Photography is all about light. In fact the word photography means literally drawing with light. The same scene photographed in different light conditions will look very different.
The Light at Twilight
My favorite time of day is twilight when the trees look like inky black drawings against the sky. I am fascinated with the interweaving of light and dark. Twilight is a liminal space, not quite day and not yet night. It feels like a magical space in which transformation occurs.
Neil Douglas-Klotz talks about the darkness shining in his book, The Hidden Gospels.
…shem-light includes all vibration, from the slowest to the fastest, from the most dense waves to the most expanded. It includes what we normally call darkness, and what physicists now call “dark matter,” the stuff that makes up most of what we know as the universe. The notion of darkness shining is a paradox in Western thought but not in Middle Eastern…The experience of shem connects one through sound and vibration to other living creatures and to the whole cosmos.” —Neil Douglas-Klotz, The Hidden Gospel
I love the idea of shining darkness and try to imagine what it might look like. The photograph below comes closest to my imaginings.
May you walk in beauty and light.
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