This is Melody, and she is sooo much fun. I am having a bit of writers block today so I think I will just get straight to the pictures. Melody, it was a blast! Enjoy your sneak peek!!!
Ally - Ashley McNamara - San Diego Photographer
June 7, 2008 – 7:12 pm
I had the pleasure of shooting 10yr old Ally on Thursday…soooo cute.
Doesn’t she look like the next Lindsay Lohan? You know, like Lindsay in her Parent Trap days…no so much anymore..Don’t even get me started…
Anyhow, the spiders and thorns were worth it I am loving these shots and Ally was up for anything!
Nancy, enjoy your sneak peek..Sorry it took so long! 
She lost a tooth 2 days before the shoot hehehe.
Back to Baby Photography - Ashley McNamara - San Diego Photographer
May 19, 2008 – 5:50 pm
Its been a little while since I have done a newborn session and this little girlie was sooo good to me. She hardly peeped the whole session and when she did it was because I was man-handling her HEHEHE…She was such a trooper and soo alert! I swear she was posing for me. 
Enjoy your sneak peek Jesse and Sarah!
Mikela - Ashley McNamara - San Diego Photographer
May 14, 2008 – 11:22 am
With Mikela my intention was to shoot at the beach but when we got there it was still super bright so while we were waiting for the sun to drop a bit we were chatting about cool places to shoot and Mikela’s dad mentions this abandoned house with graffiti and my eyes must have lit up because he goes..”follow me, lets head over” On the way he pointed out a bunch of other really cool spots.. (Favorited every single one in my GPS ;))
Let me just say you know your a professional photographer when your breaking into Private property for pictures..Not only are you breaking in but to break in you have to climb a 5ft fence..Now anyone who knows me is probably laughing pretty hard imagining ME hoisting myself up and over a fence and believe me it was no easy feat but totally worth it. Everything I needed was right there! Flowers, Long grass, and Graffiti!! So cool!
It was fun Mikela!! Enjoy your sneak peek!
Urban Ballerina - Ashley McNamara - San Diego Photographer
May 5, 2008 – 9:24 am
OK, so I have been doing senior sessions all week..obviously…Have I mentioned how much I LOOOOVE IT??? ACK! I love it!
Anyway, I have been excited about this session ALL WEEK!!! This is Joy and when Joy’s mom told me she was a ballerina I almost died!! I know I have done my fair share of urban seniors for the year but I knew that this HAD TO BE AN URBAN SESSION!! Urban Ballerina! How stinkin’ cool is that?
When Joy showed up I was completely giddy…she brought a basket of cool digs and then right on top were the ballet slippers…sigh…L O V E! I think I told her she “had me at hello..”
I have LOADS of awesome pictures but I can only show a few…Maybe more later.
She started off kind of awkward..I was a little worried.
Nalani - Ashley McNamara - San Diego Photographer
May 3, 2008 – 10:05 am
Another day another beautiful senior girl to shoot! This week has been so crazy for me, shoot after shoot..but its also been a blast and while I am only working off of about 3 hours of sleep a night I am surprisingly chipper. That could be due to the 5 Pepsi’s I have had this morning though.
Anyhow, I thought I would share a couple of pictures..I am such a bad blogger this week..no words but lots of pictures..hehe. I will try to get better I promise.
These next two crack me up. She has such an awesome smile but I wanted a couple of non smiling shots too..so I asked her not to smile and she had the absolute hardest time not smiling heheh! So after about a dozen shots of trying not to smile and it not working out we ended up with this one and when I saw it I said.. “oh that was fierce!” and that resulted in the next shot
I have to think about making these pictures a WEE bit smaller huh? lol
Urban Senior - Ashley McNamara - San Diego Photographer
May 2, 2008 – 9:46 am
Ok, seriously…I don’t remember girls being this good looking when I was in high school or even in college.. I am having so much fun with these shoots that I am feeling kind of guilty calling this a job.
This is Susan and she is actually in college not high school and next year she will be transferring to UCLA and she will then go on to get her law degree…so good looks and smarts!
Susan, it was such a pleasure shooting your gorgeous self. Enjoy your sneak peek!!
High School Seniors - Ashley McNamara - San Diego Photographer
April 30, 2008 – 7:31 am
Oh My WOW! This was one of my most fun shoots yet!! Courtney is umm…STUNNING! I am really at a loss for words on this post. All I can say is that I think I am going to push my business in this direction as well. I love photographing babies and children and always will but I am now going to start taking photographing High School Senior as well. I am so excited!
It was so much fin Courtney! Enjoy your sneak peek.
Meet Jude - Ashley McNamara - San Diego Photographer
April 28, 2008 – 8:40 am
Meet Jude
Last week my daughter came home from school asking to buy a present for one of her classmates. My first thought was that there was yet another birthday party to attend, but my daughter explained that this was actually for a child who would be leaving school on the first of May to have his 4th Open Heart Surgery. (She has such a big heart) My first reaction was to offer this child’s family a free shoot. Jude’s teacher was able to put me in contact with his family and we scheduled a time. Shooting this kid was just so much fun, he’s an amazing child and his presence lit up the room!
Please take the time to keep this brave little guy in your thoughts, I know his family would be so grateful.
Baby Hummingbirds - Ashley McNamara - San Diego Photographer
April 25, 2008 – 8:20 am
So a couple of days ago my daughter came home with a nest of itty bitty hummingbirds, she said that she and her friend found them in their nest in the street…
poor little guys…. so she brought them to me and asked if she could take care of them..I told her no she couldn’t because they had a mommy who missed them.. The little guys looked hungry so we did some research on humming birds and with them being that young they can’t eat the man made nectar for more than 24 hours or it will harm them..and apparently they also need to be fed like 4 times an hour..so we called some hummingbird rescue numbers (5 to be exact) and no one answered..Sigh…
Well after all that we went back to where we found them and looked for a place to put them and we finally placed them in a bush, sheltered from the wind, but off of the ground and we really hoped momma hummingbird would come and take care of her babies (we were hopeful) but we knew that they had a better chance out there than they had here..I felt terrible. They were so cute.
Being the animal lover that I am I really didn’t sleep that night thinking about those little guys so about 5:30am I went outside to check on them and one baby had been EATEN BY SNAILS!! They were up pretty high so that was crazy…but the other one was alive so I scooped him up and brought him home..I thought that it would be better for him to die with me than be eaten alive my carnivorous snails…so we fed him sugar water and he was doing really well..super feisty little guy! We finally got in touch with Project Wildlife and drove 30 mins up the road and gave him to them…I am so glad I went and checked on him.. 
I took a couple of pictures of them..I couldn’t help it. hehe..Its not often you see a Hummingbird up close especially babies…They are sooooo small! About the size of a prune.
