Meadows and Reeds: fashion photography

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Passion

You may know by now that I am a wife, mom, blogger etc.

If you have have explored my blog you may have even seen that I'm a photographer. This is a huge passion of mine and recently I had an awesome mentoring session with Kathleen clipper. She totally inspired me to focus more on the style of photography that I love the most. {Fashion Photography} I love being able to be in a more creative setting.

This is one of my photo shoots that I did as a part of a series on true beauty.

To see more check out my photography blog

Ashley Reed

Life just got crazy ....like for real!

This last weekend I had the opportunity to be the official photographer for Renew Magazine's

Health and Wellness expo in Williamsburg, Virginia. It was such an awesome and positive event with loads of fun vendors, speakers and a fashion show! Which was my favorite of course. I had the chance to get well acquainted with the photographer for Apricot Lane Hampton who provided the clothes for the fashion show.

We got introduced and realized we were both named Ashley. Alright, that's easy enough to remember. Then we talked some more about how you never come across "Ashley's" anymore.

So we decided it would be fun to dive in and find out more about each other.

Turns out it's A LOT!

We have the same middle name

We are both photographers {Ashley Vanley Photography}

We both love fashion {that's obvious}

We are both born in February {2 weeks and 2 years apart actually! }

She recently moved from Colorado Springs and that's where we were stationed before Boston.

We are both military wives

Our husbands names are {similar} we were bummed it wasn't the same.

We are both Christian and are really into Mission work.

So now we are Twin Besties and we hung out together the entire event and are planning to visit each other as much as possible.

What a crazy thing to happen. That's literally never happen to me ever in my life.

The two Ashley's

Oh and a plus! We got to meet Mrs.Virginia

I'm a Model?..... {High Fashion Photo Shoot}

If you follow me on instagram {@meadowsandreeds} you may remember a month or so ago I was asked to do a high fashion photo shoot with a fellow photographer {Kathleen Clipper Photography. I jumped at the chance. High fashion is such a passion of mine! We went to Sticks and Stones farm

in Newtown, CT. That was the literally only the second time I've had my makeup done for me. Definitely the first time I had both hair and makeup done at the same time. It was a fun experience. Everyone was just so awesome to work with. The location was so gorgeous, straight out of a movie! Here are some behind the scenes and some of my favorite shots from the shoot!