Review of Shutter Tours on Yelp.com

“Our guide was the informative and enthusiastic Ms. Valentina, who provided guidance on composition, and encouraged to get close, look for patterns, and tell stories with our photos. Along the way she explained a particular concept and then raised her own camera for a shot to show us examples. Her photo book also provided more examples and helped me see each concept more clearly. I see lines and curves where I never paid much attention to them previously. Who knew that Post Alley could be such an alluring subject? ”

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Hammering Man by Roger Fisher

We received this great review of our tour today from tour participant Roger who attend our tour with his family this week.

“The shutter tour we introduced our Norwegian first-time-States-visitors to, will prove to be one of the highlights of their trip. Our  guide, Valentina was obviously knowledgeable regarding much more than photography. Some of the Seattle trivia she shared was truly fascinating, even to we Seattle natives. What impacted me most about Valentina wasn’t knowledge, it was a sincere passion for experience -  the seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and FEELING of what’s happening right now. To try to capture that experience on a  stationary medium has always been the challenge to artists of all sorts, and Valentina helped us all immensely. As we continued the three-hour tour, I found myself using the freshly-learned photo tips for being inventive, expressive, but more importantly having FUN, like I did years ago, wielding the camera like a newly discovered magical toy.

My recommendation to natives to and visitors of Seattle is, make  Shutter Tours the first item on your agenda of what to do downtown.  The capturing of everything following will be benefitted by what you  take away from your Shutter Tours experience.

Roger”