Antigua Abstractions: Lamp Casting Shadow

PHOTO STOCK: Antigua Abstractions - Lamp Casting Shadow

We continue our mini series Abstractions from Antigua Guatemala with a lamp casting a sharp and well-defined shadow against a vibrant red wall. Can you extrapolate the feeling of the architecture of Antigua Guatemala from fragments such as the one above? If you would like to get a gorgeous print from any of the photographs … 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

Red Wall Lit

We finish our little mini night photography tour with this simple image of a red wall and sign illuminated by a lamp. Depending on the quality of your monitor and its calibration, you may or may not be able to read what’s on the sign. Since we are talking about monitors, calibrations and color profiles, … Read more

Antigua-styled Lamp

Not much to say about this simple image, except I really like the light peeking through. Also, I like the play between light and shadows. Anyway, not much to say, really, about a simple and easy image. I wish you all a simple start of a new week. Remember, easy does it! 😉

Antigua Style Street Lighting

I promise to stop whining about the rainy season and its washed and gray skies if I am allowed to capture a decent rainy season themed or caused image every once in a while like in these previous posts: Almost Perfect Daredevil in Antigua Guatemala Contemplating the heavy rain One Way to the Decisive Moment … Read more

Antigua’s Style Lamp Silhouette

I just love the dry season that goes from late October to late April in Guatemala, also known in Guatemala as Summer even though it actually spans part of Fall, the entire Winter and half of the Spring season. Go Figure! The weather is wonderfully cool, literally and figuratively. There is no rain. The sky … Read more

Framed Moon in Antigua Guatemala

Greed and ambition do not know of any limits. That’s how we got ourselves into the present economic crisis… sure the free market will police itself and the chief executive officers will regulate their corporations to not be as profitable as they could in favor of a more stable and fair marketplace. Yeah right Alan … Read more

Farol or farolito

Details, details, details. There are so many different street lamps or faroles, as they are known in Spanish, in La Antigua Guatemala that if I run a different one each day, it would take so many months to show all the different kinds. Now, can you tell me what’s inside the lamp or in its … Read more