Our Team

Full Service

From start to finish, it is our goal to provide our patients with outstanding optometry services.

Highly Trained

We are committed to providing advanced vision care in a professional and comfortable environment.

Advanced Lab

Our state of the art optical processing equipment produces high quality lenses and eyewear.

For the past 29 years, Ashley‘s Optical has served the Baker community as well as the surrounding Baton Rouge area. From the every day customers to the large corporations, Ashley treats each and every customer with the utmost care and respect.

She has worked with ExxonMobil for the past 11 years as well as other prominent businesses in the area. Ashley has also been a member of the downtown Lions club for over 14 years. She received the Helen Keller award from the Lions Club as well as an award from the Baker counsel for outstanding business and excellent customer service.

Ashley Waters grew up in the optical business. Her father, Tom Waters, owns Tom Waters Boots, Clothes, and Optical. He has been in business for 50 years. Her father played a very important role in teaching her how to build and establish a successful company.

Ashley’s repeat business is a direct reflection of the quality, reliable products she delivers and her excellent customer service has rightfully deemed her:

“The Local Girl with Down Home Service.”

Ashley Waters

Founder & Owner

Mike Calhoun grew up in Monroe, Louisiana and moved to Baton Rouge in 2001. He graduated from the University of Louisiana Monroe in 2004 and the University of Houston College of Optometry in 2009. Upon graduation from UHCO, Dr. Calhoun entered active duty service in the US Air Force. He served as the Optometry Flight Commander at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. In 2014, he left active duty to move back to Baton Rouge to raise his family. He currently serves one weekend a month in the Air Force Reserves at Keesler AFB, MS. In August 2015, he started seeing patients at Ashley’s Optical in Baker, Louisiana where he currently practices.

Mike Calhoun

Central Care Vision, Optometrist

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