What a cute little family session and pregnancy reveal all in one! Always so exciting to take such major photos announcing life changes be it pregnancy, engagement, wedding days. What a fun job to have to celebrate peoples life changes!
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I had a blast shooting M+G’s engagement photos with their adorable dog recently. They are one of our awesome 2019 wedding couples for the fantastic Rollins Mansion here in Des Moines. We ended up with the most gorgeous Sunday night for photos!
This sweet family sadly lost their adorable fur baby Sadie since this session but it was truly such an honor to capture them all together! Especially with her new human brother before she passed. What a night filled with smiles and laughter, and new babies are just the best! Thanks for having us! And we...
We lucked out with just the PERFECT night for photos! Despite the cold temperatures these two just rocked their maternity session! We even lucked out with the most epic sunset for some silhouettes to end the night. If you are looking to document your pregnancy and want some amazing maternity photos to remember your journey to...
Another great family photoshoot with one of our past brides and grooms! It’s fun to catch up during family sessions years later. I mean it when I say we leave lots of weddings with true friendships, we spend a majority of your wedding day with you and it’s so special to see where people are...
I had a great time with these two! The bride was actually one of our FIRST clients ever with her senior photos years and years ago. Gosh doesn’t that make us seem old! 😉 When they brought up the idea of incorporating his police officer uniform for engagement photos I couldn’t have been more thrilled. Always supporting all...
I had a blast photographing for The World Food Prize foundation covering the GYI Oxfam Hunger Banquet for the Global Youth Institute. What an eventual night it was! If you aren’t familiar with the event feel free to check out the links above, honestly it was for high school age children from all over the globe here...
I had the best night for family photos with this cute Bondurant family! I’ve gotten lots of messages about family and kid photo sessions in Bondurant, feel free to reach out to our email address info@ztsphoto.com or fill out our contact form to set something up! We would love to capture your memories!
These two were one of our first wedding couples years and years ago and so fun to see all our past clients families grow! Thanks for letting me capture your growing family and all his smiles just light up the room! What a little sweetheart!
I had the honor to shoot some images of some local Des Moines teachers and educators for a national education publication recently. With Tanner being a high school teacher, and growing up with my mother in education it’s so awesome to celebrate all the time and effort teachers put into making their students lives better....
Catching up on blogging so many fun things! Another great family session with a past wedding client of ours and their sweet fur babe. What a gorgeous night!
I had the pleasure of capturing a local Des Moines Northwestern Mutual office recently for group photos of the entire office and headshots of each individual for marketing images. We lucked out with the weather and it ended up being just the perfect sunny morning for photos. Thankful for clients that also are interested in...
Love when our past wedding clients have babies! So fun to meet this little man and I had a great time capturing such a fun and joyful time for your little family!
Two quick favorites from a recent commercial headshot session for the current and new Presidents of Iowa State Bank here in Des Moines. What an honor to have so many fantastic on-gong commercial clients! If you are in need of new social media marketing images, website photos or simply some updated headshots feel free to...
Excited to share that we are officially building (another) house! AND it’s actually…almost done!!! We’ve been SO incredibly busy these last few months it’s been such a blur of work, weddings, commercial shoots, portraits, building meetings, you name it! Tanner and I are blessed to have been able to do something totally custom this time, have a...
I had such a blast with this March engagement session! We lucked out with just the best day. You never know in Iowa what the weather will be (and wind!) in March so we had a blast enjoying the sunshine! Can’t wait for J+D’s big day this fall at one of our favorite wedding venues...
I had such a great family session with the C family and blogging everything from the last few months is making me so excited for SPRING weather soon and all our Spring weddings! What a perfect night it was!
I had a blast covering the 2018 Iowa High School State Wrestling Tournament for IA Wrestle again this year. What an awesome atmosphere! This is my 6th? (gosh I’ve lost count!) year covering the tournament and I can’t say how much each year it’s SUCH a rush to photograph! Sports is like nothing else, and...
Hands down the coolest event I’ve ever photographed!!! A list celebrity and all! Alec Baldwin was beyond kind. I’ve got to say that was probably the most nervous I’ve ever been to photograph something. I even had the pleasure of snapping a photo with him after the step and repeat! I had the privilege of...
Over the years we’ve probably had 15 inquiries for proposals on ice at the Brenton Skating Plaza here in downtown Des Moines. They were INCREDIBLE for one of our winter engagement sessions and opened up the rink to us alone at sunset. In exchange we did some fun marketing photos for them for proposals! I can’t...
Oh my goodness this winter engagement session!!! What a PERFECT winter day for engagements here in Des Moines, Iowa! And I can’t say how much I enjoyed photographing ice skating engagement photos. Over the years I’ve had so many people inquire about it but we’ve always chosen another route. SO COOL to shoot a session...
Stoked to have wrapped up our 2017 wedding season (our 9th one at that!) with an ANOTHER award for 2018 with a Wedding Wire Couples’ Choice Award!!! Based SOELY on client reviews. Tanner and I say it often, we never really intended as two young college kids at BVU to have ZTS Photo grow into...
I had such a fun in home 6 month photo session with this little sweetheart! He’s one of our 2011 wedding clients little guys, and his eyes I’m just dying over! Thanks so much for having me and he’s seriously just the sweetest happiest baby around!
We were thrilled to photograph the impressive new Brick House Fitness in Bondurant this past weekend. What an amazing new facility! If you live in the Ankeny, Bondurant or Altoona area and are seeking out a new gym this is the place to be! Not only do they offer child care, but they are finishing...
Kicking off 2018 with all the corporate photography here in Des Moines! Another great on location headshots session for a local bank. Thanks as always for having us, your employees are always a joy! Feel free to reach out if you are in the Des Moines, Iowa area and in need of fresh and friendly commercial...
I had the pleasure of photographing the new Curate event venue open house this past Friday in East Village. The new venue created by the wonderful ladies behind Taste to Go catering here in Des Moines. What a BUSY night it was! Such a great new space in East Village here in Des Moines. Just...
Holiday parties are such fun events! I had the pleasure of photographing the 2017 holiday party for ILC at the West Des Moines Jordan Creek Holiday Inn this past week. Johnny’s Italian Steakhouse as always does such a wonderful job catering for events at this venue and I had the pleasure of snapping some couple...
I had the pleasure of photography at the brand new The Tea Room here in Des Moines for a commercial awards ceremony event for the University of Iowa presenting the Iowa Business Leadership Award of 2017 to Bankers Trust recently. I cannot say how incredibly excited I was to photograph and see the new Tea Room! What...
This family session was a huge reminder how important photos are to families. Their poor fur baby sadly passed less than a week after this photoshoot. I am SO thankful as a fur mom myself to have been able to capture some images with their newest addition and their last few days with their fur...
Thankful for repeat clients and amazing friends! Year 4 for this adorable family and their fur kids. This fall was just a whirlwind of weddings, commercial shoots, family photos, engagements and event photography for us. So many great sessions to blog! Thanks everyone for all the support and what a great family session this was!
We have been so lucky to have several wonderful banks and professional institutions to be their primary contact in 2017 for commercial images. What a great headshot session in West Des Moines last week! Feel free to reach out if you are in need of some updated marketing images be it office photos, product photography,...
Oh my goodness can we just talk about what a perfect wedding venue the Salisbury House and Gardens is here in Des Moines?! Tanner and I finally photographed our first wedding there in 9 wedding seasons a few weekends ago. What a PERFECT garden wedding venue. And so much greenery, I can’t say enough great...
We had such an amazing wedding portrait session with these two at sunset a few days ago. Wedding portraits are so incredibly important so it was great to be able to capture some special ones for these two. They literally let us pick any spot we wanted and were so much fun to work with!...
I had such a great time catching up with this sweet family for some fall fun! Little Nola is the cutest 2 year old around, she’s just so busy but it was a delight to have a more candid family session. She could literally be a track star! Thanks so much for having me capture...
We have an absolute marathon of fall engagements, family shoots, weddings and commercial sessions this October so going to start it off with the amazing W family here in Des Moines! It’s always a pleasure meeting new people, this family literally laughed the entire time. I had so much fun with you all! Thanks for letting...
Jess and Taylor had a picture perfect wedding day at Sticks here in Des Moines. They started out getting ready at the new AC Hotel by Marriott in the East Village. I can’t say enough great things about the AC Hotel, what a great venue for getting ready! I highly suggest all wedding couples pick a getting ready...
It’s always fun seeing past wedding couples and their families grow over the years! I have a marathon of fall sessions and this adorable family kicked it off last night! It’s shocking how much the boys have grown in the last few years. Always a pleasure seeing you guys over the years! If you are...
Sarah and Danny had a beautiful wedding day at the Rollins Mansion here in Des Moines. If you haven’t been it’s the perfect vintage mansion venue for an outdoor garden wedding. The day started off with the gals getting ready in East Village at the wonderful Salon Spa W. From there they headed to...
We had the change to shoot the Apple Tree Inn Motel in Indianola remodel recently. What a fun shot! So fun to see how much the hotel has changed over the years. Thanks for having us back! If you are in need of fresh commercial images of your property, business, etc on social media marketing...
I had the pleasure of taking several corporate on location head shots and group shots for Iowa State Bank here in the Des Moines this week for new marketing materials and social media marketing. If you are in need of new commercial images feel free to reach out! We would love to update your social...
Where to even begin with this one! Tanner and I had the pleasure of shooting Megan and Tim’s wedding at Glen Oaks this August. Oh my goodness what a perfect day it was! I can’t say enough great things about Glen Oaks Country Club as a venue here in Des Moines. When brides are looking...
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