© Gillian Laub / Courtesy Bonni Benrubi gallery, “grandpa eating lunch”.

Summer officially starts today, and to mark the occasion, we invited some readers to submit images that evoke the feeling and spirit of the season. Featured here is a selection of the images we received. The photographers include Gillian Laub, Gabriela Herman, Wayne Lawrence, Isa Leshko, Markel Redondo, Jennifer Loeber, Ryan Heffernan, Noah Webb, Inga Hendrickson, and Pascal Shirley.

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© Ryan Heffernan.

Storm clouds swirl around the Capitol building on a stormy spring afternoon in Washington, DC. Ryan Heffernan is one of the PDN’s 30 Emerging Photographers for 2011. To see more of his work visit http://www.ryanheffernan.com/.

© Ryan Heffernan.

A baby elephant guzzles a bottle of milk while under the care of The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Nairobi, Kenya.  The elephants are part of the Orphans Project which tries to rehabilitate and release orphaned elephants into Tsavo National Park. To see more of Heffernan’s work click here.