{"id":1314,"date":"2010-07-27T13:55:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T19:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2010-07-27T14:08:55","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T20:08:55","slug":"whew%e2%80%a6its-been-a-crazy-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/whew%e2%80%a6its-been-a-crazy-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Whew\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6it&#8217;s been a crazy month!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi blogland!&nbsp; What is it that they say about good intentions?&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42&nbsp; My intentions were big for the blog for July posts but alas that&#8217;s all fallen by the wayside as we round down to the end of the month.&nbsp; I can hardly believe back to school shopping is here and the kids will be in school in less than a month!&nbsp; Where has summer gone?<\/p>\n<p>Before I get to the &quot;what I did this summer&quot; part of the blog, I&#8217;d love to ask you, the blog reader, to vote for Marmalade Photography for Chicago area Family Photographer.&nbsp; Please follow the link here:<a onclick=\"window.open(this.href,&#039;MarmaladePhotographyforParentsPick&#039;,&#039;resizable=no,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no,fullscreen=no,dependent=no,status&#039;); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/www.parentsconnect.com\/parents-picks\/chicago-il-usa\/best-family-photographer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href,&#039;MarmaladePhotographyforParentsPick&#039;,&#039;resizable=no,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no,fullscreen=no,dependent=no,status&#039;); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/www.parentsconnect.com\/parents-picks\/chicago-il-usa\/best-family-photographer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VOTE FOR MARMALADE PHOTOGRAPHY at Nick&#8217;s Parent&#8217;s Picks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><u><em>(Part of) What We Did this summer<\/em><\/u>:<\/p>\n<p>Part of summer 2010 was spent in beautiful North Carolina.&nbsp; We spent several days in the mountains in the Ashville area near a small town called Brevard.&nbsp; We stayed up up UP in the mountains at a fabulous resort&hellip;I&#8217;ll post more about that in my next entry.&nbsp; The remainder of our time away was spent in gorgeous North Topsail Beach, NC.&nbsp; We stayed at a lovely home right on the beach with remarkable views of the sand with the rolling waves of the Atlantic greeting us daily.&nbsp; THAT was the life.<\/p>\n<p>Because photos are worth 1,000 words I&#8217;ll let you be the judge of the insane relaxation and beauty.&nbsp; I only got my camera out a handful of times while we were gone because I was so sick almost the whole time away.&nbsp; But I want to go back (now!)&nbsp; Is it time to go back to the beach?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"725\" height=\"485\" alt=\"North Topsail Beach photography\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/_MG_1697.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"725\" height=\"485\" alt=\"Top Sail Beach photographer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/_MG_1699.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"725\" height=\"485\" alt=\"Vacation children's photographer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/_MG_1744.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"725\" height=\"485\" alt=\"Beach family photography\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/_MG_1805bw.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"725\" height=\"485\" alt=\"Fun child photography\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/_MG_2150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"725\" height=\"485\" alt=\"Vacation photographer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/_MG_2181.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"725\" height=\"485\" alt=\"Beach family photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/_MG_2129.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"725\" height=\"485\" alt=\"Vacation photographer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/_MG_2026bw.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I think I want a career in photographing families frolicking on vacation and just hanging out with them for the week or so.&nbsp; Any takers?&nbsp; \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thank you for stopping in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please vote for Marmalade Photography for Nick&#8217;s Parents&#8217; Picks awards for photographer of choice for families in the Chicago area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[661,108],"tags":[289,288,290],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicago-child-photographer","category-chicago-family-photographer","tag-beach-vacation","tag-nicks-parents-picks-awards","tag-north-carolina-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}