Guatemala Take 2
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- A woman in traditional Mayan dress carries coffee beans.
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- Maria Eugenia, a child who lives on the farm where we spent most of our time, holds the farm cat. She taught me more Spanish in one week than 4 years of classes.
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- Cherries pulped off of the bean flow into the compost pit where they will eventually turn into fertilizer for the coffee plants.
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- A coffee flower blooms.
Coffee Farms in Guatemala
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- Green beans rest in the drying beds at Finca Santa Sofia in the mountains of Tactic, Guatemala.
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- Freshly picked coffee cherries enter the wet mill at Finca Santa Sofia.
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- The cupping table at Anacafé in Coban.
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- Michael McCrory (my husband) getting to work at Finca Filadefia in Antigua, scooping the freshly-processed wet beans onto the drying beds. They will lay there in the sun for 24 hours, constantly being raked and moved, before being bagged for storage.
I have just started to edit my photos from Guatemala. Expect more to come!
Product Photography
I just finished up an article on DIY product photography for PCWorld Here is my favorite example shot!
Latte Art Competion
This weekend, I got to show off my pouring skills at a latte are competition within Blue Bottle–the coffee shop I work for. I also got to test out my new 10-24mm lens. Yay!
The Biscuit Bender
I took some photos of my friend Van Dao and his lovely delicious biscuits. Here are my favorite shots.
Pumpkin Patch!
My husband walked all the way to the end of the field to find his gnarly pumpkin. It was still connected to the vine it grew on!
Shooting with an iPhone 4
Me gettin' all artsy fartsy.
A man lights a candle at an impromptu memorial outside San Francisco’s downtown Apple Store following Steve Job’s death on 10/5/11.
Hey guys. I have managed to pick the most exciting (and depressing) time to work for Macworld. Today, Steve Jobs died. It was shocking, heartbreaking, and extremely newsworthy. My assignment was to go down to the Apple Store in downtown SF and take photos of the mourners. Now, let’s go to Lauren’s brain at the moment I got the assignment.
“OMG! Great! A photo assignment! Yes! I am going to kick a—WAIT A MINUTE! I don’t have my camera today! And the equipment lab is closed! AAAHHHH!”
Luckily, my wonderful EiC lent me his iPhone 4 to shoot the event. This was by far the most challenged I have ever been in a photojournalism assignment. The iPhone 4 camera is great…in broad daylight. Not in twilight/full night with only the iridescent bulbs from the Apple store to light your mourners.
But I persisted! And I think I did pretty OK. And I would like to thank the iOS 5 developers for adding the easy-access camera feature because it got me this shot–>
Goodnight, and I have to make coffee tomorrow!
Lauren Crabbe is a photojournalist, writer, and barista in San Francisco, California. She has traveled throughout Europe for her photography and uses journalism as an outlet for her passion for storytelling. Lauren currently lives in the sleepy Sunset District of San Francisco with her husband and works freelance for technology magazines. She is available for freelance work.
