Another goal that I set for myself this year is to do many more street portraits of locals and visitors alike. I want to share the faces of the people I meet and perhaps a tiny bit about their lives. For instance, I took the portrait of this couple who were sitting together working on … Read more
Another common sight of the #RealGuatemala around Antigua Guatemala is the peasants on their way to work their land. This is especially so in the south part of town and villages because many per use the skirt of Volcán de Agua to grow maize, avocados, tomatoes, chiles, squash, et cetera, in short the crops of … Read more
¡No pongas todos los huevos en una canasta! Don’t put all your eggs in one basket! Oh the wisdom of idioms do not escape the Guatemalan typical small business owner, as I explained before. That’s why it’s commonplace to find a zaguán shop selling disparate items such fruits, vegetables and freshly made tortillas. Here’s one … Read more
Guatemalans take any space available from a zaguán [entryway or lobby] to a corridor or simply a window to turn it into a business. In this case, a plant nursery [vivero in Spanish] in what appears to be a hallway. Let’s play a Sherlock Holmes game; what can you extrapolate by simply looking at this … Read more
I don’t know if it is obvious or not, but Guatemala is not in South America or in the southern hemisphere, so in Antigua Guatemala we experience Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter at the same time than North America and Europe. So, If you really like the snow and freezing temperatures of the Winter polar … Read more
As explained the other day, I had set myself the goals of producing stereographic projections [tiny planets] and panoramic vistas of the main squares or plazas of all the villages and communities around Antigua Guatemala. I will also include interesting buildings that I like such as Compañía de Jesús building in Antigua Guatemala, Palacio del … Read more
Here’s another instalment from the Brooks Buderus archive. In this case, even the caption was written by mister Buderus in the 80’s: The La Merced Church was completed in 1767 and withstood the 1773 earthquake with little damage. It is used today even though some work is still being done after the 1976 quake. The … Read more
All Roads Lead to Antigua Guatemala, I’ve declared before and even had an entry with the title. Often I point out the importance of Antigua Guatemala, formerly Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala, through out the history of the Central American isthmus and beyond. I make a reference to this fact because La Antigua Guatemala … Read more
Another goal that I have set for myself for this new year is to make panoramic photographs all the plazas [main squares] of the villages of Antigua Guatemala and surrounding communities and municipalities along the tiny planets that I have already began. With these two new photographic approaches as well as with the on-going series … Read more
Here’s another photograph of the harvesting of coffee berries in Antigua Guatemala for the #RealGuatemala series. The freshly cut coffee berries being pulled by the tractor to the beneficio so they can undergo the next step in the process of producing one of the best coffees in the world. I have a few questions for … Read more
A walk through many of the villages around Antigua Guatemala reveals so much about how Guatemalans live. For instance, there are many free range chickens, turkeys and ducks, along mules, donkeys and horses in the houses of peasants living in the aldeas. I was surprised to learn that these ducks walk all the way to … Read more
According to Wikipedia, commuting is regular travel between one’s place of residence and place of work or full-time study. It sometimes refers to any regular or often repeated traveling between locations, even when not work-related. Here’s one take on the commuting imagery around Antigua Guatemala. As part of the series #RealGuatemala, I will create the … Read more
If you have follow my daily posts in AntiguaDailyPhoto for a few months or a few years, one thing would very obvious right away, I love doing street photography and capturing candid images from the streets of Antigua Guatemala. In the almost eight years I have been publishing daily photographs here, I have amassed a … Read more
Today we begin a new section which I am calling Sentimental Saturdays in which I will share photographs from the Brooks Buderus archive. A few months ago I came into several hundred slides taken by architect Brooks Buderus in the 70s and 80s in Antigua Guatemala and other cities around Guatemala, Honduras and Chiapas, Mexico. … Read more
It is both scandalous and sad that while the Guatemalan government is indulging in a melodramatic political charade, dissipating public funds in the process, while many schools throughout the country are commencing the new school year without basic budgets available for pupils’ food and teachers’ contracts. I broke my heart to hear the principal’s speech … Read more