The 2018 Dark Nights Exhibition
![Michael_Koch_Nightdogs](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Michael_Koch_Nightdogs.jpg)
©Michael Koch, nightdogs, Mackenstein, Germany
On this day, when the night comes alive with ghosts and goblins, we celebrate your dark nights filled with terror and beauty and things that go bump. Thank you for your wonderful submissions, and thank you to Patty Lemke for her efforts in compiling this two-part post. Happy Halloween and enjoy the Dark Nights Exhibition.
![Girl With Sparkler](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Girl-With-Sparkler.jpeg)
©Stephen Snowder, Girl with Sparkler, Oxford, PA
![OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/P9200516-Edit.jpg)
©Russ Rowland, Moonlight Dream Date, Lighthouse Point, FL
![reneerevah-1](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/reneerevah-1.jpg)
©Renee Revah, Pegasus, Santorini, Greece
![Untitled (Bix)](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Untitled-Bix.jpg)
©Brian Orozco, Untitled (Bix), New Haven, Connecticut
![rachaelhulme_assessment](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/rachaelhulme_assessment.jpg)
© Rachael Hulme, Assessment, Baltimore, MD
![_Decision Time_ Sized for Lenscratch - DSC00251](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Decision-Time_-Sized-for-Lenscratch-DSC00251.jpg)
©Robert Nielsen, Decision Time, Santa Fe, NM
![along-the-dark-side--dorothee-lang](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/along-the-dark-side-dorothee-lang.jpg)
©Dorothee Lang, Along the Dark Side, Germany
![©Daryl-AnnSaunders__WinterMoon1__DAS3156](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/©Daryl-AnnSaunders__WinterMoon1__DAS3156.jpg)
©Daryl-AnnSaunders,Winter Moon #1 (from Haiku series), Mount Kisco, NY
![R1001301 copy](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/R1001301-copy.jpg)
©Stan Banos, Joke’s On You America,! San Francisco, CA
![HauntedHouse](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/HauntedHouse.jpg)
©Marianne Smith Dalton, Haunted House, Madison, NY
![Reading Series--Washington square Park, December 22, 2014. Man reading newspaper as others play harmonicas under the Arch. exclusive photo by Lawrence Schwartzwald](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/122214lenscratch01nightbwLS-11.jpg)
©Lawrence Schwartzwald, Washington Square, New York, NY
![IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IN-THE-DEAD-OF-NIGHT.jpg)
©Bryan Regan, Panda Farm,Raleigh,NC
![IsraelHoffman](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IsraelHoffman.jpg)
© Israel Hoffman, Identity in Greyscale, Havre de Grace, Maryland
![Alexander_Diaz1](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Alexander_Diaz1.jpg)
©Alexander Diaz, Untitled, Jacksonville, FL
![Paul Morris In the Dead of Night submission](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Paul-Morris-In-the-Dead-of-Night-submission.jpg)
©Paul Morris, Evening Walk, Congleton, England
![©GinaCosta, NightStories, Austin, Texas, ginacosta.com](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/©GinaCosta-NightStories-Austin-Texas-ginacosta.com_.jpg)
©GinaCosta,Night Stories, Austin, Texas
![shāna_A-Guide-to-Obscurity](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/shāna_A-Guide-to-Obscurity.jpg)
©shāna einhorn, A Guide to Obscurity, Huntington, NY
![matsamakigeorgia](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/matsamakigeorgia.jpg)
©Georgia Matsamaki, Owlivia, Glastonbury, United Kingdom
![Night_Staring](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Night_Staring.jpg)
©Xiaohan Li, Night Staring, Averill Park, NY
![Ioanna-Sakellaraki_All-is-violent-all-bright](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ioanna-Sakellaraki_All-is-violent-all-bright.jpg)
© Ioanna Sakellaraki, All is violent, all is bright, Athens, Greece
![Steven_de_Kok_Sao_Paulo_In_the_dead_of_the_night](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Steven_de_Kok_Sao_Paulo_In_the_dead_of_the_night.jpg)
©Steven de Kok(NL), Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
![Kase](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Kase.jpg)
©Karoliina Kase, Midnight in March II, Tartu, Estonia
![AldebaranSolares](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/AldebaranSolares.jpg)
© Aldebarán Solares, Untitled from the series Commonplace, Mexico City
![NickTarasov_Moonlight](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/NickTarasov_Moonlight.jpg)
©Nick Tarasov, Moonlight, Saint Petersburg, Russia
![Dog statue Moon](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Dog-statue-Moon.jpg)
©Nathalie Seaver, Moon Dog, Los Angeles, CA
![frame](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/frame.jpg)
©Aliyah Wright, Rick Thomas Parking Garage, Tampa, FL
![IMG_0171x](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_0171x.jpg)
©Mark Pariani, The One That Got Away, Jacksonville, FL
![Guerriero_Lisa_night](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Guerriero_Lisa_night.jpg)
©Lisa Guerriero, Night Window, Los Angeles, CA
![saf_dead-of-night-1](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/saf_dead-of-night-1.jpg)
©Sally Ann Field, Joyride, Hollywood, CA
![inthedeadofthenight](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/inthedeadofthenight.jpg)
©Jessica Brewer Prugh, The Motor Lodge, Lake Worth, FL
![American Pie v hunt](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/American-Pie-v-hunt.jpg)
©Vicki Hunt, American Pie, Atlanta, GA
![Lenscratch-IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Lenscratch-IN-THE-DEAD-OF-NIGHT.jpg)
©Alberto Mesirca, Gold Bikinis Never Go out of Style,New York, NY
![Aglow](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/edg-151180809.jpg)
©Ed Grossman, Aglow, Mattapoisett, MA
![Saint Lazarus](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Saint-Lazarus.jpg)
©Carlos Saavedra, Santeria Night, Havanna, Cuba
![Night Palms and Crescent Moon_LeBlanc_1000](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Night-Palms-and-Crescent-Moon_LeBlanc_1000.jpeg)
©Maria Isabel LeBlanc, Rustling Palms and Crescent Moon, Santa Cruz, CA
![Pilgrims, many exhausted from the Easter fast, create a theatrical scene outside the Biete Medhane Alem Church, Lalibela, Ethiopia, on 16 April 2017.](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DSCF8303.jpg)
©Fabian Muir, The Easter Fast, Lalibela, Ethiopia
![o_WhereHasHeGone](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/o_WhereHasHeGone.jpg)
©Eleanor Moseman, Mandarin Lessons With Mother, Awat, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China
![The moon over the Thames River in London, England](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Thames-River-Moon-Mira-Zaki.jpg)
©Mira Zaki, Moon on the Thames, London, England
![Judi Iranyi,Dubrovnik](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Judi-IranyiDubrovnik.jpg)
©Judi Iranyi, Cementery, Dubrovnik, Croatia
![IMG_8330](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_8330.jpg)
©Mike Whiteley, Raptor, Loveland, CO
![MooseAlert](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/MooseAlert.jpg)
©Gayle Kirschenbaum, Moose Alert, Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden
![Cary Benbow-Dead of Night](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Cary-Benbow-Dead-of-Night.jpg)
© Cary Benbow, Irving’s Lobby, Maxwell, Indiana
![Tod_Kapke_bat](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Tod_Kapke_bat.jpg)
©tod kapke, The Bat, Denver, CO
![Snake Eyes](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/©Jan-Arrigo-Snake-Eyes-Asheville-NC.jpg)
©Jan Arrigo, Snake Eyes, Asheville, NC
![ty_snaden_sub](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ty_snaden_sub.jpg)
©Ty Snaden, China Town, Toronto, Canada
![Ronzo_Crestfallen_2018](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ronzo_Crestfallen_2018.jpg)
©Danielle Ronzo, Crestfallen, Tampa FL
![Volbraino](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Volbraino.jpg)
©Cathy Immordino, Volbraino, Los Angeles, CA
![KathrynDunlevie_RoyalPharmacy](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/KathrynDunlevie_RoyalPharmacy.jpg)
©Kathryn Dunlevie, Royal Pharmacy, New Orleans LA, Pittsburgh PA, and Palo Alto CA
![170429_DRAGULA_WEDNESDAY_AJA-8035](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/170429_DRAGULA_WEDNESDAY_AJA-8035.jpg)
©Wednesday Aja, Touch of Evil, Los Angeles, CA
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