Whether it is a large formal affair or a small casual event, every wedding is a special day to the bride and groom. It’s their chance to publicly display their love, dedication and commitment to the world.
I love to photograph the excitement, the energy, and the planned events of the day. But even more so,...
Author Archives: zettlphoto
The Grand Gesture and The Quiet Moment
Bluebells | St. Louis Children’s Portrait Photographer
(An observation: I have some photos of me at the age of 3 with a silly outfit, grasping at a plastic apple and grinning as if to show every single tooth in my mouth. I look at these photos and I wonder why in the world were these the photo that they paid a “professional” ...
Guest Blogging about Digital Pinhole Cameras
Seeing as it was Worldwide Pinhole Camera Day last Sunday, I decide to participate by making a digital pinhole camera. (Yes, it did start as just an excuse to not have to clean my house) My technical adventures were published on Neil van Niekerk’s Tangents blog. It actually ended up to be a neat little...
California Dreaming | St. Louis Wedding Photographers
Many of our brides choose to come back to their hometown of St. Louis to get married, but they still want to include a bit of their new home and city in their wedding plans. We always include an engagement session in all our collections as a way to get to know our clients better...
1950s Vintage Portrait Session | St. Louis Portrait Photographer
This past Sunday I invited a friend to model for me on a very specific personal project. It was one of those “go shoot something you really want to shoot and don’t worry about getting paid for it” projects. (Falls also under the heading of dream, dream, dream, practice, practice...
Spring Portrait Sale | St. Louis Portrait Photographers
The 72 hour sale!
It’s Spring, the tulips are in bloom and we are running an incredible promotional offer on all our portrait collections.
Receive $200 off all regular priced portrait collection gift certificates purchased from now until 12 midnight Tuesday April 13th (Sale priced collections start at $150.00)
Offer good for Children, High School Seniors,...
Viva Las Vegas!
Telling someone “You hung” tends to bring some strange looks. But for photographers attending the annual convention for Wedding and Portrait Photographers International (WPPI), it’s exciting news. It means that their print earned an accolade of excellence in WPPI’s international print competition and will hang in the print gallery at the convention.
Any print scoring above...
Mentor Series Workshop: Chuck Arlund & Stephanie Zettl in St. Louis – June 7 & 8
The Mentor Series Workshop with Chuck Arlund and Stephanie Zettl
June 7 & 8, 2010
How do you become a better photographer? What makes a photograph dynamic and full of life? Do you know where to find inspiration for your work? Are you comfortable using all different types of light? Do you want...
The 2009 Winners of the St. Louis Weddings Award for Photography
Peter and I are very proud to announce that we are the winners of The 2009 St. Louis Wedding Award for Photography.
What makes this award special and meaningful to us is that the contest was open to any photographer in the St. Louis area and was not restricted to a certain group of advertisers or...
And the winner is…
After totaling all the votes from the blog, email and facebook… The winner of my online People’s Choice Award contest is photograph number one of Megan and Mike!
Megan and Mike will be getting a 13×19 copy of the photo in the contest and a copy of their favorite photograph from the same shoot.
BUT WAIT! There...