We're Robert & Tiffany, the husband and wife team behind Rustic White Photography.
We love what we do and love sharing our work and our lives. This is our journal, a way for us to share our work and our lives.
We are extremely honored to share that On To Baby has featured Hadley’s beautiful nursery. When it comes to the world of infants and newborns On To Baby is at the pinnacle of showcasing what is beautiful and serene, and we could not be more excited to see Hadley’s nursery showcased here. To see the entire post on On To Baby CLICK HERE, and to see Hadley’s entire nursery and portrait post CLICK HERE.
Happy Thursday,
-Robert & Tiffany
Sometimes things just line up perfectly. Like when Emily Ley posts on Twitter that she is looking for someone to shoot family photos in the Tampa area, and it just so happens that we will be in Tampa for an entire week shooting. Now if you don’t know who Emily is you should definitely become acquainted with her work on Emily Ley.com and at Making Brands Happen. Our first correspondence with Emily was two years ago when she helped us design our first business card. Then this past October we had the opportunity to meet Emily and two other remarkable ladies (Lara Casey and Gina Zeidler) in person at the Making Things Happen tour. We knew her sweet demeanor, genuine smile and love for the two men in her life would radiate through the lens…and it certainly did, so here is the beautiful as they are sweet Ley family.
Happy Tuesday,
-Robert & Tiffany
It’s hard to believe next month we will be at Orientation for the 2013 Bert’s Big Adventure trip, but before we close out 2012 we had one last reunion to celebrate…and because it’s Christmas time it’s one of my favorites. The Bert’s Big Adventure Holiday Reunion. This year’s holiday reunion took place at the Fox Theatre with a performance of Beauty and the Beast, and though we couldn’t snap photos during the show we did get to spend time with the families and capture some sweet moments before the curtain went up.
Ready to hug it out the ladies behind Bert’s Big Adventure were at the door greeting every family as they arrived.
Tiff and sweet little Dariana.
With catering provided by Affairs to Remember we may have sneaked in for a chocolate chip cookie or two.
This was our first time working with Songs for Kids, but these guys were amazing and needless to say the kids loved them.
The kids couldn’t get enough of the always entertaining and funny Ken Scott.
Having celebrated 10 years of Bert’s Big Adventure trips Stacey unveiled a very special gift for the families with a commemorative 10th anniversary coffee table book.
It’s hard to believe the year is coming to close, and in one short month we’ll be meeting the 2013 Bert’s Big Adventure families. If you would like to learn more about Bert’s Big Adventure, or ways you can donate CLICK HERE.
-Robert & Tiffany
A few weeks back we shared some of the wonderful families we had the opportunity to hang out with and document this fall. Since then we’ve had the pleasure of meeting some new families, and catching up with some familiar faces.
The Marshall Family.
The Tatum Family.
The Shields Family.
The Rhyne Family.
The Orza Family.
Happy Wednesday,
-Tiffany & Robert
Over the Thanksgiving holiday we had the opportunity to take a little road trip to visit the Weiss family at their beach house in Folly. What follows is a tapestry of words one might here while photographing 11 family members on the beach.
Did you tell them 3:30 meaning 4:00, or 3:30 meaning 3:30?
We’ll shoot the entire family tonight, and Hayden’s portraits in the morning.
Do you want me to take the kids and get started?
We’ll start with the boys.
Please don’t kick the sand.
Are you okay to walk on the sand in those shoes?
Look over here.
Do you want some candy?
I like the light over here.
I’m using you for shade.
Are we missing anyone?
Drinks down.
Beautiful guys.
Where’s Hollis?
Brush your hair back.
Let me cheat everyone back for a second.
Don’t pick up the sand.
Whatever makes them laugh.
Everyone squeeze in a little tighter.
Grab Bert’s phone.
It’s for instagram.
We have maybe 10 more minutes of light.
Grab the M&M’s.
Did you get it?
Done.
Thank you Stacey and Bert for having us out to the beach house. It has been such a blessing to document your family over the past two years. Love you guys.
-Robert & Tiffany
He’s been dubbed as “a horrible archaeologist but a great diplomat for archaeology.” To a ten year old boy though that hardly matters. What matters is he has an iconic hat and snaps a whip, and that quite frankly is cool. We couldn’t wait to see what the team behind Posh Tot Events dreamed up for Hayden’s Indiana themed 10th Birthday Adventure, and needless to say they blew it out of the water. Donning the iconic wide brimmed fedora the kids each grabbed their mission map and headed into the temple of doom.
We all know Indy may hate snakes, but nothing is cooler to a 10 year old boy then things that like to crawl and slither.
We love the table scape designed by Posh Tot Events that kept the Indiana Jones theme going…all the way down to the cupcakes.
Happy Birthday Hayden.
-Robert & Tiffany
We kicked off our weekend in Augusta hanging out with the sweetest little six month old and her beautiful family. We can’t wait to share their entire post, but here is a sneak peek of adorable Hadley.
Wishing everyone a wonderful week,
-Robert & Tiffany
A sneak peek from our morning session with adorable little Emmaline.
Wishing everyone one a wonderful and safe holiday weekend,
-Robert & Tiffany
I bought it for her 6 years ago. It wasn’t a gift that made a lot of rational sense, but I knew it fit her personality and she would love it. Eight feet long with a big Roxy logo in the middle, it was the perfect Tiffany surfboard. Living in Atlanta we don’t see a lot of surf, but heading out to Charleston for the Bert’s Big Adventure staff retreat gave us the perfect opportunity to finally throw her board in the water. A five and a half hour drive, and thirty minutes in the ocean later I came walking out of the surf with Tiff’s board under my arm. Reaching back I could feel the knot, and poked around it until I pulled a half inch piece of plastic fin out of scalp. Another hour later and Tiff and I are sitting in the emergency room at MUSC hospital waiting to get my head stitched up. I’m not sure what brought it about because we both would rather have been back at the house visiting with the staff, but we found ourselves naming all the positives of the situation. ”The board hit me in the back of the head and not the face.” ”I didn’t lose an eye.” ”I didn’t get slammed on the ocean floor.” ”The ER is virtually empty, so they’ll likely get us back fast.” The more we went on like this the more I felt blessed about the situation, and grateful that I was only there to get a few stitches and to be on my way.
As we left the ER we called our family to share my surfing mishap only to find out our baby sister was also in the ER. At the time we didn’t know the severity of the situation, or what exactly had happened. We dialed number after number searching for answers, and headed back to the beach house with the plan of grabbing our bags and heading back to Atlanta. We reached my dad who told us to stay put until he knew more. We didn’t hear from him again that night, and since the details of what happened are not just mine to share I won’t, but to simply say our little sister was in an accident on the lake and was air lifted to Children’s Hospital in Atlanta. It was the grace of God that not only saved her life, but did so in such a way that she will be her old self in no time. She came home from the hospital Sunday, and as she looked at my stitches and showed me hers I couldn’t help but feel so much gratitude again. Driving home later Tiff and I talked again about the positives of the situation. How blessed we are, and how quickly everything about your life can change. About this time last year we wrote about gratitude on the blog, and a year later we are still grateful, but I think we’re learning to become more grateful for the little things, especially time.
-Robert & Tiffany
“You’re embarrassing her,” Tiff nudges me. ”She’s not little anymore.” And like that I realize they are no longer babies. Our little sisters are on their way to becoming little ladies. Wearing dresses, painting their nails, and building summer friendships. They are growing up but they will always be our baby sisters, and two blessings that we’ve been lucky enough to have in our lives. When we drove out to Lake Wedowee earlier this month to see them they were hanging out and playing with three of their friends, so we couldn’t resist grabbing our cameras and freezing this moment before they get any bigger.
-Robert & Tiffany
