The 2023 Land Investment Expo at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa by ZTS Photo Sarah Urich
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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!
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 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...
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...
What a great session recently with one of our ongoing commercial clients. If you are in need of updated marketing images feel free to reach out! We would love to update your headshots or work with you to create some fresh images that portray you and your brand in a happy positive manner! Thanks as always...
What an amazing proposal we had the pleasure of capturing this weekend at the Iowa Capital with the best view of the city of Des Moines. The groom was so incredibly thoughtful and included the brides friend and parents as well as their fur kids to come after he got down on one knee to...
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!
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...
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...
Kendra and Jesse battled some crazy rain all day off and on for their October wedding at the gorgeous Barnes’ Place barn wedding venue in Adel. They truly made the best of it by utilizing the gorgeous interior of the venue! And their adorable little son just stole the show all day. What a little...
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...
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...
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...
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!
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...
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...
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!
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