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Jess Porter Photography

Laidback lifestyle family, maternity and newborn photographer based in Newcastle.

17/04/2025

Me, every few months, at around 11pm: “Now feels like a great time to spend a few hours re-editing half a gallery that was delivered nearly a year ago, choosing the perfect images for a carousel and then the order in which to place them, oh and let’s not forget questioning all my life choices, before then realising it’s 1.30am and deciding it’s too late to post.”

Perfectionism: because why stress over one thing when you can stress over ALL THE THINGS? 🫠

It doesn’t matter if I’m editing a session, writing a caption (the 2 or 3 times a year that happens), or choosing between two nearly identical photos, my brain’s all, “Yeah nah, not quite right yet gf, keep tweaking. More…more….MORE. Ok now too much, go back 5 steps…”

The dumb part? A lot of the things I obsess over (well, probably all of them tbh)— the slight colour tweaks, the exact crop of an image, the order of photos in a carousel, editing out the stray hairs the wind has swept across a client’s face in 20 photos… these are things my clients probably wouldn’t even notice. And I know that. I really do (it legit makes me even MORE annoyed at myself). And yet... here I am, still doing it 🙃

Trying to unlearn the habit, one overdue post (and one very over-tweaked gallery) at a time.

Fellow togs: how do you know when to stop tweaking and just hit send? Help a sister out 🙏🏼

Side note: This stunner of a session took place in Georgia and Billy’s yard (imagine having all that autumny goodness on your doorstep?! 🍁) - those golden leaves, that soft autumn light, and one very charismatic toddler named Florence who had absolutely no interest in letting the bump (aka soon to be little bro Banjo) have top billing 😂

06/12/2024

17 years.

That’s how long it has been, since I met Belle, as a fresh 18 yr old, drunk at a house party, on the Central Coast.
17 years between us singing 30 Seconds to Mars at the top of our lungs, and seeing each other again only last month - when we met up again, to discuss me PHOTOGRAPHING HER BLOODY WEDDING!
Who’d have thunk it?! Not me 🤯

But what a day. I loved it all.
From the bubble guns, to the margaritas and gelato, and the traditional pants-down rendition of Wonderwall. Not to mention the infamous P**p Flood (yes, I’m going to be that person who inserts a ‘you had to be there’/inside joke reference; sue me) 💩

Sometimes it can be 17 years between meeting someone, and yet you still know they’re gonna match your vibe; they’re gonna pick up what you’re putting down, ya know?

Thank you Belle and Dave for such a fun day, and to all the amazing vendors who made it so epic:

Special shout out also to for being my right-hand woman and second shooting for me. Always a blast working with you!

For those lucky enough to see this when I post it at 1am (and whoever’s feed Instagram deigns worthy enough to grace this post with over the next 24 hours) - I am going to share a photo of us on my Stories from the aforementioned night, 17 years ago. Back when that weird, pouty face was the thing we all did? Except Belle - she was smart enough not to. Must have known she’d have looked like an idiot in years to come. I must have missed that memo 😎

Also, just putting it out there - I demand an extra level of appreciation for this, as I actually had to go through all my old CD’s I burned photos to back in the day (remember those?), to find this photo…as well as digging up a laptop old enough to have a CD drive 😅

15/10/2024

It’s been a while since I posted some b&w shots, so here’s a couple of favourites from this beautiful maternity session with Jen and James 🤍

05/09/2024

All hands on deck!

27/06/2024

About a month ago, I started going through my client galleries and downloading a bunch of images from them onto my phone, so that when the urge strikes, I had some ready to post.
Weirdly (for me), I had only selected 6 from this particular session 🤔 Now, I’m certain I had some sort of reason behind this, but as of this moment, I have no idea what that reason was.
Quickly choosing just a few at random, so as to not overwhelm myself with choice?
Possibly.

If that’s the case though, past-Jess was kidding herself, because right now, all I can think is that there is absolutely, positively, no way in the world, I can only share 6 images from this session.

So here are a few favourites of this ridiculously beautiful fam, in a ridiculously beautiful location, basking in the glow of a ridiculously beautiful sunrise.

Oh, and of course there’s so many I love from this gallery that there’s no way there’s not going to be a part 2 (…and I don’t think I could rule out a part 3 either tbh 💁🏼‍♀️).

23/05/2024

Hey! Hi! Hello!

Long time, no see wave 👋🏼 I just wanted to do a quick post to say I’m still here, because a thing that I’ve been worried about happening, finally happened - someone wasn’t sure if I was still in business, due to my being s**t at socials these days 😅

So I wanted to clarify that. I’m still very much here, and in business! Just forever in my editing cave 🧌 (me as a troll, which I imagine I look like when occasionally leaving my cave).

I then realised I needed to choose an image to post, so off I went, down the gallery rabbit hole, trying to decide *which* image to share, and an hour later, after wondering “HOW have I not shared ANY of these yet?!?”, and proceeding to download between 30-50 images to my phone, from the few galleries I’d looked at… I realised it would take me another hour (lol jokes, it’d probably be 2) trying to put together a carousel of said images.
Then my brain said “JESUS CHRIST JESS! JUST QUICKLY PICK ONE FAVOURITE AND POST THE DAMN THING!”

And so here I am. Posting the damn thing…Before I get distracted…again.
A favourite from a lovely morning, spent with the even lovelier Aitchison fam 🌴🐕

I’ll be sure to post the other 248 favourite photos I downloaded, soon…ish.
Promise! 🫶🏼

18/10/2023

Little Roo 🧡 this little gal is so gosh darn cute, she neaaaaarrrly makes me want another 👶🏼

(Still very much one and done though, so don’t anyone get their hopes up 😜)

BUT LOOK HOW CUTE SHE IS!! I CAN’T DEAL 😍

And of course I struggled to choose which images to post, so there’s still plenty more to come from this beautiful session 🧡

04/09/2023

Dana + Rome 🩶

31/08/2023

Jack, with his one true love… and his wife

29/08/2023

If I could only shoot at this location for the rest of time, I wouldn’t be mad about it 🌿

This is one of my favourite family sessions from last year, with the lovely and her sweet fam.
And yes, I have been sitting on this goldmine of super cute pics for nearly a year now, because it’s really hard to choose your favourites from over 300 photos 😅

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45 Euloo Road
Peats Ridge, NSW
2250

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http://www.jessporterphotography.com/

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