I've photographed Hole 18 at Kapalua more than once because the place keeps changing.
At twilight, the green sits near the center of the scene while the clubhouse, vegetation, Pacific and Molokaʻi stack behind it.
What I like is that none of those elements has to disappear for the others to work.
The course is designed.
The clubhouse is architectural.
The vegetation has its own texture.
Then the ocean and distant island stretch the photograph into a completely different scale.
Evening light holds all of it together.
From across a room, the scene reads immediately as Kapalua.
Come closer and it starts breaking into parts—the course surfaces, architecture, vegetation, water, atmosphere and distant land each becoming more specific.
That progression matters to me.
I want the photograph to work when you first enter the room.
But I don't want that first look to finish it.
One view, built from several distances.
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In Space
See what scale changes.
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