Upcoming FROZEN-Inspired Session! | Northern VA Family Photographer

Name: Ever After Portraits
Price range: $$$

Every pint-sized princess deserves a portrait worthy of the highest royalty – especially if she loves the movie Frozen. We capture the magic and ethereal beauty of this beloved fairytale in a very special Limited Edition Frozen-Inspired session worthy of any princess. These portraits are treasures we offer for a limited time once a year for our clients across the South Riding, VA and Northern Virginia area. This is portrait photography at its most utterly adorable, taken in a unique themed setting!

Children love them, and parents love them even more. These portraits are an annual tradition at Ever After. Some of our regular clients with a little princess (or two) at home act very quickly to book a session because space is so limited!

Creating Lasting Memories

This year we are offering our Frozen-Inspired Limited Edition Session on Saturday, December 3, 2016. Your beautiful, pint-sized model will have as much fun being in the portrait as we have taking the picture! These sessions offer a unique opportunity to create a very unusual portrait your family will cherish for generations to come. Professional photography captures memories and stops time, as we like to say! These Limited Edition sessions do just that in a magical way.

We hope your princess is available to join us for a royal portrait on Saturday, December 3, 2016! If you live near the South Riding, VA area or the surrounding area, you and your little princess will appreciate the glamour and grace of our portrait photography!

For more information on this session, click here.

For more information of a few of our other Limited Edition Sessions, click here.

Family Photographer, Portrait Photography

Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter portrait photography team located near South Riding, VA in Northern Virginia. We specialize in timeless and emotive fine art family portraits.

Family means everything and capturing those precious moments to preserve forever will mean family heirlooms for you to share for years to come.

Best,

Mindy & Joriana – Contact Us!

Professional Photographer

Great places to visit in Maryland | Northern VA Family Photographer

At Ever After we specialize in professional family and childrens photography. But we know you all like to travel and you love to take snapshots of your travels. So grab the kids and head out to the Maryland coast! Whether you live in the South Riding, VA area or as far north as Baltimore, the smaller state of Maryland has plenty to offer when it comes to coastal scenery for pictures.

By the way, we always urge friends to grab their cameras and try their hand at taking pictures. But we wouldn’t be us if we didn’t also strongly encourage you to work with a professional photographer for fine art family portraits. The many differences between hobby and professional pictures justify the investment you make when you work with a professional.

Now, on with some travel info! Here are five places along the Maryland coast worthy of your time and attention:

Assateague Island is on the Maryland side and offers visitors more than 37-miles of a barrier island with beaches, coves, and beautiful marshes. You can’t miss with the wildlife photography here and the island’s gorgeous horses.

Annapolis and its harbor, along with its historic charm, offers some lovely scenery. You might have to battle the seagulls and tourists to snap a few great shots, but it’s at the very least worth a day trip.

At Sandy Point State Park you can enjoy 786 acres along the Northwestern shore of the gorgeous Chesapeake Bay. The park is well known for its breathtaking water views that overlook one of Maryland’s real treasures, the Chesapeake Bay.

If you’re looking for a more urban water scene, check out Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Keep in mind, though, just like Annapolis, you’ll be surrounded by people. That’s not to say you can’t take some great photos!

The Concord Point Lighthouse in Havre de Grace, Maryland was built in 1827 where the Susquehanna River meets the tidal flow of the Chesapeake Bay. It is one of the oldest lighthouses in continuous operation on the East Coast. Fully restored, the Lighthouse and Keeper’s House are open to the public on weekends from April to October.

Olmsted Island is technically not on the coast but on the Potomac River near Washington, DC. You can get some great pictures of the falls at Great Falls National Park on the Virginia side and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park on the Maryland side. Both offer some great scenery and photo ops, but not your typical sandy beach landscapes.

With family and childrens photography being our specialties, we work with clients from South Riding, VA and all across Northern Virginia on a variety of photography projects and needs. With almost two decades of experience, we are always happy to discuss your photography needs. Contact us today!

Family Photographer, Childrens Photography

Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter portrait photography team located near South Riding, VA in Northern Virginia. We specialize in timeless and emotive fine art family portraits.

Family means everything and capturing those precious moments to preserve forever will mean family heirlooms for you to share for years to come.

Best,

Mindy & Joriana – Contact Us!

Professional Photographer

What families are saying, Donald & Tarsha | Northern VA Family Photographer

As a photographer specializing in family portraits in Northern VA, near Round Hill, VA, we were privileged to be chosen as the photographer for Donald and Tarsha. This wonderful couple from Maryland initially chose us as the photographer for their wedding. So we’ve photographed their engagement session, wedding, and then later when their son Tre was born, we photographed him starting with newborn portraits, all through his first year. For Tre’s first year session, the whole family got in on the action for family portraits, including Tre’s grandparents and aunt!

Being able to capture three generations of this special family was a joy and a privilege for us.

We love making our clients happy, and it’s really nice to hear when they tell us how happy they are with their family portraits.

What Donald and Tarsha have to say about Ever After!

“Our experience was more than we could have ever imagined, and the Wall Art … and albums are breathtaking and ours to enjoy every day on our walls and in our home. The products speak for themselves and are always the topic of conversation when others see them. Mindy and Joriana are amazing and we are truly grateful to have found such wonderful, highly skilled artists to have captured our most precious moments.” ~Donald & Tarsha (of Maryland)

Family Photographer, Family Portraits

Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter portrait photography team located near Round Hill, VA in Northern Virginia. We specialize in timeless and emotive fine art family portraits.

Family means everything and capturing those precious moments to preserve forever will mean family heirlooms for you to share for years to come.

Best,

Mindy & Joriana – Contact Us!

Professional Photographer

Our Core Values in Business and in Life | Northern VA Family Photographer

We went back to school recently by attending a fantastic seminar on the topic of core values. Have you given thought to what your core values are, personally or professionally? We thought we had, and this workshop really pulled it all together very well for us! It reaffirmed our longstanding commitment to remain true to ourselves, our clients, and to our family photography business across Northern Virginia, including Lowes Island, VA and the surrounding communities. Our blog is one way we serve and connect with our customers and community, so it makes sense that we do a blog post or two about our core values.

CORE VALUES

Trust & Respect

A business owner needs to build trust with their clients by treating them with respect. If we don’t show you respect, how can we earn your confidence in us or our work?! We are committed to working hard to earn your trust by being respectful, honest, transparent and fair with regard to our family photography and our pricing.

Relationships

To do great family photos, we need to build relationships with our clients. We want to get to connect with you, and have you connect with us! If you’re not comfortable with us during a portrait session, it could affect your pictures. This is why we do a pre-session consult with all of our clients, and we make ourselves available to answer any questions before your session. Our ultimate goal is your satisfaction and you returning to us as a client in the future.

Excellence & Quality

We believe that excellence and quality are both tangible and achievable if one works hard enough! We will always work very hard on your behalf. We take great pride in creating excellent photography and having excellent customer service. We source the highest-quality products we can for our clients. We haven’t built an excellent reputation as a top photographer in Northern Virginia by doing mediocre work, offering substandard customer service, and poor-quality products!

Artistry & Craftsmanship

We are fine art photographers, meaning that we create photographic art. That means that a point-and-shoot photo session won’t cut it for us! We put a lot of time into the artistry and craftsmanship of all the portraits we do for you, and we’re always confident in offering great quality products such as our handcrafted frames. We know that a lot of training and skill results in superior quality, great achievement, and artistry.

Crafting Emotional Artwork

We believe that great photography is the equivalent of emotional artwork, and we are committed to crafting for our clients the best possible photographic artwork. We strive to create portraits that both capture and evoke emotion. We want you to see the emotion we captured in your family portraits, and we want you to feel emotion when you see them displayed on the walls of your home.

Giving Back

Giving back to the community which has supported our small business is important to us. Honestly, we’ve been working night and day for close to two decades to build our business and brand. Now that we’re past the days of wondering if we could create and sustain a successful business, we will be giving more attention to giving back to our community in a sustained and thoughtful manner. It’s part of who we are as business owners and as women! Stay tuned!

If you would like to work with a Lowes Island, VA family photography business that believes in remaining true to its core values of excellence and integrity, you’ve come to the right place! Contact us to discuss your photography needs and how we can help you.

Family Photographer, Family Photography

Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter family photography team located near Lowes Island, VA in Northern Virginia. We specialize in timeless and emotive fine art family portraits.

Family means everything and capturing those precious moments to preserve forever will mean family heirlooms for you to share for years to come.

Best,

Mindy & Joriana – Contact Us!

Professional Photographer

Dear Client, Thank you! | Northern VA Family Photographer

Dear, Client: Do you realize just how much we value your trust and faith in us as your studio photographer? We are a few years shy of two decades working with clients across Northern Virginia, including Sterling, VA and Round Hill, VA. We couldn’t have gotten this far without you! So while we can thank you a million times over, here are three BIG reasons we are grateful to you (and for you):

Skills and Talent

Our skills and talent as photographers have helped us get this far. But talent without an avenue to employ that talent would be futile. We have been able to use our skills to build a business and serve you as your photographer because you have chosen us! Thank you! We realize that you have choices when it comes to selecting your photographer. We are grateful to you for allowing us to serve you and your family, to get to know you, and to help you record and document the joyful moments in your life.

Time

We believe in investing ourselves completely in our work! We think the results speak for themselves when you look through the family artwork on our website. We take our time during our portraits sessions and, more importantly, we take our time before your session to get to know you, because it makes a big difference in the outcome of your gorgeous family portraits. We invest ourselves into the quality of all the portraits we do. Some photographers don’t spend the necessary time with their clients and their photography. However, we do and we always will!

Treasure

We believe in the story behind each family portrait, and we believe in each family and person we photograph. “Treasure” in photography means many things including the relationships that we build with you. We cherish the opportunity to record your lives, and we treasure the chance to bear witness to the love your family holds for each other. It is our privilege to be your photographer for life’s meaningful moments.

Again, THANK YOU you for allowing us to be your family and studio photographer and for your faith and trust in us. Our years of work and service in the Round Hill, VA and Sterling, VA areas have been transformative to us, and we look forward to continuing to serve you as a local, small-business owner and fine art photographer.

Family Photographer, Studio Photographer

Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter portrait photography team located near Round Hill, VA in Northern Virginia. We specialize in timeless and emotive fine art family portraits.

Family means everything and capturing those precious moments to preserve forever will mean family heirlooms for you to share for years to come.

Best,

Mindy & Joriana – Contact Us!

Professional Photographer