Can you believe that it was on May 4th, 2006 when I first shared with y’all a corner of Antigua Guatemala. Since then I have shared dozens of corner through the years. Take a photographic tour through the many interesting corners of 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 converge at this corner. One more thing, notice the corner door. This is something found often in Antigua Guatemala. Which other corner doors have you seen?
Today I share with you an image with lots of symmetry. This is one of my favorite corners of Antigua Guatemala for the amount of colonial architectonic details found on it. This is one of the corner we photograph during my Antigua Photo Walks to learn to see from a different perspective. How many architectonic … Read more
Did you know that the sign regulation of Antigua Guatemala mandates that signs must me handmade and only metal, wood or ceramic can be used in the making.
At the early stages of Antigua Daily Photo I used to share many photos from corners of Antigua Guatemala. I still do, but with less frequency. If you want to take a photographic tour through the many corner found in the archives of AntiguaDailyPhoto, follow the link below. Follow the white rabbit to »
I am happy to report that bicycles are still the most popular means of transportation, after walking, of course, in and around Antigua Guatemala. Motorcycles comes next in popularity. Of course, the municipality of Antigua Guatemala with its nearby villages is a perfect place to use bicycles as transportation, don’t you agree? 10-year Countdown Aside: … Read more
If you want to blend in Guatemala, make sure you dress with lots of color. Neutral colours do not work in Guatemala. 😉
My commitment has always been to bring you typical quotidian stamps from Antigua Guatemala. Unfortunately our beautiful enchanting little town also happens to be the tourism capital for Guatemala first and for Central America at large, so it should come as no surprise that some of the typical vistas from Antigua Guatemala are also touristic … Read more
If there ever it was a place where abandonment looks good that would be La Antigua Guatemala, which by the way is city taken out of 1773 and it is possible today because it was abandoned, or rather people were forced to abandon it. Anyways, most of the ruins and old monasteries still looked abandoned, … Read more
Yes, perspective is everything! If you don’t believe me compare the Tea Partiers and the Occupy Wall Street movement, since both share some similarities on the surface, but represent opposite world views as shown in this article from Aljazeera: Tea Partiers: The self-hating 99 per cent. There may be surface similarities between the two uprisings, … Read more
Call it synchronicity or better yet, serendipity because that’s the story behind this simple rainy season vista. For a while now I have decided I wanted to take a photograph of a corner while leaving enough of the perpendicular street and the next block on the frame to make an interesting composition. Think of it … Read more
You don’t have to give your soul to the Devil as as Robert Johnson did at the crossroads to enjoy the quotidian corner life in La Antigua Guatemala. Just take your guitar, your camera or your sketch pad to capture the lonely and bored municipal transit police selling parking permits, the old man on the … Read more
It looks like I am not the only one who enjoys photographing corners. Here I captured a fellow photographer who was photographing the opposite corner and this sun-powered clock.
I am happy to report that slowly but surely Guatemalan women are moving into all the positions they deserve. Two good friends come to mind: First of all, we have to congratulate Stephanie Falla {ñ} for winning the Best Future Project with Journalism 24/7 at Exponet, Prensa Libre’s initiative to promote best web practices and … Read more
