Holy Week Details: Cucurucho Candles Vendor
Purple or violet and black are the colors of Lent and the Holy Week. Cucuruchos, float bearers, wear their cone-head purple robes …
Cucurucho Candles
You’d be amazed on everything that might be for sale on the streets of La Antigua Guatemala during Lent. This time while …
Candles on Sale, Candles for Santo Hermano Pedro
At the entrance of the San Francisco El Grande Church, burial home of Santo Hermano Pedro de Betancourt, you can find this stall of candles. We visited the entrance of this church before with with Monk in San Francisco El Grande Church and The Guatemalan Chever Hot Dog Cart.
Posada Procession for the Elderly
Started with the night of December 15, there have been sightings of Joseph and Mary’s quest for shelter around the streets of …
Antigua Guatemala Senior Pictures Shoots
It’s official, I have become the official photographer for senior pictures for those looking to take home amazing destination pictures for the …
Destination Senior Pictures Shoots in Antigua Guatemala
As I have mentioned before, slowly, one photo shoot at time, I have become the official photographer for senior pictures for those …
Senior Pictures in Antigua Guatemala
Slowly but surely I have become the official photographer for senior pictures for those looking to take home amazing destination pictures for …
First Posada Navideña of 2020
Let the nine days of posadas navideñas begin. Since this morning, December 15th, there have been sightings of Joseph and Mary’s quest …
Street Photo Shoots at Landmarks of Antigua Guatemala
At the beginning of the year I started offering two kinds of Street Photo Shoots for those looking to take home professional …
Destination Quinceañera Pictures in Antigua Guatemala
As I mentioned the other day, I am happy to be given the opportunity to be part of this interesting new approach …
Destination High School Senior Pictures in Antigua Guatemala
Once again I am happy to be given the opportunity to be part of this interesting new approach for the Destination “High …
Quinceañera Photo Session in Antigua Guatemala at Night
Johanna, 15 year olds, from Puerto Barrios, Izabal received for her fifteen birthday photo sessions in Antigua Guatemala, Lake Atitlan, Quetzaltenango, and …
Day of the Dead Is Family Time
In Guatemala Day of the Dead is a celebration that reunites the living with the dead. They say that you’re not dead …
Antigua Photo Sessions: Quinceañera in pink dress
As I have mentioned before, all around La Antigua Guatemala’s Central Park are locations often used as stage or backdrop by many …
24 Frames of Film: La Tienda de Doña Gavi
We continue the series “Pase Adelante” of 24 frames of film with the iconic store La Tienda de Doña Gavi. This tiny …
Posada Nights in Antigua Guatemala
Since the night of December 15, there have been sightings of Joseph and Mary’s quest for shelter around the streets of La …
Ironwork Candle Wall Holder
Let’s start easy on this Monday. Here’s a simple candle wall holder made by the blacksmiths of Antigua Guatemala. This is really …
Posada Enactment for the Elders
Beginning on December 15, there are sightings of Joseph and Mary’s quest for shelter around the streets of La Antigua Guatemala. María …
Nine Days of Posadas
We interrupt our regularly scheduled December comfort foods series to bring you the following special bulletin. Since yesterday night, December 15, there …
The Morning the Romans Arrived in La Antigua
At 3:30 in the morning and by the light of the full moon as the rooster crowed a couple times, my husband …
Virgen de Guadalupe Celebrations in Antigua Guatemala
In La Antigua Guatemala, religious celebrations draw together all kinds of heterogeneous people and the feast day of Virgen de Guadalupe is …
A dance of fire and joy
Tuesday the 13th, a day of much superstition, was the day of the a fundraising event at JP’s Rumbar for the non-government …
Romantic Dinners in Antigua Guatemala
Finding romantic spots in La Antigua Guatemala is not difficult at all, but if you want to really impress your loved one, …
Photographing the Quinceañera
Yesterday, I mentioned that La Antigua Guatemala’s Central Park is often used as stage for many free cultural and artistic events. Well, …
Giant Kites of Santiago Sacatepéquez
Here’s another quote taken from the article written by Ignacio Ochoa and published in Revue Magazine about the history of kite making …
Reuniting the Living with the Dead
Ignacio Ochoa has published a recent article about the history of kite making in Santiago Sacatepéquez under the name of Messenges in …
Virgin of Guadalupe Celebrations in La Antigua Guatemala
In La Antigua Guatemala, religious celebrations draw together all kinds of heterogeneous people and the feast day of Virgin of Guadalupe is no exception. In the day of La Virgen de Guadalupe, Our Lady of Guadalupe, you can find gringa mamas, indigenous mamas, ladino mamas and white mamas all taking their children dressed with indigenous clothes to visit the altar of La Virgen Morena. In many cases you have grandmas and the whole family taking part of the visit to Virgin of Guadalupe inside Iglesia de la Merced.
Holy Week Elements: The Churches
Churches serve as terminals from which processions depart or arrive. Churches also serve as home-base for all the brotherhoods of cucuruchos and sisterhoods. Churches also put their best face for the Holy Week and many get a paint job and/or restoration works in the weeks prior to Semana Santa.
With this photo we wave goodbye to Semana Santa and to Holy Week’s processions. I was told the last procession, the Resurrection (Resurección) procession comes out on Easter Sunday (today) a 6 a.m. and its back in the church by 10 in the morning.
Pick your color #3
On texture through color I introduced you to Café Concepción, a small and lovely bistro, located about half-block away from my office. …
Pick your color #1
Okay, welcome back from an ease going weekend. It is Monday and you want things to be mellow, so I am not …
Texture through color
To follow up the texture in yesterday’s sign and to get you prepare for this coming week series about color, here is …