Meet Ana Fleming

Today we’re excited to be connecting with Ana Fleming again. If you haven’t already, we suggest you check out our prior conversation with them here.

Ana, always such a pleasure connecting with you and thank you for sharing your stories, insights and inspiring messages with our community. We’re looking forward to getting the download and what you have been up to since our last interview, but first can you briefly introduce yourself to folks who might have missed the prior conversation.
Hello My Name is Ana Fleming. I started as a Freelance Family Photographer with a borrowed camera back in 2017 and grew from there. My love for photography started since my High School Years, I always had a digital camera on hand taking random photos of sceneries and friends. I truly enjoy what I do and have since the. Started my business adventure and brand HerLifeBehindTheLens Photography LLC. My business name is very unique and that clearly represents my work. I chose my business name and wanted it to describe me and not just my first and last name with photography at the end. I wanted it to show what my life is Behind The Lens and it goes way beyond just photography. I love to show case my life, my aspirations, my struggles and also my wins, it’s not always perfect and I feel like that business name really does represent me.

Great, so let’s jump into an update on what you have been up to since we last spoke. What can you share with us?
A huge update since my last interview, my photography journey started and was built out in Southern California. I moved to South Carolina in 2023 and has since then now traveled in between to continue to grow my photography business. I have had the honor to continue to photograph my base clients in SoCal and have grown tremendously out here in South Carolina this past year as well. My goal is to continue to serve my people in SoCal and also Start traveling to other States and provide others with my quality work and be able to fully travel and enjoy the adventures of photography in other states and countries.

Alright, so let’s do something a bit more fast-paced and lighthearted. We call this our lightning round and we’ll ask you a few quick questions.

Favorite Movie: It ends with us

Favorite TV Show: Documentaries

Favorite Band or Artist: Bruno Mars

Sweet or Savory: Sweet

Mountains or Beach: Both that’s a hard one to choose from lol

Favorite Sport (to watch): Boxing

Favorite Sport (to play): Soccer

Did you play sports growing up (if so which ones): Cheerlead and Soccer

As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up: Those people that study earthquakes lol

French Fries or Onion Rings: French Fries

Chuck Rhodes or Bobby Axelrod: No idea who any of those people are lol

Favorite Cartoon growing up: Dragon Tales lol

Favorite Childhood movie: Thumbelina

Favorite Breakfast Food: French Toast

Was there a moment in your career that you can tell us about that illustrates or demonstrates the kind of person you are, your approach, ethos, etc.
So when I first started doing photography I always found it hard to approach other photographers for guidance or help due to the fact that most of them were very brush off ish lol. So I taught myself a lot of the ins and outs of photography and of course YouTube university also was apart of that journey lol, but ones thing that I always told myself was once I mastered this photography world and had the opportunity to mentor, coach and help other aspiring growing photographers that I was NEVER going to let anyone feel like they couldn’t ask my questions to help them in their journey and I feel like I’ve always done just that. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting sooo many amazing photographers in the community and have created an amazing bond with a lot of them because of how open I’ve been in this journey and can relate to so many. I feel like if I can create a safe space for open discussions it helps everyone feel more like a community vs feeling like someone is gonna steal anything from them. I have had the pleasure to host styled sessions and everytime I’ve been apart of hosting one I always get amazing positive feedback and great connections with our photographers and that to me is Golden!

Image Credits
Ana Fleming HerLifeBehindTheLens Photography