Last year on our portrait blog we wrote about the difference between digital versus print portraits. Can you enjoy pictures of babies on a CD as much as displayed in your Broad Run Farms, VA area home? As a Northern Virginia area newborn and baby photographer, we can truly say you will not.

Photography is always an investment – not because it may cost thousands of dollars but because it’s sentimentally valuable. Who doesn’t enjoy pictures of their beloved babies and children, especially years later? Children don’t stay babies forever! Who doesn’t love to reminisce about those cherub cheeks and tiny fingers and toes? Pictures of babies are treasured. Baby photography is precious and invaluable to any parent. There’s nothing like the laugh of a happy baby or toddler!

So, while you might walk past a CD stored in a drawer every day, you won’t be able to see or enjoy whatever is on that CD. Walk past a lovely portrait displayed on the wall of your home, and you have the opportunity to appreciate what it holds. But what does a printed portrait actually hold that a CD doesn’t?

A portrait holds memories, and memories impact our future. A baby’s picture holds the promise of a future, of a legacy, of life not yet lived and fulfilled. A portrait of a deceased parent holds a cherished past, a memory you hold deep within your heart represented by who you’ve become and who your children will be. That portrait represents the legacy of a parent no longer physically present, but always loved and never forgotten.

So when you think of a CD holding your pictures, how can you see the legacy, the love, the history, the life yet to be lived?! You can do so only if you open the CD, pop it into a drive, and open the files. Even then, you’ll only see a small image on your screen. When we think of digital photos, we think of storage. It is one way (but should never be the only way) to store valuable digital pictures as a backup for the portraits you have displayed in your home and enjoy daily!

The benefits of digital photos include the ability to store thousands of pictures digitally. Realistically, you aren’t going to be able to display thousands of pictures on your wall — unless you’re a museum and maybe not even then!

Most of our clients in Northern Virginia are tech-savvy and often ask for a digital archive of purchased portraits as an excellent way to store the precious images should anything ever happen to their displayed family artwork. Their favorite portraits are displayed as wall art in various places throughout their homes to be seen, enjoyed and treasured every day.

If you value the opportunity to both store your portraits and to enjoy them displayed where you can see them regularly, contact us. Our clients come from throughout Northern Virginia including Broad Run Farms, VA. We love taking baby pictures and know that once you see Ever After’s baby pictures, you will be excited and proud to display them in your home! You are creating memories by investing in professional photography for your home.

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Ever After Baby Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter baby photography team located near Broad Run Farms, 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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The work we do as a baby photographer isn’t changing the world we live in, but we find it very fulfilling and inspiring. Not only do we love meeting our neighbors and their babies across the Leesburg, VA and Northern Virginia region, but we also love knowing that we are playing a small role in their lives. We create a highly-customized client experience for two reasons: We understand how much our clients value the role of photography in documenting memories, and we appreciate our clients and their families.

It often starts with maternity pictures and progresses to newborn or baby portraits. Often, we later shoot their family portraits as well!

Watching couples become families is incredibly rewarding for us. We understand that the portraits we are taking now will become heirlooms for future generations. We are touching the lives of those we will never meet through our portraits. That inspires us to work closely with our clients and to offer each of them a full-customized experience no matter the type of portraits they are ordering.

Our clients come to us because they value their children, their families, and the memories we are capturing for them. These are parents who value capturing today in print for tomorrow. They don’t just pick any photographer. They choose a reputable fine art photography studio; they choose Ever After.

This is what an Ever After Customized Experience is like:

• We work with you to select dates for your portrait and ordering sessions
• Two highly-skilled photographers during your session
• Access to our 2.5-acre private Outdoor Portrait Park and fully-equipped Indoor Studio
• The option of a portrait session on location anywhere in the D.C. Metro area
• Personally-customized wall concepts and portraits for your home using interior design software
• Custom clothes styling for your session
• Personal assistance in selecting final images
• Editing, retouching, and exquisite design within our broad range of custom products, such as Wall Art, Portrait Boxes and Storybook Albums
• Several framing finishes, including Masterpiece Framed, Standard Framed, and unique frameless options of Bamboo, Ice, Steel and Gallery Wrap
• Customized gift items for gifting

A highly-customized client experience at Ever After is very important to us as a family and baby photographer in the Leesburg, VA area. We know how much you value your family’s portraits and why you take the time to invest in them. Our client experience is genuine and it is designed with the client’s best interests in mind. We know you will value this custom experience!

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 in Northern Virginia, near Leesburg, 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!

View Our Portfolio | Ever After Baby Portraits

We’ve been a baby photographer in the Leesburg, VA area of Northern Virginia for many years. Because of this, we’ve been very privileged to see many newborns and capture the beautiful relationship a mother shares with her new baby. It stills remains one of the most amazing relationships we ever have or will ever see. There is so much love in this relationship, and it shines bright in a mother-newborn portrait.

It’s always heartwarming to see how close and securely mothers hold their babies, and how trusting their babies are. They just know that they are safe in Mom’s loving arms. We thought we’d share a few of our favorite Mother/Baby portraits with you.

We hope you’ll consider us to be your maternity photographer and baby photographer. Please take a look at our Portfolio to see examples of our portraits. We’d love to be your family’s photographer!
 

Baby Photography, Newborn and Baby Photographer

Ever After Baby Portraits is Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter baby photography team located in Northern Virginia, near Leesburg, 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!

View Our Portfolio | Ever After Baby Portraits

Being a baby photographer here in the Leesburg, VA and Broad Run, VA areas, means we are a happily-busy studio with a broad client base – we love it that way! Most of the families we work with understand the value and importance of documenting their children’s lives through professional portraits. We are happy to help them. Our children are only children for so many years living with us, after all.

Sometimes, however, clients are concerned about the design aspect of their portraits. Where should they display their pictures? With maternity photography and even newborn photography, clients often find themselves at a loss as to where to display their pictures. We can help!

We use special interior design software to assist clients with their professional portraits. In a few simple steps, anyone can see what a particular portrait will look like on a wall without actually putting it up.

If you are wondering how this works, here’s a brief summary:

• As a client, you receive a “Let’s Decorate” ruler from us. You will tape that on a wall in your home.
• Snap a photo with our phone of that wall with the ruler in place.
• Send us, via text or email, those snapshots.
• We then upload your photos into our design software. With that, we can create various custom wall concepts sized specifically for your wall!

You get to see EXACTLY what the finished portrait will look like on your wall! It’s as simple as that. The design software takes the guessing out of the selection process. You can order your portrait knowing precisely what it will look like when you hang it up in your home.

As a longstanding baby photographer here in the Leesburg, VA and Broad Run, VA, we love helping you with your portraits and display options. We will work within your design tastes, styles, and preferences. Please contact us if you would like to learn more about our services and products. We can’t wait to work with you!
 

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 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!

View Our Portfolio | Ever After Baby Portraits

A portrait of your tiny newborn, held safe and secure in your loving arms, becomes a family heirloom to be treasured. Maternity photos beautifully portray your body in its final weeks of pregnancy when your curves are most defined. These are emotive portraits of you and the precious life you are carrying inside of you, as well as that precious newborn shortly after you’ve brought him or her into this world. Once we have taken these very special portraits, why would you allow the images to reside buried in a CD instead of a framed portrait displayed in your home? That is a question we will occasionally ask one of our clients here in Leesburg, VA.

While anyone could put portrait images onto a CD, we can’t understand why they would want to.

All portraits are special, but none is quite like newborn or maternity photos. A maternity portrait portrays one subject but truly features two – one of them being in-utero. That alone gives a profound depth and meaning to those pictures. A newborn portrait evokes the feelings of love you have every time you see it displayed upon the walls of your home, the home you’ve made for your precious child.

Deciding to print these photos means that you will enjoy them now and in years to come when that baby has grown up.

We have done enough newborn photography (and we are mothers, after all) that we know some feel it’s easiest just to request a CD of your pictures to have for late. You take the CD and promise yourself that you’ll order prints at a later date. However, as you raise your baby and life becomes busier, that CD collects dust and ages in your drawer! We know this because we have all been guilty of it in the past, and we hear it every day from our family clients.

You cannot hang a CD on your wall! You can, however, display a picture. At Ever After, all our products are rated to last more than 100 years, and we print everything on archival paper or other high-quality archival medium. These aren’t prints from your local pharmacy. These are professional fine art portraits you and your family can enjoy for many years, and pass down to the future generations.

The value of sitting for a portrait session can’t be found in a CD tossed into a drawer. The value is in that stunning portrait hanging on your wall for you and others to admire. The love and warmth of your family, of your newborn, or of your pregnancy radiates from that portrait in ways a CD could not.

Which would you rather have: a CD or a portrait displayed in your home?
 

If you would like to schedule or discuss newborn or maternity photos in the Leesburg, VA area, we’d be happy to speak with you. Please call or contact our studio. We can assure you that the beauty of your portraits will win you over and warm your heart each and every time you see them!

Baby Photography, Baby Photographer, Maternity Photos

Ever After Baby Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter baby photography team located in Sterling, VA in Northern Virginia, near Leesburg, 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!

View Our Portfolio | Ever After Baby Portraits

Late spring, summer, and fall are favorites for outdoor portraits. The verdant gardens in summer and autumn’s cooling temperatures and vibrant colors beckon us all outdoors. But it wouldn’t be prudent as a Northern Virginia newborn photographer not to also offer a fully-equipped indoor studio here in the Broad Run, VA area! Our indoor studio allows us the opportunity to do a very different style of photography. It also gives us the ability to control lights and temperature in ways we cannot do outdoors.

Regardless of the season, our indoor studio is available for use by our clients. The decision to go outside or stay indoors for your portrait is one we’d be happy to discuss with you individually. As Northern Virginia photographers know, weather can be fickle, and it’s good to decide ahead of time if you want to keep it outdoors no matter the weather, or if you’re willing to move indoors. We’re happy to work with you either way in any season!

Indoor Studio Portraits

There are several advantages to consider when it comes to indoor versus outdoor studios.

Controlled Environment

We wish we could control Mother Nature, but we can’t. One never knows what to expect despite a weatherman’s best estimates. Natural elements can affect an outdoor photo session – for the better or for worse. Short of a blizzard, Mother Nature won’t be interfering with indoor sessions. The studio is a controlled setting free of all of these variables. It’s also far easier to control the lighting in a studio than it is in the open-air when we are at the mercy of the elements. For newborn portraits, we exclusively photograph sessions indoors for these very reasons.

Baby’s Style

Let’s admit it: Babies are adorably cute! There’s no wrong or right when it comes to selecting a setting or venue with children’s photography. With newborns, however, indoor studios can offer more convenience, comfort, and flexibility. Temperature can be controlled, and parents might feel more comfortable knowing that.

Convenience

An indoor studio means all our equipment is right there! Our clients can just walk into the studio and be ready to do portraits. There’s no walking around in an outdoor park which might be a bit difficult for some older clients or very young children.

Timeless

Portraits can evoke a timeless style, and black and white studio portraits are very popular for that reason. An indoor portrait tends to be a classic look with a touch more formality. Whether you choose Fine Art Black and White or our Today’s Classics, you’ll be sure to love your family’s portraits

Fewer Distractions

Outdoor locations have pros and cons for family and baby portraits. Our outdoor portrait park offers children more freedom to roam and explore. It’s a beautiful outdoor space, and most kids love it. It also can provide an overdose of stimuli for some children. In a park, there can be more distractions. An indoor studio offers more tranquility with fewer distractions other than the equipment.
 

Ever After is a Northern Virginia newborn photographer working with clients in the Broad Run, VA and Sterling, VA areas. We are always happy to meet new customers and collaborate with them to create a piece of heirloom photographic art for their homes.

Baby Photography, Northern Virginia Newborn Photographer

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

View Our Portfolio | Ever After Baby Portraits