{"id":564,"date":"2008-01-16T16:18:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T22:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/?p=564"},"modified":"2008-01-16T16:18:41","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T22:18:41","slug":"news-from-marmaland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/news-from-marmaland\/","title":{"rendered":"News From Marmaland ;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I apologize for the lack of blog love this past two weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 Admittedly I felt a little bit of writer&#8217;s block however it&#8217;s time to get back into the swing of things.\u00c2\u00a0 Question is: so what in the world does a mostly outdoor based photographer do during the downtime\/self imposed time to reorganize, regroup, revitalize, regenerate and rediscover during the cold Chicago winter months?\u00c2\u00a0 She tries to find her center and get all sorts of stuff done behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p>I am busily at work putting the finishing touches on the workshop site, I am so very excited to premiere details very very soon!\u00c2\u00a0 Also as I mentioned, I&#8217;ve been finding my center again, purging the old and bad out of my life, making peace with things that may have caused distress in my life this past year or so and started taking care of ME again.\u00c2\u00a0 I highly recommend regrouping to find yourself.\u00c2\u00a0 For me I suspect yoga has been an integral part of this journey (and who knew I was still fairly flexible?\u00c2\u00a0 I sure didn&#8217;t!).\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday morning in class I felt\u00c2\u00a0 a calm and peace come over me that was a shock to my system.\u00c2\u00a0 It felt so good to come to terms with it.\u00c2\u00a0 January 2008 seems to be a month of renewal for me and revitalization.\u00c2\u00a0 Loving myself as much as I love those near &amp; dear to me.<\/p>\n<p>Gosh I am rambling&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of love.\u00c2\u00a0 I think I am in love with my\u00c2\u00a0 new camera.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been having a blast with it!\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m currently participating in a self imposed picture a day project (which I won&#8217;t bore you with here) and am living my own advice of KNOWING your equipment. \u00c2\u00a0 Feeling challenged to come up with different stuff daily is fun and my girls are totally into this as the pic of the day (we take turns on who&#8217;s day it is).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/_dsc9115.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics-1200498900]\" title=\"Luminous, Soft &amp; White\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/_dsc9115.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Luminous, Soft &amp; White\" class=\"imageframe imgaligncenter\" height=\"416\" width=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/_dsc9154.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics-1200498900]\" title=\"Girly Girl\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/_dsc9154.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Girly Girl\" class=\"imageframe imgaligncenter\" height=\"416\" width=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/_dsc9148a.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics-1200498900]\" title=\"Other Girly Girl\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/_dsc9148a.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Other Girly Girl\" class=\"imageframe imgaligncenter\" height=\"416\" width=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/011208.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics-1200498900]\" title=\"Guitar Girl (pic of the day 011208)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/011208.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Guitar Girl (pic of the day 011208)\" class=\"imageframe imgaligncenter\" height=\"293\" width=\"416\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">So, keep out on the look out for more news &amp; stuff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">xoxo, Mare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I apologize for the lack of blog love this past two weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 Admittedly I felt a little bit of writer&#8217;s block however it&#8217;s time to get back into the swing of things.\u00c2\u00a0 Question is: so what in the world does a mostly outdoor based photographer do during the downtime\/self imposed time to reorganize, regroup, revitalize,&#8230;<\/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":[661,14],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicago-child-photographer","category-chicago-suburban-photographer","tag-miscellaneous-non-photography-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","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=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}