A Special Gift, Portraits with Mom! | Northern VA Family Photographer

Name: Ever After Portraits
Price range: $$$

Have you thought about gifting your mom, wife or grandmother with a priceless portrait? To make your mom (or the mother of your children) very happy, here is an idea for a terrific gift: an Ever After Fine Art Portrait or a gift certificate for a portrait! Imagine your mom’s face when she unwraps a beautifully crafted museum-quality portrait of you and your children or a gift certificate toward a portrait of her choosing. Fine art family or children photography can make a treasured gift that will touch any mother’s heart! Our Sterling, VA area portrait studio is ready to work with you on a special gift this year.

Portrait

For a truly meaningful gift (not to say diamonds aren’t significant, of course) you can have a portrait done with us and have it back in time to give to your mom or wife.

Our upcoming Divas and Darlins Limited Edition Session on April 1, 2017, is a perfect opportunity for a mother and child portrait you could give to your wife, mom or grandmother. The Divas and Darlins Session is a beautiful celebration of mothers and children, and is a Limited Edition Session offered only once a year.

If you know a mom-to-be and would like to give her a priceless gift, you can give her a gift certificate toward a Newborn Portrait Session or an even more precious and generous gift would be our Bebe Coterie plan. Both offer a new mother (and father) a priceless gift they will enjoy for many years.

If you prefer, you can instead schedule a portrait session for an individual or a family portrait. It’s entirely up to you. As your family photographer, we are here to collaborate with you on what works best for your family and what you think your mother will love most!

Gift Certificates

There are a couple of possible scenarios when it comes to an Ever After Portrait Gift Certificate.

Let’s say you do portraits with us but aren’t sure which one your mother would like as wall art. Giving her a gift certificate allows her to select the one she prefers.

You can present her with a gift certificate for a portrait session so that she, rather than you or your family, can do a portrait. This way you will have a beautiful, archival-quality portrait of her. Or perhaps a portrait of a grandmother with her grandchildren surrounding her would be just perfect!

Our gift certificates are available in any denomination.

This year, as a special gift you can opt for one of our fine art portraits created with archival-quality materials or a gift certificate toward a portrait in our Sterling, VA area studio. We will be happy to discuss what best meets your needs if you have any questions. We have almost two decades of experience as trusted family and children photography experts in Northern Virginia.

Family Photographer, Children Photography

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

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Which should you choose, Black & White or Color? | Northern VA Family Photographer

As a busy portrait photography studio in the Fairfax, VA and Sterling, VA areas, clients often ask us which is better: black & white photography or color photography. Great question! Complicated answer!

Color is Great!

Color photography can convey the vibrant colors of an image. A floral bouquet comes alive in a photograph. A rainbow cuts colorfully through a landscape in a color picture. For some photos, the color contributes to the story. Without it, you wouldn’t be able to convey the same emotions.

But Black & White is Drama!

Oh, the contrasts provided by black and white photography! Gone is the distraction of colors. The eye focuses on the imagery instead. The play of light and shadow provide intensity, and the viewer is drawn into the drama of the picture without distraction.

Which is Better?

As photographers, we’ve just laid out the simple descriptions of both styles, but we haven’t answered which is better. That’s because we can’t! There is no standard answer. We believe that most of the time, the picture itself can help you decide.

Photographers will tell you that most photos will lend themselves to either black and white or color. Removing the color from an image means removing color as an element of the story. On the other hand, if you remove color from a picture and it’s bland, flattened by its lack of color, that’s your answer. That particular photo needs to be in color because the color was too important to its story.

With black and white portraits, you can still capture intensity and drama – you’re just doing it without color! You can compensate for the lack of color by adjusting some of the contrast and shadows for depth and interest. Black and white photography is raw. Great black and white can capture a subject at its most colorless but its most interesting. Many photographers choose to specialize in black and white photography because they believe it best draws a viewer’s attention to that which is relevant in the picture.

So although there is no standard answer, it all depends on what you want the focus to be in your portrait! Some portraits lend themselves to color and some to black and white. At times it comes down to simply a matter of your personal choice.

With almost two decades as a leading portrait photography studio in the Fairfax, VA and Sterling, VA areas, we’d be happy to answer your questions about black and white photography versus color for your own family portraits. Contact us today!

Family Photographer, Portrait Photography Studio

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

The Value of Family Portraits | Northern VA Family Photographer

Why do you snap family pictures? What value do your portraits hold for you? As Fairfax, VA area photographers, we know that family portrait photography is valuable and personal for the following three reasons:

* Family photographs preserve a particular moment in time.

* There is historical precedence for family portraiture.

* Family portraits create a visual legacy.

Photographs preserve youth.

They freeze time, a particular moment, capturing your family’s images at that point in their lives. Taking portraits of your children throughout their lives can capture memories of specific ages or phases in their lives. One day, you will be transported back each time you look at those pictures. You created a storyline of their lives while capturing memories through portraiture.

The custom of portraiture – first through oil paintings and more recently through photography – dates back thousands of years. There is evidence that portraits date back to the age of the Vikings. Since then, countless numbers of families throughout history have preserved their images and families through portraits. Creating family portraiture is a custom that has lasted through time because its inherent value has been long appreciated. Children grow up and move away. Grandchildren arrive. Grandparents pass on. Life is a dynamic journey. As photographers, we know how important it is to both create and capture memories. While our memories can fade, and people can pass on, portraits can last for generations.

Family portraits are a legacy.

Without a lot of investment of time or treasure, you can create a poignant and profound legacy for your children and grandchildren. The professional portraits we commission today become a gift to future generations long after we are gone. We may not meet those generations, but they will meet us through our portraits and know us as their ancestors.

If you live in the Fairfax, VA area and would like to begin creating your legacy through portrait photography, contact us today to schedule an appointment.

Family Photographer, Portrait Photography

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

Jennifer & Joey’s Engagement | Northern VA Family Photographer

This beautiful couple, Joey and Jennifer, chose us as their wedding photographer. Their Engagement Session at our outdoor portrait park in Sterling, VA was a lot of fun. As a family photographer, we enjoy capturing the moments families share in portraiture. The love Joe and Jennifer share for each other and their adorable baby girl shines through in their portraits.

Engagement Session

Family Photographer

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

A Lovely Family…

Isn’t this a lovely family portrait session? We love staying in touch with our awesome clients and watching their children grow from year to year

A Fun Family Session, The Garbers | Northern VA Family Photographer

We love it when a potential client browses our website and decides to hire us based on our work and reputation! Molly contacted us last summer about our doing fine art portrait photography for her family of four in the Sterling, VA area. With an active 3-year-old Orion and 3-month-old Freya, they were excited about doing their first family portraits. We were excited about working with them!

Lively Family Outdoor Portrait Session

After searching for nearby photographers, Molly and Dave chose our portrait studio for their family portraits. This active family, and especially Orion, loves the outdoors. So, we introduced them to our wonderful outdoor portrait park. We are glad we did an outdoor session because it was a lot of fun to do with them. Orion was quite the ham, and a joy to photograph! This family’s love for each other and enjoyment of the outdoors was evident during their fun portrait session.

Children are always a joy to work with because it keeps us on our toes as photographers. Three-year-old and three-month-old siblings inspire us as photographers and as individuals. To us, children epitomize all that life represents: joy, laughter, and love. We work hard to capture their big, sincere personalities in their portraits!

The Garbers moved to this area just a few years ago. Molly told us they had plenty of open wall space in their home and they were hoping to fill some of it with family portraits from their session with us. As you can see from their pictures, we got some lovely portraits for them.

We specialize in family portrait photography because of the joy it brings us and the passion we have for it. We also do it because we value family and all that it represents for us as a mother and daughter team in the Sterling, VA area. We hope you will contact us for your family and children’s portraits.

Family Photographer, Portrait Photography

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