If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night,” even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you.
Psalm 139, NRSV
We’ve had a few weeks of very bright sunshine, and on a day of rest I took the camera up to Marsden to spend some time looking for details. Starting in the churchyard, I walked round the gravestones – noticing little details – then moving inside the church I loved the way the bright sunshine created deep darkness. Although I’m still making novice mistakes with depth of field, I loved the way the light was so stark that some photographs had swathes of black. I finished off the roll back in Marsden looking at the decaying woollen mill.
I make my bed in Sheol, you are there…
If I ascend to heaven, you are there…
Search me, O God, and know my heart…
Test me and know my thoughts.
My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret…
You know when I sit down and when I rise up…
In your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed…
“Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night,”
Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence?
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me
See if there is any wicked way in me…
and lead me in the way everlasting.
A selection of photographs from the day: shot with a Pentax MX, SMC 50mm f1.4 lens, on Fomapan 200 film. Excerpts of Psalm 139 in no particular order.