The Inaugural Grit City Portrait Tour!

We recently kicked off our first-ever Grit City Portrait Tour with 2009 wedding clients Stephanie and Levi for their engagement portraits. They were a perfect fit for the edgier look of this tour, and we all had a blast! We think Levi and Steph will be ready to hit those modeling runways soon, while they swear that one of these shots will be their next album cover (if only they had a band)! Here are just a handful of our faves from the shoot.


We're really excited about Wallflower's new Portrait Tour™ concept: 2 hours with 2 award-winning photographers (Laura and Scott, of course) at some of our favorite spots, hand-picked to create a distinctive look. We've created three unique tours for our clients:

• Five Mile, which includes our favorite stops in Point Defiance
• Classy Glassy, in Tacoma's shiny south downtown museum district
• Grit City, featuring the shabby chic (and not-so-chic) of north downtown and across the Foss

We've been shooting at Pt. D. and around the museums for years, and we're sure they'll continue to be our most popular Portrait Tours, but we think there's a certain type of person who will love Grit City, too. In fact, we'd really like to take a male high school senior on it soon, and will offer HALF OFF to the first one to book!

One of the stops on the Grit City tour is the Murray Morgan Bridge, featured in our blurb a couple of posts below. This rusty piece of Tacoma history is already closed to car traffic, and will soon be closed to foot traffic as well. We're glad to be able to get these photos in time, but sad that we won't be able to get more for who knows how long. Here's hoping the WA DOT does the right thing and starts restoration work soon!