“The wolf said, “You know, my dear, it isn’t safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone.”

Red Riding Hood said, “I find your sexist remark offensive in the extreme, but I will ignore it because of your traditional status as an outcast from society, the stress of which has caused you to develop your own, entirely valid, worldview. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I must be on my way.”
― James Finn Garner, Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: A Collection of Modern Tales for Our Life and Times

Today’s post is for Project 52, a weekly blog project that I am working on with several other talented photographers. In this project, we concentrate on light and spend several weeks exploring an overarching theme.  We are currently focusing on hard light, which is when the main light source is small or distant compared to the subject, thus creating shadows with a sharp or negligible transition from light to dark.  Today’s play on backlighting is of Alexa, wearing the hood from her Little Red Riding Hood costume:

Please continue along in our creative blog circle to see the beautiful work of my friend Julie Kiernan.  Click HERE to see Julie’s creative play on  hard light.