Fine art family portraits in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Dale Studios creates heirloom wall art for families across the Twin Cities — timeless family photography designed to last generations. Browse our guides on planning a session, what to wear, when to book, how often to update your family portrait, and how to display your portraits at home.
There’s a framed photograph in a lot of the homes I visit that I can date within about three years just by looking at it. Families in Edina, Chanhassen, and across the west metro come to Dale Studios when it’s time for a new portrait. The children are a certain height. Someone is wearing a…
I’ve been in a lot of homes over forty years of photography. I’ve made deliveries, I’ve done follow-up appointments, I’ve helped families decide where a portrait should live. Families in Bloomington MN and Chanhassen come to us with beautiful portraits and no clear idea where to put them. That changes after this. What I’ve noticed…
The last extended family portrait I did before the matriarch of that family passed away was taken eleven months before she died. If your extended family is spread across Eden Prairie, Plymouth, and the west metro, our studio makes coordinating the session easy. She was eighty-three. The family had been talking about doing it for…
Let me tell you what actually causes a difficult session. Families from Minnetonka and Chaska come to our Eden Prairie studio regularly, and the question we hear most is: how do I get my kids to cooperate? It’s not the three-year-old who won’t look at the camera. It’s not the teenager who said seventeen times…
I want to tell you about a hard drive. Families in Wayzata and Edina ask us about this all the time. Digital files feel safe. They’re not. Here’s what we tell them. It belonged to a family I photographed in 2009. Beautiful session — three kids, a dog that wouldn’t sit still, late afternoon light…
In forty years of photographing families across the Twin Cities, there’s a conversation I’ve had more times than I can count. A family calls — usually a daughter, sometimes a son or son-in-law — and they want to schedule a portrait. And somewhere in the first few minutes, almost as an aside, they say it:…
Most of the adults we meet at Dale Studios have the same story about their father. Families in Eden Prairie and Edina have called Dale Studios after a health scare, a hospitalization, or a diagnosis — and every one of them said the same thing: they wished they had come sooner. There’s a wedding photo…