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My portraits, will I like them? | Northern VA Family Photographer
My portraits, will I like them? | Northern VA Family Photographer
A client might like our style and want to commission our studio for their portraits. Although they love our photography on our website, they nervously wonder if they’ll like their own family portraits. In case you are wondering it as well, we want to provide some reassurance. As a longstanding photographer in the Lowes Island, VA, and Northern Virginia areas, we want to get your portraits just right for you. As professionals, it is paramount to us that we do!
We do all we can before your session to understand your vision for your portraits. We will share our ideas with you, and together we will create a stunning portrait. We understand that your pictures are a time and financial investment for you. More importantly, we know that professional portraits are a legacy one generation gifts to the next.
A beautiful portrait’s value extends far beyond its cost. It has a priceless emotional value.
Here are a few things you should know:
• We have an initial discussion with each client to get to know you better. The more we understand you and what you’re looking for in a portrait, the better the results.
• Your session will have two photographers with two sets of cameras and equipment. This means more images, two perspectives, and a wider variety of portraits from which you can select.
• We offer our clients a private 2.5-acre Outdoor Portrait Park exclusively for our clients, as well as a fully equipped Indoor Studio, both in Sterling, Virginia.
• For those clients requesting it, we offer sessions on location within the D.C. Metro area.
• As a full-service, fine art portrait studio, we offer beautiful, high-quality wall concepts – customized and created specifically for your walls, your decor, and your home.
• We offer custom styling suggestions for clothing, tailored to your personal style.
• We offer our assistance in your image selection.
• You will be able to select from artfully designed products in a variety of styles – available only through professional photographers.
• We offer editing, retouching, and custom products.
You will have a customized experience.
As a full-service portrait studio, we customize and plan your portrait session and experience. We also can plan the session and portraits so that it complements your home’s interior. We use state-of-the-art interior design software to help us show you how your final portrait will look upon your own wall! As a full-service photographer, your portraits leave our studio already ready to display.
But, you’re still wondering if you will like your portraits! Our years of experience and extensive training aren’t all we offer you. A great photographer strives to reflect the character of their subject. That’s always our goal! Our uniquely keen eye for composition as well as a sincere interest in our clients (and who they are) are what set us apart from many photographers. It’s what has helped us build our reputation as skilled and caring professionals. It’s what helps us create photographic works of art. We are happy, when are clients are happy!
If you are searching for fine art photography with a highly-reputable photographer in the Lowes Island, VA area, please contact our studio. We would love to create beautiful portraits for you and your family.
Family Photographer, Family Photography
Ever After Portraits is Mindy and Joriana, a mother-daughter portrait 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!
The Bennetts’ Family Wall Art Collection | Northern VA Family Photographer
The Bennetts’ Family Wall Art Collection | Northern VA Family Photographer
Family photos can be loads of fun for us to shoot especially in our outdoor portrait park in Sterling, VA not far from Lowes Island, VA. We recently featured The Bennett Family on our blog talking about how much fun it was to do their portraits in the park. Well, here they are again! We’d love to follow up by telling you the product they selected for their family home.
This outdoorsy family of three wanted their portraits in our outdoor park last fall. Jessica grew up on her family’s Missouri farm and now her daughter, Emma Claire, happens to love farms as well! Jessica contacted us because she was looking for a more custom photographer than a big-box store. Their outdoor portraits turned out great (if we say so ourselves) and reflected everything Jessica wanted!
Jessica and Rod loved their pictures so much, actually, that she ordered a wall collection in Ice, a finish from our line of frameless wall display products.
Ever After’s Ice Wall Art offers our clients an exciting and dynamic presentation of their precious photos. Ice is perfect for the discerning client seeking a more contemporary way to display their images. Non-breakable and face mounted, the image becomes opaque once it’s printed and the colors turn out vibrant and detailed. It’s a great overall look and it was a perfect choice for the Bennetts’ family photos! From the outfits’ colors to the background colors, the results were stunning.
Clients can select from our broad range of high-quality products for family portraits. If you live near the Lowes Island, VA or Sterling, VA areas, take take advantage of our products and our expertise as photographers. We are always excited to meet new clients and turn them into old, longstanding clients! Give us a call! What are you waiting for?!
Family Photographer, Family Photos
Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter portrait 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
Things the Happiest Families Have in Common | Northern VA Family Photographer
Things the Happiest Families Have in Common | Northern VA Family Photographer
Is there a secret formula to creating and fostering family happiness? Can we somehow bottle it? An interesting blog post was written by Eric Barker, “6 things the happiest families all have in common.” As a specialist in family pictures in the Reston, VA area, we are always interacting with families – happily, we might add. However, if this fellow knew something we did not, we wanted to hear it!
Alas, there isn’t a magic formula to ensure your family’s happiness. There are, however, some key things families can do in the pursuit of collective and individual happiness. The article offered six reasonable and achievable tips based on scientific research, according to Barker.
As a photography studio, we love to work closely with our clients to produce extraordinary family portraits. Building relationships with them, and getting to know them moves us closer to better and better pictures. This is one reason we take the time to write this blog! Here are a few tips offered in the blog post worth reading. They certainly got us thinking.
1. Dinner time matters: There’s a lot of research indicating that families who eat dinner (really any meal) together are less likely to produce children who drink, do drugs, smoke, get pregnant, commit suicide, or develop eating disorders. According to the article (and others we have read), families eating at least one meal a day together have children with “larger vocabularies, better manners, healthier diets, and higher self-esteem.” It doesn’t matter which meal you sit down to enjoy with your children. Just pick at least one a day.
2. Roots: Children familiar with their family history and family narrative possess a stronger “sense of control over their lives, the higher their self-esteem, and the more successfully they believed their families functioned.” Photography helps provide families with a sense of real history and roots. Photos passed down through the generations recall relatives long gone but still remembered. Today’s family photos convey to children a sense of family. In the future, those same photos become real memories and are examples of roots. Photos can be invaluable in a family’s narrative and story.
3. Stress: Parental stress affects your children. One survey found that children asked what wish they wanted for their parents, the children overwhelmingly said they wanted their parents to be less stressed.
4. Check lists: Families creating checklists are happier. It’s best to write lists of things that tend to go wrong such as packing for trips, grocery store visits, school supplies, etc. Checklists help a family stay on track without stressing over the possibility of forgetting something. Check it out!
5. Let kids make some decisions: “Scientists have found that kids who plan their own time, set weekly goals, and evaluate their work build up their prefrontal cortex and other parts of the brain that help them exert greater cognitive control over their lives. These so-called executive skills aid children with self-discipline, avoiding distractions, and weighing the pros and cons of their choices.”
6. Grandma makes a difference: Study after study shows that children who spend time with their grandmothers have less stress, are better adjusted, have better manners, and tend to be more compassionate.
Although we instinctively knew some of these, we found them all very interesting! We hope you did as well.
If you are ready to schedule family pictures this summer, contact our studios near Reston, VA. Add to your family’s happiness with family portraits!
Family Photographer, Family Pictures
Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter portrait photography team located near Reston, 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
Why is it worth the time to do high quality professional family portraits? | Northern VA Family Photographer
Why is it worth the time to do high quality professional family portraits? | Northern VA Family Photographer
The difference between professional family and childrens photography and the quick snapshots you may take of your children is – well, to state it rather bluntly, significant. We say this as a professional photographer in the Reston, VA area who loves their clients. However, we also say it to answer the question of whether it’s worth the time to do professional portraits.
As busy professional women, we realize that time is a precious commodity, a luxury, actually. You cannot take back time, and it always seems to be slipping through our fingers like water. However, it is indeed worth taking the time to do professional pictures.
So, why should you use your valuable time for professional pictures? More importantly, how do you find time to have professional pictures done? Here are some thoughts we have on these two questions – and, they are brief since most of us don’t have a lot of time!
Why should you use your valuable time for professional family pictures?
The answer is rather simple, really. You should find the time to do professional pictures because your children will only be young once in their lives living with you, and we only live once. You won’t have a never-ending opportunity to capture their childhood. If you don’t make it a priority to schedule portraits, your children will be grown and gone before you realize it. You might, though, be able to schedule professional pictures for your grandchildren then!
We don’t have re-takes in life. Make the time NOW to capture your family and, especially, your children in fine art professional photography. The portraits, printed on archival-quality materials, will last beyond a lifetime.
How do you find time to do professional pictures, family and childrens photography?
Prioritizing and planning are how you can find the time to sit for and order professional portraits. You need to prioritize portraits if you really want them to happen. Those nights where you’re laying awake thinking of all the things you need to get done, think about the value of a beautiful portrait of your entire family. Think of children’s portraits and how much you’ll enjoy them in twenty or thirty years, when the children are adults, maybe with their own kids.
In the morning, whip out that family calendar and call us. You can look for an open slot even if you have to look several weeks or months ahead, and we will coordinate with you from our end. Then block off that time slot for your family portrait session. That’s it. You’re done. It didn’t take more than perhaps 15-minutes in total – not counting your sleepless night thinking about your to-do list! Now you have one big one you can cross off your list.
If you’ve decided to prioritize your family and childrens photography here in the Northern VA, Reston, VA area, call us. We will pull out our calendar and coordinate a date and time with you! You won’t regret making the time to do these portraits. You’ll see how they are so much more than a snapshot. They’re a work of family wall art!
Family Photographer, Childrens Photography
Ever After Portraits is Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter portrait photography team located near Reston, 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
Creating Wall Art is More Than Taking Pictures | Northern VA Family Photographer
Creating Wall Art is More Than Taking Pictures | Northern VA Family Photographer
At Ever After, we believe that creating beautiful wall art – professional family pictures – for your Reston, VA area home is about more than just taking your portraits. It is about working with you while considering your home’s interior design to find the perfect placement for your portraits.
Using our exclusive, state of the art interior design software, we can consider colors, furniture style, and the very wall you plan on displaying your portrait. We can help you with frame styles and portrait placement to coordinate with your home’s interior design. Every family photo from our studio leaves ready to hang in your home.
We want you to not only love your portraits but love where you display them in your lovely home! Your portraits should reflect your family and so should their placement in your family’s home.
The client experience at Ever After begins with a consultation before your portrait session with us. It is important for us to know the vision you have for your portraits. That vision usually includes the mood, budget, and other details.
• At Ever After we carefully plan and coordinate each portrait session.
• We will communicate with you throughout the process.
• We want our clients to feel that they are being taken care of by our studio, and they have contributed to the process.
• As a result, we consider ourselves a full-service photography studio offering various kinds of portraits – from maternity, newborn, to family photography.
There aren’t any surprises when you arrive for your family photo session! We want you to feel that we have understood what you are looking for in your portraits. We also want to honor your vision as closely as possible and create an amazing piece of photographic art for you!
We are one of the top fine art photographers in the Reston, VA area because we work diligently to ensure your experience with us is memorable and exceptional, and that your family pictures surpass your greatest expectations. There is no better way of decorating your home than with one of your beautiful family portraits! These portraits will live into the generations of the future.
Family Photographer, Family Pictures
Ever After Portraits is the mother-daughter portrait photography team of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson. We’re located Reston, 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
Laino Family Wall Art Collection | Northern VA Family Photographer
Laino Family Wall Art Collection | Northern VA Family Photographer
We love when our clients return to us! We love building those long-lasting relationships with clients. Michelle Laino is one of those clients. We think it’s safe to say she likes our photography including our childrens photography. She also appreciates our archival-quality products. We’re glad that she chose us because we enjoy working with her and her two beautiful daughters here in the Reston, VA, and Herndon, VA areas.
We have had the opportunity to do two family photography sessions with the three lovely Laino ladies! And each time has been better because the better we get to know our clients, the better the resulting portraits.
Following the Laino Family’s most recent session, Michelle opted to order multiple portraits to create a dramatic collection. Her black and white portraits in our Steel Wall Art finish are a work of art. Their collection is now hanging in the entryway of their home. It is the first thing she and visitors see when they first enter her home! There is no better welcome than family portraits and the love they represent in a home.
Steel Wall Art
Our Steel Wall Art is a contemporary finish and product produced using only archival-quality materials. The portraits are printed on a brushed-metal surface for a look that is stylish, sleek, and edgy. A picture collection displayed in the Steel finish is undeniably a show-stopper! It is unique and eye-catching.
Steel Wall Art comes with rounded corners for a clean look and no pointed metal edges. Portraits printed using this finish look crisp. It is also a great finish when you want large portraits – the bigger the picture, the more visually stunning. Michelle chose this finish for her portraits, and she chose well.
We offer a variety of archival-quality products for our clients. We love showing them off! If you’d like to see samples of our products and work, please contact us. We can schedule an appointment for you. If you are interested in a reputable and highly-skilled photographer known for childrens photography as well as family photography in the Reston, VA, and Herndon, VA areas, contact us today.
Family Photographer, Childrens Photography
Ever After Portraits is the mother-daughter portrait photography team of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, located near Herndon, VA and Reston, 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
OPEN FOR BOOKING! Fall Family Portraits Calendar | Northern VA Family Photographer
OPEN FOR BOOKING! Fall Family Portraits Calendar | Northern VA Family Photographer
Reston, Virginia and its area residents are enjoying these lazy days of summer. Most of us are either busy enjoying summer activities or simply enjoying the time to do nothing much! However, summer provides an excellent opportunity to start thinking about booking your autumn family pictures. We have begun booking appointments for September, October, and November, and we recommend you book as far ahead as you can. Together, we can create your dream family portraits!
When the weather begins to transition in a few months, and the bright colors of summer slowly give way to the richness of fall, our outdoor portrait park practically beckons. Just as nature offers an authentic background, our portrait park offers the perfect location for precious family pictures.
Our portrait studio offers our clients far more than just an outdoor space. We offer you the opportunity to enhance upon nature’s offerings with our park’s features and/or props. You can add depth and interest to your portraits with a rustic wooden bridge and pier; a wooden-post fence; an old barn; one of our two ponds; or one of our elegant antique sofas!
We encourage our clients to let their personalities shine through in their portraits. We ask them to work with us to create a stunning portrait honestly reflective of their family. We know when we have achieved that because our clients are thrilled with the results. They see their family’s love captured ever so perfectly in a portrait, and we can see the pride in their faces when we reveal their finished product.
If you would like to schedule fall family pictures for your family, please contact our portrait studio to schedule an appointment. There are only a limited number of days available this fall for portraits, and our fall calendar has a way of booking up fast!
Autumn Family Portraiture
WHEN: September, October, November 2016
WHERE: Our Outdoor Portrait Park in Sterling, VA
WHY: Because time moves so fast — photography stops it!
If you live in the Northern Virginia or surrounding areas, including Reston, Virginia, and would like to schedule or speak to us about your fall family pictures, please contact us. We are always happy to speak to past, current, and new clients!
Family Photographer; Family Pictures
Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy and Joriana, a mother-daughter portrait photography team located near Reston, 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
At what ages should your children be photographed? | Northern VA Family Photographer
At what ages should your children be photographed? | Northern VA Family Photographer
Professional photography is an investment and as photographers for more than a decade in the Reston, VA area, we obviously understand this. So, here’s an insider’s secret for you: You don’t have to invest in childrens photography each year! This is why we offer our clients a recommended schedule of ideal times to take professional portraits of your children.
We have written in previous blog posts that by investing regularly in professional portraits of your children, you can create a visual timeline of their childhood. Pictures allow you to document their endearing changes and stages beginning as early as days after birth. You may chart their growth in inches on a wall or door frame in your home. You also may chart their growth through pictures!
The question most parents ask us is: “How often should our child be professionally photographed?” Here’s our answer:
There are five stages of a child’s life. Within those stages, there are ideal ages to capture with fine art photography. Capture those sequentially and you have that timeline we just referred to above.
The five stages and approximate ages to photograph:
* Baby: newborn, three months, six months, nine months, twelve months
* Toddler: eighteen months, two years, three years
* Childhood: four years, five years, seven years
* Youth: ten years and twelve years
* Young Adult: sixteen years and eighteen years
It’s entirely up to you how many times you do professional portraits of your children! You can do all of these, a few of these, or even add more portraits. Questions? Call us! We are happy to answer your questions.
We can also talk about portrait styles for the ages and what is the best style or composition. Given the spread in ages, what works well for a toddler will most likely not be appropriate for a sixteen-year-old! If you would like to take one portrait per stage, we can suggest what might be the best age within each stage for your child’s professional portrait. It could vary from child to child depending on their development.
Childrens photography is exciting and personally rewarding for us. Contact us if you live in the Reston, VA, Northern VA or surrounding area to discuss your children’s professional portraits. You have our commitment to provide you with a stellar customer experience along with beautifully composed pictures to last a lifetime!
Family Photographer, Childrens Photography
Ever After Portraits is Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter portrait photography team located near Reston, 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
Wall Art Collection, Davis Family | Northern VA Family Photographer
Wall Art Collection, Davis Family | Northern VA Family Photographer
It wasn’t that long ago that we profiled our client Detra Davis and her two adorable children. We thought you would enjoy a follow-up to that post. A Northern Virginia mother of two children, Detra understands the value of investing in professional family photography, including childrens photography, and quality, fine art products. Once her session was completed, she opted for a wall collection of portraits and selected one of our favorite products: Our Fine Art Giclee Ice Finish! The results were just stunning.
Our Ice frameless finish is one of the preferred products for clients’ portraits, and it’s the one we used for our own family portraits. It’s a stunning frameless option and a more modern take on portraits. It’s an unusual, but visually striking way to display your professional photography. We love how well it captures details and colors! It’s only one of an array of excellent products we offer our clients to help them display memories and enjoy them for many years to come.
Detra’s family portraits with their colorful, warm images were perfect for an Ice presentation. She chose wisely and beautifully. The portraits appear to be floating, captured on what appears like ice or glass. The effect is almost ethereal. The colors remain vibrant and crisp even though the technique is opaque. Like all the products we offer, it is museum quality and elegantly finished. You can’t go wrong with this wall art product. It blends seamlessly into any decor, even traditional. In modern or transitional decor, it shines!
If you are interested in children’s photography with a Reston, VA area photographer specializing in fine art portraiture, contact us today. We would enjoy speaking to you about our work and introducing you to our other fine-quality products! We are committed to working closely with you throughout your entire process and addressing your questions.
Family Photographer, Childrens Photography
Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter portrait photography team located near Reston, 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
Creating Treasured Art as a Legacy | Northern VA Family Photographer
Creating Treasured Art as a Legacy | Northern VA Family Photographer
There are so many gifts we make during our lifetimes to our children – some more valuable than others. Family pictures are the priceless ones, though. As a Reston, VA area family photographer, we know how much our clients, and later their adult children, cherish their family portraits. This is why you deserve beautiful family art like the ones we produce for you at Ever After to be handed down through generations.
An exquisite portrait comes through the communication and relationships we build with our clients. We don’t just take a picture and usher you on your way. We will talk with you before you ever arrive for your portrait session. We want to capture everything you are and represent, within your family or relationship that we are photographing.
It is important to us that our portraits convey your family story in some way. We want to capture the love within your family and the happiness it shares. Those are the portraits which will be handed down through generations.
When you compare our work to other photography websites, you will hopefully see that we believe in emotion, creativity, and high quality products. We believe in photography as a skilled art created by perfectionist experts.
We also believe in building relationships with you to produce the best possible representation of your beloved family and its story. The greatest compliment a photographer can claim is the client they photograph throughout the years, those who return to us to capture their lives and families as they change and grow, including their significant milestones.
Our photography also is about the exceptional client experience, and we achieve that through open communication with you at all times. We put a lot of work into planning your session and into discussing your vision for its outcome. Our portraits are works of art of your family to be displayed proudly in your home. We will discuss with you possible placement in your home, and we offer an exclusive software design program to help you decide just where your finished portrait should go in your home!
If you would like this level of photographic art in your home, please call us today to discuss your ideas. We’d love to get to know you and your family and work with you to create a beautiful portrait that celebrates your family’s story and love!
At Ever After Portraits:
• We will have a consultation with you before your session. We do this with each and every client.
• Our unique interior design software can show you exactly what your finished family portraits will look on any wall in your home.
• The day of your session you only need to arrive rested and ready to go. If there are children in the portrait, please bring clean snacks and toys. You will receive specific instructions, though, from us before your session. We make it as easy as possible for you!
• Not long after your session, you will return to preview the amazing results of your portrait session. It’s that simple!
Our fine art portraits are a legacy for the future generations of your family. Your family will have a beloved and treasured portrait by which to either remember you or “know” you through your beautiful images.
If you are in the Reston, VA area and searching for truly meaningful family pictures from a skilled and reputable professional photographer, please contact us. We know you will enjoy the experience and be thrilled with your finished portraits.
Family Photographer, Family Pictures
Ever After Portraits is Mindy and Joriana, a mother-daughter portrait photography team located near Reston, 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