{"id":5533,"date":"2011-05-19T07:26:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T12:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=5533"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:11:37","slug":"the-get-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/19\/the-get-away\/","title":{"rendered":"The Get-Away"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now is probably the time that I should fess up that I am not going to some exotic local with a bunch of girlfriends.<\/p>\n

I am actually driving up to Michigan. By myself.<\/p>\n

I know. Sounds great, right?<\/p>\n

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Nothing like going North for this sun seeking mama.<\/p>\n

That said, I am beyond excited about where I am going as I have wanted to go for YEARS.<\/p>\n

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Most of you that have been reading this blog forever know that photography is my #1 passion. I have been taking pictures since I was kid, learned all my darkroom skills in high school AP art, and majored in it at the University of Texas.<\/p>\n

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Photography is something that I have that is just for ME.<\/p>\n

And a big chunk of the money I make through Elisalou goes right into my hobby.<\/p>\n

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So when the cards fell into place to attend a workshop given by one of my fave photographers Amy Wenzel<\/a>, I shot off an email to Andy and he said “go”.<\/p>\n

He even added, “who knows if we will always live this close to her- go while you can”.<\/p>\n

Does he have secret plans to move me to the beach??? just kidding.<\/p>\n

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SO I thought about it. For a couple weeks. Back and forth I went. Should I go? Should I not go?<\/p>\n

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Andy kept saying, “what is holding you back?”<\/p>\n

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Well besides the 4 obvious ones, it isn’t a cheap workshop. Do I really want to invest that much money in a “hobby”<\/p>\n

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And then he said, “you are investing in our family.”<\/p>\n

So off I go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now is probably the time that I should fess up that I am not going to some exotic local with a bunch of girlfriends. I am actually driving up to Michigan. By myself. I know. Sounds great, right? Nothing like going North for this sun seeking mama. That said, I am beyond excited about where I am going as I have wanted to go for YEARS. Most of you that have been reading this blog forever know that photography is my #1 passion. I have been taking pictures since I was kid, learned all my darkroom skills in high school AP art, and majored in it at the University of Texas. Photography is something that I have that is just for ME. And a big chunk of the money I make through Elisalou goes right into my hobby. So when the cards fell into place to attend a workshop given by one of my fave photographers Amy Wenzel, I shot off an email to Andy and he said “go”. He even added, “who knows if we will always live this close to her- go while you can”. Does he have secret plans to move me to the beach??? just kidding. SO I thought about it. For a couple weeks. Back and forth I went. Should I go? Should I not go? Andy kept saying, “what is holding you back?” Well besides the 4 obvious ones, it isn’t a cheap workshop. Do I really want to invest that much money in a “hobby” And then he said, “you are investing in our family.” So off I go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,16],"tags":[61,229],"class_list":["post-5533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-life","category-photography","tag-amy-wenzel","tag-eva"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6.212.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19007,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533\/revisions\/19007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}