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Family Portraits, The Petersons | Northern VA Family Photographer
The sweet Peterson Family of three reached out to us for professional family photography. This lovely family lives just minutes from our Sterling, VA studio, and we were so pleased they chose us as their family photographer. As the parents of a precious 18-month-old, they were interested in updating their family portraits. As we specialize in family and children photography, we were more than happy to work with them!
Having done newborn photos as a last-minute idea, Lori and Rob were ready to capture their little doll in new photos. Their earlier portraits had been taken at a local mall, and the results weren’t quite what they were hoping for. Now with a walking toddler, it was time to update their family pictures. They sought us out and liked the idea that we specialize in family photography.
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Image of the Week | Fairytale | Northern VA Family Photographer
Limited Edition Fairytale Session
This week we celebrate children photography with Images of the Week from our Limited Edition Fairytale Children’s Session! At our Northern Virginia studio, located near Ashburn Village, VA, we fulfill the fairytale dreams of your precious little girl with this special session.
She’ll don wings like Tinkerbell, or a poufy princess dress. Maybe she’ll wear Riding Hood’s red cape. She’ll become a part of her favorite storybook fairytale! This portrait session is just for little girls and their vivid imaginations.
Little Girl’s Dream Come True
Preserving Your Story with a Gold Fine Art Album | Northern VA Family Photographer
The Native Americans believe that “storytelling is writing the past, living the present and preserving the future.” How true – and how wise! How do you preserve your family story? How do you share it? As portrait photographers, our clients depend on us to help tell and preserve their stories through a series of family pictures. Many of our clients find that ordering one of our Fine Art Albums allows them to better capture and share their story through additional pictures displayed in a beautifully-bound album.
Fine Art Album – Gold
Your Ever After portrait studio session will result in dozens or hundreds of pictures. Whether individually or collectively, each one could help tell your family’s love story. After your very favorites are chosen for the walls of your home, our Fine Art Albums tell the rest of your story.
Our Gold Fine Art Albums are beautifully-illustrated museum-style picture books, except the works of art inside the book are your portraits, your family. They are exceptional quality and guaranteed for more than a hundred years. Your grandchildren and great grandchildren will one day be able to look through your Gold Fine Art Album!
Each album is custom designed to illustrate your story. We spend time getting to know each client prior to their portrait studio session. This allows us to better help them tell their story through our photography. It’s a more symbiotic relationship which means a better photographic depiction. read more…
Why Family Portraits Should Be Taken NOW! | Northern VA Family Photographer
We are an experienced mother and daughter photography team in the Ashburn Village, VA area of Northern Virginia. We have long valued the importance of family and children photography. We know that there are many reasons to get family portraits done now and not wait to do them. We even wrote about this very same topic last year. In case you missed that post, we wanted to discuss it again but with some added thoughts.
“I’ll Schedule A Portrait Session When…”
When To Update Your Family Portraits
We’d like to offer you several reasons (of many!) on why you should have family portraits taken now. These reasons are based on our years of experience with fine art family and children photography.
Because of Time!
We know how busy your family is, how you’re being pulled in a million different directions, but we know that you CAN find a way to make the time, that you SHOULD somehow find a way to make time.
Just think: The reason it’s so important to have your family photographed NOW is for the same reason you’re not scheduling them: Because of time. Children don’t stay young for very long. Mindy knows that because she’s Joriana’s mother and saw how in what felt like the blink of an eye, she had turned into an adult woman.
So, even though you’re busy raising your family and you don’t have a lot of time on your hands, you should find a few hours every year (or at least every other year) to sit for professional family portraits. We promise that you won’t regret investing that time. No one ever does regret it!
Remember that children’s photography plays such a valuable role in family’s lives – not just for today, but for tomorrow when you will truly appreciate that you have those portraits!
Because You Love Your Family!
You love your family, and you want to capture memories of them together. There is no better reason to remember that photographs aren’t just for you as parents! They’re for future generations of your family, starting with your children.
Sitting for portraits today allows you to chronicle your kids as they are now, so you’ll have those portraits in the future – for yourself, for your kids, and for your grandkids. It will show them just how much you loved your family, that you were willing to prioritize having their portraits taken.
One day, your kids will be so very, very grateful that they have those precious family portraits to cherish! That’s not something we just say; it’s something we know from our clients.
Because Someone is Missing!
You have just realized it’s been a very, very long time since you had a family portrait. You might have hundreds, if not thousands, of family snapshots, but where’s the photographer in those pictures? There’s always someone missing out of the family photos! Usually that’s Mom!
Meanwhile, your children are growing up and changing so much along the way. You’ll never be able to recapture this time with them or the opportunity to do pictures with them. Professional family and children photography helps keep the memories of those special years with your kids fresh in your mind AND ensures that the missing photographer of the family is included in your portraits!
Because You’re Missing Children Photography!
You are looking through photo albums with your kids, and your 7-year-old asks why you have a bunch of albums with you and your dogs and cats (or even with the older siblings), but not with this particular child. Mmm…there are only a handful of pages with the kids at all, or maybe just of your youngest! Whoops! It’s time to call us as the professionals to even things out picture-wise!
While we can’t go back in time (wouldn’t that be neat?) to take pictures, we can help you move forward. We love doing family and children photography, and we’ll capture that extraordinary portrait that shows your family as they are, personalities and all.
So Make Time for Family and Children Photography…
A recent study in England conducted by a large photography corporation focused on the importance of making time for family portraits. “Our research shows how important it is to find the time to capture the real essence of a family. In today’s time-pressured world it is becoming increasingly difficult to spend good quality family time. However, when we look at photographs, we remember how we felt when that picture was taken,” according to Richard Mayfield, Director of Photography of Venture New Generation Portraits.
Need we say more than that? We don’t just speak as professional photographers when we stress the need for portraits. We also speak as a family, as a mother and daughter who understand the value of capturing memories. We, like most people, have lost those we love, but thanks in great part to their portraits, we keep them close in our hearts and thoughts.
As experienced and reputable family photographers located near Ashburn Village, VA, we’d love to make your portraits happen sooner rather than later – at least before your 7-year-old starts reminding you! We can help you to document your family and child’s life in ways that will be authentic and memorable.
Our family and children photography is the cornerstone of our work. Contact our studios to schedule your portrait session or to ask about our work. We love hearing from clients and potential clients alike!
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Family Photographer, Children Photography, Fine Art Photography
Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy and Joriana Belcher, a mother-daughter family and children photography team located in Northern Virginia, near Ashburn Village, VA. 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!
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Fine Art Gallery Wraps | Beautifully Created for Your Home | Northern VA Family Photographer
Capturing your family in a memorable family picture can mean the world to you – today and years from now! Whether you live nearby in Ashburn Village, VA or anywhere in the Northern VA area, you can take your precious family pictures home on a Fine Art Gallery Wrap canvas. It’s one of the many options you have for your family portraits from Ever After. The museum-quality finish of the Gallery Wrap ensures that you will have your family portraits to enjoy for many years. These aren’t snapshots. They’re your family captured in art.
A Fine Art Gallery Wrap is equally impressive displayed in a modern home or in a traditional or transitional space. Its look is clean-lined with the focus entirely on the portrait.
Other photography websites might offer gallery wrap, but the Ever After Gallery Wrap portraits are of the highest quality. They are precision-folded around a sturdy and solid wood frame to ensure its stability over time. All our portraits are professionally stretched around the frame onto the back side, not just the frame’s sides. We want your canvas to last for generations which is why we offer the highest-quality products in the industry.
At Ever After you have three great options for Gallery Wrap finishes: high-gloss, semi-gloss, or matte finish. Each one will be laminated to protect from minor scratches, scuffs or cracking with time. The laminate will also protect it from UV light damage. (We usually recommend you try and keep it from receiving direct sunlight anyway).
Don’t worry! If you would like some guidance or advice on your framing options or on the Gallery Wrap, we’re here to help.
If you’d like to talk to us about a family portrait session, contact us! We are located in Sterling, VA but serve Ashburn, VA and the surrounding communities. We know how important your beautiful family pictures are to you. You’ll display them for years in your home and smile each time you look at them and remember that moment in your family’s lives.
To learn about our other Wall Art products, follow this link.
Family Photographer, Family Pictures
Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy and Joriana Belcher, a mother-daughter photography team located in Northern Virginia, near Ashburn Village, VA. 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!
View Our Portfolio | professional photographer
Limited Edition Mother-Daughter Session | Divas and Darlins, 04.08.2016 | Northern VA Family Photographer
Divas and Darlins Limited Edition Portrait Session
There’s nothing more poignant and emotional than your relationship with your little Diva or Darlin. No one knows this better than us – a mother and daughter specializing in family pictures across the Northern VA area, including Ashburn, VA and Sterling, VA! This is why we offer the Diva and Darlins Limited Edition Portrait Sessions. This will be a fun girls-only session!
Mothers and daughters share a very special relationship. The Divas and Darlins Mother/Daughter Limited Edition Session is the perfect chance for the two of you to dress up, spend some time together and have wonderful images to show for it! As photographers, this is one of our favorite sessions!
It doesn’t matter if your daughter is a toddler, a teenager, or if they have long flown the nest and you have other family pictures! This is a lovely gift for the two of you to share. As experienced photographers, we can tell you that the result will be images you will cherish forever.
WHO
Mothers who cherish their daughters, and daughters who know how very special their mothers are!
WHEN
Friday, April 8th, 2016
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Remember Your Family and Childhood | Northern VA Family Photographer
Family and Children Photography Creates and Captures Memories Today
Do you remember your childhood? How will your family remember theirs, or how will they remember you? Many of the clients we meet are asking themselves these very same questions and searching for a photographer sensitive enough to do poignant family and children photography. As a Northern Virginia area photographer, located near Ashburn Village, VA, we specialize in family photography.
Some of our most precious possessions are photo albums, family portraits, and family pictures. Those lovely, sepia-toned portraits of your grandparents, so gracefully captured by a long-ago photographer, still hang in your childhood home today. One day, those portraits will also grace your walls because they are your connection to your roots, and, of course, one of your parents. Today, portraits so often serve as our connection to our history. As a photographer, we understand this.
In fact, these are my grandparents, Joriana’s great-grandparents, Thomas and Belle Langford, and I am so grateful to have this portrait of them taken on their wedding day.
Family photographer
It’s not unusual for families – even those who aren’t wealthy – to have a long-lasting relationship with a photographer. An experienced photographer can and should put you at ease to capture the best shots, and the better they know you, the better the results. So, once you find a photographer with whom you feel relaxed, and whose work you love, it’s a great idea to continue using them. They can be like a family physician: They get to know you as your family grows and changes. They know you and know what to look for in the shot they frame of you. They know how to use photography to best capture who you are and preserve it in a portrait for years to come. This is one reason many famous models will only work with the same handful of photographers through the years. They know them and trust them. It’s no different with a family photographer.
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Portraits Pop on Steel! | Steel Wall Art | Northern VA Family Photographer
As family photographers located near Ashburn, VA in Northern VA, our photography studio specializes in family photography and creating beautiful portraits which you’ll treasure for generations to come.
• You love your family.
• You want the best for them.
• You love how great your beloved family looks in your portraits.
• BUT, your interior design tastes lean toward modern and so does your home, and you don’t really want frames. Now what?
Well, we’ve got you covered! Although our photography studio offers two distinct framing lines, Masterpiece and Standard, we also have several unique frameless wall art products for you to select from! Yes, even contemporary selections are available. They’re all so gorgeous you’re going to have a tough time selecting. Don’t worry. We can help guide you.
Steel Wall Art
One of the more contemporary products we offer for your family is our archival-quality Steel Wall Art. Your portrait is printed on a brushed-metal surface, a look that is stylish, sleek, and edgy. The result is unique and eye-catching! Steel Wall Art comes with rounded corners for a great-looking, final product with no pointy edges to fear. Rich colors really pop on metal! The finished product is simply stunning – and the bigger, the better.
Family Portraits, The Laino Family | Northern VA Family Photographer
What happens when you bring together five women on our 2.5-acre outdoor studio in Sterling, VA (near Ashburn, VA and Lansdowne, VA) for professional pictures? Lots of fun, awesome pictures, and a memorable time; that’s what happens! These three lovely ladies (and their little dog) were a joy to photograph and work with!
Michelle approached us while looking for a studio photographer after a four-year hiatus from professional pictures. Her daughters, Isabella and Olivia, are now teens, and she wanted updated shots of the three of them together – as the lovely family they are!
Autumn Outdoor Portrait Session
Michelle knew what she wanted when she contacted us: casual, relaxed, candid images. She had seen a few of our fall portraits online and liked the idea of fall’s colorful scenery for a backdrop. Turns out that she and her two daughters (and, yes, the doggy) outshone the rich landscape!
Product, Storybook Fine Art Album, Platinum | Northern VA Family Photographer
As a professional photographer located in Northern VA and serving the surrounding areas, including Ashburn, VA, we specialize in family photography and in creating beautiful portraits which you’ll treasure for years to come. As we have both a 2.5-acre outdoor portrait park and a fully-equipped indoor studio, we provide both indoor and outdoor studio photography.
Your family and you scheduled time into your busy lives to come to us for your portrait session (yes, we know the session was fun and easy!), and now your gorgeous portraits are ready for viewing! Wow! You’ve selected the ones to be displayed on the walls of your home, but you find there so many others you also love! You can’t possibly enlarge and frame all of your lovely portraits; you just don’t have the wall space. What to do? Well, you can order one of our Storybook Fine Art Albums. It’s the perfect solution to enjoying more of your portraits!
Storybook Fine Art Album
• A Storybook Fine Art Album offers unparalleled quality and finish. Both the binding and paper will last and stand up to time.
• A Storybook Fine Art Album lives up to its name. It is art in a book! Each book is custom designed to tell your story. You can select various portraits to tell a family story or help capture the essence of your family and your unique story.
• We’re ready to assist you in selecting the images for your album, and we custom design each album with the family in mind. Leave it to the professionals – that would be us! We know just where that great family photo belongs in the album!
• You’ll be able to return to your album time and again to enjoy your lovely photos, as well as share them with friends and family when they visit.
ALBUM TYPES
• Our Platinum Fine Art Album is breathtaking flush-mount album. It comes in various sizes and covers in archival quality finishes in the 100-year plus category. It is handcrafted by skilled craftsmen in the U.S. They don’t come any better than this!
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