Hi, I'm Jayde. Mother of two, wife and lover of the ocean. I live in Woolgoolga on the Coffs Coast NSW. Those people standing with me in that photo there, they are my everything, the reason I'm here. I bet the reason you have landed on my page is because you have your own people (or will have) that you love equally as much. 

I grew up in the Hunter Valley NSW and have two younger sisters. My mother is an old creative soul (even if she doesn't realise it herself) so I can definitely say my passion to create has come from her. Whether it was painting, crochet, pottery or drawing my fondest memories as a child was always when I was creating something. Art Attack was my favourite show!

In High School I studied Art and Photography. Back then there was no digital, it was film and darkrooms. You'd often find me in my lunch breaks in the school darkroom perfecting my craft, or at home taking pictures, arguing with my parents as to why I couldn't convert my walk in wardrobe into my own darkroom. Wherever I was there was always a camera in my hand. 

Much like many photographers, it wasn't until I became a mother that it really hit me how fleeting time really is and how much I wanted to document every little thing about my babies. From then on I devoured every blog, every tutorial, every article, everything I could find online so I could become the photographer I am today.

And here I am!

I am a lifestyle photographer. What that means is I want to see the real YOU. I want to record who you are and how you lived right in this moment of time. I don't want instagram perfect pictures or perfectly posed people because that is a false reality. True life is messy. I want to create photographs that when you look back at them they make you feel exactly how you felt at that exact moment in time. I want you to remember the dimple on your sons shoulder as a toddler, or the graze on your daughters knee from when she first took off her training wheels. I want you to remember how your baby could once fit neatly in your husbands hands or how when you thought you looked frumpy post baby you actually looked breathtaking. Life is busy. We forget. Time passes. Photographs are essentially the closest thing to a real time machine and when we take them we are creating a legacy for not only us, but our children and theirs as well.