If your viewing this on Facebook head over to our blog at www.ztsblog.com for the full post! We shot the last Buena Vista University home football game of the year with a Canon 1D MK IV and a 300mm f/2.8 USM IS lens from CPS. I must say…WOW. We need two MK IV’s stat! We...
If your viewing this on Facebook head on over to our blog at https://ztsphoto.com We have an awesome new meeting place for clients and I have a new loft! (Ok honestly been there since August we’ve just been crazy busy with stuff so haven’t had time to post!) Welcome to the new ZTS digs. Were...
If your viewing this on Facebook shoot over to our blog by clicking here https://ztsphoto.com My cousin and his wife have a new little bundle of joy in their life. My family went to welcome Seth into the world a few weeks ago at the Lutheran Hospital here in Des Moines. Isn’t he a cute...
If your viewing this on Facebook shoot on over to our blog at https://ztsphoto.com Last night the skyline was gorgeous! Fog + dusk = awesomeness. I couldn’t help but drive down Grand Avenue here in Des Moines and snap some pictures through the rain splats on my windshield of the downtown Des Moines skyline. These...
If your viewing this on Facebook head on over to our blog at https://ztsphoto.com Growing up in Indianola I just assumed it average to have hot air balloons landing in your backyard daily in the summer. August brought the National Balloon Classic in Indianola every year. Last night I went out to Fire in the...
If your viewing this on facebook head on over to our blog at https://ztsphoto.com Rare is the occasion that we are guests at a wedding these days! Tanner’s brother was married last weekend and the photographer was only hired to stay through the toasts. Immediately following his departure family members kept asking us to haul...
If your viewing this on Facebook head on over to our blog at https://ztsphoto.com My favorite time of the year is fast approaching! My birthday AND the Iowa State Fair. For those of you not from Des Moines maybe it isn’t such a big deal but I absolutely love to go to the fair. The...
If your viewing this on facebook head on over to our blog at https://ztsphoto.com The 4th of July has been THE favorite holiday of mine for as long as I can remember. I love sparklers, smoke bombs, snakes, fireworks, m80’s, basically anything I can light on fire and looks pretty counts. Especially when pictures are...
If your viewing this on Facebook head on over to our blog at https://ztsphoto.com This is what happens when Tanner and I get bored…we outline a car with sparklers! Last summer we were experimenting with light and long exposures and what better to do that play with sparklers! We headed off to a remote gravel...
If your viewing this on facebook head on over to our blog at: https://ztsphoto.com June 5th we had the pleasure of shooting the 2nd Annual Halfway to Heaven Scholarship Bike-ride in memory of Tanner’s father Bernie. Some of his biggest passions were biking and music and the proceeds raised from the event help to fund...
If your viewing this on facebook head on over to our blog at https://ztsphoto.com Sunday evening we headed off to a field just south-west of downtown Des Moines to meet-up with some other local photographers from the area to do a fun group engagement shoot! The other photographers present were: Sarah & Chris Davis of...
If your viewing this on facebook head on over to our blog at https://ztsphoto.com I’ll admit it. We have an addiction problem. If you live within driving distance of a Costco please go join. Not only do they have memory cards (8gb sandisk) for $35 (were talking the same ones at bbuy that are $80)...
If your viewing this on Facebook click here to head on over to our blog: https://ztsphoto.com The light was just PERFECT the other night on my way back from a run so I bolted upstairs to my condo and grabbed the 5D MK II and our new 100mm f/2.8 macro lens that I have been...
I took these shot years ago…were talking summer of 2006 old school with a Rebel XTi and a lens kit! I still to this day just absolutely just love them! They are un-edited straight out of the camera JPEGS. I was cleaning up my Flickr’ account last night and found these images from the days...
If your viewing this on Facebook head on over to our blog at https://ztsphoto.com Last January Tanner and I babysat my little cousin who lives in Johnston…he is SO much fun! Loves the camera, video, etc. I have some other awesome vids of him singing songs and the ABC’s somewhere…to be found at a later...
If your viewing this on Facebook shoot on over to our blog at: https://ztsphoto.com to view this post! Last night I emerged from grabbing up some groceries for dinner after my workout at Dahl’s grocery store on 86th in Johnston to find a killer rainbow in the sky! Not just a ‘one-tailed’ rainbow or a...
If your viewing this on facebook click here https://ztsphoto.com to head on over to our blog for the full post! As long as I can remember I love grungy locations! You can check out some of my old work from my Flickr account here and here and Tanner’s stuff here. Whenever Tanner drives down from...
If your viewing this on facebook head on over to the blog at https://ztsphoto.com Spring is finally here in Iowa! The grass is green and the tulips (here in East Village where I work) are blooming. After one of the worst winters that I can remember having an 80 degree day in the middle of...
So last night we decided to do a fun shoot tonight in Garner with one of Tanner’s friends Logan Clemet! He has some amazing work feel free to look him up and add him on facebook! We just got four new pocket wizards and have been dying to get outside and try them out with...
To best view this post (if your viewing this on facebook ) visit our blog at https://ztsphoto.com I love the 4th of July! As far back as I can remember I have loved taking pictures of fireworks, lighting off fireworks, going to the fireworks. Possibly this is the reason it is my favorite holiday. Fireworks...
