A few weeks ago we had the pleasure of doing corporate headshots as well as few group shots for a local architecture firm here in Des Moines at their annual partners meeting. They have over 50 architects all over the USA and 12 partners. Thanks for having us out! Always a pleasure!
Oh my goodness that SUNSET WAS EVERYTHING! I had a great maternity session this week with one of our very first wedding couples here in Des Moines. And it was perfection! I can’t tell you how long it’s been since I’ve had a wedding/session/etc without working about the RAIN! So YAY! Thanks for having me...
I’ve had a few wonderful commercial shoots the past two weeks and just wanted to share a few images from a recent one with a new local bank here in the Des Moines, Iowa area. If you are in need of fresh marketing images, head shots and detail shots to promote your business on social...
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!
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 &...
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...
Trisha and Brendan were seriously just a blast to work with! I mean how do you even begin to describe this day full of smiles, laughter and German beer! They were even up for snapping photos in the pouring rain with us at the reception! You really can’t beat that! We kicked off the morning with hair and...
I had a great time photographing some corporate photos for AO Wealth Advisory in Urbandale recently. AO Wealth Advisory provides financial planning and investment management services. If you are in need of some fun and friendly social media photos or just to update your website photos in the Des Moines area let us know, we would love...
We had the pleasure of photographing our dream last week, the ENTIRE sushi menu at the local Sakari Sushi Lounge…and then eating it with 15 of our closest friends! Sakari is my favorite sushi place hands down. They just won 2014 Cityview Best local sushi place of Des Moines as well as expanded and remodeled to...
Some of our fantastic commercial photography for Merle Hay Lanes has landed on their newly redesigned website designed by Visionary. Don’t forget to stop by and check out the site as well as visit for some bowling goodness if you are in the Des Moines area. I had such a blast hanging out and taking photos during league...
I had the pleasure last Friday of snapping some more photos of the Pluggabug for web use and just wanted to share a few of my favorites from the session. Feel free to check out their website (and some of our photos!) here PLUGGABUGG and grab one up from Amazon here. As always fun to...
How cool is this?! Two of our 2011 weddings were recently published in Scrapbooks Etc magazine, a Better Homes and Gardens publication! We made the cover with Chelsea & Zach’s wedding and inside with Michelle & Steve and again with Chelsea and Zach! So cool to see our past weddings in print. And our name in print...
We had the pleasure of shooting Natalie and Brady’s wedding this past weekend in Sioux City at the Marina Inn Hotel & Conference Center. Natalie you made such a gorgeous bride and your first dance hands down tops anything I’ve ever seen at a wedding! You two are awesome. More to come soon!
One of the fun perks of living in East Village here in Des Moines is the ability to walk to the Des Moines Farmers Market on Saturday mornings. I probably can not attend to too many this year due to shooting weddings on many Saturdays but last weekend was open and the market was just delightful! I...
This afternoon we had a great family portrait session with the Sunde family in Forest City, Iowa. Just wanted to share a quick one from the last shot of the night. May I add those hats on the little guys are just awesome!
Last Friday I had the pleasure of photographing some commercial shots for The Leaning Tower of Pizza located at 512 SW 3rd Street in Ankeny, IA. WOW they have some delicious food! If you are looking for some great pizza, pasta and Italian food definately swing by and check this place out. As you can...
Tanner and I went to a studio get together in Nebraska a few weeks ago. Among chatting with some of the local photographers, shooting some studio shots and sharing a few beers we had one of them snap a photo of us in the gorgeous basement studio. Kind of fun to be behind the camera for...
A few months ago Tanner and I had the pleasure of shooting the local NBA Development League team here in Des Moines, the Iowa Energy. We have shot plenty of high school and college basketball through the years but shooting for the NBA D League is a whole new game. Holy cow those boys move!...
Winter really has been pretty non-existent here in Des Moines this year however where Tanner is in Storm Lake they have had a few snow storms. This was taken by Tanner a few weeks ago during the blizzard that occurred in mid-February. Of-course the best thing to do during a sweet snow storm is hop in your car and go...
Thursday night I had the pleasure of shooting some of the 2A and most of the 1A Iowa High School State Wrestling Tournament at the Wells Fargo Arena a few blocks from my loft. Holy cow is it one super fast paced tournament! Super pleased with the results. Sports are such a different ballgame to...
A fellow Buena Vista University alum and friend of ours Rob contacted us about fulfilling a 2011 Christmas wish for the local radio station Star 102.5. If a photo related wish was chosen this year we would be the photographer to persue fulfilling that wish, of-course we said yes! A few days later we were sent a touching story of a local Des...
View from my loft last night here in East Village. Fall in Iowa I must say has some gorgeous sunsets! Wish I would have been about 5 min earlier and caught the killer orange/yellow mix more that was going on last night over the downtown Des Moines skyline. Regardless how lovely is this! Taken with a 5D...
We had the privilege of shooting some recently finished projects for a Spencer Iowa construction company a few weekends ago.Props to Tanner for putting together some awesome HDRs!
It isn’t very often that you walk into a hair salon at the beginning of the wedding day and the bride you haven’t yet meet in person greets you with a smile and a giant hug! That is just Jen. She is such a fun loving and caring person that really shined through throughout the...
Seniors rock! Most of what we shoot these days are engagements and weddings but the occasional senior throws some spice and variety into the mix. They are just a complete 360 degree change of pace from our norm. They are always so excited to try new things with us and who wouldn’t enjoy shooting 2...
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...
Chelsea and Zach kicked off our crazy fun June of 2011 wedding madness on June 4th in Forest City, Iowa. Chelsea is Tanner’s first cousin so it is always enjoyable to shoot weddings where we know a majority of the people as well as be there to share in their wedding day with them. They...
First off I just love first dances! We are almost done editing our first June 2011 wedding and came across these last night and just had to share them. Chelsea and Zach had their wedding reception at the gorgeous Diamond Joe Casino in Northwood, Iowa just north of Forest City. It was by far the...
Kayli and Ryan are one of our awesome 2011 wedding couples this year. Their wedding is set for October 1st in gorgeous Clear Lake, Iowa. Yay for fall weddings! We started out at a state park in Clear Lake with lots of awesome shady trees and then headed to an open field and finally down...
Once a month the Des Moines Area Monthly Photographer Meet-Up takes place. It was started and still organized by the fantastic Sarah & Chris Davis of Lucky Soda Photography here in Des Moines. It is great to meet other individuals in the area who shoot everything from commercial architecture to weddings. Also it is a...
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...
M & S were married at a wonderful venue here in Des Moines the Fort Des Moines Museum on Army Post Road.If you are having a smaller private wedding in the Des Moines area it is the ideal location with a rustic twist. These two had so many incredible do it yourself projects I was...
Excited to welcome a new member to our glass lineup with the Canon 16-35mm f/2.8 L II! Pretty stoked to have a fast wide zoom that is sharp as a tack. At first when Tanner brought up the idea I was against it saying we should upgrade our Sigma 14mm f/2.8 or purchase a 45mm...
If you grew up here in Iowa chances are you went to the Iowa High School Wrestling Tournament through out your high school career to cheer on your school. It is BIG here, were talking entire towns shut down to come support their athletes every year. Something that is so awesome to watch and be...
If your viewing this on Facebook head on over to our blog at https://ztsphoto.com for the full post! Today we woke-up to a pretty cool e-mail from one of our wedding vendor companies WeddingWire. The e-mail (photo below) informed us that we had been selected to receive the prestigious annual WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011...
If your viewing this on Facebook head on over to our blog at https://ztsphoto.com We are in the process of making a giant “BEST OF 2010” album to show clients when we meet for wedding consultations. This sucker is going to be HUGE and hopefully encompass a bit of every shoot we’ve done this year....
If your viewing this on Facebook head on over to our blog at https://ztsphoto.com Summer has been crazy busy for us lately! We had a wedding Friday in Clear Lake, went to a wedding Saturday as guests (how odd to NOT be in charge! ha!) and shot a wonderful senior session with Tessa from Forest...
If your viewing this on Facebook head on over out our blog at https://ztsphoto.com BUSY weekend! We shot a wonderful wedding on Saturday in Mason City and senior session on Sunday in Garner. Here is just a sneak peak of one of the images from senior session below. More to come soon! Enjoy!
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...
