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Family Photography as Wall Art | Northern VA Family Photographer
As a professional studio 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.
From the moment our clients see their Ever After portraits finished and displayed on the walls of their homes, they become treasured works of art.
Fine Art Photography for your home
Many of the families we work with hail from the communities surrounding the Ashburn, VA area. They are searching for a studio photographer whose work is worthy of being displayed as wall art. Our clients want an heirloom-quality portrait to display in their homes and enjoy for many years. As more Americans are investing in their home’s interior design with wall art, many are opting for fine art family photography to decorate their walls. And why shouldn’t they?! Being surrounded by beautiful portrait art of the ones you love keeps those loving family bonds strong in your heart and mind.
Family photography as wall art
Can portraits boost your happiness? Yes! | Northern VA Family Photographer
Along those lines, a friend in nearby Ashburn, VA recently sent us an interesting Huffington Post article by Gretchen Rubin, author of the best-selling book “The Happiness Project.” It was a fascinating read with many great take-away messages.
How Portraits Can Bring Happiness
In Rubin’s article, she explains how photographs (portraits in our case) can bring happiness, remind us of those we love, and help preserve memories. For obvious reasons, this is a topic near and dear to our hearts, and we couldn’t agree with her more as anyone who reads our blog knows.
We often say that one of the things we love about our work is getting to know our clients, witnessing the love they share as a family and then documenting that relationship through our job as a portrait photography studio. Looking through the camera’s lens has afforded us the unique opportunity to capture so many heartwarming moments of joy and familial love! It is what keeps us going in this line of work.
But, you don’t have to be a professional photographer to document the moments you witness in your daily life. We encourage you to get your cameras and smartphones out for those everyday moments. You can schedule our photography studio to create beautiful fine art family portraits which take photography to a whole other level.
Having both kinds of photographs, snapshots and professional pictures, is an excellent way to capture your family’s many special moments.
Meanwhile, we’d like to share five points based on the “The Happiness Project” article with our own advice added in.
A Way to Remember
Rubin writes, and we staunchly agree, that photos are a way to remember people, places, and activities with love. Scattered around our homes and offices, their portraits bring a smile to our faces and can take us back to the moment or place the photo was taken. The pictures serve as reminders to help us remember and honor our roots and our loved ones. You’ll never regret having a lot of pictures of someone you cherish, but you will regret not having more pictures of them.
So, take the pictures and schedule the professional portraits while they are still in your life. You will be happy you did.
Capture Memories
Portraits capture memories by documenting moments in time. They take us back to our beloved grandparents no longer with us. A child’s newborn pictures remind you of when you became a family or a new baby joined the family. A wedding album brings to mind one of the happiest days of your life, and so on.
Portraits capture love and happiness. They capture history. They bring joy and recall moments long past.
Preserve Your Child’s Artwork
With the many products now available thanks to better and faster printing, the options abound to save space by ordering albums or special print boxes. The article mentions Plum Print, a service which will photograph your children’s artwork and bind it into an album. What a great idea and great way to preserve your children’s art without worrying about storing dozens of boxes somewhere!
While using a professional service will probably result in the best quality of pictures for recording your child’s artwork, you can also try taking pictures yourself of the art and using an online service like Shutterfly. The important thing is to find a way to preserve that artwork in a manner which will last for decades.
A Photo Diary
It’s much easier than you might think! Use everyday photography taken throughout your children’s daily activities and lives, combined with fine art portraits, to create a diary of their lives. Most professional portrait photography studios offer archival-quality portrait albums, and there are plenty of online photo albums you can make using your snapshots. One day, this will be a priceless gift to present to your children!
Display Family Portraits
The article doesn’t mention this point explicitly, but we feel it’s an important one: Display family portraits as fine art to decorate your living spaces and make your house a home. Portraits taken by a professional family photographer can add so much to your home’s interior design and convert an impersonal space into a personal, warm and inviting home.
What better way to add love to your home than by displaying it with your family’s portraits? And, what better way to show your family how much you love and value them than by displaying pictures of them throughout your home? We often write about decorating your home with fine art family photography instead of, or in addition to, art. There is no more powerful or personal artwork than the images of your family!
At Ever After, we love working together with our clients to create compelling and poignant imagery through our professional photography studio. The perfect family portraits – the ones which captures the loving bonds you share – are ready to be taken in our studios near Ashburn, VA. We know so well that seeing your family displayed in beautiful portraits on the walls of your home will always bring a smile to your face and happiness to your heart.
Family Photographer, Portraits, Portrait Studio
Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy and Joriana Belcher, a mother-daughter photography team located in Northern Virginia, near Ashburn, VA. We specialize in timeless and emotive fine art images.
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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Family Portraits, The Pettit Family | Northern VA Family Photographer
As a family and studio photographer in the Northern Virginia area, near Ashburn, VA, Ever After specializes in family photography and creating beautiful portraits which you’ll treasure for years to come.
Family Portrait Session
The Pettit Family, a family of four from Maryland, consists of two beautiful, small children with cherub faces, and their loving parents. Mom Christina wanted a studio photographer near their home and well known for their fine art photography. Christina hoped a photographer could capture “this moment in time” during her children’s fifth and sixth years of their lives. She hopes to one day look back on these years and recall them with fond memories of their family! read more…
Bringing Fairytale Dreams to Life in Portraits| Limited Edition Fairytale Session 03.28.2016 | Northern VA Family Photographer
Limited Edition Fairytale Children’s Portrait Session
As a mother-daughter family photographer team in the Ashburn, VA and Lansdowne, VA area, we love bringing dreams to life in portraits!
How many little girls dream at some point of being a Fairytale princess with lovely dresses and tiaras?!
As a mother-daughter team, unlike some photography websites, we truly understand the special love daughters can have for Fairytales and dress-up. Capturing this moment in their lives when fantasy and fairytales are so very real can, through portraits, be an enduring memory for years to come. We love bringing little girls’ dreams to life through one of our very dreamy portraits! She’ll love being the princess in her very own Limited Edition Fairytale Portrait Session!
Your daughter can wear her own fairy princess dress and accessories, or she could wear one of ours. This is her Fairytale session and we want her to feel as special as she is every day!
WHO:
Anyone who cherishes one-of-a-kind portraits of their own little princess!
WHEN:
Monday, March 28, 2016 ONLY read more…
How can I decorate a hallway with artwork of my family? | Northern VA Family Photographer
As a leading studio photographer in the Ashburn, VA area and surrounding communities, clients often ask us how and where they can display their beautiful fine art portraits of their family. We help to address this question during our pre-portrait-session chat! This is one reason we have a consult prior to your session. The main reason, though, is to get to know you, your lovely family and your style. We know you’ve made an investment in your portraits and we want you to display them in ways you can enjoy for many years to come.
You don’t need to look much farther than your hallways. They are a blank canvas waiting to be made beautiful with your new professional photography portraits!
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Scenery across our state worthy of portraits! | Northern VA Family Photographers
We are so fortunate to live in such a beautiful state! We love using the landscapes surrounding the Ashburn, VA area as a backdrop for many of our portraits. As photographers, it’s like having our own private library of scenery and landscapes!
We recently came across this really interesting article, “18 Beautiful Places in Virginia You Didn’t Know Existed,” about some little known or even unknown places across our state. We poured through the sites online imagining ourselves in each one – with our camera equipment, of course! We are photographers, after all! Some of these sites could make stunning backdrops for portraits.
Here’s an excerpt of the first five sites listed in the article. You can click on each one to be redirected to their site. read more…
Capture Memories with Contemporary Ice Wall Art | Northern VA Family Photographer
We know that when it comes to family, memories are priceless. As a top studio photographer in the Ashburn, VA area and surrounding communities, we know that our clients seek us out because they want the very best for their families. Once the portraits are taken, the next important step is deciding how to preserve and enjoy them.
Framing
The concept and method of archival framing is a relatively newer concept in fine art photography. But it’s really been in the last few decades that archival or museum-quality framing has become more widely used by fine art photographers. At Ever After, we understand the importance of museum-quality framing because we know how important your portraits are to you. However, some clients prefer a frameless wall art option. To that end, we offer an array of first-rate frameless products to help you display your memories and enjoy them well into the future.
Our products are well crafted and carefully selected by us as photographers to ensure the very best quality for our clients and their portraits. We offer you a wide range of options: from our framed and frameless items, through to our portrait boxes and albums. We think you’ll be quite happy with whichever product you select from us.
Wall Art
One client favorite is our Fine Art Giclee Ice Wall Art. A frameless option to traditional framing, our Ice Images are a contemporary and unusual way to present your beautiful portraits. The images appear almost ethereal and are captured on what appears to be a sheet of ice, or glass. They are non-breakable and face mounted with rivets at each corner giving it that contemporary look. The image in this technique is opaque but captures bold color and detail exceptionally well. Each portrait has finished edges and can be mounted to appear as if it’s floating. Like all our other products, the quality is museum and gallery-grade and elegantly finished.
As photographers, Ice is one of our favorite finishes — so much so, that we chose it for our own family portraits! read more…
David, Headshot | Northern Virginia Photographer
David, Headshot | Northern Virginia Photographer
Here’s a recent headshot we did!
Family Photographer
Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter portrait photography team located near Leesburg, 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!
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Using Our Portrait Boxes to Tell Your Story | Northern VA Family Photographer
Many of our clients fall in love with all or most of their portraits. We hear it over and over again as a family photographer working with our fabulous clients across the Northern Virginia area, including Lansdowne, VA and Sterling, VA. We’re humbled and thrilled each time we know a client is so excited by our portraits! However, we realize that putting all of your portraits on display across your walls might not be the most practical thing to do. When you love more images than you can display on the walls of your home, our lovely Portrait Boxes make a a wonderful addition to your wall art purchase!
What is a Portrait Box?
A Portrait Box is a way for your family to tell more of its beautiful story through your photography studio portraits. You can order one or more of our high-quality boxes to store extra double-sided professional prints. The boxes have a magnetic closure. All of our Portrait Boxes are made of a high-quality and very sturdy, wood construction. They’re designed to last a lifetime if properly maintained and kept out of direct sunlight.
How do you use a Portrait Box?
The well-made box will have one of your selected portraits on its cover, and inside you can store your other sturdy, styrene-mounted photos from your session. What better way to continue to share your family’s story than through more of your lovely portraits?
You can leave your additional images in the protective, but decorative box. You also can display the images by rotating them on an easel beside the box. read more…
How do I know my portraits will represent my personal style? | Northern VA Family Photographer
Your portraits will indeed represent not just your style, but you and your family as well. How do we know this? Because this isn’t OUR portrait! It’s YOUR portrait! As a professional photographer, Ever After is simply the conduit for your wonderful and precious portraits.
It’s our job as an experienced, professional photographer to convey you and your story through the portraits we capture for you. We don’t do it alone. We do it with you, our client, after much deliberation, discussion, and thought.
In the Lansdowne, VA area, we are the team people seek out. Why? Because we’ve built a reputation on our ability to reflect our clients’ lives so well. Professional pictures are more than a snapshot. We put a lot of time and thought into your portraits from the moment you contact us.
As a professional photographer, we are truly (and happily) invested in the outcome of your personal portraits! We want to get to know you before your portrait session is even held, get to know how you live, your style, and your home decor. Your home reflects your personal style, and we will have the opportunity to see it for ourselves through iPhone pictures you send us of your walls. We love seeing pictures of our clients in their own homes because it really says a lot about who they are and what they like – as well as what they are like! We know how important these portraits are to our clients, and we take that very seriously. In fact, the iPhone pictures you send us aid us in creating the perfect wall art for your home, and allow us to show you your family artwork on your very own walls!
Rest assured that your portraits will reflect your personal style. Also, together we’ll discuss your ideas for your portrait, colors, clothes, setting, etc. read more…