Easy peasy, from start to finish.
Flexible scheduling. No-contact booking. Affordable pricing. Online payment.
Unlimited rescheduling. Light-hearted sessions. No fancy props. No high-pressure sales. Digital galleries.
Focused on you.
You are unique. Your family is like no other. I take time to get to know you, to engage with your children, partner, pets, parents, clients, or event. My goal is always to provide a fun, relaxed, simple, and personalized experience that every member of your group will have good memories about.
Flexible and low stress.
Things happen. You’re busy. You’re human. I am, too. That’s why I’m very intentional about making your whole experience as convenient, enjoyable, and stress-free as possible. From easy online booking and payment and limitless, worry-free rescheduling, to relaxed and lighthearted sessions and digital galleries that you can view from the comfort of your home, my photo experiences are designed to help capture the memories you want with the accommodations you need.
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Booking is easy! Every session includes no-contact rescheduling for any reason, with no limit or penalty.
“Wonderful to work with.”
“Denice is artsy and creative and amazingly skilled as a photographer. She’s also bubbly and friendly and articulate in her dealings with both children and adult clients. Some photographers stop right there. Oftentimes their artistic side is greater and more productive than their business side, being creative as an artist but not so much as a business person. Not so with Denice, though. She appears to be equal to the task in both areas.
She was incredibly wonderful to work with and collaborate with and laugh with.
She enjoys what she does and it shows!”
“Seamless process.”
“Denice is always great to work with! From the moment you book through your images being delivered, it is a seamless process. You instantly feel like she’s a long time friend of the family- which makes photos a lot easier for everyone! ”
“Best decision.”
“Working with Denice has been one of the best decisions our family made. Not a day goes by that I don’t look at one of the photos she has taken of our kids. I love the genuine smiles and expressions of my son riding his bike, or us splashing in a creek, or my mom meeting her grandchild for the first time. I have rescheduled using the website and it was straightforward. I appreciated the tips on the website and emails, too. I have never regretted a penny that we spent on photography - these pictures will last forever. ”
“Fun experience!”
“We love having you take our photos. You always roll with the silliness & uniqueness that comes along with young ones & help to make the experience fun. We also appreciate your expertise when it comes to location & picking the best spots with the appropriate lighting. The photos always turn out beautifully! ”
“Genuine smiles.”
“Denice is always the best to work with. From ease of booking to allowing flexibility with rescheduling to making the photo session itself fun and relaxing, Denice knows how to bring genuine smiles to faces. She does a wonderful job working with all ages and is happy to include family pets in the photo shoot as well. I appreciate the fact that she has ideas for photo shoot venues. But most of all, Denice has become someone I look forward to seeing whenever we have our family photo session, because it’s fun to hang out with her and catch up on life; she’s as genuine as they come, which contributes to how comfortable photo sessions are with her. Her photos always have a lot of meaning in them, and she does a superb job of capturing the natural light in an artistic way. We are never disappointed with our family photos when we choose Denice to shoot them!”
“Easygoing and patient.”
“I cannot recommend Sprouted Acorn Photography highly enough. Denice was an absolute miracle worker with our ornery, active little boys who are nearly impossible to photograph. She was so easygoing, patient and adaptable with our kids, came up with great ideas for photos, and made the whole experience enjoyable and fun! The photos she captured took my breath away. We were so impressed with her creative ideas and her ability to just go with the flow and do what worked for our family. We now have some beautiful family photos that I will treasure forever. I would (and will) recommend her to anyone.”
“Denice worked great with my autistic son and even got some genuine smiles. She even let my youngest join in with the seniors getting pictures.”
Booking is easy! Every session includes no-contact rescheduling for any reason, with no limit or penalty.
Your memories are important to you. They are also important to me. I work hard at ensuring that you receive the very best experience, care, and images possible, and that you and your loved ones feel safe, relaxed, and respected during every part of the process.
Take a peak at the gallery of my images to see if my style and your style are a good fit!
It started with pigeons.
At least as far as I remember, it did.
I was in fifth grade the first time I got my mitts on my very own camera. Our class had taken the traditional trip to Washington D.C. to learn the wonders and workings of our nation's capital. Everywhere I turned, there were impressive buildings, imposing monuments, important people, and incomparable documents. I was out, though, to do some documenting of my own. When my 110 film was developed, my parents were perplexed and somewhat dismayed that I had chosen to point my Kodak Ektralite 10 toward the strutting street avians of the City of Magnificent Intentions. I didn't understand why my parents were flustered. I still don't.
I went on to photograph my slew of stuffed animals, my heterochromial white cat, and any friends who would stand still long enough for me to shoot them. I once photographed a monkey in a cage with my Polaroid. I thought he'd appreciate my work, so I handed him the still-damp photo through the bars. He wasn't pleased and tried to destroy all evidence of his portrait. It took some bribing, but I eventually got it back. I still have it somewhere, bite marks and all.
Now my equipment is slightly higher-end, and my subjects not quite as elusive, aggressive, or feathered. I love faces. Rugged ones, young ones, seasoned ones, sad ones. I love moments and rays of light. I enjoy the challenge of capturing the authentic and the classic, of making pictures of people—images that might last long enough to be treasured by children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, like the photo that sits in front of me right this minute of my grandma Anna and her slew of sisters huddled around their father on a mountain in Montana.
My goal with portrait, family, commercial, and event photography is to make inspired images in a relaxed environment, to capture unposed scenes that might otherwise go unnoticed, to document a place and time that might be very different tomorrow, and to focus on the person in front of me, a person who has been built to be exactly who they are in that moment through two converging lineages over countless generations.
What I end up with through all of this is my own style of honest-to-goodness, natural-light photography.
I enjoy it immensely. I believe you will, too.
