Acorn Studios began as a New Year's Resolution in 2009. I had already been shooting advertising stock photography for four years. However, I wanted to expand and create a different type of professional photography studio: one that offered beautiful, modern images, but without the ego.

Whether you are coming to Acorn Studios for beautiful wedding photojournalism, modern lifestyle portraits or compelling advertising images, your photography experience is just as important to us as the end product. We want every client to have fun, laugh, and leave feeling like they just made a new friend.

As lead photographer, the one thing that sets me (and Acorn Studios) apart is the ability to create a cohesive collection of beautiful images that tell a story. Every time I am behind the camera, I draw on my years of experience as a writer, art director, designer, advertising manager and model. Time spent on both sides of the camera gives me a unique perspective on what the client feels and helps me make stronger connections. Through years of experience I have come to realize that the most stunning images come from unscripted moments.

Ansel Adams said it best: Great photographs are not taken, they are MADE. It takes a true artisan to handcraft a treasured heirloom. Every photograph created by Acorn Studios has to be one I would be willing to put on my own wall. I invite you to to experience something different.

Kacey Baxter
Founder and Chief Creative Director