Antigua Guatemala is the Perfect Backdrop

There is no doubt that Antigua Guatemala is the most popular venue and backdrop for photography sessions in Guatemala. In other places, photographers have to look hard to find good backdrops and interesting places to take photos. Not in Antigua Guatemala where almost every block has a nice wall, an interesting doorway, a charming patio, … Read more

Red Wall or Contrasts Wallpaper for Free

Contrasts Wallpaper by Rudy Giron - www.rudygiron.com

It’s been several weeks since I shared a FREE wallpaper with you, almost a month. We have to fix that. So here’s a typical red wall from Antigua Guatemala, or wallpaper full of contrasts; how many can you see. You can download the 16:9 aspect ratio free wallpaper by clicking here. Of course, if you … Read more

The beauty of the abandonment found in Antigua Guatemala

The beauty of the abandonment found in Antigua Guatemala by Rudy Giron

If there ever it was a place where abandonment looks great that would be La Antigua Guatemala, a city taken out of 1773 which is only possible today because it was abandoned, or rather people were forced to abandon it. Anyways, most of the ruins and old monasteries still look abandoned, with cracks, broken arches, … Read more

Walking Is Still The Best Way to Get to Know Antigua

Walking Is Still The Best Way to Get to Know Antigua Guatemala by Rudy Giron

As I mentioned in “Nobody walks in LA…” in Antigua Guatemala is the opposite. People enjoy walking and with such small grid (about 10×10 block), you can certainly do just about all your chores faster by walking than by driving. Besides many blocks are one-way only which means you have to drive four to six … Read more

Textured Red Wall with a Window

Textured Red Wall with a Window by Rudy Giron

If you have followed the daily updates of AntiguaDailyPhoto for a while you would know that here we only served rich saturated colours, sometimes with textures as is the case today. Honestly, I can’t say exactly what compels me to photograph walls like this, but I can honestly say that I like it; I hope … Read more

Make Each Second Count

Each Second Counts by Rudy Giron

In Guatemala the cellular telephone companies advertise that they charge phone call by the second. To be honest, I am not sure how true or if it really makes a different to by charged by the second or the minute. Cellular companies still believe necessary to let people know that is good to pay by … Read more

Walk This Way!

Walk This Way by Rudy Giron

I have a fascination for bare naked walls that show the materials that are used to form them. Bricks, rocks, concrete, adobe, et cetera, that’s what’s shown in this picture; everything in a harmonious texture. Of course, if we can get a climbing plant to top the wall and some trees on the other side … Read more

Rear end of San Francisco El Grande Church

Rear end of San Francisco El Grande Church by Rudy Girón

This is the rear end of San Francisco El Grande Church as you walk south, following the Stations of the cross. As a matter of fact the cupola and roof-top details are part of one of the Stations of the cross.Basically, the route for the Stations of the Cross goes from the San Francisco El … Read more

Limestone paint chipped textures of Antigua Guatemala

Limestone paint chipped textures of Antigua Guatemala by Rudy Girón

Because the high levels of humidity around Antigua Guatemala, people have to paint their walls often, sometimes in a yearly basis. Not every time walls get painted they use the same color and after so many years when the paint peels, you get the gorgeous texture where the different colors peek through. The National Council … Read more

The Walls Speak for 99%

Libertad, expresión y conciencia nos declara el muro

Everywhere, the times they are a-changin’

Libertad, Expresión, Conciencia the wall declares. Liberty, Freedom of Expression and Conscience could be the rough translation of this message on the wall.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no tellin’ who
That it’s namin’.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside
And it is ragin’.
It’ll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’.
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The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin’.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’.

—Bob Dylan

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Garden Wall at Sabe Rico

Here’s yet another photograph of a garden wall taken at Sabe Rico restaurant in Antigua Guatemala. As I have said in previous posts, there’s an appreciation for rustic and bared walls in La Antigua; what I have called the “new” aesthetic values of an old colonial town! Would you like to have breakfast or brunch … Read more