There’s something special about a summer romance. The hot days and only-slightly-cooler nights juxtaposed with the passion of love kindled … well it’s the stuff you see in movies and read about in trashy romance novels. But although it seems to be fiction in books, stories about love happen all year long and in all seasons. As this years’ summer rolled on, we collected stories and images that reflected this passion and told a story about young love in the heat of summer, a image topic that we wanted to explore.