D. Loates Fine Art

Doug Loates is an amazing photographer! He is easy to work with and makes you feel like you are long lost friends!

Doug was the absolute best. He was always quick to respond throughout the process and his photos were wonderful. He by far exceeded our expectations and he was a delight to work with. He was by far the easiest vendor we dealt with for our wedding. There are not enough positive words to describe my experience.

Doug was fantastic to work with and we received beautiful pictures that will last us a lifetime. Willing to go above and beyond to get the job done. I came to trust his abilities and personality so much that not a single worry crossed my mind about pictures on the day of the wedding or before.

Doug, our photographer, was the BEST part of our wedding. We had a great time taking pictures - it was really relaxing to have Doug around. I still look at our wedding pictures almost every day and am SO happy we found Doug to do our wedding photography. He has exceptional listening skills and is extremely passionate about photography. He put more effort and time into our pictures than we had ever anticipated. Doug is really intuitive and has an ability to sense what people want. We tell everyone we know who needs photography to go see our friend Doug Loates! Thanks SO MUCH Doug! ;-)

Doug was absolutely, without a doubt, the best part of our wedding. We thought of him much more as a friend and member of the family after he shot our wedding, than just a photographer. My wife and I are both not the biggest fan of being in pictures, but Doug went the extra mile to make us feel comfortable, to point where most of the time when we were shooting, it literally felt like he wasnt even taking pictures of us (although the 2000+ photos he DID take proved me wrong). We took the photography for our wedding very serious and met with a few other photographers before we found Doug, but right when we met him, we both knew that he was the one that was going to be a part of our wedding. There was no pressure, and in fact after he showed us some of his work and talked us through what he would do for us, he basically said that if we never spoke to him again he just wanted us to make sure that we made the right decision, since we would never be doing it again. He urged us to meet with other photographers, feel them out, and if after doing all of that we still felt good about him, to give him a call. After we had decided on working with Doug, he took a ton of his own personal time and effort to shoot our "Engagement Shoot" as well as to make sure that all of our pictures turned out perfectly. We continue to keep in contact with Doug two years later and continue to refer him to every single person that we know who might even be considering getting married. If I could have rated him more than 5 stars, I would have...