“It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.” Paul Caponigro, Photographer. This is one of our favorite photography quotes because it captures the essence of fine art portraiture. As we often say to our clients around the Waterford, VA and South Riding, VA areas, family pictures are beautiful because of what they capture. Family portraits, however, are photos elevated to an artistic quality. Simply stated, portraits can equal art.

Think about what that means.

As a family photographer specializing in fine art portraits, we don’t just usher you into our studios and snap away. We build relationships. We get to know you so that we can take a portrait of who you truly are – not just an image on paper. Anyone with a camera can do that.

The more comfortable you are with us as your photographer, the more comfortable you will be in front of our cameras, and, ultimately, the better you will look in your portraits. When you are relaxed, the “real” you is reflected and captured candidly. We work hard to capture that honest reflection of you.

Before you even arrive at our studios, we will ask you a few questions. These help us to understand more about you and how you hope to use your portraits so that we can better serve you as your family photographer. Again, building relationships with our clients helps us to create portraits rather than pictures.

If you’d like to work with us in the Waterford, VA, South Riding, VA and surrounding area for your next family portraits, please contact our studio. We’d be happy to discuss your vision for your portrait art. Building legacy through family portraiture rather than family pictures is something we know and do well!
 

Family Photographer, Family Pictures

Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter portrait photography team located near Waterford, VA and 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

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

Some of the most meaningful portraits we take as a family photographer in the Purcellville, VA area are with grandparents. They are a powerful tribute to the profound intergenerational love families share. They are a tribute to the legacy an older generation fosters with the younger generation of their family. If you haven’t considered doing a professional fine art portrait of your children with their grandparents, you should. Here are some beautiful examples we came across on Pinterest.

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So, why should you do a grandparents’ session? Here’s the one-word answer: Memories.

These portraits forever freeze in time a loving image of your child with their grandparent or grandparents. Depending on the age of your child, they may or may not remember their grandparents, or they may have only limited memories of them. Their together portrait is poignant evidence of their relationship even if the child doesn’t remember it. But, it’s also tangible proof of love.

As a photography studio, the importance of capturing the interaction, relationship, and the bond between our subjects is vital to the ethos of our work as fine art family photographers. Portraits need to evoke emotion by capturing emotion – that is what we believe as family photographers!

What can you do with these portraits?

Oh, you can do so many beautiful things with these portraits!

– Enlargements as a gift for your parents and order other ones for your own home!
– A beautiful album for the grandparents filled with gorgeous pictures of them with their beloved grandchildren!
– Order our frameless canvas portraits in any size for each of your children’s rooms – what better way to reinforce intergenerational love and connections?
– Order table-sized portraits for your office.
– The holidays are coming. Often entire families come together during the holidays. It’s the perfect time to schedule a multigenerational portrait session with the grandparents! One of our Generations Sessions would be a great choice for you.

The possibilities are endless.

Contact us to discuss more ideas on scheduling an appointment for your grandparent/grandchild portrait session. As a family photographer in the Purcellville, VA area, we enjoy shooting multigenerational portraits of our clients!

Family Photographer

Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter portrait photography team located near Purcellville, 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