What a fun farm engagement session for one of our 2019 August couples! I had a blast traveling to Stuart, Iowa and wandering around town to multiple locations with them for photos. Can’t wait for your big day and despite the crazy wind we captured so many great pics! August will be here before we...
Sunset Ridge Barn is the absolute perfect location for a June wedding here in Iowa! Just minutes South of the Des Moines, Iowa metro they have the most gorgeous backdrop for ceremonies over looking the pond. K+J had the best day filled with happy tears, love and laughter. K made the most beautiful bride and...
Saturday we headed down to one of our very favorite venues in the Des Moines area for a wedding, Red Acre Barn! If you are looking for a barn run by owners who truly care about your big day, look no further! They truly pour their heart into their venue. Such a perfect spot for...
Kami and Emory were married at The Gateway Hotel & Conference Center at Iowa State University this past Saturday in Ames. Kami was one of our very first ever clients for her senior photos years and years ago and so fun to be able to capture multiple milestones in peoples lives! Their first look involved...
Mandy and Harrison were married at the new Decades Event Center in Des Moines. What a fun new vintage wedding venue just a few minuets West of Downtown with a beyond amazing staff! Mandy and the gals started their morning at One Eighty Salon for hair and makeup in Indianola. Post hair and makeup we...
Tasha and Nate were married at one of our favorite venues here in Iowa, the Red Acre Barn. What a PERFECT location for a wedding run by the most amazing owners! They truly pour their heart and soul into running an wonderful venue for your big day! Sadly it literally poured nearly their entire wedding...
Taylor and Billy had the most beautiful Iowa barn wedding at Red Acre Barn just a few minuets south of Des Moines. The night even ended with quite the bang! They went all out on florals with the amazing Shelly Sarver Designs, as always her arrangements blow us away! Despite the 93 degree day they...
Could these two be more adorable?! Tanner and I had a blast returning to the farm for a wonderful engagement session for Laura and Justin last weekend. We are so stoked for their wedding this Sept and I couldn’t even begin to pick what to blog. I love them all. You two knocked these out...
Catching up on blogging all our wonderful 2015 weddings this Spring! Loved this gorgeous summer day with the wonderful Mallory & Cody at Honey Creek Resort Wedding on Lake Rathbun, Iowa. What a great venue for a ceremony and reception right on the lake! And such a fun place for kids to stay and play too with...
What a great fall engagement session recently in Des Moines with Katie & Dustin! Lately the weather for shoots has been more than ideal, just simply perfect! Iowa has really cooperated this October weather wise. Thanks so much for choosing us to be your photographers! I had a blast with you two shooting these. Can’t...
I had a great time photographing the April Happy Hour event for Connecting DSM at the Des Moines Central Public Library last week! It was put on by a few great local Des Moines wedding planners: Gina Cramer l gina@makeithappendsm.com Make it Happen Events Kelly Sparks l kelly@socializeevents.com Socialize Event Planning & Management Becky Thomas l...
Just a few from our wedding this past weekend here in downtown Des Moines with the super awesome Danielle and Sean!
Just one from the first stop on our engagement session this afternoon with Kris and Matt. Thanks for being such great sports! Also I can’t wait to edit and share some coffee themed photos from the Smokey Row Coffee Co. You two are awesome!
These two were so much fun to work with! Not that you can’t tell that simply by looking at the gorgeous images from their fall engagement session below. I love that they are so full of laughter and love. The two of them were just down trying out every idea we threw at them as...
Lauren and Bill’s big day on August 6th took place at the gorgeous downtown Des Moines venue The Scottish Rite Consistory. The couple meet at Simpson College just south of Des Moines in my hometown of Indianola. They kept busy at Simpson with sports as Bill played football for the Storm while Lauren ran track....
Well what can I say about Tony and Steph other than they are just awesome! I meet Tony years ago when I took night classes at Simpson College for graphic design while still in high school at IHS. What a small world when years later we were contacted by him about shooting his wedding on...
There is a new wedding blog here in Des Moines that we were asked to be a featured in today run by Lakin entitled LAE Wedding You may remember one of our spring engagement session from a few months ago with Matt & Elissa in Storm Lake that is featured in the writeup as well...
Ring shots are my favorite. I get so excited for them! Something blue at a wedding recently was a ring given to the bride by her grandmother. I love this so much I just had to share!
This weekend we had the pleasure of shooting Sarah and Nick’s fantastic wedding in Altoona, Iowa just a few short minuets east of Des Moines. The two of them couldn’t have been more fun or better cleints to work with! Sarah was organized to a tea and couldn’t stop smiling and Nick was so fun...
Last Sunday we had an engagement and family session with Shelby and Paul in Storm Lake. As we have been wrapping up some other shoots it took a few days to get this posted here for a preview, but this is one of my favorites from the session with them. The natural light in combination...
Kelsi and Todd were married on a crisp and perfect Iowa fall day. The leaves were turning vivid colors and they lucked out on some fantastic weather! We went to college at Buena Vista University with these two where Todd played football for the Beavers and Kelsi played volleyball and was a cheerleader. The day...
We kicked off our engagement session for Elissa and Matt one of our 2011 wedding couples at Circle Park located on the lake in Storm Lake Iowa this past Saturday. They are getting married this October 8th. The sun was shining and it was the real first warm spring day in Iowa. From there we...
Elissa and I have been friends since my Junior year of college at Buena Vista University. She is just an incredibly happy person and always has a huge smile on her face and a positive attitude about life. Her contagious laugh can make you instantly happy and smile in any situation! When she contacted us...
If your viewing this on Facebook head on over to our blog at https://ztsphoto.com Cheers to the newest member of the ZTS Photo gear lineup! A 100mm f/2.8L IS macro! We have an engagement session this weekend and can’t wait to try this little booger out. The IS will be awesome for low lit wedding...
If your viewing this on Facebook shoot on over to our blog at https://ztsphoto.com Wedding ring and engagement ring shots are probably one of our favorite details to snap photos of. Just sparkly diamonds…c’mon! What is better than that? Lately we’ve been pushing ourselves to be a bit more creative and have fun with them...
If your viewing this on Facebook head on over to our blog at https://ztsphoto.com Sarah and Eric tied the knot in Forest City, Iowa this past weekend. Here is a snapshot of the bridal party after the ceremony at the football field where Eric played football for the last four years at Waldorf College in...
These two are just so much fun! Last Saturday Tanner and I headed off to Pella, IA to snap a few fun engagement pictures for Kristin and Jason whom we are shooting their wedding for at the end of May this year. Pella is just full of awesome places to shoot and a crazy amount...
In January we rented out Ikonix Studio for an engagement shoot with Katelyn and Taylor! Check out the Ikonix blog above as well as feel free to fan them on facebook because well…they just plain are SO incredibly fun to work with! IKONIX FACEBOOK Tanner and I are shooting their wedding the first weekend in ...
