There's something special about Hole 18 at Kapalua before the day really gets going.
The first light begins touching the property, Molokaʻi is sitting way out on the horizon, and you can see the fairway, vegetation, clubhouse, ocean and distant island all occupying different layers inside the same view.
That depth is what interested me.
I didn't want Hole 18 isolated from everything around it.
One of the things I love about photographing Kapalua is that the golf course is only one part of a much larger landscape.
People shaped the fairway.
Nobody shaped the Pacific or Molokaʻi behind it.
The panoramic format gave all of those layers room without forcing one of them to become merely background.
From across the room, you get the whole place.
Walk closer and the smaller course and architectural details start returning.
That's when the photograph stops being only a sunrise and starts becoming somewhere you can explore.
Hole 18 is only one layer of the view.
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