[because somebody has to]

I'll go first

I’m Ali — a Vermont-based family and intimate wedding photographer, mom, and professional time-slower-downer.

Come in, get comfy, take your shoes off (if you're wearing any; I'm not). You’re in good company here.

about allison macy photography

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in front, for once

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[OF LOVE, AND THE LIVING OF IT]     [OF LOVE, AND THE LIVING OF IT]     [OF LOVE, AND THE LIVING OF IT]     [OF LOVE, AND THE LIVING OF IT]     [OF LOVE, AND THE LIVING OF IT]     [OF LOVE, AND THE LIVING OF IT]     [OF LOVE, AND THE LIVING OF IT]     [OF LOVE, AND THE LIVING OF IT]     [OF LOVE, AND THE LIVING OF IT]     [OF LOVE, AND THE LIVING OF IT]     [OF LOVE, AND THE LIVING OF IT]     [OF LOVE, AND THE LIVING OF IT]

[OF LOVE, AND THE LIVING OF IT]     [OF LOVE, AND THE LIVING OF IT]     [OF LOVE, AND THE LIVING OF IT]     [OF LOVE, AND THE LIVING OF IT]     [OF LOVE, AND THE LIVING OF IT]     [OF LOVE, AND THE LIVING OF IT]     [OF LOVE, AND THE LIVING OF IT]     [OF LOVE, AND THE LIVING OF IT]     [OF LOVE, AND THE LIVING OF IT]     [OF LOVE, AND THE LIVING OF IT]     [OF LOVE, AND THE LIVING OF IT]     [OF LOVE, AND THE LIVING OF IT]

I believe the best photos live in the quiet corners — the curl of a hand, the breath before a laugh, the dishwater light slipping across a kitchen floor.

Not staged. Not rushed. Just real life, held still for a moment. This work is my way of celebrating the beauty we're often too busy living to notice.

[your full time memory hoarder]

work together

It was the slow burn kind of shift—the kind that sneaks in through repetition. Through picking up the same toy twelve times a day. Through counting contractions in the dark. Through the weight of a newborn on your chest while the world outside keeps spinning.

Motherhood cracked me open. And instead of trying to put myself back together the same way, I let the light in.


It didn't happen
all at once

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filed under: forever grip

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three's a party

I was a photographer before I became a mother.

Before, I chased beauty. Light. Composition. Now, I look for connection. For crumbs on hands. For truth.

Becoming a mom didn’t change that I was a photographer. It changed why I do it and what I see when I lift the camera to my eye.

I see the way your partner’s eyes close when they move to kiss you. The way your child leans into you without thinking.

The tiny pause before you speak your vows.
The quiet between belly laughs.The small, ordinary, sacred things you don't miss until they’re gone.

This work is my way of slowing time — of bottling it, gently, before it slips through your hands.


But after? Everything softened. Everything deepened...

I was a photographer before I became a mother.

Before, I chased beauty. Light. Composition.

Now, I look for connection. For crumbs on hands. For truth.

Becoming a mom didn’t change that I was a photographer. It changed why I do it—and what I see when I lift the camera to my eye.

I see the way your partner’s eyes close when they lean in to kiss you. The way your child leans into you without thinking.

The tiny pause before you speak your vows.
The quiet between belly laughs.The small, ordinary, sacred things you don't miss until they’re gone.

This work is my way of slowing time—of bottling it, gently, before it slips through your hands.


But after? Everything softened. Everything deepened.

Slow fashion with a dash of Old Navy

Sourdough starter only used for discards 

Jane Austen and smutty fantasy 

Raising "outside kids" and days when Danny Go steps in to babysit

Organic berries and the off-brand mac & cheese 

A deep reverence for slowness and a constant low-level buzz of chaos

I believe

I’m not interested in curated perfection — and I don’t think you are either. We’re allowed to be layered. Sentimental and sarcastic. Into nature and needing of some screen time. You don’t have to fit neatly into a box to be worthy of remembering. In fact, it’s the contradictions that make things [read: you] interesting.


Sound like you?
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We can Contain Multitudes

Slow fashion with a dash of Old Navy

Sourdough starter only used for discards 

Jane Austen and smutty fantasy 

Raising "outside kids" and days when Danny Go steps in to babysit

Organic berries and the off-brand mac & cheese 

A deep reverence for slowness and a constant low-level buzz of chaos

I believe

I’m not interested in curated perfection — and I don’t think you are either. We’re allowed to be layered. Sentimental and sarcastic. Into nature and needing of some screen time. You don’t have to fit neatly into a box to be worthy of remembering. In fact, it’s the contradictions that make things [read: you] interesting.


Sound like you?

JANE AUSTEN OR
SMUTTY FANTASY

FAVORITE BOOKs

TRAVEL FAVE

CAPE COD

CURRENT HOBBY

QUILTING

favorite show

GILMORE GIRLS

can't live without

CHOCOLATE

(WE can CONTAIN MULTITUDES)

...even if you're not perfect at it. You believe in the gravity of a moment as it organically is and want someone to witness and document it.

practice presence

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You'd rather receive a final gallery that celebrates a wrinkled bedsheet or counter covered in crumbs than a curated backdrop that performs perfection.

Want warmth over polish

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Children teach us what wonder looks like. Being in love helps us return to when things were simpler. Play isn't a break from the work; it IS the work.

know play is imperative

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A toddler running through the frame? The laugh that interrupts the vows? Your slow Sunday morning? These are the moments that mean the most and the photos you find yourself returning to.

Want Story Over Shot

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Dirt under fingernails. Wind in your hair.
Calluses on your toes. Vermont in your bones. Time outside is a way of being that anchors your day-to-day.

believe nature is necessity

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You know that boxes hold us back. You can be mom and artist, wife and wild, soft and strong. You know that living fully means making space for all of it.

celebrate multitudes

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[For the ones who]

a way of asking, are our visions aligned and is this right for you?

...even if you're not perfect at it. You believe in the gravity of a moment as it organically is and want someone to witness and document it.

practice presence

001 / 006

You'd rather receive a final gallery that celebrates a wrinkled bedsheet or counter covered in crumbs than a curated backdrop that performs perfection.

Want warmth over polish

002 / 006

Children teach us what wonder looks like. Being in love helps us return to when things were simpler. Play isn't a break from the work; it is the center of it.

know play is imperative

003 / 006

A toddler running through the frame? The laugh that interrupts the vows? Your slow Sunday morning? These are the moments you'll find yourself returning to.

Want Story Over Shot

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Dirt under fingernails. Wind in your hair. Calluses on your toes. Vermont in your bones. You believe that time outside is a way of being that anchors your day-to-day.

believe nature is necessity

005 / 006

You know that boxes hold us back. You can be mom and artist, wife and wild, soft and strong. You know that living fully means making space for all of it.

celebrate multitudes

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[For the ones who]

a way of asking, are our visions aligned and is this right for you?

where to next?

INQUIRE now

every story starts somewhere — this may be yours.

where to next?

INQUIRE now

every story starts somewhere — this may be yours.