About LENZ

The Eye Behind LENZ

Sarah Lenz has spent more than twenty years behind a camera, and she personally owns and runs every part of LENZ. This isn't a large, anonymous media company — it's one photographer, hands-on from the first phone call to final delivery.

The LENZ Story

Sarah has spent more than twenty years behind a camera. What started as photography work eventually became LENZ — a studio built around doing this full time, and doing it well, rather than treating it as a side pursuit.

Around 2019, that shifted into real estate and media photography as a full-time business. Listings needed to be shot on tight timelines and to a consistent standard, and that discipline — showing up, delivering fast, getting it right — became the foundation LENZ was built on.

The work has since expanded well beyond real estate: commercial properties, branding and product photography, aerial coverage for construction and agriculture, and general business imagery. LENZ reflects that range — visual work for property, people, and business, rather than photography confined to one niche.

The LENZ wordmark on a leather background

Working With LENZ

You're Working With Sarah — Not a Sales Team

When you reach out to LENZ, you're talking directly to the person who will be behind the camera or flying the drone. There's no handoff between a sales call and the actual shoot — the same person planning your project is the one creating the imagery, from the first conversation to final delivery.

That matters for consistency. Photography and aerial work are treated as one capability, not two separate services — a listing, a commercial property, or a construction site can get ground photography and professional aerial coverage from the same shoot, planned together rather than booked separately.

Every image is created with where it's actually going to be used in mind — a listing, a website, an ad campaign, social media, print, or other marketing — not just captured and handed over. And while LENZ is based in western Iowa, travel is available for commercial and specialty projects across the wider region.

Portrait of Sarah Lenz, LENZ founder and photographer

Credentials & Service Region

  • 20+ Years of Photography Experience
  • FAA Part 107 Licensed & Insured
  • Ground + Aerial Capability
  • Based in Western Iowa
  • Serving western Iowa, the Omaha/Council Bluffs metro, eastern Nebraska, and surrounding Midwest markets

Thanks for taking the time to learn a bit about LENZ. If you'd like to see the work or talk through a project, either path below works.