{"id":1526,"date":"2012-10-26T12:33:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T17:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonduffyphotography.com\/blog\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2016-07-09T22:21:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T03:21:46","slug":"personal-happenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/duffyphotofilm.com\/blog\/personal-happenings\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal | Happenings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just wanted to drop by the blog today as I am feeling very blessed and blown away by the support and love I have received since starting photography.\u00a0 Over these past couple of years, I would not be where I am without the awesome clients that saw something in me and decided to have their portrait or wedding photographed by me, I am so grateful to every single one you.\u00a0 I also owe so much to some wonderful photographers that have allowed me to second shoot with them, ask them questions, even become friends with them \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 I am so amazed.<\/p>\n<p>My wedding calendar for 2013 is filling up quicker than ever and I am sooo excited and honored to have been asked to photograph a wedding in Key West, Florida next year.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not posting this to brag, I even thought about not doing so because talking about myself always feels a bit awkward.\u00a0 But I decided to post because I want to be fair to brides that may be thinking about photography.\u00a0 I take a limited amount of weddings per year, please don&#8217;t wait to drop me an email if you are interested in talking more about photography, meeting and chatting over some yummy tea or warm cocoa.\u00a0 I do not claim to know everything about photography.\u00a0 I still have more to learn, that&#8217;s what keeps me excited and makes me push harder.\u00a0 I invite you to join this journey with me, keep exploring, have fun, be curious, whatever that means for you in your life.\u00a0 And if you like photographs, heck, let&#8217;s make some together and see what kind of fun we can have while doing so \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alisonduffyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_5713.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1527\" title=\"IMG_5713\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alisonduffyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_5713.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/duffyphotofilm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_5713.jpg 400w, https:\/\/duffyphotofilm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_5713-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>~Ali<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wanted to drop by the blog today as I am feeling very blessed and blown away by the support and love I have received since starting photography.\u00a0 Over these past couple of years, I would not be where I am without the awesome clients that saw something in me and decided to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[45,12],"class_list":["post-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-wedding","tag-destination-wedding-photographer","tag-st-louis-wedding-photographer"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Personal | Happenings - Duffy Photo &amp; 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