Ashlynn Lancaster

I spent my whole savings on a camera and a guess.

That was the beginning of it. I wanted people to feel beautiful and worth photographing, and I did not have a plan much past that.

Ashlynn Lancaster standing with her camera and a basket of flowers
Portrait by @imelizabethlauren

The first full year ended and I was still doing it.

By the close of 2025 I had photographed seniors, couples, engagements, families, branding sessions and maternity shoots. I got to photograph my best friend’s graduation and another best friend’s engagement, which is not the sort of thing you can plan for and is still the part I talk about most.

Since then a set of my photographs ran in Swish Magazine, and I booked my first wedding. I photograph The Boro Breakfast Club here in Murfreesboro.

Between all of that I am finishing a business administration degree and working a social media management job, which is why I answer messages at strange hours and why I am very good at a tight schedule.

Telling your story and making you feel beautiful in it is my favorite part of all of this.

I am endlessly thankful the Lord gave me this job, and I intend to glorify Him with every picture I take.

How I work

About ten minutes in, you will forget the camera is there.

01

You will never once hear me say hold that

Walk toward me. Tell him the thing you told me in the car. Pick her up. People smile like they mean it when they are busy doing something, and that is the whole method.

02

There is a second gallery you did not pay extra for

Every session comes back in my signature color, and then the whole set again in black and white. Longer sessions get film-inspired edits on top. Three ways to hang the same evening.

03

Wear the thing you already own

Half my favorite photographs happened because the light was good and we stopped what we were doing. You can put down the mood board you have been building for three weeks.

A printed magazine spread crediting the photography to Ashlynn Lancaster
In print

A set of these ran in Swish Magazine.

Photographed for a branding shoot in Murfreesboro, and printed with my name on the page, which I am still slightly smug about.

Say hello

Come be one of the people on this website.

Tell me who is coming and roughly when, and I will take it from there.