photographyOTOOLELori
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My background is in photojournalism - I've photographed fires, funerals, presidential candidates and helicopter water rescues.
What attracts people most to my photography? They tell me it's my love of the landscape and how I incorporate my couples into the beauty of the scenery. Many of clients actually either hate being photographed or are deathly afraid of it. They want the photos but dread what they think it is the amount of smiling and posing that they might have to put into it. They hire me to capture their natural self. It's my job to make the magic happen.
I am a long time New York wedding photographer who escaped the cold and snow for sunny Arizona and never looked back.
My couples say being around me has a 'calming effect', like a tranquilizer only without side effects. My approach to photography is creative and fun, balanced with just the right amount of gentle direction.
IF you STILL want to know more:
I have an ongoing love affair with my beastly dogs. They have no manners (my fault completely), but I am crazy about them and do silly things like fly home directly after shooting a destination wedding because I miss them. I also have a desert tortoise named Annie who hibernates 6 months a year and mainly dines on grass and prickly pear fruit in the few hours that she is actually awake. I adore her and tell her all my secrets.
" CLASSICAL AND STYLISH, welcoming and warm. LORI OTOOLE PHOTOGRAPHY will embrace your wedding story....
My daughter is a barefoot horse farrier in northern North Carolina - ask my what that is and I can't really tell you. But she basically is very passionate about horses and is married to my wonderful and favorite son-in law, a Virginia Beach firefighter.
My son is the co-founder of @Under30experiences, an adventure travel company. Inc Magazine has ranked them as one of the Fastest growing Private Companies in America. He is married to my amazing daughter-in-law and they recently had a baby - Elise Sophia!
