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.
When you hire Ever After Portraits as your professional family photographer, what you’re actually paying for is:
Someone who has years of experience in family photography
Someone who will spend time getting to know your family before the portrait session so as to bring out the best and most genuine expressions from you and your children
Someone who will style your session uniquely for your family and for your family home
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As a portrait photography studio located in Sterling, 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 an indoor and outdoor photography studio.
With the ready availability of cameras today, on our phones and other devices, people are constantly taking snapshots. Our faces are all over social media, sometimes even if we don’t want them to be. It seems like everyone with a camera suddenly thinks they are a photographer. After all, it’s so easy to snap a photo; everyone does it all of the time!
Does this easy access to cameras mean that there is no need for professional family photographers? Does it mean that, with the availability of digital media, there is no need for large wall portraits of your family to display on your walls?
Investing in portrait wall art
Is investing in quality wall art portraits of your family worth the cost?
Digital media lives and dies on your hard drive. Consider how often media storage methods change: 8”, 5.25”, 3” floppies; ZIP drives; CDs; DVDs; Blu-ray; USB, and on and on. What will be next? Once the method changes, it’s next to impossible to recover anything from the previous storage method. Would you be able to look at photos on a floppy disk right now? But at the time, it was considered the “latest technology.”
There is, however, lasting value in investing in portrait wall art. At Ever After, our goal as family portrait photographers, is to create beautiful wall art of your family, something worthy of being displayed on your walls, wall art that will decorate your home with the ones you love. We create heirloom pieces that you can pass down to the generations after you, to your children, and your children’s children.
With wall art, you will enjoy portraits of the ones you cherish every day. We want you to have the enjoyment of coming home every day, after a long day’s work, sitting down, perhaps on your couch, looking up and seeing portraits of the ones you love, laughing, snuggling, cuddling and enjoying the closeness you share as a family. You’ll be able to say “That is what’s truly important!”
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As a family photographer located near in Sterling, VA, in Northern VA, we specialize in family portrait photography. We create 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. Professional pictures of your family are sure to be loved!
We couldn’t choose just one image of this beautiful little girl; so we chose three! Jocelyn was so very expressive and it was a joy getting her to just have fun and laugh and play in front of the cameras.
From the top of her dainty head to the tips of her toes, Jocelyn was a little lady. So we asked her to make some funny faces, and she delivered with a roaring lion . . .
. . . and lots of laughter!
After some laughter and fun, it’s easy then to get the portrait that Mom and Dad will love.
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As a family photographer located in Sterling, VA, in Northern VA, we specialize in portrait 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 family photography.
Do you have a CD of family photos in a drawer somewhere in your home? Have you ever even printed any photos from that CD? Unfortunately, as is often the case when you have photographs taken and you’re given a CD, those images never see the light of day.
Consider this, too: If you hunt out that CD, will anything on it be recoverable? Such media has a shelf life and can be affected by heat and cold. Sometimes nothing can be recovered. So what is the very best way for you to start saving your precious family portraits?
Keeping alive precious memories
The solution to preserving your priceless family portraits is to have them professionally created, made into archival quality art, and to display them on the walls of your home. At Ever After, our heirloom artwork and products are rated to last over 150 years, and are printed on archival paper or other medium, with archival inks.
The true value of beautiful family portraits is beyond measure. You will enjoy that portrait every day as you walk by it. Your children will undoubtedly see the genuine heartfelt love you have for them, large as life, every time they look up at those portraits. You’ll remember the joy and fun you had with your family while your portrait session was taking place, watching as your children played and just enjoyed time with the family. Such memories are truly priceless.
Which would you rather have?
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As an experienced portrait photography studio in the Sterling, VA area, Ever After Portraits knows how much you cherish your family. We’ve worked with families for almost two decades now. The families that reach out to us want to capture their family’s love and bonds through fine art portraits. But, they don’t want just any pictures. They want portraits which are beautiful and poignant enough to instantly become cherished family heirlooms.
If you too want to document your family in this manner, you can contact our studios to schedule a family portrait session. As fine art photography specialists, we believe that this type of photography is one of the most powerful ways to demonstrate your family’s love. It transcends the quality of normal photographs to something more like art you can prominently display and cherish for decades. (All our portraits are printed on photography paper rated to last 100+ years.)
Family Portraits as Art
If you would like to decorate your walls, it’s well worth considering family portraits instead of traditional pieces of inexpensive, generic artwork. Keep in mind that fine art family portraits are a powerful and personal form of art! There is nothing more special or more deserving of wall space than your family’s portraits. If that sounds like a tempting thought, read on to learn the multiple reasons why you should hire a professional photographer to take family portraits that will take pride of place on your walls!
Family Portraits Make Your Family Feel Cherished
Our portrait photography studio can capture your family’s love for each other in family portraits. Here’s how those family portraits make your family feel cherished.
1. We can capture a special moment in time.
Time flies in the blink of an eye, and before you know it, your children will be grown and taller than you! Then, they’ll be off to start their own lives, and you will wonder where the time went. If you’d love to capture a piece of your children’s childhood in a family portrait, it’s well worth choosing a family photographer from a professional portrait photography studio. The day will soon come when your adult children tell you how grateful they are that you had professional portraits taken during their childhood. It is a legacy we can help you create to be enjoyed for many years to come!
2. Your children will feel special seeing their portraits on the walls of their family home.
As parents, we’ve all witnessed our children’s pride when we display one of their drawings. Modest as those drawings might be, they pull at our heartstrings, and we cherish them as our own “Picassos.” Displaying professional images of your children is no different. It evokes in both you and them a deep feeling of pride and love. Everyone who visits your home will see your family portraits. And, your child will feel very special each time they pass by those images. They will know that you cherish them enough to invest in, and display, portraits of them. Better yet, those images reinforce to your children that they are part of a close-knit family unit which means the world to each other.
3. Family portraits have a far higher, more personal value than traditional art.
Though all art has its own value, would you rather look at a landscape painting of a lake or a field of flowers every day, or look at the smiling faces of your family members, especially your children? You might tire one day of looking at the same landscape day in day out. But there’s no chance that you will ever tire of looking at a beautiful family portrait taken by a professional portrait photography studio! In years to come, your children’s children will value those portraits far more than you can imagine today. The love we captured in those images will be carried through to the next generations, giving those portraits a unique, more personal value than ordinary artwork.
4. Displaying a family portrait is a lovely way to showcase your family to your guests.
Guests to your home, including extended family members and friends, will naturally gravitate to a large portrait of your family. Think back to the last time you saw a beautiful family portrait in a friend’s home. What was your reaction? Most of us are instinctively drawn to those portraits because, if they are well done, they offer a glimpse of or a personal reflection of that family’s bonds. The portraits can serve as an excellent showcase for those who visit the home.
The Role of a Portrait Photography Studio
Before you hire any portrait photography studio, you should keep in mind their actual role in creating your family portraits. They should be able to accurately capture and reflect the individuality of each family member in a family portrait. After all, no two people are alike, and it is the individual personality traits which come together to form a family. The studio you select should have experience working with family groups as well as individuals. We certainly have that experience, which is why we’re able to work with families so well and capture their personalities on camera and in print.
Experience with Children
If your family includes young children, then you should work with a portrait photography studio that has a lot of experience working with children. It takes creative thinking, patience, and expertise to photograph children, particularly when they’re part of a group. We know just how to “distract” children so we can get the right images. While family portraits are commissioned by, and taken for, the adults in the family, these portraits are in large part for the children one day. They will feel loved and cherished by seeing themselves displayed in your home. One day, when they have those same portraits displayed in their own homes years from now, they will still feel your love each time they are reminded of you because of those portraits.
So what are you waiting for?!
If you’re keen to display family art on the walls of your home, it’s definitely worth getting a family portrait commissioned. Not only will a portrait decorate a room, but it will also ensure that your family members feel loved and cherished!
You can contact our portrait photography studio in the Sterling, VA area to schedule your family’s professional portraits. We work with families all across Northern Virginia.
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Portrait Photography Studio
Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy and Joriana Belcher, a mother-daughter photography team, with a portrait photography studio located in Sterling, VA, in Northern Virginia. They specialize in timeless and emotive fine art images.
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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We specialize in the art of portrait photography. As a family photographer in Sterling, VA, we understand how very much fine family portraits mean to our clients. Through fine art photography, we capture the loving bonds shared in families.
The value of portraiture as a central part of a family’s home décor is well recognized today. A great family portrait is achieved through planning and attention to detail. The care and attention to color, coordination of clothing, setting of the portrait, all the way through to the correct framing is part of the customized service we provide to our clients.
Family photography is a valued art form
Whether classic or modern and contemporary, whether in color or black and white, Ever After’s fine art photography creates more than just a simple portrait. Your family portrait will, without a doubt, become a cherished possession for many years to come and through generations of your family.
The immense value of photography goes far beyond creating memories and decorating your home, however. Psychologists in recent times have come to recognize the importance of displaying a family’s togetherness. For children in particular, the benefits of being constantly reminded of the love shared in the family and of the feeling of “belonging” has a profound impact on their emotional stability. Displaying family portraits prominently in your home is invaluable in strengthening that familial feeling of security and being loved.
At Ever After, we capture that special togetherness of your family in our indoor studio with our Today’s Classics portraits, as well as in our outdoor portrait park.
Share the Love In Your Home with Fine Art Photography
When decorating your home with fine art wall portraits from Ever After, you will have several options.
We offer a fantastic line of wall art products, including two framed lines, Masterpiece and Standard, as well as four frameless lines, Bamboo, Gallery Wrap , Ice, and Steel. With the addition of beautiful family portraits, your home decor will take on a warm and artistic quality uniquely created for you.
From a small wall in your hallway . . .
. . . to a major feature wall . . .
. . . we will create lifetime masterpieces of your family, portraits which will truly be treasured for generations to come.
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