Published! | The Book of Dates Des Moines Calendar | Des Moines, Iowa Landscapes
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 […]
Des Moines Open House & Ribbon Cutting | Des Moines Commercial Photographer
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!
Des Moines Headshot Photographer | Iowa Commercial Photographer
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!
Megan + Tim Engaged | Des Moines, Iowa Engagement Photographer | Iowa Fall Engagement Session
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 […]
W Family | Des Moines, Iowa Fall Family Photographer | Des Moines Kid Photographer
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!
Robinson Wedding | Central College Pella, Iowa Wedding | Des Moines, Iowa Wedding Photographer
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 […]
J+M Engaged | Fall Des Moines Engagement Session | Des Moines Wedding Photographers
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 […]
M Family | Des Moines Family Potographer | Center Grove Orchard Family Portraits | Pumpkin Patch Family Session
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 […]
Steckelberg Wedding October 8, 2016 | Honey Creek Resort Wedding | Des Moines Wedding Photographer
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 […]
Des Moines, Iowa Commercial Photographer | Marketing Photos
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 […]
Nelsen Wedding October 1st 2016 | West Des Moines Marriott Wedding | Des Moines, Iowa Wedding Photographer
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 […]
Ashley + Aaron Engaged | Des Moines, Iowa Wedding Photographer
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 […]
Des Moines Commercial Photographer | Corporate Headshots Iowa
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 […]
Rumple Wedding 09.24.16 | Des Moines Iowa Wedding Photographer
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 […]
H Family | Des Moines Family Photographer | Fall Family Session
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 […]
Des Moines, Iowa Landscapes
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 […]
Ben + Lucy September Proposal | Des Moines Iowa Proposal Photographer
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 […]
Heartland Wedding Ideas Magazine Feature Megan + Wade Wedding | Fall 2016 Issue
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 […]
Kennady 6 Months | Des Moines Family Photographer
I had a blast shooting a little mini session for Miss Kennady’s 6 month photos recently. How adorable is she?!
Herring Wedding 8.27.16 | Holiday Inn West Des Moines | Des Moines Wedding Photographer
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 […]
Reed Wedding August 20, 2016 | Diamond Oak Event Center Barn Wedding | Clear Lake, Iowa
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 […]
Des Moines Commercial Photography | Social Media Marketing Photography
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. […]
Reed Wedding Preview Video 08.20.16 | Diamond Oaks Event Center Wedding | Clear Lake, Iowa Wedding
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 & […]
Backhaus Wedding Dubuque, Iowa | University of Dubuque and Peosta Community Centre Wedding | Des Moines, Iowa Wedding Photographers
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 […]
Backhaus Wedding Video July 16, 2016 | University of Dubuque, Iowa Wedding | Des Moines, Iowa Wedding Videographers
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, […]
A Fitness Photoshoot | Des Moines Photographer
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 […]
Vacation Life Wisconsin | ZTS Photo Personal | Des Moines, Iowa Wedding Photographers
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 […]
Alex + Lindsay Engaged | Des Moines, Iowa Wedding Photographers | Lake Engagement Session
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 […]
Alecia & Jared Engaged | Des Moines Engagement Photographer
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 […]
Courtney & Jeremy Engaged | Glen Oaks Country Club Engagement | Des Moines, Iowa Wedding Photographer
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 […]
Central Bank Headshots | Des Moines Commercial Photographer
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, […]
Visionary Des Moines | Des Moines, Iowa Commercial Photographer | Des Moines Headshots
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 […]
Sam + Adam June 4th, 2016 Wedding | Rollins Mansion Des Moines | Des Moines Wedding Photographers
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 […]
Scholten Wedding | Downtown Des Moines Embassy Club Wedding | Des Moines, Iowa Wedding Photographer
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 […]
Keller Brick Barn | Rustic Barn Wedding Venue | Des Moines, Iowa Wedding Photographers
A few weeks ago Kady Godfrey one of the owners of the Keller Brick Barn wedding venue in Dallas Center messaged me for some fun venue photos. It is located just a few min Northwest of the Des Moines metro and what a gorgeous spot for a wedding! They even have air conditioning…which if you […]
C Backyard Family Brother Session | Des Moines Family Photographer
I had a great backyard photo-shoot in Ankeny with these two adorable brothers last week. You just can’t beat a little bubble blowing, trampoline bouncing and endless smiles. Thanks for having me I’m not sure who had more fun…the boys or I! Ha!
Katie & Dustin Married | Tournament Club of Iowa Golf Course Wedding | Des Moines, Iowa Wedding Photographer
Katie and Dustin had THE PERFECT wedding day. The weather was just…beyond! Everything just absolutely cooperated for them. We were back at the wonderful Tournament Club of Iowa golf course for their day, this time thankfully without a monsoon all day. SO much fun to get out and explore all the Spring growth on the […]
Thomas Wedding April 30th 2016|Tournament Club of Iowa Golf Course Wedding | Des Moines Wedding Photographers
Lucy & Nathan’s big day wins the award for rainiest wedding we’ve ever shot in the past 8 years! It literally rained the entire Saturday, which they say is good luck…but not always so much for photos, ha! They still made the best of it and braved the rain THREE times with us for quick portraits […]
Justin & Laura Engaged | Iowa Farm Engagement | Des Moines Wedding Photographers
Could these two be more adorable?! Tanner and I had a blast returning to the farm for a wonderful engagement session for Laura and Justin last weekend. We are so stoked for their wedding this Sept and I couldn’t even begin to pick what to blog. I love them all. You two knocked these out […]
Audrey & Zach Married | Algona Iowa Spring Wedding | Des Moines Wedding Photographers
Kicking off Friday with a bang! First 2016 ZTS Photo wedding of the year, woo! Audrey and Zach’s big day was awesome. It might have won the award for the windiest wedding we’ve ever shot but by the photos you would never know. Their friends and family you can tell truly support them and you […]
Dotson Wedding | Iowa Farm Wedding | Des Moines, Iowa Wedding Photographers
I’ve waited to blog this gorgeous Sept 2015 wedding featuring Ali and Damon until last as it was set to be published with the wonderful Heartland Wedding Ideas Magazine! But since it debut a few weeks ago I think it’s more than time to share this beyond beautiful day. Seriously these two were so incredibly […]