I think this is a good photo. 
Whenever I make a picture that’s strongly, blurrily backlit I think of Marilyn Monroe. She was always overlit in the best way. Everyone feels more beautiful when they’re lit the way Marilyn was, even if they don’t consciously know much about that sort of thing.
 
There’s a real allure to mystery. As humans we are attracted to the unknown. I’ve always believed that’s because we are ultimately optimistic creatures and when we lack knowledge, we project in a positive outcome into the shadows of our ignorance. 

A thing unknown is beautiful, a place unseen is fruitful, a skill uhoned is profitable, et cetera. I appreciate that this logic applies high and low, from the decision to move across the country or the planet, to how nice a photograph of your aunt is. 

She is not a woman who enjoys being photographed. She accused me of photographing her earlier in the day this image was made, and she was in good humor about it, but not approving. I think she’d approve of this photo, and not just because she’s holding Roby, which makes every image better.

I’ve done a fair bit of photographing people who don’t like to be photographed and don’t like any of the photographs that have been taken of them. I’ll have to play around with backlighting a bit more apparently.

Further, I’m curious how the concept of backlighting my be applied to something like writing, or other metaphorical ways. To blur and push with loads of light is flattering, and I’d be curious to read a story where the truth of the matter is lost to lens flare.