
Aerial photo of Mike McCune surfing in Alaska.
I’m excited to be reporting on my first successful aerial photo shoot of surfing in Alaska. I’ve been dreaming about this for a while. Like surfing at night by the light of the moon, there were a lot of things that came together for this – not the least of which was learning to fly and photograph from a paramotor. Instead of a monologue on the process that brought these images to you, let’s just look at the pictures for now.
All the images for this post are from an April 3rd morning session on the Homer Spit. It’s always been hard to decide between photographing or surfing, on this particular morning the conditions were right for flying so I left my surfing gear at home and took off in the paramotor to see what surfing looks like from above. It was mesmerizing. Hope you agree.

Wide view of the surf scene on the Homer Spit.

Mike McCune

Richard Mattox 1

Richard Mattox 2

Richard Mattox 3

Richard Mattox 4

Maybe I'm not the only surfer fascinated by the designs in the water.

Richard waiting at the edge of the break.

Richard Mattox

Mike McCune walking back to the truck at low tide.
Very, very cool! Thanks.
Wow, this is beyond cool Scott! Keep the pics coming please! I honk every time I see you in the air!
Very cool. Keep up the good work. I’ve never surfed and am beyond the age, but love to watch. They’ve been surfing down in Yakatat for years. I think I remember a club ffrom a few years. Again, keep up the good work…..Robert
What fun! Thanks again for sharing.
So, we’re now assuming that was you surfing midway from end of Spit late Friday evening (the 2nd?). We were cold watching you that night.
In the sky! Its a bird?, a plane?, a aerial shredinator?
Yay! These photos are awesome. I really enjoyed seeing them. What more can I say? but WOW!!!! Keep up the good work 🙂
CA to HI to AK, Can’t wait to surf with the locals.