre, Italy © Benjamin Paul Enright

Eastern Sierra Nevadas, California © Chrissie White

Lagoon in Doubtless Bay, New Zealand © Cornell Tukiri

Upstate New York © Dana Stirling

Muriel Lake, Alberta © Dana Pugh

Muriel Lake, Alberta © Dana Pugh

Dubrovnik, Croatia © Danielle L Goldstein

South of the Border, Hamer, SC © Davy Gibbs

Brussels, Belgium © Elsa Brightling

Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt © Emese Benko

Skopje, Macedonia © Filip Bojovic

Le Croisic, French Brittany © Françoise Hillemand

Chatham, MA © Porter Gifford

Ascea Beach, Italy © Giovanni De Angelis

© Jesse Hunniford

Foca, Bosnia © Jesse Morrow

Palm Springs, CA © Joe Schmelzer

Sweden © Johan Larsson

Sweden © Johan Larsson

Sweden © Johan Larsson

Yuba River, Nevada County, CA © Justin Nunnink

Yuba River, Nevada County, CA © Justin Nunnink

Poland © Justyna Zdunczyk

Poland © Justyna Zdunczyk

Poland © Justyna Zdunczyk

Poland © Justyna Zdunczyk

Les Sables d’Olonne, France © Kramer O’Neill

Paris, France © Kramer O’Neill

Key West, FL © Leigh Webber

Sarakiniko Beach, Greece © Lou Mora

Sarakiniko Beach, Greece © Lou Mora

Sarakiniko Beach, Greece © Lou Mora

Bol, Croatia © Marija Kovac

Coney Island © Marisha Camp

Minsk, Belarus © Masha Svyatogor

Minsk, Belarus © Masha Svyatogor

Misquamicut, RI © Matt Roberts

Yellowstone © Morgan Rachel Levy

Yellowstone © Morgan Rachel Levy

Jurmala, Latvia © Nora Vrublevska

California © Paul Hiller

California © Paul Hiller

Fourth of July, Texas © Sara Diamond

Hualien, Taiwan © Sean Marc Lee

River gorge, Taiwan © Sean Marc Lee

Estonia © Sherif Elhage

Lazienki Krowlskie park, Warsaw, Poland © Sina Sohn

Big Major Cay, Exuma Islands, Bahamas © Stephen Aviano

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