The Seventh at Rolling Meadows in Whitmore Lake, Michigan.

Photo taken with a Canon EOS Rebel Xsi, an 18-55 MM lens, and a circular polarizing filter. You can see the rest of the photo set in the GolfBlogger Gallery.

I spotted this fox running down the side of the fairway next to the fifth tee at the Indian River Golf Club in “Up North” Michigan. Later, a large owl swept across the fairway, but alas, too fast to get a photo.

The sixth hole at Bay Pointe, in Commerce Township, Michigan. Bay Pointe is formerly a country club that, due to falling on hard times, has gone public.

Photo taken with a Panasonic Lumix point-and-shoot.

School’s out for summer. Let the golf begin!

The thirteenth hole at Hickory Creek, off Napier Road in Washtenaw County, Michigan

Ducks in a stream on the course.

Photos taken with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS1

Riviera Country Club Photo by Joann Dost

When Kodak needed a photographer to capture on film the beauty, drama and stories behind each of its 30 Kodak holes on the PGA Tour, there really was only one person to turn to: Joann Dost.

Over the last thirty years, Joann Dost has turned golf course photography into an art form usually associated with “serious” landscape photographers. Her work has led her to gain the sobriquet “the Ansel Adams of Golf.”

And that’s only appropriate, because Ansel Adams actually had a hand setting in motion Dost’s career as a golf course photographer: When Clint Eastwood asked Ansel Adams to do a tabletop book commemorating the 1982 US Open, Adams declined, but agreed to help find an appropriate artist. After an assistant showed Adams photos Dost had taken of Pebble Beach, Cyprus and other course, he interviewed her, then recommended her for the job.

That recommendation from the Master was the culmination of an almost unbelievable sequence of coincidences.

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A sand trap on the Pheasant Run Golf Club in Canton, Michigan.