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The latest from @Oyster.Fam

Swipe to see a wild oyster family, washed up on the shores of our family place in Prince Edward Island. 🦪❤️ Oyster families grow together in coastal beds — the mamas and daddies adhere their shells to the bedrock, and the babies grow on their
Snuck in one last holiday family shoot for 2024! ✨ Swipe to see my special assistant in the last pic 🦌🎄 #familyphotography #bayareafamilyphotographer #bayareaphotography #familyphotographer
Welcome baby Alta ✨ Birth photographer lesson I learned yesterday: always (always always always) carry your camera with you when you’re on call for a birth. 😅 I got the alert that Mama was in labor, and baby was coming quickly. I was one hou
It was a joy to support this mama‘s vision of getting back in the birthing pool with her six week old. Baby came so fast, the birth pool only had 1 inch of water when it was time to push! So the water birth she’d been dreaming of wasn&r
If you hire me as your newborn photographer, I will insist that we take a few snaps of your baby’s butt. Because… come on. Look at this. Just take it in. You could look at your baby’s butt forever. There’s probably nothing mo
Noodling on making a little space for sharing wisdom from the primordial soup of parenthood. Salty, sweet, useful—and not too serious. I’m calling it The Brine. 💦🧂 First post is up—sharing what happened when I peed my pants at 3
I’m Rachel, and I created Oyster Family. 👋🦪💕 What is Oyster Family? Whelp, lots of things. A home for my passion projects. My calling. A little brand I created—because apparently I can’t stop being a creative marketer, no matter

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