Antigua’s Flower-decorated Doorways and Façades
Honestly, I don’t know why we don’t have more flower-decorated doorways and façades all year long. I mean, flowers are always in …
Side Door of the former Cathedral Building
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Portón for large doorway. Just when I think I have shared with you every nook …
Antique Doors of Antigua Guatemala
As I have said before, “every block of Antigua Guatemala provides opportunities to capture stylish doors. I was already hook on doorways …
Architectonic Details of Antigua Guatemala — Door and Window
We continue with the game of discovering of architectonic details. As explained previously, with each new post I share an architectonic detail …
Architectonic Details of Antigua Guatemala — Baroque Door and Façade
Let’s retake the discovery game we had in previous years. With each new post I will share an architectonic detail from Antigua …
Antique Door of Antigua Guatemala
Every block of Antigua Guatemala provides opportunities to capture fabulous doorways. I was already hook on doorways from Antigua Guatemala before I …
Door Christmas Decorations
Needless to say 2020 is an atypical year. But somethings we can still do, such as put Christmas decorations and lights everywhere …
Antigua Fragments: Decorated Metal Door Handle
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Manija de la puerta for door handle. Honestly, I like door knocker much better …
Antigua Fragments: Antique Metal Door Knockers
Antigua Guatemala has an enormous amount of gorgeous metallic door knockers. Lions are the most common theme, but you can find all …
Antigua Fragments: Corner Doorway
As you take strolls around Antigua Guatemala you may encounter corner doors and windows; have you seen them? If so, which is …
Ironworks on Wooden Door from Antigua Guatemala
Take a photographic tour through the many different doors found in Antigua Guatemala; there are over 130 entries so far. Enjoy!
Gorgeous green and red door from Antigua Guatemala
I believe this photograph can be a terrific wall art decor piece for your home or office or to give as present …
Details of a Blue Door from Antigua Guatemala
One of the things I enjoy the most during my morning photo walks are the abundance of beautiful doors, door knockers and …
Entrance Doorway to Casa Pensativo
There is something that I find attractive in this entrance gateway. Perhaps it is the metal jade plant blossom decoration, the lamps, …
Have You Seen This Nine Doors House at Calle del Arco?
Honestly, have you noticed this 9-door house on your strolls through Calle del Arco? If you would like to see one of …
Sights of Our Times — Wear Masks Outdoors
Guatemalans are wearing masks in all public spaces, indoors and outdoors, even as in trails in nature, such as seen here where …
Colonial Distinctive Lion Door Knocker
There are many iconic images through out Antigua Guatemala, from the mermaids to the Santiagos [Saint James effigies]. Lions are one of …
Architectonic Details of Antigua Guatemala — Colonial Style Wooden Doorway
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Portón or large doorway. This is one of better looking portones in Antigua Guatemala. …
Arched Double Arched Doors Entrance
Believe it or not, I began the Doors & Window of Antigua Guatemala on May 4th, 2006. There have been many memorable …
Antigua Guatemala’s Antique Door Knockers
Antigua Guatemala has to have one of the most impressive collection of antique door knocker. The other day while leading an architectural …
Architectonic Details of Antigua Guatemala — Baroque Doorway
Let’s continue with the discovery game of this week. Each day I will share an architectonic detail from Antigua Guatemala and you …
Take A Photo Tour of Doors from Antigua Guatemala
Even though it’s been a while since I shared with you a picture of doors from Antigua Guatemala, I knew I had …
The big tall doors of Antigua Guatemala
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Portón for large doorway. Not only in churches and convents you find large tall …
Antigua Guatemala Surprises — Door Knocker Pieces
What do you think this door knocker represents. What’s the most extraordinary door knocker piece you have come across as you walk …
Antigua Guatemala Door Textures
It’s time to share the textures of the doors of Antigua Guatemala with you again. I liked the contrast of the diagonal …
Antigua Style Door Knob
It’s been a while since I shared an architectural decoration piece from the streets of La Antigua Guatemala. I always recommend photographing …
-5 Days to 9th Anniversary: Double Door Archway
This rare double-door arched doorway is found in Calle del Arco. This picture of the double door archway makes a perfect addition …
Rustic Door Knob from Antigua Guatemala
We continue our focusing on rustic door knobs and knockers with this new version of the typical, simple and functional colonial style …
Rustic Door and Door Handles from Antigua Guatemala
As I have mentioned before, there’s a lot of beauty on the doors and windows around Antigua Guatemala. One, must stop often …
Guatemalan Portrait: Boy at a red lamina door
This boy opening the big red lamina portón just as I approach the end of the street is just one of the …
Doorway for Casa de los Abuelitos
How many enchanting places can we find in Antigua Guatemala if we dare to explore every little corner and alley. Do you …
Arches and Rectangular Doorway at Capuchinas
The more time I spend at Capuchinas the more I find this building to be very beautiful and enchanting. In case you …
Luxurious Doorway from Antigua Guatemala
Honest, I am making justice to the beauty and elegance of this doorway, but I want to share with you simplicity of …
Doorway into the Raw Past
This week I felt through a rabbit hole, a doorway into the raw textured past of Convento Las Capuchinas. Come back tomorrow …
Antique door with tiny window from Antigua Guatemala
What I like so much about the antique doors from Antigua Guatemala is their texture, character, the imperfections, the beauty, and that …
Door or Window
What do you think this is, a window or a door? In Guatemalan Spanish with call these wood logs “lepa” (lehpah me …
Colorful Doors: Blue
The blue looks even more colorful against a gray unpainted wall, don’t you think?
Colorful Doors: Red
The category of Doors and Windows has always been among the most popular. It seems that people find fascinating many of doorways …
Beyond the doorway of house in San Miguel Escobar
Here’s sneak peak at what’s inside a house in the village of San Pedro Escobar. As you can see, there’s a horse …
An Open Door Is An Opportunity
That’s right, every open door I encounter is an opportunity to record the inside of what once was a typical house from …
Cathedral’s Arched Doorways
It’s been a while since I shared with you a shot of a doorway. For a long time, doorways and windows used …
Doorlocks
Isn’t it just engaging to run into so many different doorlocks around La Antigua Guatemala? This one is found in one of …
Rustic Door Handle
Simple and functional works for me. Today’s image you can find almost everywhere in La Antigua Guatemala. The elements: metal, wood, rust, …
Forged Metal Door Knocker
How can one find beauty in such a rustic forged metal knocker? I don’t know, but the instant I saw it I …
The Golden Door
As you’re gazing at Enchanting Nook #1 at the Hotel Centro Colonial Antigua, spin your head around to your right and look …
Lent Decorations over Doorways
I really like the Lent decorations you find over doorways and windows in La Antigua Guatemala. Lent or Cuaresma in Spanish is …
Antigua’s Door Knocker
Details, details, details. Gustave Flaubert believed that God was in the details. Other people believe the devil hides in the details. What …
Colonial Style Door Knocker and Knob
Lucky me that I learned to have new aesthetic values for things antique and old. Lucky me that I find beautiful and …
Fake Door on Sidewall
I don’t get it, why would anyone would go through the hassle of building a fake door, then painting it to look …
Doorway Beam Texture Wallpaper
Not only in walls can you find textures in La Antigua Guatemala; sometimes even wooden beams can provide moth-eaten textures. If you …
Narrow Arched-doorway in Antigua
Sure, La Antigua Guatemala is a nearly-quincentennial city and you may be inclined to believe after some strolls around Antigua that nothing …
Old-looking Wood and Metal Door in La Antigua Guatemala
Often enough, I come across a door that just makes me stop, open my backpack and pull out the camera to capture …
Corner Doorway at La Casa Amarilla
If you can have a corner window, why not have a corner door, really why not? Can you tell me why doorways …
Hippies Use Backdoor, No Exceptions
I found out about the sign above via Buried Mirror and I knew a mini series was long over due about this hippie joint in La Antigua Guatemala.
Do you know what place am I talking about?
Who ever came out with this great idea for a sign, for sure, was a hippie who now is very wealthy. Check out this amazing slide show that reveals all the different places where the sign has been posted.
Casa del Conde Doorway at Night
The Casa del Conde doorway is bound to bring some tears and sweet nostalgic memories to many of LAGDP visitors. See, La …
Hotel Arizona Doorway
The La Antigua Guatemala city ordinances requires that the name of businesses be in Spanish. Some business have dual names like Rainbow Cafe which was forced to change to Café Arcoiris (although they kept Rainbow Cafe at a smaller size within the sign). Backpackers Hotel became Mochileros Hotel and so on. For the most part, I agree with this city ordinance because the La Antigua Guatemala is protected by national and international laws since it was declared by UNESCO as World Heritage.
Arched Doorway in Calle de Chipilapa
A simple old and weathered arched doorway in Calle de Chipilapa. Believe it or not, there’s a matching window photo belonging to the same house… can you tell us under what name or date was published?
Entrance Doorway to the Compañía de Jesús Building
I am sucker for shots with contrast. I like to show all the different contrasting vistas that come into my viewfinder in …
Wood and Metal Door in Antigua Guatemala
I can’t remember now who wrote to me that they could just go around Antigua taking shots of just doors and windows. …
Big Doorway #5 and Shadow Casting Lamp
Boy oh boy, I enjoy breaking the rules. For today we are breaking the photographic rule that says you should avoid taking …
Angelina’s Doorway
I am sure this doorway will fit perfectly in MarieMC‘s Doorways Around the World. Well, I may be wrong because since she …
Chinese Door Knocker
Door knockers are an integral element of the Architecture of La Antigua Guatemala. How else can you knock on Heaven’s Door? Of …
Arched metal doorway and two knockers
Here is the other leaf of the door I posted yesterday. The owner of Juaréz Hnos. is framed by the arched metal …
Gothic doorway
September started with Daily Photo Theme of Doorways. I am closing the door to September 2006 with another doorway. This is the …
Daily Photo Theme: Doorways (framed shadow)
When Nuno declared on August 1st that the theme for September 1st was going to be doorways I was determined to win, …
Antigua’s doorways: Typical arched door
Here is a typical arched doorway. You can all see the plants are growing wild. Often you see as you walk around …
Maid and door in Antigua
We can derive three facts about Antigua from this photo. 1: Maids wear an apron all day long. 2: Many doorways in …
Antigua’s doorways: why are the doors so big
If you have paid any attention to doors that have appeared on this site, you might have asked yourself, are Guatemalans giants? …
Knocking on heaven’s door
Door knocker, originally uploaded by rudygiron. I am prettry sure this is not what Bob Dylan had in mind when he wrote …
Back door for San Jeronimo ruins
Ruins are everywhere in Antigua. Heck you could even say the whole town is a ruin or a post card from the …
Lock, stock & a two-leaf door
lock and stock, originally uploaded by rudygiron. The side entrance to the garden of Hotel Porta Antigua is guarded by this very …
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 Street Colors: Aqua and Orange
These two aqua doors are part of the Casa Presidencial in Antigua Guatemala. For a long time I have wanted to photograph …
Starbucks Coffee Finally Opened in Antigua Guatemala
After so many years, probably decades, Starbucks Coffee was able to open their first coffee house in Antigua Guatemala; it is the …
It’s Refacción Time!
The Guatemalan labor code allows for two short breaks of about 15 minutes (in addition to the lunch break); one in the …
Corner Yellow House from Antigua Guatemala
This yellow house is also one of my favorite corners in Antigua Guatemala. I often bring photography enthusiasts taking my photo walks …
Lent 2022 Decorations
Wednesday March 2nd is the beginning of Lent 2022 or Cuaresma as we call it in the Spanish-speaking world. Purple banners and …
Three Nuns on the streets of Antigua Guatemala
I was leading a photo walk on 7a avenida, I saw a nun came out of through this doorway and I sensed …
Detail of the Façade of Ruinas de San Agustín in Antigua Guatemala
The most recent ruins to open up their doors to the public is Ruinas de San Agustín, located on the corner of …
To mask, or not to mask, that is the question.
Well, in Guatemala the law of the land since the pandemic began is that one must wear a «mascarilla», face mask in …
Headshots Shoots in Antigua Guatemala
Are you in need of new Headshots or Portraits? Now you can also book a Headshot Photo Shoot while visiting Guatemala. Take …
Quotidian Vistas from Antigua Guatemala — Cathedral Ruins Entrance
This is the entrance to the ruins of the former cathedral complex of Antigua Guatemala. It’s located on the side of 5a calle oriente. I believe this is only the second time I share this vista with you… TAP to see the full size photo and post.
Lenten Decorations at Palacio del Ayuntamiento
Just because we are not having processions during Cuaresma [Lent] or during the Semana Santa [Holy Week] it doesn’t mean we are …
Feeding the Pigeons
My commitment to share with you daily life images from Antigua Guatemala is as strong as it was on May 1, 2006. …
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 …
Man catching up with the latest news
Honestly, I can not tell you when was the last time I read a newspaper. 2020 made it easy for me. How …
New Textiles Stand Stand Near La Escalonia
Since the Municipal government has forbidden the ambulant vendors in all the parks of Antigua Guatemala, including the world-famous Parque Central, vendors …
Guatemala’s Independence Flags at Palacio del Ayuntamiento
Guatemala’s Independence is celebrated through the entire month of September even though the official date falls on the 15th. Independence bunting is …
Corner Vista from Antigua Guatemala
Okay, here’s a little challenge for you guys. Who can tell me which corner this is, I mean what street and avenue …
Sights of Our Times — Even farmers wear a face covering
In Guatemala even farmers wear a face mask whenever they are outdoors and in public spaces. They may not use a face …
Sights of Our Times — Veggie Home Deliveries
As I said yesterday, Guatemalans are resilient. Motorcycles and bicycles have turned into the preferred vehicles for all home deliveries. Of course, …
Sights of Our Times — Restaurants Open Only for Take Away and Delivery
Since March 16, 2020 restaurants are allowed to operate for take away and delivery order only. Many had to adapt to selling …
Sights of Our Times — Face Masks and Tuk Tuk Bars
Face masks are obligatory to use outdoors in Guatemala at present time. I imagine it is the same, more or less, all …
14th Anniversary — Only Shopping for the Essentials
AntiguaDailyPhoto.com began on May Day 2006 with the goal of sharing daily life imagery from the little town of Antigua Guatemala, embedded …
Street Portraits of Strangers — I am Guatemala No. 13
Today, I am happy to share a portrait of Victoria, a great grandmother, one of the friendliest and kindest people I have …
The Quietest Holy Week Ever in Antigua Guatemala!
With all the borders closed, including the airport; all non-essential activities forbidden, including religious services, processions and vigils; plus all gatherings prohibited, …
A Quiet Palm Sunday in Antigua Guatemala
2020 will be remembered as the quiet year; a year without processions; a year without massive events; a year without crowds. Yet …