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From dawn to dusk, the summer solstice in photos

Press Herald photographers capture the lightest day of the year.

Posted June 21, 2017

Updated June 27, 2017

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4:40 a.m. The sky begins to light up with colors shortly before sunrise in Old Orchard Beach on the summer solstice Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Staff photo by Shawn Patrick Ouellette

It’s the day that many of us in Maine wait for all year – the summer solstice, the day with the most daylight.

Portland Press Herald photographers captured the longest day from the first light, before 4:30 a.m., to the last, around 8:30 p.m.

With plenty of sunshine, the scenes give us something we’ll want to look back on in those dark days of December.

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