So should you include a sibling in your newborn portraits? The answer to this frequently asked question is a resounding YES! Yes, you absolutely should include a sibling or siblings in a newborn portrait. We tell our Lansdowne, VA and other Northern VA newborn photography clients this all the time. Why?

Well, let us count the ways:

• Ask the adult last born in any family if there are as many pictures of them as there are of the first born in the family. We bet the answer is no. The first born is usually welcomed with much joy and accolade. By the time you’re on your third or fourth, mmm, things have changed a bit. There’s still joy and accolade, but not as much time. We bet there aren’t as many pictures of the last child as the first. As a baby photographer, we’re just saying! Don’t hate the messenger!

• The arrival of a baby is a beautiful and joyous time for everyone – well, almost everyone! The arrival of a new baby brother or sister can be a little contentious or confusing for a sibling. Most psychologists would tell you to find ways to include the older siblings in welcoming the new baby. Including them in newborn photography is a terrific way to show them in a tangible way (via a photo) how much they, too, matter to you and in the family!

• Some of the most moving baby portraits we have seen have been with an older child and the recently arrived baby. And, while you might enjoy that portrait, the time will come when those children as adults will truly appreciate that portrait of them together.

• The newborn or baby portrait with an older sibling can be serious and dramatic (think formal black and white) or casual and charming (think casual color photo). The more serious one can be yours. The casual one can be displayed in the older sibling’s room where they can see themselves and their new baby sister or brother every day? What better way for the sibling to feel part of the baby’s life?

We could go on and on. Sibling photography as part of your newborn or baby portrait session can be such a important gift for your older children! If you are within driving distance (we’re always worth the drive) to our Sterling, VA area newborn photography studio, call us.

Baby and Newborn Photography, Baby Photographer

Ever After Baby Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter newborn photography team located near Lansdowne, VA in Northern Virginia. We specialize in timeless and emotive fine art family portraits, including newborn and baby 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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Oh, let us count the reasons you should have newborn portraits taken! Newborn photography (and baby photography in general) is a rapidly growing segment of professional photography, and our Northern Virginia area clients, including Lansdowne, VA are increasingly asking for it. Why? Because they want to capture those precious early days and years in gorgeous baby pictures!

Based on our years of experience as professional photographers (and as a mother for Mindy), here are just a few reasons you should consider Newborn and Baby photography:

1. Because you cannot take back time! We are certain you’ve heard this before, but they really do grow up before you know it! Don’t be that parent who laments to us during their child’s senior portrait that they wish they’d done more professional pictures, including baby pictures, during their childhood. Why not create a wall gallery in your home documenting your precious child’s growth from newborn through the varying stages of their growth and sweet life? Imagine the day you’ll add their wedding portrait to the gallery. What a gift you are creating for your child to have one day when they are an adult with children of their own.

2. Those first days are incredibly special! Those first few weeks of parenthood, especially with your first baby, will be a blur of feedings, diapers, and lack of sleep. Yep! Sorry to tell you, but we thought you knew that already! A newborn portrait taken within days or hours of a sweet baby’s birth marks a special moment in your lives as a family – whether it’s your first or last baby. Newborn photography will help document those first days or weeks with your newborn.
 

 
3. Better than a snap shot! Yes, you can whip out that phone or camera and snap some baby pictures in the hospital, but it’s just not the same. There’s a lot of skill, time, equipment, and experience behind each one of our portraits. All our portraits, including newborn portraits, are printed on museum-quality materials and the framing is equally high-quality. The results are incomparable, and your portraits will last for generations!

4. Everyone else is doing it! Ok, you won’t often hear us saying that, but newborn and baby photography has become extremely popular. It seems that every parent is documenting those first days and years. Do you really want your child to be the one without any professional portraits, and one day, after seeing Tommy’s newborn portraits displayed in his home, they ask you where their newborn portraits are?
 

 
5. And don’t forget maternity photos! To many mothers, maternity photos hold a poignant place in their hearts. While that precious life is growing inside of you, capture that special time with a Maternity Session. (We offer a Maternity Session add-on to our Newborn Sessions.)

 
As family photographers in the Lansdowne, VA area, we’d love to help you document memories with your precious newborn, and we do the full range of family photography! We know how valuable newborn photography is to each of our clients, and how they will be treasured for decades.

Contact us to schedule your session at 571.434.0009 or contact us here.

Newborn and Baby Photography, Baby Pictures

Ever After Baby Portraits is Mindy and Joriana, a mother-daughter photography team located in Sterling, VA, near Lansdowne, VA. We specialize in timeless and emotive fine art family portraits, including baby and newborn 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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Newborn and baby portraits can be very poignant, very intimate images. As spring ushers in summer’s blooms, the natural beauty of the Sterling, VA landscape reminds us of birth and life. Ready to enjoy the outdoors after this long winter, our baby photography can also head outside!

Nature’s Studio

Using our beautiful outdoor portrait park as your baby’s personal portrait photography studio can result in some very unique and striking images. You can expect the unexpected when we use the changing landscapes created by nature.

Imagine a sweet and tiny baby framed in the background by the fresh greens of leaves and the browns of tree bark. The image reminds us that life is born and exists in many forms.
 

 
Enhancing with great props

We don’t leave it to nature all the time, though. At times, she needs a little help! We have some great props for added interest to your portrait. Our red vintage truck is a favorite with men and boys. Our antique sofas in several colors add drama to an already rich and lush summer landscape. Our bridge and pier set by an idyllic pond reminds us of a time captured by Norman Rockwell in his iconic paintings. We can use any of these in your baby’s portrait.

Imagine your sleeping baby on its tummy laying on one of our classic and elegant sofas. A boy placed on the hood of the vintage, red truck is also darling – heck, we can use it with girls as well! There are many options and we’re happy to discuss and compare ideas.

Children ground us. They enrich our lives. They provide a meaning we hadn’t known. And, that is why capturing their portraits set amongst nature in the outdoors is so compelling. We’ve heard people say that when you’re closest to nature you’re closest to God or a spiritual feeling. What better place to produce a dramatic portrait of new life? – Well, ok, our indoor studio could absolutely produce an equally dramatic portrait! We do it all the time. The outdoors simply provides a different style of drama, a different type of intrigue.

If you are interested in newborn or baby photography – either indoors or outdoors – we’d love to discuss the countless possibilities for an artistic and poignant portrait of your cherished baby. These are special days, weeks and months. Capturing them is important and will stir your emotions for decades to come when you see the final portraits! Our portrait photography studio is in the Sterling, VA area and work with clients across Northern Virginia and the DMV.

Baby Photography, Baby Photographer

Ever After Baby Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter baby photography team located in Sterling, VA.. We specialize in timeless and emotive fine art family portraits, including newborn and baby 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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Anyone can take a picture. But only a trained and skilled professional can do a beautiful, fine art portrait. And, that is an important distinction in a world where everyone has a camera. It is possible to demonstrate creativity and snap some great pictures on your smart phone. However, when it comes to certain types of photography, such as children’s and newborn photography, there is no substitution for a skilled professional. Ever After Baby Portraits in Sterling, VA knows how to take these portraits so that your baby or child is safe, comfortable, and, hopefully, enjoys themselves. There is nothing more precious in our lives than our children!

When you’re looking for a photographer to capture priceless portraits of your newborn, it is important to find the right portrait and child photographer. They need to be a professional who knows how to capture the beauty and grace of a newborn baby.

Ever After Baby Portraits, a family and child photographer in Northern Virginia, has all of the experience and know-how to bring out the very best in your family portraits.

Why Is Experience and Skill So Important for a Newborn Photographer?

A photograph is a piece of art which should reflect the love you have for the new baby in your lives. While photography techniques like lighting, position, and image quality can deeply affect the outcome of a portrait, the photographer needs to know how to capture the sentimental ambiance of your newborn portraits.

Newborn photography can only be shot during a very small window of opportunity. The newborn photographer will not likely have another chance to recreate or craft that session. You should not trust just anyone with a camera to deliver you the quality results you’re looking for.

It is important that you select a newborn portrait photographer who has the professional and artistic command to weave together those aspects of portrait photography which create a lasting and timeless image of your baby during its first days in the world.

The newborn photographer you select should also ensure that at all times your baby is comfortable and completely safe. There should be no possibility of unstable equipment being used with or around your baby. They should be stabilized on whatever surface they are placed. There should be no risk of anything toppling over onto your baby.

We don’t offer these warnings to make you second guess the idea of newborn portraiture. Not at all! Newborn portraits are some of the most heartwarming and endearing photos your child will ever take. However, this is why selecting a well-trained and highly-skilled newborn photographer is extremely important.

What Can Ever After Baby Portraits Do for You?

The excellent and professional photographers at Ever After know that, when doing portrait photography, capturing love and emotion is truly what it’s all about. This mother-daughter baby and newborn photography team has all of the skill and understanding to give you the gift of images that will not only last a lifetime, but will bring you back to the very moment they were taken and allow you to re-live the heartfelt sentiment of your baby’s first days time and time again.

Newborn Photography, Baby and Child Photographer

Ever After Baby Portraits is Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter baby and newborn photography team located in Northern Virginia, in Sterling, VA. We specialize in timeless and emotive fine art family portraits, including newborn and baby 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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Becoming a parent is one of the most exciting things that happens to any of us! It’s a special time, and it’s only natural to want newborn photos to document the baby’s arrival! We are always happy to answer questions, and we work with clients all over the Northern Virginia area including Sterling, VA and Dulles, VA which are close to our newborn and baby photography studio.

Here are questions clients often ask us and our answers:

• When is the best time to do newborn portraits?
Within the first week is ideal and up to about 7 days. During that time newborns are still sleeping quite a bit and curling themselves up as if still in the womb.

• How do you work around due dates and actual arrivals?
We understand babies come when they’re good and ready, so we will work you in. We ask that schedule a tentative Newborn Session date with us around your due date, so that time is set aside for you on our calendar.

• How far ahead should you book newborn portraits?
As far ahead as possible! We can get pretty busy some times and hate to turn away new parents! Try to book several months before your due date!

• How long does a newborn portrait session last?
We tell our clients to expect to be there about 3 to 4 hours in total. Not all of that is actually taking photos. There are feedings, if needed, posing, outfit changes, etc.

• What should the baby wear?
Whatever you like! Most people prefer their newborn babies without any clothes. Some prefer with clothes. It’s up to you, but we recommend as little pattern on the fabric as possible. If you’d like to include a family heirloom, like a precious silver rattle, in the picture, bring it along!

• How should a newborn photographer be selected?
Experience, references and style of photography. All three are important! Taking newborn portraits is not for the faint of heart or the inexperienced. You don’t want someone without experience handling your baby for a photo shoot! Safety comes first and all equipment should be selected with a newborn’s safety in mind – always! Be certain you’ve checked references and you like their style of photography.

• What if the baby has an “accident”?
Been there! Done that! Newborn photographers or really any photographer working with children knows things happen, and they are prepared for it. You should be as well! Everything we use is washable!

• Any last thoughts?
Yes! Don’t be nervous. Your baby takes their cues from you. If you’re nervous, they will sense it and get distressed. Also, when you choose us, you’re working with experienced newborn photographers. We know how to handle babies. Trust us.

Ever After has been providing Northern Virginia and other DMV parents with newborn and baby photography for years! We take every precaution to ensure safety as well as your baby’s comfort – yours, too! If you’d like to do an Ever After newborn photos, please contact us to discuss your due date, ask and get answers to your questions, and get on to our schedule. We are in the Sterling, VA area, but work with clients throughout Northern Virginia and the DMV.

Baby and Newborn Photographer, Baby Photography

Ever After Baby Portraits is comprised of Mindy and Joriana, a mother-daughter newborn and baby photography team located in Northern Virginia, in Sterling, VA. Specializing in timeless and emotive fine art family portraits, including newborn and baby portraits, we create beautiful portraits for your home. 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!

View Our Portfolio | Ever After Baby Portraits