Merron did senior photos for my eldest daughter this past week. Her eye for detail was incredible!…read moreNot a hair was left out of place, and yet the photos looked natural and relaxed. She was very helpful in offering poses and unique angles that made for a fun photo. We really enjoyed her willingness to go several locations and endure a teenagers outfit changes and makeup touchups. She's patient, thorough, and quick with the end results! We highly recommend her! You will not be disappointed.

Maggie responded immediately when I contacted her. I needed some professional pictures for a Hall…read moreof Fame event. Maggie did an outstanding job, not only with the color and contrast of the pictures, but also making me feel comfortable and natural while she worked. Thank you so much, Maggie

Maggie is such an amazing photographer and wonderful to work with! She is also such an amazing…read moreperson! She really makes the experience memorable!! I first hired her to do some family photos as a birthday gift to my mom and now I have her booked for my maternity photos, new born photos, and a milestone photo package (3, 6, 9 months, and 1 year) for our soon to be little one! She also did a surprise session for my "Little sister" who is our family's exchange student from the Ukraine before she went home and the photos are stunning!!! Our family photos have come out beautifully as well! I can't wait to get more pictures from her! She is super creative and gets some amazing candid photos as well as beautiful posed photos. Her prices are super reasonable for all that you get! I'm so happy to have found a great photographer in the area who is such a joy to work with!!! She is such a kind person and really adds your personality into the photos!

For those that don't know what boudoir photography is, it's more sensual-type of photography…read more Usually women are the ones who are photographed, and they can give it to their partners/husbands/etc. as a sexy present. Boudoir photography can be done in lingerie or in various states of undress. Black Dress Boudoir is the only company that does boudoir photography in town - and in this part of Iowa, even - as far as I'm aware. It's a husband and wife team, but for my sessions, I've only ever dealt with the wife. She's extremely nice, and you're going to be surprised by how comfortable you're going to feel. It might feel a bit awkward at first, but she's super friendly and nice, and you'll quickly feel like you're just wearing regular clothes. You'll first book the session via the phone or e-mail. She'll explain how to find the place, what to expect, how the session will go. The studio itself is inside another event center for privacy, and the outside of the building does NOT have any signage for Black Dress Boudoir. The photographer will explain where it is and give you any help in case of issues. Bring your lingerie, outfits, shoes, make-up, hair brush, or anything. Their interior dressing room is absolutely amazing. It has a Hollywood Glamour type of look, and it's really clean and sexy-looking. The photographer will help you choose and discuss your outfits once you get there, and she'll give you full privacy to get dressed. Again, the room is absolutely stunning, and you'll feel like a model just getting ready for your shoot. Once you're actually shooting, there are a ton of props, lighting, and other things. The photographer is fantastic as posing, and she'll give you clear, basic instructions to make sure your images look fantastic. Of course, I was treated with respect and there were no issues. Again, the props and items were really clean. The floor was a bit dirty, and it showed on my bare feet afterwards, but that's to be expected with cement. A week or two later, you'll come back into the studio to view your images. Your partner can come with, and you'll look through the images and, through the process of elimination, come up with the images you want to keep. Her system makes this very simple. Once you have the images you want, you can order various products. You can order prints, high-quality (and I mean HIGH quality!) photo albums, calendars, digital prints on the CD, and more. There are examples of what products look like on the table, and you can feel and see what you'll be getting before you get it. It'll then take a couple weeks to receive the items, and you can either pick them up in-studio or have them mailed to your address. My photos came out great. I was only planning on originally getting 10 photos done, but I ended up falling in love with too many, so I ended up getting 20 different photos - so yeah, I ended up loving quite a few of them. Initially, I had over 140 to choose from, so it's definitely going to have quite a few options from your session. (As a note, because of privacy concerns, I asked the company before posting any of the photos I posted. None of the review itself has been edited or looked through, but because of people's privacy expectations, I wanted to make sure the photos didn't include anything personal.) Final thoughts: Fantastic place to get photos done. The photographer makes you feel super comfortable, and while it's a bit more expensive than I'd like, I totally think it's worth it. The resulting images are fantastic, I had a good time, and it was just generally, all-around a great experience.

We loved having Jenni as our wedding photographer!! She was easily one of our favorite vendors. So…read moreeasy to work with and her photos speak for themselves. Jenni knows exactly what looks great and what doesn't and has a great eye for the scenery around her. We will cherish these photos and are very proud to display them! She was more than great photographer to us. She helped talk us through many things about the wedding. She ran out of her way to grab something we forgot and made sure to check in with us often and make sure we were doing ok. Thank you for everything Jenni!!!

Jenni did a FANTASTIC job on both our engagement and wedding day photos. We are SO SO happy with…read morehow they turned out! I highly recommend her, as she was our photographer for our entire wedding experience, from engagements to full day of wedding activities--we got the chance to work with her for many months leading up to our big day. She is professional and amazing at photography. You can tell she loves what she does. She works out of West Des Moines, but traveled to Denver, CO to capture our big day! She does destination weddings all over too, as I've seen pictures on her facebook and instagram. She can make any setting look even more amazing--beach, mountains, cornfield, lake, grass field. She even brought smoke bombs in our college colors! I was also touched at how she bonded with everyone in the wedding party, including the parents. While we were getting ready, my mom said to Jenni, "Don't take any of me, I am not photogenic." Jenni had already snapped a few of her, and she showed my mom the photos, and said, "No--you are beautiful, look at these." And I could see how happy that made my mom. Just melted my heart & made us so happy. Jenni worked SO hard to make sure the wedding day went smoothly--she helped grab props for us, such as champagne bottles we wanted to pop during the post ceremony celebration. She is also very efficient and worked SO well with our videographer and all our other vendors. Again, we are SO HAPPY with how they turned out!! AMAZING!! Thanks Jenni, they are just PERFECT!

Lon is very personable as a photographer, and enjoys what he is doing, which creates a very…read moreenjoyable atmosphere for the photo setting. He did a wonderful job with our son whom has challenges, being able to capture his personality which is very difficult to do for any photos. Lons ability to bring out the genuine spirit of an individuals personality is a gift, and how he uses his creativity in the finishing touches the graphics simply amazing. He took both of our sons senior photos. We highly recommend his studio for your photos, if you are looking for a keep sake and professional photo shoot. Well worth the investment. Thank you Lon for the pictures!!

Great Experience! We are absolutely thrilled with our daughter's senior pictures! Lon, the…read morephotographer, knew just how to have her pose so that the pictures looked amazing and were very natural and unique! The ordering process was smooth and the service from the rest of the staff made the whole experience very enjoyable!

Lance was our photographer for a special anniversary dinner that we had for my in-laws. He was…read moreextremely professional and his photos were everything that we were looking for. In one hour, we were able to get pictures with grandparents, cousins, individual families and many other combinations. Lance was able to go at the pace that we needed and had a great attitude with many ideas. For an on-site photographer, it was money well spent. He communicated a week before our event and again a few days before the event to confirm our times.

My husband and I used Shoots and Sounds for our wedding-- and the experience was great! From our…read moreinitial meeting to even after the wedding, Anthony and Gina have been nothing but wonderful! When we met them both, we immediately knew we wanted them to do our wedding. It was the combo deal that did us in. We were getting all the photos that I could possibly want plus the choice of fun and music for the wedding and reception. We loved all of the ideas and they definitely understood and loved all of ours. This was very important to us because we knew that Anthony would be controlling the flow of the entire night. Also important that Gina get the fun photos and quick and painless family photos that we wanted. We had multiple meetings and much communication back and forth til we were satisfied of what we wanted. Anthony and Gina really did most of the work with just a little guidance from us. Even in emails I received from prior to the wedding, they were just as excited for our wedding as we were- which I loved. I also loved that we could go online and select the music prior to the event at our leisure plus veto also music ahead of times. Gina ran the camera and got in the most important pictures that I was looking for. There's not much that I can say about the actual wedding day besides that it was absolutely amazing and perfect! Cant say enough how smooth everything went from family photos to the fun of the reception. The music, the lights, everything! I would recommend using Shoots and Sounds for any event! :)

They were wonderful at our wedding, did a GREAT job, always willing and open to try out our ideas,…read morehelpful in offering suggestions, and professional in the way they carried it out. Would 100% recommend, and 5 stars do not seem to be enough.

Great price $11 to play. The staff was cleaning often. Obviously takes pride in the establishment!…read moreDid not smell dirty. Very well maintained. Water only. But they have a nice place to get pizza, nachos and snacks. Lots of kids and friends to be made.

I was just checking it out but my kids are too small for this. My kids are two years old. I think…read moreit's a place to take your kids who are 6+. It's a bit pricey for under 2 since the only thing that is there for little kids is a small little tikes slide and we have that same one at home