Joel Hainley : San Francisco Bay Area Software Consultant

I met Ashley when I was working at K/P Corporation, although that wasn’t her name then. She was dating her future husband Colin (www.colinmcnamara.com). Colin was a fledgling networking genius. I remember talking to Colin one day on instant messenger and he was telling me about the new digitial SLR he had picked up. We talked about cameras for a while that night and that was it for a while.

Months go by and one day we’re on chat again, the subject of photography comes up again. I ask him how the camera is doing, and if he’s been taking any photos. He tells me that Ashley had swiped his camera and started taking pictures of herself, their daughter, him, the new baby and was actually making money doing maternity photography for other people.

I’ve looked over Ashley’s website (www.ashleymcnamara.com) occasionally. She does really nice work, and based upon the pictures she definitely seems to have otherworldly patience, and a great imagination, to get photos that really seem to capture the essence of her subjects.