Haleakala sunrise1/7/2024 I’ve been here before with my 4×5 camera, but today I’m working digital and in telephoto. The billowy clouds floating away from the mountain should create a bonus: post-sunrise “godbeams,” those wonderful shafts of light. It’s a clear morning no fog or rain today. It’s a classic timeless moment, where past and future meet in the present.Īnd, here, on top of massive Haleakala, Hawaiian for “house of the sun,” I wait like Cartier-Bresson for night’s primordial past to give way to day’s bright future at the instant of sunrise. You see the wooden platform he has jumped from, and imagine the splash and his wet foot just a micro-second into the future. The heel of his leading shoe is millimeters above the water. One of his iconic images has a shadowy, silhouetted man in mid-leap, suspended forever over a flooded midcity backlot. I often think of the great photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. It speaks to my eternal quest for the timeless moment, when past meets future, and I’m there to capture that instant that lives between the two. The ritual of witnessing and photographing the rising sun in the cold, sharp air two miles above the broad Pacific is important to me. ![]() Haleakala, the massive volcano that makes up 75% of the island of Maui. All of us, photographers and visitors alike, are traveling the long switchback road through the climate zones to reach an expansive view area atop 10,023-foot Mt. Hundreds of people wind their way up from sea level in cars, buses and motorcycles. The migration from far, far below begins in predawn light. ![]() Sunrise from Haleakala on the island of Maui, Haleakala National Park, Hawaii.
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