Midnight Surfing, Cannon Beach, Yakutat , Alaska – Image 2728

My son,Owen, studies the surf break at Cannon Beach. My wife and two sons, Gabe and Owen, and myself spent Memorial Day weekend last year at Cannon Beach. Our sons surfed. My wife and I boogey boarded and sat on the beach soaking up the sun. It was 80 degrees (F). What is amazing about this photo is that it shows just how out there on the edge Alaska can be. On Memorial Day, Southeast Alaska is enjoying daily almost 18 hours of daylight and the night is not ever really dark dark. By 3am, it beginning to look like daylight. What looks like the sun actually is the rising full moon which rose just above the horizon around midnight. I was down on the beach photographing the surfers and the rising moon. This shot was taken at 12:30am. They surfed until 2am. There are not many places in the world that one could surf in natural light from midnight to sunrise. The image illustrates the month of May in my 2012 Southeast Alaska Calendar. Enjoy the photo and thanks for visiting. Camera body: Nikon D700, Lens: Nikkor 14-24mm, Digital Capture, ISO 4,000© Mark Kelley