[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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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]
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 "the perfect image". Now, I look for light, composition, and connection. For crumbs on hands. For rewarmed coffee cups. 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 a camera to my eye.
I photograph the way moments move—the way a veil catches air, the way a hand always finds the same shoulder, the way your kiddos lean into your legs like you’re the scaffolding to their entire existence.
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 "the perfect image". Now, I look for light, composition, and connection. For crumbs on hands. For rewarmed coffee cups. 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 photograph the way moments move—the way a veil catches air, the way a hand always finds the same shoulder, the way your kiddos lean into your legs like you’re the scaffolding to their entire existence.
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.
Digital and film
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.
We can Contain Multitudes
Digital and film
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 Netflix. 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.
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)
[For the ones who]
a way of asking, are our visions aligned and is this right for you?
[For the ones who]
a way of asking, are our visions aligned and is this right for you?
