VIVID SCENES OF SUMMER

The only thing more amazing than the geographic breadth of our readers’ travels is the quality of their pictures in this year’s summer vacation photo edition.

The Travel section asked you to share pictures from your summer 2017 idylls, and you responded with about 1,000 shots. (Suggesting that you’re all journalists at heart, more than 325 of those arrived in the three days before the deadline.) The photographs were taken in French Polynesia; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Orange County; Washington state; Brazil; Myanmar and more.

It was not easy for The Times’ photo and travel editors to reduce this pool to a manageable size. To see more of the photos that were submitted (and videos too), go to latimes.com/summerphotos2017.

The care with which many of these photos were shot suggests a dedication to photography that goes beyond capturing memories. It speaks to a visual intelligence that has grown more pronounced, in our estimation, as the world increasingly has access to high-quality photography through smartphones.

Well done, readers, and thank you for sharing a worldview that reminds us why we love travel.