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These photographs belong to the procession of Santuario de San Francisco El Grande. Nelo explains that the two wood rods that stick out at the front of the float, andarilla he calls it, are called timonen (steering) and are the responsible for the rhythm and direction of the procession.

If you have any questions about the Holy Week in Antigua Guatemala, please, leave them in the comments!

Images by Nelo Mijangos

The second Sunday of Lent is the turn for the village of Santa Inés del Monte Pulciano. It is at this processional float when many cucuruchos from Guatemala City make their first appearance. For this procession, Nelo Mijangos took 752 photos and “only” walked 19.4 kilometers or 12 miles. You can see his route on the map below.

Do you know where is located the village of Santa Inés del Monte Pulciano?

Images by Nelo Mijangos.

Beginning with the first Sunday after Ash Wednesday, there are processions each Sunday of Lent and the first procession comes out the village of Santa Catarina Bobadilla. As always, I hand over the keys of AntiguaDailyPhoto so he can show some his best work as I know nobody more passionate about Lent and the Holy Week as Nelo Mijangos. For this first procession, Nelo walked 28.4 kilometres; that’s 17.65 miles for those who can’t gauge how long is a kilometer. Nelo told me that he took 865 photographs along those 28.4 kms. That’s a lot of photos just for one day.

Make sure you click on the images to look at a larger version to really appreciate all the details.

Each day this week, Nelo will share his most emblematic image of the procession and shared a map and distance walked by him following the processional entourage. By the way, yesterday was the 5th Sunday of Lent, so we have enough for each day this week. Stay tuned for the entire series.

images by Nelo Mijangos

“The son of The King” was the song used to introduce Julian Marley, Bob Marley’s son at the most recent reggae concert in Antigua Guatemala fabulous venue, Ermita de La Santa Cruz. As you can see in the pictures below, all reggae lovers were present to listing to the songs of Bob Marley performed by his son as well as his original repertoire.

Reggae, perfect weather, astonish venue and dramatic lighting were the perfect elements to have great mood and music for the entire night.

Photos by Nelo Mijangos

November 1 is one of the most important dates in Guatemala. On November 1 Guatemalans go to the cemeteries to remember and honor their dead. Interesting enough by going to the cemeteries to engage with the departed ones, Guatemalans forge stronger relationships with the living ones and transmit the importance of remembering and honouring their dead.

In Guatemala we celebrate our dead on November 1 and 2 with food such as fiambre, sweets such as dulces de cabecera or header candies which are mostly fruits and vegetables boiled into a brown sugar syrup. Some of these sweets for these dates include ayote en dulce, chilacayote en miel, higos, et cetera. Kites and giant kites and flying them over the cemeteries are also part of the traditions.

If you’re not in Guatemala now, but would like to have some Guatemalan comfort foods, please pay a visit to AntiguaFC.com where Amanda can prepare a sweet combo and ship it to your home or office.

We are so very lucky to have the photographs taken by Nelo Mijangos and Geovin Morales in the cemetery today which give us an amazing overview of Día de Todos Los Santos (All Saints Day) and how Guatemalans also spent time with the family at the cemetery remembering their dead.

Photos courtesy of Nelo Mijangos and Geovin Morales.

“Un Mensaje al Cielo” or “A Message To The Sky” was the event of sending more than 500 hot air balloons at the same time from the atriums of churches and parks, especially Central Park and Antigua Guatemala’s cathedral as part of the XXXIII Anniversary of the Declaration of Antigua Guatemala as Patrimony of Humanity by the UNESCO. Needless to say, this event was an event with lots of photographic potential and our dear friend Nelo Mijangos was there to capture it for us. Come on everyone, a big round of applause for Nelo.

Here is the convocation for the “Un Mensaje al Cielo” found on the Facebook page for the event.

“Un Mensaje al Cielo” uno de los motivos es el cierre de la celebración del XXXIII Aniversário de la Declaratoria de La Antigua Guatemala como Patrimonio de la Humanidad organizado por la Comisión Sociocultural. Elevación de Globos de papel Chino, donde se centralizará en los Atrios de Iglesias y Parques, Plaza Central o en su Barrio, Vecinos. familia y amigos. Imagine y participe, serán mas de 500 globos al mismo tiempo se elevando en nuestra ciudad. Vaya preparando su cámara fotográfica.

Se ruega a todos que elevarán los GLOBOS este dia, que lo hagan con responsabilidad y principalmente hagan los que tengan experiencia, asi evitaremos contratiempos.

photos courtesy of Nelo Mijangos

La Antigua Guatemala is one of the most popular photographic locations in Guatemala.

Once again Antigua Guatemala was used as backdrop location for a photo session. It’s quite common to see photographers from all over Guatemala who come to our beloved city to shoot wedding sessions, models, products and not just photography, big stuff such as video production and cinematographic films crews are seen around Antigua Guatemala.

In this particular occasion some of the people that who are behind of the organization of a new and different event in Guatemala called “Rally de Fotos” were shooting some photos for the promotional banner ad. The crew consisted of Nidia Giron, Geovin Morales and Nelo Mijangos who were both photographers and models behind final photo selected. In the gallery below we can see some of the ideas behind the creative process and through the differences of the light we get to that the shooting lasted several hours.

If you’re around Antigua Guatemala this weekend perhaps you could be interested in participating in the first Rally de Fotos in Guatemala. The rules are very simple: You have 8 hours to get 8 photographs, one photo per hour per theme, 8 themes total. Because nobody knows what themes would be until the hour when the theme is announced. That’s quite a challenge because you only have 60 minutes to get the best photo for the theme and you are competing against over one hundred photographers. However, the best part comes at the end when you have to deliver your memory card with ONLY 8 photos, one for each theme that you took within the hour you had for it. The photos must be delivered with no editing in Photoshop or any other post-production editing software. Yes, that means photos from the camera to the photo contest.

If you are interested in participating or just following the updates? Get more information at RallyDeFotos.com.

text and photos by Nelo Mijangos & Geovin Morales