Early light can change an entire landscape without announcing itself. In this panorama of Hole 17 at Kapalua’s Plantation Course, it reaches some of the land across the water while other slopes are still subdued. Molokaʻi sits beneath a wide ceiling of cloud, and the course occupies only the lower edge of the view.
I like that proportion. The fairway and the line of trees give you somewhere to begin, then your eye crosses the water and starts reading the light on another island. The clouds are not just a backdrop; they take up their own enormous amount of space and make the brighter openings feel earned.
This is a Kapalua photograph, but the golf course isn’t the only subject. I was interested in how the whole place held together for a moment: land close enough to touch, an island far across the channel, and the morning working on both. The distance between them is part of what I wanted to keep.
The distance between them is part of what I wanted to keep.
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