This is Benjamin. We met Benjamin along the side of a dirt road in Musema. He was picking coffee cherries from his trees, and our kids were climbing over a fallen tree nearby with some local kids. We had a minute, so I asked Benjamin a little bit about his life. Here’s what he had …
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Sometimes I want to fly away.
It’s true. I sometimes wish there was an open window and I could just fly myself “home” to the people who have loved me from birth and the places that I have seen forever. This week has been hard for me. The “toughness” of life in Africa has seeped into my being and I have …
Becoming a coffee cupper + Home coffee hulling
{real men wear aprons. in the lab-o.} How do you “cup coffee” and how do you get a job doing it? This is a question I get asked a lot. To say that I’ll answer one part now and one part later will draw the questioning eyebrow of Camera Girl who knows that I drop …
We are not alone + a family session in Bujumbura
Sometimes beauty just IS. Like the day I photographed this little lady Ciara and her two adorable brothers, Liam and Finn. You might think that we are alone here… THE ONLY ONES living outside our home culture by living in Bujumbura, Burundi. You would be wrong. There are loads of us… singles and couples and …
Giveaway: Beaver Creek Coffee
This is a worldwide giveaway folks, so listen up! There are some places on this planet that just seem to have a wee-bit-o-magic in them. Beaver Creek Coffee Estate is one of those places. We recently visited the beautiful estate and roastary in Port Edward, South Africa and we were impressed by how much there …
There will be a book + I need your help
Telling you that there will be a book scares the pants off me. I’m telling you now, months before the it’s even close to being completed. Why am I doing that? Well, two reasons. FIRSTLY. Saying it, scratch that, TYPING IT OUT LOUD makes it real for me. I thought I could be one of those …