Real Guatemala: Los novios

Even though you can not fully see the girlfriend, believe me she’s there, she just pulled her upper body to be in the picture. Anyhow, I will let you to the caption for this. The best one will receive a post card made from one of my photo via the postal service. Let the creative … Read more

Flat TVs Are The New Trend Inside Camionetas

The never mind the lack of seat belts, comfortable seats, handicap access ramps, clean fuel burning engines or thread-less tires so long as you can watch the latest reggaetón videos out of New York City. These are the priorities for the rural public transit buses in Guatemala. C’est la vie!

Black and white of the Izote tree or yucca guatemalensis

The izote tree, yucca guatemalensis, is the Mesoamerican cousin of the yucca tree or Joshua tree and one of my favorite plants to photograph. Simply take a photo tour through the archives for izote. Izote is can be found in almost all gardens and fences here and everywhere in Mexico and Central America and the … Read more

Entrance to Las Capuchinas Convent

Entrance to Las Capuchinas Convent by Rudy Giron - www.rudygiron.com

This is the humble entrance to the huge convent complex of Las Capuchinas, founded as Convento e Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Zaragoza. This building is now a museum. Also, this is another architectural master piece by colonial architect Diego de Porres whom we talked about when we covered the Parroquia Nuestra Señora … Read more

Arches of Tanque de la Unión at Night

Arches of Tanque de la Unión at night by Rudy Giron - www.rudygiron.com

Would you like to know why this public water tank and washbasins goes by the name of Tanque de la Unión? The park also takes the name or viceversa as Parque de la Unión. I have published this information before. I will send a photo post card of this picture to the first person who … Read more

Black and White of Escuela de Cristo, aka Parroquia Nuestra Señora de los Remedios

Black and White of Escuela de Cristo, aka Parroquia Nuestra Señora de los Remedios by Rudy Giron - www.rudygiron.com

One more entry on our black and white series of the churches in and around Antigua Guatemala at night. This is the façade of Parroquia Nuestra Señora de los Remedios better known as Escuela de Cristo. Yesterday we saw an inside view of la Escuela de Cristo. This parroquia, parish, is located on the southeast … Read more

Inside View of the Escuela De Cristo Church

Inside View of the Escuela De Cristo Churchby Rudy Giron - www.rudygiron.com

I don’t think I have share many photos from inside the churches and the reason is that photography is prohibited inside many temples. Honestly, I still can not believe I was able to take these photos from the inside of the Parroquia Nuestra Señora de los Remedios also known as Iglesia Escuela de Cristo, which … Read more

San Francisco El Grande Façade in Black and White

San Francisco El Grande Façade in Black and White by Rudy Giron

Here’s one more doses of the black and white series of the churches in and around Antigua Guatemala. Today’s turn is for Iglesia de San Francisco El Grande one of the most popular destinations in Antigua Guatemala. The Iglesia de San Francisco El Grande is one of the favorite churches for photographers to photograph. There’s … Read more

Dramatic illumination of El Calvario Church

Dramatic illumination of El Calvario Church by Rudy Giron - www.rudygiron.com

We continue our black and white series of the churches in and around Antigua Guatemala. In this occasion, I stopped by El Calvario church at the south end of Antigua Guatemala. El Calvario or Calvary (Golgotha) is the name of the mount on the outskirts of Jerusalem where it’s believed that Jesus Christ was crucified. … Read more

Iglesia de la Merced in Black and White

Iglesia de la Merced in Black and White by Rudy Giron

Since one of the goals of AntiguaDailyPhoto is to bring you new fresh vistas from the same hackneyed places I have decided to do a series of black and white photographs of the most emblematic churches in and around Antigua Guatemala. Today’s is an example of a new perspective for the overly-exposed Iglesia de La … Read more

Paving streets by hand, one block at a time

I know I have shown street repair crews before, but I don't think I have mentioned that most streets in and around Antigua Guatemala are built and paved by hand, one cobblestone or block at a time. In the picture above we are seeing adoquin stone tiles as they were being layout on one of … Read more