What a beautiful November day in Indianola for a wedding! A few weeks ago we traveled to Indianola for Alex & Lindsay’s big day. We’ve shot many weddings at Smith Chapel located on the beautiful Simpson College campus. We were so glad fall stuck around till November for those amazing leaves! The day started out...
GUYS!!! It’s official! My landscape snow photo of East Village scored January in the The Book of Dates DSM first calendar with one of our ZTS PHOTO winter pics! You can snatch them up at http://thebookofdates-com.3dcartstores.com/only $20 and part of the proceeds go to the charity Variety Iowa. We are so excited to be a...
Another great commercial photography shoot in the books from Urbandale earlier this week. Thanks for having me out and the new office space looks wonderful! If you are in need of some new social media marketing images, advertising photos, professional head shots, office interior and exterior photos in the Des Moines, Iowa area feel free...
Few favorites from a recent family session with the O family and golden fur kids. How well behaved are Miss Sadie and Mr. Jack?! Adorable! Thanks for having me!
I had a wonderful time shooting a ribbon cutting and open house for one of our amazing ongoing commercial clients here in Des Moines last week. Thanks for having me out! And oh gosh what a turnout, so fun to see all the happy clients and employees celebrating another new office. Congratulations!
Few favorites from a commercial headshot session last week in East Village. How fun! If you are in need of some new fresh corporate images feel free to reach out, we would love to help!
OH MY GOSH how cute are these two?! They just rocked their fall engagement session! Thanks for listening to my crazy ideas and checking out some new places with us for photos. I can’t believe this beautiful fall weather has stuck around so long this year, 60+ in November in Iowa is unheard of. Can’t...
I had a great time catching up with one of our past wedding couples earlier this week and their adorable little twins. How cute are they! Thanks for having me capture this busy time in your lives, what a beautiful family!
Tanner and I had a great time capturing the Robinson wedding a few weeks ago in Pella, Iowa. We started off getting ready with the girls at the church, ironically Tanner and I shot one of our first ever weddings at the same church in oh gosh 2009? 2010? It’s so fun to return back...
What a fun fall engagement session recently. This is one of our awesome May 2017 couples, and we can’t wait for their big day at the Downtown Des Moines Marriott. I had a blast exploring the Papa John Sculpture Park, the Women of Achievement bridge with that epic sunset glow of mist off the river...
I had a blast photographing the M family last week at the Center Grove Orchard just north of Des Moines. If you are looking for a fun family friendly pumpkin patch look no further! They have all the wonderful activities for kids! Thanks so much for having me and I had a blast with you...
Last Saturday we headed down to the beautiful Honey Creek Resort on Lake Rathbun, Iowa for Piper and Jared’s big day. As always Honey Creek is on point with amazing service and friendly smiles. We love working there and highly suggest it to all brides looking for a beautiful location that allows guests to have...
I had a great time earlier this week photographing a local Des Moines accounting firm. We shot lots of fresh marketing and social media around the office photos. Thanks for having me out! I can’t wait to see these in print and on the web soon. Des Moines companies don’t hesitate to reach out if you...
Kaitlyn & Darrell are so much fun! You can truly tell from spending the day with them how much they care about each other. All the laughter and love is apparently in the photos! They were married at the gorgeous West Des Moines Marriott as well as had their reception there. They let Tanner and...
We ended up rescheduling 3 times due to icky weather and so excited we did! Sunday was the perfect night for fall engagement photos. That fall sunshine is everything! I even found a new location downtown with a great view of the Des Moines skyline for sunset. What a great engagement session with these two...
I had the pleasure of shooting some new commercial head-shots for a dentist earlier this week. Her new practice is opening in Waukee in the upcoming months. How exciting for her! If you are in need of some fresh corporate head shots for your website, social media marketing, advertising, etc in the Des Moines, Iowa...
We’ve been looking forward to Laura and Justin’s big day for a long time! We had the pleasure of capturing his sisters wedding on the farm where they live last Fall and their friends and family are just a joy to be around. What a wonderful fall day! We can’t say enough about couples that...
I had the most adorable family session earlier this week with the H family! Little miss 11 month old Ophelia has the best personality. She is beyond adorable! Thanks for letting me capture your memories, I had a blast with you all! (Also note it was 90+ degrees at the end of Sept in Iowa, so they...
Out exploring last weekend after a fun shoot. We have a few commercial clients that lease/buy images from us around Iowa so always great to add a few new ones to our portfolio! And as always you can buy your own (I prefer metal prints of these bad boys!) on our print site here. They...
Saturday I had the pleasure of shooting this amazing proposal for Ben & Lucy in downtown Des Moines. All the feels on this one! So sweet! All the onlookers cheered for them when he got down on one knee. She cried happy tears, they shared lots of laughs and hugs. You can tell they are just...
GUYS!!!! Super stoked to have another fab wedding featured in Heartland Wedding Ideas Magazine this fall! Megan and Wade had the most fun day with the best vendors around. You can grab your own copy at any local Hy-Vee in the Des Moines Metro (or anywhere that has those fun fab free magazines!). You can...
I had a blast shooting a little mini session for Miss Kennady’s 6 month photos recently. How adorable is she?!
I had THE MOST ADORABLE 1 year old session with Theo and his family last week. I can’t believe he is 1 already! He and his brother Ben were just full of smiles and laughter. Thanks for letting me capture all your family milestones and adorable adorable adorable! I can’t say it enough!
What a beautiful August day for a wedding! I was so excited when Morgan and Matt told us about the vintage fire truck for portraits. I mean how cool is that! Matt is a volunteer firefighter for the City of West Des Moines. Apparently someone donated the beautiful vintage fire truck for firefighters to use...
GUYS! Super stoked to have one of venue images of the amazing Keller Brick Barn in Dallas Center, Iowa featured on The Venue Report article! Beautiful Barn Wedding Venues in the USA…see it here! Also if you are looking for a barn venue for your wedding in Iowa the owners are amazing, don’t hesitate to...
Nic and Breanne had the most perfect wedding day. Rainbow and all! You know it’s an amazing wedding when you can’t even pick just one favorite image from the day. We were terrified it would rain all day. For August it barely reached 70 degrees (phew!) but Diamond Oak Events Center is a DREAM! Seriously...
Few favorites from some recent commercial photo-shoots over the last week here in Des Moines. Great shoot at a partner meeting for an accounting firm and some general relaxed marketing photography for them of the partners interacting with interns. Plus we had a great corporate natural light head-shots for one of our ongoing bank clients....
We were super stoked to get an e-mail last week that out of 251 wedding photographers in Des Moines we were chosen as ONE of the top 19! How cool is that! You can check out the full list on the Expertise website here. They said their decisions are based on reputation, credibility, experience, availability to...
Tanner put together a fun little drone wedding video preview from Saturday’s gorgeous wedding at Diamond Oaks Event Center in Clear Lake, Iowa. I still can’t get over the RAINBOW we had at sunset. Seriously if rain is good luck on a wedding day a rainbow has to be the best luck ever! Congrats Nic &...
Tanner and I had the pleasure of photographing a surprise proposal this past Friday at the World Food Prize Hall of Laureates building here in Des Moines. OH MY GOSH they were so adorable! Congrats to Tanner and Emily and he spent so much time and love into the proposal! How adorable are they?! Wishing...
A few weekends ago Tanner and I headed to Dubuque for Lindsey & Matt’s big day. And what a gorgeous day it was! They found the coolest spots overlook the river for us to take photos at and I can’t believe the weather was only in the upper 70’s with no breeze for July. Post...
Lindsey & Matt had the most gorgeous wedding day! SERIOUSLY guys I can’t even begin to tell you how awesome it was. July in Iowa can be HOT and I mean HOT and HUMID and they somehow lucked out with honestly probably the best weather we’ve ever had for a wedding. High 70’s, perfect sky,...
I had the most fun fitness photo-shoot earlier this week here in Des Moines. Love shooting things out of the norm and this mom of THREE has poured in so much hard work. A big thanks to the Anytime Fitness Downtown on MLK for allowing us to use their amazing rustic gym space. If you...
I’ve always tried to share a little bit of our personal life with photos on our blog over the last 8 years. To keep up with this trend I thought I’d share a few fun photos from our “real” cameras (and video) from our week long 4th of July vacation at the family lake house in Long...
With this post I’m officially all caught up for our vacation starting tomorrow night! WOO! We had a wonderful (BUT 95+ degree HOT) engagement session last week. These two are so much fun! We can’t wait until their (hopefully cooler) wedding this November in Indianola. June is just so perfect for a wonderful sunset and...
Another awesome June engagement session with Jared & Alecia last week. They are one of our (many) May 2017 wedding couples! We started out at the Des Moines Art Center for many different looks, the light was just PERFECT and I was so impressed with the crazy sun through the trees. June is amazing! From...
Tanner and I had a great engagement session with Courtney & Jeremy last week at the beyond beautiful Glen Oaks Country Club in West Des Moines. Always love shooting engagement sessions on golf courses. Thanks for having us out and best of luck with all your wedding planning! And also thanks for being so patient...
We had another great shoot yesterday with one of our ongoing commercial photography clients Central Bank (check out our awesome landscape images on their site also!). Thanks so much for having us out! And if you are in need of some new fresh headshot images or social media marketing images in Des Moines let us know,...
I had a great group shot recently with Visionary here in Des Moines as well as some updated commercial head-shots for a few of the employees. If you are in need of a new responsive web design or social media marketing help, they are amazing! Feel free to check them out here. They are located...
Oh my gosh I am officially all caught up!!!! Until 7pm tonight when we have another engagement session, woo! Ha! (Those of you that know how photog life works from May-October we basically are never caught up, ha!) Holy Rollins Mansion is BEAUTIFUL! I felt like we were in a Disney movie all day at...
Megan and Wade had the coolest wedding day planned. We absolutely loved shooting at the Embassy Club downtown, what a VIEW!!! Seriously. So cool to be on the 38th floor at sunset overlooking the Des Moines skyline. The day started out with rain but they handled it light a champ, Spring 2016 = the year...
