From Hole 11 at Kapalua’s Plantation Course, the green and its bunkers make strong shapes in the foreground. Then the ground drops away toward Honolua Bay. A little boat rests in the blue water, the headland rises on the right, and Molokaʻi stretches across the far horizon.
I wanted to keep that whole change in scale. The contours nearest the camera are carefully shaped; the coastline has its own rough edge; beyond that, the Pacific opens up. Your eye can move through those layers in a second, but there are plenty of reasons to slow down: the bunker edges, the trees near the bay, the water changing color around the inlet.
Kapalua gives me these unusual meeting points between what people have made and what was already here. In this view, each distance seems to change the meaning of the last. The course leads you into the photograph, but it doesn’t get the last word. The bay does.
The course leads you into the photograph, but it doesn’t get the last word. The bay does.
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