C Family | Des Moines Family Photographer

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!

Micah + Ryan | Tournament Club of Iowa Golf Course Engagement Session

We had a delightful fall engagement shoot with Micah and Ryan at the Tournament Club of Iowa in Polk City. Can I just add this tree pictured above on the course is AMAZING. Holy cow I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a sweet tree in Iowa. Can’t wait to shoot your wedding next December […]

Baby H is on the way! | Des Moines Maternity Photographer

You may remember the fantastic Chels and Zach from our 2011 wedding lineup. You can view their amazing wedding here for a refresh if you wish. They are expecting in 5 short weeks and made the treck to Des Moines for a fun snowy maternity session. Enjoy and a HUGE congrats to you two! Can’t […]

Merle Hay Lanes | Des Moines Commercial Bowling Alley Photos

A few weeks ago I shot some fun photos of Merel Hay Lanes bowling alley located below Merle Hay Mall here in Des Moines. I’ve never had so much fun shooting at a commercial shoot! These teams bowling that Tuesday night were just so much fun to joke around with and had no problem showing me […]

Hello Friday!

Monday night I had a fantastic family session with the Lee family here in Des Moines and this week I almost finished editing with Ryan and Kayli’s big day from last Saturday. Just wanted to share a few more before I can get a full blog post up soon. Check out her cool “I do” […]

Megan + Bryan Engaged

Finally the rest of the engagement session from last week with Megan and Bryan here in Des Moines. Such a fun afternoon!

Tilt-Shift Des Moines

I have ALWAYS wanted a tilt-shift. Well for a few weeks we just so happen to have one! I ventured out tonight around the loft in downtown Des Moines and East Village and tried out the 24mm tilt-shift on the city. Below are just a few of my favorites:

Shelby + Paul Engaged | Storm Lake, Iowa

Happy Friday all! Here is the final post of our favorite images from Shelby and Paul’s engagement session in Storm Lake. We started the session at the Storm Lake baseball field with the Twins jerseys as they are both HUGE Twins fans. From there ventured off to this awesome field we found just out of […]

Storm Lake Family Portrait Session | ZTS Photo

Last night Tanner and I shot a family session followed by an engagement session that started at Chautauqua Park in Storm Lake. Just wanted to post a quick pic from the beginning of the session. Light this time of year is just starting to get awesome and so excited for a few other upcoming e-sessions […]

PapaJohn Sculpture Park | Des Moines Iowa Wedding Photographers

First things first we have two new lights along with light-stands and soft-boxes on the way! We ordered two more Alien Bee 800’s to join our 1600 that are set to arrive in a week or so. No they won’t be hot pink unfortunately. I seriously pushed hard for some hot pink lights! Tanner has […]

Des Moines Saint Patrick’s Day Parade 2011 | Iowa Wedding Photographers

Every year the annual Saint Patrick’s Day Parade comes through downtown Des Moines. People literally flood downtown and East Village to celebrate and this year was no different. It was PACKED! Also it was the nicest day of the year weather wise to date so that could have had something to do with it too. […]

Before/After | Editing

Winter is a great time to reflect on our past year and dive in to learn new and try new things. Normally we use Lightroom for about 99% of our images but decided to dive a bit more into Photoshop tonight. Just a quick before and after edits of one of our gorgeous seniors from […]

EEE Optometry | ZTS Commercial | Des Moines, IA Commercial Photographer

If your viewing this on Facebook shoot on over to our blog at https://www.ztsblog.com I had the privilege of shooting a commercial shoot for a local optometrist for work this past week. We are in the process of building them a website. If you are in need of any web development feel free to contact […]

Paige Portraits | Iowa Portrait Photographer

If your viewing this on Facebook head on over to our blog at https://www.ztsblog.com Such a cold Iowa day but we really got some great images! These were all shot in Mason City, IA last January on a day that was far too cold for my liking. (We’re talking temperatures in the teens! Yuck!) See […]

Kristin + Jason Engaged | Pella Iowa Engagement Photographers

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 […]

ZTS Photography Equipment! | Whats in our Bag– April of 2010

If your viewing this on Facebook head over to our blog! http://www.ztsphoto.com I’ve had this written and the pictures taken for well over a month but here it goes! I love reading blogs about what photographers shoot with, we often snoop in Flickr in the details of photos to see the settings the photo was […]

It’s 80 degrees in March?! WOO!

So last night we decided to do a fun shoot tonight in Garner with one of Tanner’s friends Logan Clemet! He has some amazing work feel free to look him up and add him on facebook! We just got four new pocket wizards and have been dying to get outside and try them out with […]