“I’m not photogenic. I hate how I look in photographs.” | Northern VA Family Photographer

Name: Ever After Portraits
Price range: $$$

After more than a decade in the Cascades, VA area as a portrait photography studio, we have heard every imaginable reason for why a client has delayed or avoided professional portraits:

“I’m not photogenic. I hate how I look in photographs.”
“I need to lose weight first.”
“No one wants a photo of me and I always look tired!”

Making Lasting Memories

Sadly, we tend to hear these mostly from women. And, being women ourselves, we know we’ve all felt this way at some point in our lives! However, years from now, your children won’t be thinking any of those things about you. They will be looking at your portrait with love, emotion, and a tug at their heart. They will be so grateful to have a portrait of you – something that captures your image as they remember you. The value and importance of your portrait should outweigh any discomfort at taking a portrait.

Granted, there aren’t many of us who’d think they look beautiful in just any photograph. You aren’t the only one who feels a bit uncertain of themselves when they step in front of a camera. It’s all normal, as we’ve stated in previous posts.

As your professional photographer, and as an experienced portrait studio, we understand. However, we promise that you will look your very best in Ever After portraits! It’s not in any photographer’s best interests to poorly portray any clients. We wouldn’t have any clients left!

Schedule your portrait session today if not for yourself for your family!

We work hard to ensure your portraits become family heirlooms to be cherished for decades and well into the next generation. Consider the timelessness of a fine art portrait and its value to future generations in your family. We all feel some level of insecurity about ourselves. But waiting until you lose the extra weight or look less tired could be a mistake. You’ll look back one day and regret that you don’t have portraits from a certain period in your life. Those portraits, after all, aren’t just for you. They are also for your children and grandchildren.

If you are ready to visit your Cascades, VA portrait photography studio, please contact us! We understand your concerns because, at some point, we have had them as well. After all, a portrait is worth so much more than a little vanity.

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Family Photographer, Portrait Photography Studio

Ever After Portraits is a portrait photography studio comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter team located near Cascades, 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 Collections or Groupings | Northern VA Family Photographer

Some would say that portrait photography is all about faces. We agree, but we believe it’s more than that. It’s about the emotions and love a family feels. As a family photographer in Northern VA, near Cascades, VA, finding a unique way to capture and also display the love within a family is our specialty.

Wall Art Collections

A wall art collection is the perfect way to gather a grouping of family portraits and show through photographs the dynamics within a family. Through fine art photography, we collect special moments which show off the family bonds you share with each other. That collection of moments is then turned into a beautiful wall art collection or grouping for the walls of your home. Each day you walk by that collection, you’ll feel those emotions well up in you, the happiness you felt on the day of your portrait session, and the fun you had with just being with your family that day.

With our design software, we size your collection to your walls, so it’s never too small or too large, but the perfect fit for the area. Whether your wall space is large or small, we can custom design a collection for you.

For more on why size matters when choosing wall art, please have a look at this post: Why Size Matters for Wall Art

In it, you’ll find size comparisons of different sizes on the walls and get a true look at the difference between an 8×10 and a larger size. You won’t believe your eyes!

Family Photographer, Portrait Photography

Ever After Portraits is the mother-daughter portrait photography team or Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson. We are located near Cascades, VA in Northern Virginia, and 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

Portraits, Davis Family | Northern VA Family Photographer

Some people are naturally photogenic, and cameras love them. No matter what they do, they shine in print! The Davis Family with their identical, glorious smiles are three of those people as you can see in their portraits! The New York City transplants to the Northern VA area contacted us last year interested in taking family photos done with a portrait photography studio. As we’re located in Northern VA near Cascades, VA, it was a perfect fit!

As a hobby photographer, Detra takes many pictures of her children. However, she told us that looking back, she wishes she’d had more professional portraits taken of her children. We hear this often from our hobby photographer clients. Even great photographers find it difficult to take a picture and be in it!

Mother/Children Outdoor Portrait Session

This lovely mom with two children under the age of seven, born just a year apart, is kept very busy! After looking through other photography websites, she reached out to us. She wanted us to do outdoor portraits for them. Our outdoor portrait park was perfect for their family session!

Fun Family Portraits

During her pre-portrait session consult with us, Detra explained that what she most appreciates about portraits is the memories that they capture. She also liked the idea of using professional portraits as holiday pictures, collecting them through the years and enjoying years later. She has dotted her home with both her photos of the children and past professional portraits. She was looking forward to updating the family photos with her Ever After session. The Davises enjoy doing family activities together whether it’s indoors or outdoors. For them, it’s more about doing an activity together. That includes family portraits.

Jon and Adlyn were a joy to photograph. Their laughter made us laugh!

During our portrait consult, we always ask our clients to tell us a little about themselves and their children. The more we understand or know about a family, the better it is for composing their portrait sessions.

If you’re looking for a skilled and reputable portrait photography studio in the Cascades, VA area, contact us! We would be happy to work with your family!

Family Photographer, Portrait Photography Studio

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

Image of the Week, Motherly Love | Northern VA Family Photographer

Portrait photography is our business, but it is so much more than that. Seeing the love that a family shares and capturing that through professional photography is a privilege for us. As family photographers in the Dulles, VA/Cascades, VA area, we specialize in showing those loving bonds in portraits you will treasure.

Mother and Daughter Time

This week’s Image of the Week is a series of three photographs. Virginia and her daughter Isabella, were so wonderful to photograph! The love they shared was simply a pleasure to capture. This amazing feeling of motherly love shines through in this series of three portraits, and so does the return of that love.

The bonds we all share with our families are often beyond words. With portrait photography, you don’t need words. You can see and feel those emotions just from what you see portrayed in a beautiful portrait.

Family Photographer, Portrait Photography

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

“We’re a busy family! We don’t have time for family portraits.” | Northern VA Family Photographer

“We are a very busy family always running in different directions! I don’t think we have time to do family portraits!” As a Cascades, VA area portrait photography studio, this is something we hear so often. Time. It’s hard to make time for things outside the everyday schedule of work, school, play or sports. As family photographers, we have heard it all!

To tell you the truth, however, we can say that if something is important enough to you, you’ll make the time for it. Think of other things you make time for: A movie, a theater production, a concert, a professional sports event.

In our experience, what we find is that some people will put off scheduling photos of their cherished family until “some day,” usually when they realize they’re running out of time with their children or there’s a milestone such as a graduation. Now they find a way to make time!

Our lives are made of up hundreds, if not thousands, of precious moments. Those moments fill our lives to create memories we look back on – as long as we can remember them in the future! Portrait photography, however, records some of those moments for you. As humans, it’s impossible to recall every precious thing about our lives. As humans, we have become dependent on, first, oral history and now visual documenting to pass on our stories, traditions, and memories.

Family Portraits

A family portrait is valuable to you because, for the most part, your children will likely live with you as a family for 18 to 22 years. After that, they may move away, complicating the opportunity to schedule portraits together.

Your parents, their grandparents, will hopefully live long lives. A family portrait gathers all those loved ones precious to you, different generations, and captures them in a portrait. We know from our experience how coveted those portraits become later in our lives. No one lives forever, including us.

The photographer in the family is usually the one least captured in photos. Professional family portraits brings the family photographer out from behind the camera and into the photo with their beloved family. Professional portraits are a great opportunity to capture your entire family in a portrait.

It’s important to find the time to do a professional family portrait. Whether your children are still young or teenagers, prioritizing time to do that family portrait of all of you together will be time and money well spent!

If you live in the area of Cascades, VA or anywhere throughout the DMV and are searching for an experienced and talented portrait photography studio, Ever After can work with you to get that family portrait done and finished to perfection. We can discuss scheduling something that works for your family!

Family Photographer, Portrait Photography Studio

Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, mother-daughter family photographers located in Cascades, VA/Sterling, 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

5 Reasons You Should Have Wall Art of Your Family | Northern VA Family Photographer

We could easily give you at least a dozen reasons why you should have wall art of your family, but we’ll stick to only five in this post! We didn’t need to become photographers working with clients in Cascades, VA, or any Virginia town for that matter, to know that love is at the root of why people order portrait photography of their families! I think most people get that. But not everyone thinks of their portraits as wall art. And, they should! So, we want to talk about why your portrait photography should also be your wall art.

• Ordering fine art portrait photography is not like ordering on Amazon Prime!
It does involve a few (very worthy) steps. You will take the time to find a reputable portrait photographer whose style you admire (that would be us, of course). You will then schedule an appointment with the photographer and then attend your photo session. Each step is easy enough, but you will need to do each one. What does this say about you and your family? It shows your family that you love them enough to take the time to invest in portraits of them! It’s important to you. They are important to you!

Your portraits will become a legacy to pass on to your children and their children!

While there are other things you do to show your love for your family, professional portraits are a special legacy you leave to future generations.

• Quality wall art such as professional portraits will stand the test of time better than a snapshot or box store print.
Quality portraits come printed on museum-quality, archival materials rated for 100+ years.

• There are studies showing that displaying family photos including your children boosts their self-esteems.
Boost Your Child’s Self Esteem With Family Portraits

Decorating your home with art that will always be treasured truly makes it the most valuable art you could hang on your walls!

If you invest in beautiful portraits, why wouldn’t you display them in your home to admire and enjoy every day? What other piece of art could possibly bring so much pleasure and joy on a personal level?

If you’d like to honor and show your love for your family through portrait photography, we are your photographers in the Cascades, VA area!

Portrait Photography, Family Photographer

Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter portrait photography team located in Cascades, VA/Sterling, 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