An Ashburn Village, VA area client recently asked us, as their newborn photographer, how they could use their newborn portraits to announce the birth of their baby. It is a relatively common question, so we always know the answer: Use your newborn portraits in beautiful, high-quality custom birth announcements which we design for you!

As a baby and child photographer, we honestly believe that the beautiful, archival quality portraits we do are an investment. Isn’t it wonderful to be able to use those portraits in a variety of equally high-end products?

Interestingly, birth announcements looked quite different just a generation ago! To announce a baby’s arrival, families (especially well-to-do families) would post an announcement in their local newspaper. That tradition has, for the most part, given way to customized cards.

Today, most parents opt to send a card announcing the baby’s arrival – whether it’s a lovely handwritten card, a custom-designed card, or a beautiful card with the baby’s newborn portrait on the cover. Portrait cards have become quite popular recently because they serve a dual role: It’s an announcement of baby’s arrival, and it shows family and friends the baby’s lovely newborn portrait!

We offer several types of very high quality, custom-designed cards in varying styles for your cherished baby.

Platinum Cards

Our Platinum Cards are a must-have for the proud parent who only wants the best! These are printed on premium press papers and die-cut into stylish shapes. It’s a lovely way to announce your cherished baby to the world! Our Platinum Cards are available folded or flat.
 

Gold Cards

Our beautiful Gold Cards have various design options. They are printed on rich papers and custom designed for your new addition! Gold Cards are flat cards.

Silver Cards

Our Silver Cards are just as lovely and can be customized and personalized to your style. Silver Cards are flat cards.
 

You can’t go wrong with any of our cards! If you live in the Ashburn Village, VA area and would like to see some samples of our cards, please contact our office. We are one of the most reputable and skilled newborn photographers in Northern Virginia!

Baby Photography, Newborn Photographer

Ever After Baby Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter baby and newborn photographer team located 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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Today’s babies are being born into a remarkable era. Technological and medical advances will shape their lives in ways we cannot even imagine today. Childhood is fleeting, and things change so quickly that parents can barely keep up! As a newborn photographer, we dwell in the present to capture it for the future. We help our clients across Northern VA, Ashburn Village and Ashburn, VA preserve memories through our photography. So, we ask: How will your child remember their childhood?

Preserving Today for Tomorrow

What are you, as a parent, doing today to protect your child’s life of experiences as memories for them to enjoy some day? How do you remember your childhood? We suspect that photographs likely play a significant role. As photographers, our work gives us great satisfaction because we help our clients preserve poignant memories through our portraits, including wall art, legacy albums and other portrait products.

Where do you start their childhood story?

In recent years, professional pregnancy photos have become very popular. It seems more women want to document their baby bellies through fine art imagery not just for themselves, but for their soon-to-be-born children. These pregnancy/maternity portraits begin the child’s story and start preserving their childhood story for the future.

We have worked with couples who have chosen us to photograph a sequence of family events starting with their engagement portraits continuing through to the wedding to newborn to family portraits and so on! This type of portrait sequence is a gift parents can create for their children who won’t remember all of their childhood experiences. However, their children will be fortunate enough to have beautiful and priceless portraits that begin either while they were still in Mommy’s belly or shortly after their birth! Either way, their childhood is remembered in print, if not in memory.

Photography is a way of capturing our lives so that as our memories fade, photographs remind us of what is important – our childhood, our adult lives and, most importantly, our families and the love we share with them.
 

If you are searching for a leading family and newborn photographer in the Northern VA, Ashburn Village and Ashburn, VA area specializing in poignant and memorable family portraits, contact us today. We would be honored to help you capture your family and your children through photography.

Baby Photography, Newborn Photographer

Ever After Baby Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter baby photography team located near Ashburn Village, 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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Is there anything that makes you happier than seeing your family happy? We doubt there is anything that you enjoy more than your family’s happiness. Now imagine capturing that happiness in a photograph. We do more than imagine it; we do it as an Ashburn Village, VA family and newborn photographer!

We can’t bottle happiness but we can capture it in photographs. So when someone asks us if portraits can boost happiness, we like to think the answer is a resounding and indisputable YES!

Here are a few reasons we can say photographs can increase happiness:

• Photographs capture a slice of history. They can instantly transport you back to another day, time, or even era. Think about the last time you looked at a photograph of someone you love. What emotions did the photo evoke? When you look at a baby’s portrait, do you instantly smile? How about a wedding picture?
• Photos are a tangible way to depict love for one another. In fact, photos can evoke so much emotion that some therapists use them as part of therapy. Display the portrait of a loved one where you will see it frequently, and each time you walk by you’ll smile reflexively.
• Many therapists believe that displaying family photos in your home reinforces your family’s bond and can be powerful for children’s self-esteem and overall happiness within the family. This is one reason why we recommend displaying family portraits in your children’s bedrooms and playrooms!
• One of the more enjoyable moments for us as Northern Virginia photographers is when we reveal to our clients their finished portraits. Clients see their loved ones depicted in their pictures, and they break out in a smile. In those smiles, we see love and pride. For us, it’s validating for our work and heartwarming as mother and daughter ourselves!
• Today’s technology has made photography more accessible to the general public – think the ubiquitous cell phone shots! How many smiles (and a few groans) have selfies generated?
• A photo diary or timeline can bring satisfaction (you were organized enough to do these portraits. Bravo!) and happiness as you look through the visual timeline you’ve created with photos!
• Displaying your portraits in your home as wall art brings a high level of happiness when you see them.
• For parents whose children have grown and left the home, portraits can be especially sentimental.
• For new parents, pride radiates each time they see the newborn pictures of their now always-on-the-move toddler!
 

 
We love working together with our clients to create that perfect family portrait, that piece of heartwarming art. It’s all about love, and it’s all about capturing that in print to enjoy for many decades to come. Like we said, you can’t bottle happiness, but you can certainly capture it in a portrait! We know that each time you see your family displayed in portraits your face will light up.

If you are ready to boost your own happiness through brilliant photography, contact us. We love participating in creating happiness as an Ashburn Village, VA family and newborn photographer!
 

Baby Photography, Newborn Photographer

Ever After Baby Portraits is Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter baby photography team located in Northern Virginia, near Ashburn Village, 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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The delicate beauty of a newborn captures anyone’s heart. There is no articulating the love and wonder a parent feels when looking at their newly-born child. As a newborn photographer in Northern VA and Ashburn Village, VA, we too stare with wonder at these tiny humans. They are, after all, incredible, and we feel a tremendous privilege to do their portraits.

You can’t be one of the best newborn photographers in Northern Virginia by using poor quality products or materials. We always use archival-quality materials to best present and protect your precious portraits!

In a recent post, Framed Newborn Wall Art, we discussed our exquisite Masterpiece and Standard Framing lines. You need a portrait on canvas for the frame, though! We offer two amazing canvas finishes for your newborn portraits: Rembrandt Finish and Artist’s Finish. Both are superior products offering excellent finishes to any portrait!

Rembrandt Finish for Portraits

Our Rembrandt Finsih is for the discerning client seeking a result similar to an oil painting. It is a perfect blend of photography and art. A skilled portrait artist takes the picture and carefully enhances it with oils. The oil brush strokes add depth and dimension for an exquisite finish. The oils bring out the subtle details of the portrait to combine the realism of a photograph with the beauty and style of a painting.

The Rembrandt Finish is as elegant as our Masterpiece Framing line, and together they create a sophisticated and refined piece of art. The handcrafted Masterpiece Frame perfectly wraps around the Rembrandt Finish canvas for an “old world” artistry ideal for a place of honor in your home.

Artist’s Finish for Portraits

Our Artist’s Finish is ideally suited for any newborn canvas portrait. At Ever After all of our Giclée canvases are archival in quality and do not contain optical brighteners, unlike lower quality canvases. It meets the highest-quality standard for printing on canvas.

Your portrait will go through a multi-step process to ensure its quality, and it will be printed directly onto the canvas. The giclée printmaking process sprays microscopic dots of ink onto high-quality canvas. This process yields prints of stunning vibrancy and realism.

The Artist’s Canvas Finish is available both for our Masterpiece and Standard Framing lines. Either frame suits this finish, and we are confident seeing your newborn’s picture in Artist’s Canvas Finish will warm your heart! It will be a portrait to last decades to be enjoyed by your great grandchildren one day.

As a newborn photographer in Northern VA and Ashburn Village, VA, Ever After will ensure that your portraits are of the highest quality and ready for display in your home. These are treasured gifts you give to yourself and your children and their children one day!

Baby Photography, Newborn Photographer

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

How do you piece together your memories and build a legacy? How about precious photographs of those memories? How do you store your photos? As a newborn photographer near Ashburn, VA, we work with memories every day. We have the privilege of helping our clients capture memories as portraits to enjoy them for decades. Building a box of portraits is an ideal way to collect those memories of the first year of your baby’s life in a very special way.

What is a Portrait Box?

The Bebe Coterie Baby Plan, with its sequence of portrait sessions taken during your baby’s first year of life, can be perfect for a Portrait Box. The box allows parents to convey their child’s beautiful story from birth to twelfth month taken through the Bebe Coterie Plan. Our high-quality boxes store additional double-sided professional prints. All our Portrait Boxes are of exceptionally sturdy wood construction. They’re designed to last a lifetime if properly maintained and kept out of direct sunlight.

How do you use a Portrait Box?

When you were a child, did you have a favorite box (a shoe box, maybe?) in which you kept your most treasured and precious possessions? Your rock collection? Your trading cards?

Our Portrait Boxes are boxes for your most special portraits from your sessions with Ever After. On its cover, the box will display one of your favorite portraits. Inside you can store additional styrene-mounted portraits. What better way to share your child’s story? An easel is also included, so you can display a favorite portrait beside the box.

You can create a Portrait Box from each of your baby’s first-year sessions or build a box from a combination of the portraits for a First-Year Box. Either way, you can’t go wrong!
 

 
Many clients order their most favorite portraits to display one the walls of their home, and then order a Portrait Box for the rest of their favorites (after all you can’t put ALL of your favorite portraits from your baby’s sessions on your wall!) or to give as a special gift to a loved one such as a grandparent.

Other products unique to our Bebe Coterie Baby Plan include Build a Collection and Build an Album.

If you are searching for a skilled, experienced, and reputable newborn photographer in the Ashburn, VA area, Ever After would love to meet you and your baby!

Baby Photography, Newborn Photographer

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

Becoming a parent is a wish come true for many people. Children are a gift to us and to the world they will inhabit and experience. As a newborn photographer located in Northern VA near Ashburn Village, VA, we literally view parenthood from a different angle than most people — which is why we view portraits as wall art!

Photography affords us the privilege to work with children and families in a personal and creative manner. It also gives us the opportunity to witness a family’s love for each other. That love is at the basis of everything we try to capture in our portraits – be they pictures of babies, families or both. The best pictures reflect or elicit an emotion. The more powerful, the better – the portrait becomes a treasured piece of art, and something to treasure for years.
 

Decorating with Newborn Portraits

The interior design business is booming. As the economy improves, so does the amount we spend on our homes. In the U.S. alone, we are spending more than $13 billion annually on interior design. People care about how their homes look!

We use a high-end interior design software program in our portrait studio to the advantage of our clients. This program helps you to decide where in your home you should display your finished portraits. By snapping a quick picture of a wall in your home and sending it to us, we can upload that photo into our custom software program and show you exactly what your finished portrait will look like on that wall and in that room in your house. There’s no guessing once you arrive home with your precious art!
 

Newborn Photography as Wall Art

As a mother and daughter team, we love the art of baby photography. The joy of new life, captured in print, energizes us and touches our hearts. Watching parents care for their baby throughout their photo session should give everyone hope for tomorrow. Our role is to craft each portrait so that hope and love are well depicted. The beautifully-crafted frames we offer finish each of the portraits beautifully, providing the final element in its artistry. Our frameless line offers unique finishes, including Bamboo (a green option), as well as Steel and Ice (a wonderfully modern look of printing on glass).
 

If you’re looking for a leading newborn photographer in Northern VA, including the Ashburn Village, VA area, we’d be happy to talk with you about how we can help you decorate your home with poignant portraits of your precious baby!

Baby Photography, 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, near Ashburn Village, 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