Where are you accepting clients?
Primarily in Utah County, though I have a few Model Call clients located in Salt Lake County. I’m located in Provo, but I’m willing to travel outside of Utah County if you’ll cover the costs of travel. To Salt Lake County, for example, would add $50. Please consider, the further you are from Provo, the more advanced notice I’ll need that you’re in labor, to make it in time.

What if you can’t attend my birth?
I hope that staying in communication as your delivery date approaches will make the odds of this happening extremely low, but I can’t control the weather or traffic. I ask that my clients give me at least a 3 HOUR window to make arrangements, gather my gear, and travel to your birth location. I encourage you to have a birth support partner contact me on your behalf if you’re unable to text/call. Unforeseen circumstances may make it necessary for me to make alternative child care arrangements, which may also increase my travel time. If I’m not able to be there, I’ll do everything I can to provide Fresh 48/Newborn photos. I cannot offer monetary reimbursement.

Do you offer payment plans or flexible pricing?
Yes. My website invoicing offers payment plans through Klarna for up to 12 months. I am also setting aside tips from paying clients to partially or fully cover clients nominated by my birth professional peers, such as midwives or doulas. I may be able to exchange services to cover costs - please email me for more info at etherealbirthphoto@gmail.com

Who owns the photos you take? Do I have authorization to have prints made?
I retain the rights to all photos I take with my devices, and retain the right to share images I take on my website. In my client consent form, I do request your permission to post them on social media, and you’re allowed to deny consent for images sharing your face and/or baby’s face, as well as images with nudity. Clients are permitted to have photos printed from the finished album I send you, but you are not permitted to print images from other albums/births shared on my website and social media. Non-clients do not have authorization to print or otherwise redistribute any images.

What if I really don’t like a photo of me that you posted on your Instagram or Facebook?
Let me know exactly which image(s) you’d prefer not be on social media, and I’ll take it down. I’ll do my best to make sure you look great, but I don’t offer extensive retouching to completely change your appearance. I may still post it on my website, however, if I feel it is suitable for my professional portfolio.

Someone else who will be at my birth is worried about having a photographer there in the room with us, how do I get them on board with it?
They’re not in charge of your body, or your baby, or your birth. Nobody is your boss in your birth space - YOU are the boss in your birth space. If they wouldn’t hire a birth photographer if it was their birth, cool. But it’s not their birth. It’s yours. You don’t need their approval or endorsement. That being said, one of my clients shared that her mother had been apprehensive about a birth photographer, until she explained that it removes the burden on her mother to be the one to take all the photos and get the right shots, so she’s available to just be present and support her daughter during her delivery, and she said her mother was more supportive after that.

Will you be there the entire time I’m in labor? When do you usually arrive at a birth?
If you want me to be there, and if I’m available, I’ll be there when you feel ready to have me join you. Whether that’s in the early stages, or when you can’t talk through your contractions anymore - and whether it’s 3am or 3pm - I’m on call at 38 weeks, and ready to go at any time. Don’t feel bad about waking me up, or keeping me too long, or your labor not moving along quickly enough. It takes as long as it takes, and I’m honored to be part of it, for however long feels right to you, and I can find ways to keep myself busy in my downtime as we wait for your labor to progress.