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David, Headshot | Northern Virginia Photographer
David, Headshot | Northern Virginia Photographer
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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!
Professional Photographer
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…
What is museum quality glass? | Northern VA Family Photographer
Protecting your precious portraits for generations to come is as important as selecting the best family photographer in the Lansdowne, VA area! Our years of valuable experience have taught us the importance of protecting your family portraits in various ways. This can include framing and the use of museum-quality glass. Keep in mind, though, that even the highest-quality printing of fine art family photos like we offer can’t fully protect from exposure to UV rays. Nothing can. However, there are ways to lessen the effects of UV rays. Museum quality glass is one way to do this.
What does museum-quality glass do?
If you place a family photo behind any standard framing glass, the glass will block about 40 percent of UV radiation. Ask any preservationist, museum or gallery owners or artists and photographers and they will tell you that it’s simply not enough.
According to Glass Magazine, an industry journal, ultraviolet light accounts for approximately 50 percent of fading damage in artwork or photography, and there is no reversing the fading process once it’s occurred. As a result, the glass industry developed glass UV-blocking film for framing glass to better protect valuable art and photography. Museum-quality glass blocks about 98 to 99 percent of UV rays.
While any piece of glass or acrylic will protect a framed picture from casual physical damage, only museum-quality glass can provide the best possible, long-term protection for your cherished framed portraits.
Museum-quality glass protects art not just from fading from UV rays, but from becoming brittle. It also reduces glare when artwork is viewed from different angles and minimizes the mirror-like effect of typical glass, thus improving the intensity of colors and details.
Costs
Museum-quality glass does cost more than regular picture glass. Prices vary greatly depending on size. read more…
Fine Art Product | Giclee Bamboo Wall Art
We know that you want the absolute best for your beloved family. This is why you chose Ever After as your professional photographer and Northern Virginia near Lansdowne, VA as your scenic background.
You have had your portrait session and now you are reviewing your family images, and they are spectacular! As you look at each member of your family in the portraits, your heart swells because each is perfectly reflected in the portraits; their personalities shine. After some serious deliberation over which ones to select (there are so many fabulous ones!), you have one final decision to make. How would you like to permanently print your memories?
Given our years of experience with family photography, we understand the importance of offering our clients a wide variety of high quality products from which to select! Your portraits are invaluable to you. They’re precious fine art to be enjoyed for years to come and to be gifted to the next generation. You would like to have your portraits displayed in a way that’s sophisticated yet different.
One of the many products we offer, Fine Art Giclée Bamboo Wall Art, part of our frameless line of wall art, could be just what you’re looking for, because it offers two museum-quality mediums in a 100% earth-friendly, green product. Our Fine Art Giclée Bamboo Wall Art is printed onto bamboo using archival, water-based inks.
There are two key components to this: read more…
Family Portraits, The Tauch Family | Northern VA Family Photographer
As an experienced family photographer located near Lansdowne, VA, we absolutely love being sought out by clients to be the “documentarians” of their family’s love and lives! That’s why we opened a portrait studio and became family photographers! We cherish the role we play in each of their lives as we memorialize their relationships for generations to come. We appreciate the trust they put in our portrait studio.
Outdoor Portrait Park Studio
We recently had the opportunity to work with a truly special family with an extraordinary and exceptional bond. It was an honor and privilege to capture the Tauch Family’s loving relationship. Both Kim and her husband Eric serve in the U.S. military, and their beautiful family was formed through adoption. We know how special and strong the bonds in military families are, and the Tauch Family are no exception. With two parents serving in the military, two active and adorable little girls (and one dog), this family is very active and loves the outdoors. Despite their busy lives, Kim knew the time had come to capture their family’s loving bond and their adorable daughters in family portraits.
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Clothing for Your Family Portrait – How Important? | Northern VA Family Photographer
As a professional photographer located near Lansdowne, VA in Northern VA, we specialize in family fine art photography and creating beautiful portraits which you’ll treasure for years to come. Many families are turning to fine art photography for their family portraits. A professional photographer will also assist you in your clothing choices for your portrait.
How important is your choice of clothing to your family portrait?
A memorable and timeless family portrait is achieved through planning and attention to detail. The care and attention to color, coordination of clothing, setting of the family portrait, all the way through to the correct framing of the image you choose to display, is part of the customized service we, as family photographers in Northern Virginia, provide to our clients.
But how important, really, is clothing to your family portrait?
The goal of any fine family portrait is to direct attention to where it belongs, your family’s faces. The proper choice of clothing allows the face to be the focus of the portrait, not the clothing. Poorly selected clothing can detract from an otherwise wonderful family portrait. Because of this, what you wear for your portrait is just as important as all of the other details, such as lighting and location.
In general, clothing should be read more…
Single Wall Art Portrait or a Collection of Portraits? | Northern VA Family Photographer
As a professional family photographer located near Lansdowne, VA in Northern VA, we specialize in family photography and 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. Because we believe that photography websites should also be informative, we want to share with you a question we often hear from our clients.
Should I choose a single wall art portrait or a collection of wall art portraits?
You’ve had your family portrait session with a professional family photographer. You had a wonderful time, and you know you’ll have beautiful portraits of your family to choose from. Now the hard part begins. Should you choose one large single wall art portrait, or should you choose a collection of images for a wall art grouping?
Wall Art Portrait Collections, or Groupings
As family photographers in Northern Virginia, we normally recommend wall art collections of multiple images for this reason: Your family’s story can be told much better through several images, than in one. During your portrait session, we strive to capture the genuine love and affection family members have for each other, the unique expression on your little girl’s face, the one that makes you say, “That’s her!”, and the little mischievous grin your little boy sports when he thinks he just got away with being cheeky, and that special smile your husband has just for you. Several of those little moments collected together tell a far greater story about your family than one single moment will.
Wall art collections, or groupings, provide the opportunity to tell a story, create a narrative, and reach beyond a single image. When any set of images are displayed together, the viewer immediately draws connections between them, making the total greater than the sum of its parts.
A family wall art collection is perfect for a wall in the room where your family typically gathers. For some families, that’s the family room. For others, it’s the dining room. Wherever your family spends the most enjoyable time together, that’s the room which should have a wall art collection of gorgeous family portraits, portraits which you’ll see everyday and which will make you smile.
Some families prefer to have a collection up the main stairway wall or in the entryway of their home. They want to see lovely portraits of their family as soon as they walk in the door to their home, and they want to immediately share them with read more…
Family Portraits, Deveney and Christian | Northern VA Family Photographer
As photographers located in Sterling, VA, near Lansdowne, VA, we specialize in family photography and creating beautiful portraits which you’ll treasure for years to come. As a Northern VA family photographer we realize how very busy our area is, and we truly appreciate it when you schedule time to have your family portraits with us.
Deveney and Christian came to Ever After Portraits because it had been several years (nearly four) since they had had a family portrait together, and Christian had grown so much in those years.
Outdoor Portrait Session/Mother & Son
Having an appreciation for photography, Deveney wanted a family photographer who could give her outdoor portraits, with the bold and beautiful fall colors as a backdrop, and she really wanted something special with her son, portraits she could display on the walls of her home.
Outdoor Park Studio In Autumn
When Deveney and Christian arrived for their portrait session with us, we just knew that these family photographs were going to be amazing. Both were just so read more…
Is hiring a professional family photographer too expensive? | Northern VA Family Photographer
As a professional photographer located near Lansdowne, VA in Northern Virginia, we specialize in family photography and 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.
Do you feel that hiring a professional family photographer is just too expensive?
Well, have you considered what you’re getting when you hire a family photographer?
You think you’re hiring someone who takes photos, right? You are, but that’s not all! There is much, much more than that.