DAY 3 – April 1, 2012 – ACM Award Winners – The Press Room This is my second favorite part, after the artists win their awards, they come backstage and have their picture made by us photographers. I will say, the difference between me, a lover of Country Music, and most of the other 20 [...]
Academy of Country Music Awards 2012 | ACM Red Carpet
DAY 3 – April 1, 2012 – Academy of Country Music Awards – The Red Carpet This is by far my favorite part of the weekend! Getting to see the ladies all dressed up like the superstars that they are, knowing how great they feel walking down that red carpet. Photographing the men in their [...]
NRA Celebrity Shoot 2012
DAY 2 – NRA Celebrity Shoot Out – Saturday, March 31, 2012 Early morning! Whew. After a late night at the Fremont Street Experience, five-thirty a.m. sure came early. Off to the NRA Shoot Out, hosted by the sarcastic Blake Shelton and GAC’s Storme Warren. Artists Easton Corbin, Lee Brice, Eden’s Edge, The Band Perry’s [...]
Academy of Country Music Awards 2012 | ACM Salutes the Military Concert
DAY 2 – ACM Salutes the Military Concert, hosted by Robin Meade and Bill Cody Country Weekly asked me to photograph a day in the life of CNN’s HLV News Anchor Robin Meade the day she hosted the Military Concert. What a great experience! Robin Meade is probably the nicest lady I’ve ever met. We [...]
ACM Fremont Street Experience 2012
Day 1 – ACM Fremont Street Experience – March 30th, 2012 Fremont Street Experience was next on the concert photography list. This is THE COOLEST free show ever. Last year’s 2011 Fremont Street artists included my good friend Sarah Darling, Casey James ….. and others (see blog post::). This 2012 Friday night Fremont Street Experience [...]
ACM Experience 2012 at Mandalay Bay
DAY 1 – ACM Experience – Friday, March 30, 2012 What a great start to the week of the entire ACM Experience. Friday, April 30th, I started off by meeting Taylor Swift’s dad, president of Swift Trucking. Mr. Swift is definitely Taylor’s biggest fan and told me story after story of when Taylor first got [...]
Danica Honeycutt | Burning Heart Photo Shoot
Danica Honeycutt is the next big country star! I promise. I met this sweet girl at CRS, we were both sitting in Starbucks working, she was writing, I was editing photos at the Renaissance Hotel in Nashville during CRS Week. We started to chat… Immediately I loved her story, that she just opened up and [...]
Storme Warren California Photo-shoot
You know Storme from GAC’s Headline Country and Sirius XM Radio’s, The Highway! Storme is probably one of the best interviewers’…he always makes everyone feel so comfortable and his knowledge and love of Country Music is astounding. Ask this guy anything about Willie Neslon to Lady Antebellum, he knows all the facts. [...]
Sarah Darling “O Holy Night” Music Video Shoot
What an amazing experience at Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center. I was asked to photograph for Country Weekly magazine, the video shoot of Black River Entertainment’s Sarah Darling’s “O Holy Night” Christmas rendering. Although I now have the Christmas carol stuck in my head forever, the experience was something I’ll never forget. [...]


Sara Kauss Photography is an international wedding and portrait photographer. Sara is known for her photo-journalistic style and colorful, dynamic photos all captured with a spontaneous, energetic, personality. Sara specializes in destination weddings, concert photography and musician shoots, she also speaks for photographers across the country on how to build a successful photography business and teaches workshops to educate photographers on proper shooting techniques.
