What a fun wedding at one of our favorite winery venues in Ames, Prairie Moon! Holly + Jordan were just a dream to work with. They smiled and laughed all day surrounded by their family and friends. Jordan’s daughter was just so thrilled to be a part of their big day, and she twirled to...
What a fun night with the H family here in Des Moines! The light was just beyond perfection. And how cute are those babies!?
Always fun catching up with another one of our ZTS Photo wedding clients! What a perfect night for photos, and so great to meet your little guy!
I recently had a wonderful commercial photo branding sessions for the financial planning team of Jessica and Brian Carlson. If you are looking to invest in your future look no further, they are beyond! Feel free to reach out to them here. As always if you are looking to update your headshots or marketing images we are...
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...
Great session with these two and their sweet fur babe Olive recently. Family sessions are always a blast and I had the honor of capturing their proposal a few years ago. Such a great time catching up!
Fun engagement session in Des Moines reacently with one of our July 2019 wedding couples and their fur child. Can’t wait till your big day this July!
Another perfect night for a family session with the A family from Bondurant. For family sessions over the years I truly try to not only get good family photos of you all sitting and smiling but also some of the kids…well just being kids! After all those are the memories that make session fun and...
I know sweet Kelsey from years ago at Buena Vista where we attended college together. She reached out to me recently about their engagement session and we just hit THE more perfect night for photos. They are having a fantastic destination wedding this Spring of 2019. I couldn’t have been happier to catch up with...
Few favorites from a recent session with one of our past wedding couples the B family! Thanks for having me!
I had the honor of photographing an editorial story for Accounting Today Magazine featuring Ying Sa founder of Community CPA here in Des Moines. We had a great time doing headshots at the Iowa Capital and then heading down to her firm on Ingersoll for some group and office photos. Thanks for having me and you...
I had a great time photographing a branding session for Champions Recovery Room & Physical Therapy here in Des Moines recently. I love these small commercial photoshoots that highlight your business. Usually for these we start with some overall interior and exterior shots, detail shots and updated headshots. What a great space with a wonderful...
On Friday we had the honor of shooting for the NASDAQ (yes THE NASDAQ) for the opening bell ceremony at the Principal Charity Classic. We were even LIVE on TIMES SQUARE! Few shots of the course before the bell ringing, what a great event to cover and how gorgeous to watch the sun rise over...
Michelle and Justin were married on Saturday at the new Carper Vineyard & Winery in Norwalk, Iowa. What a great new venue in the Des Moines area for outdoor weddings! It just happened to be the hottest day of 2018 so far, phew! Their outdoor ceremony was at 97 degrees, yikes! Let’s hope that qualifies...
I had the pleasure of doing a commercial shoot for The Directors Council earlier this week here in Des Moines. Just a few favorites from our headshot session. Thanks so much for having me!
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...
I had a great time taking some headshots for Visionary yesterday in East Village. What a great day for photos! Welcome to all their new employees and if you are in the market for a new website in the Des Moines, Iowa area reach out to them! They are beyond talented! And if you are...
It was such a perfect night for an engagement session! Thanks for having me C+C and we can’t wait to photograph your big day this October at one of our favorite wedding venues with a view here in Des Moines, the Embassy Club downtown!
We had the privilege of photographing the 24 high school students that The World Food Prize Foundation will send abroad for the Borlaug-Ruan International Internship program at the renowned international research centers and NGOs this summer. The students are from Iowa and twelve other states and will delve into issues related to global hunger and...
I had a blast earlier this week doing headshots for Roxanne, winner of the Progressive Grocer award of Woman’s Grocer of the Year! Can’t wait to see her photos in print soon, congratulations!
What a busy week it’s been! A wedding followed by an engagement, several commercial shoots and this adorable family session. So excited Spring has finally arrived to Des Moines. Can’t wait for all the amazing sessions soon. Thanks for having me, your little growing family is so adorable! Ses
Courtney and Brad kicked off our 2018 wedding season with the most gorgeous wedding at Adventureland Park in Altoona, Iowa in the Palace Theater. I can’t say enough great things about these two! Gosh in 2011 we had the pleasure of photographing Brad’s sisters wedding and many sessions for their family since. How fun to...
I had a great marketing photoshoot for Miller Pest & Termite Control here in Des Moines last week! Always so fun to do some new images for social media and branding for companies. If you are in need of new headshots, marketing images for social media or websites or just some detail shots of your...
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....
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...
