Most photographers—me included—love chasing dramatic sunrise and sunset light.
This photograph reminded me how much there is to see in the middle of the day.
Hole 12 at Kapalua was sitting in strong sunlight, and everything was incredibly clear: the fairway, green, Norfolk pines, Pacific and Molokaʻi beyond it.
What caught my attention was how many different landscapes were stacked into one view.
A golf course is completely intentional—graded contours, greens, bunkers, sightlines.
Then it sits inside this much larger Maui landscape that nobody designed.
Mountain. Trees. Ocean. Another island.
I like that tension.
When the photograph gets large, those layers remain separate enough to explore—the textures of the course, vegetation, water and the distant land.
The course matters.
But I never want the larger place around it to become scenery.
A designed landscape sitting inside something much bigger.
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In Space
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