Antigua Market Sights — Chipilín Vendor
Chipilín is this Guatemalan herb with a very unique flavor and aroma. In the Guatemalan cuisine, one finds in all kind dishes, …
Antigua Market Sights — Jeans Vendor
The mercado of Antigua Guatemala is a location full with repetition vistas such as this jeans vendor booth.
Antigua Market Sights — The Egg Vendor
Today I share with you the sight of a booth of one of the egg vendors inside the market of Antigua Guatemala. …
Herbs and Greens Antigua Market Booth
Market days are awesome days to be in the mercado municipal of Antigua Guatemala. Everything is fresh and there’s so many more …
Corozo palms on sale at the Antigua market
Copal incense and corozo palms provide the main aromas of Lent and Holy Week in Antigua Guatemala. Corozo palms are sold in …
Fresh Tropical Fruits Stand at Market in Antigua Guatemala
How can one not be grateful for all the fresh tropical fruits found year-round in the mercado of Antigua Guatemala, don’t your …
Beans and grains booth inside the Antigua Guatemala market
Look at all the different kinds of beans available at this grains stand inside the mercado of Antigua Guatemala. The same can …
Market Vs Supermarkets in Antigua Guatemala
Here are two different approaches to the distribution and sale of food. On one hand, the mercado is an agglomeration of small …
Weekend Handicrafts Market at Ruinas del Carmen, Antigua Guatemala
As I have mentioned before, a handicraft market mushrooms on the outside of Ruinas Del Carmen on the weekends and holidays. The …
Sentimental Saturday: Antigua Guatemala market from August 1973
Today we begin a new section which I am calling Sentimental Saturdays in which I will share photographs from the Brooks Buderus …
Fresh Produce at Antigua’s Market
You can go every day to el mercado (market) of La Antigua Guatemala, but if you go Monday, Thursday or Saturday, you …
Selling Cell Phones in the La Antigua’s Market
The transnational Spanish cell phone company Movistar enters the humble Guatemalan market; following the example set by Domino’s Pizza. So now, you can go to el mercado (market) of La Antigua Guatemala for your vegetables, fruits, spices, flowers, dishes, charcoal and cell phones. These two girls, with Telefónica Movistar t-shirts, were selling the cell phones for Q130/USD$18 with Q100 of airtime and your own cellphone number; not bad all.
Niche Market in La Antigua Guatemala
No, I don’t think you were thinking about this niche market. Although these kind of niches are the origin for the concept of niche market. Well, the play on words may not work completely in English as it does in Spanish. Nicho is the Spanish term for niche and it applies to the market place, to an architectural recess, a niche can be applied to a hollow, crack, crevice, or foothold, and from there to hollow structured pictured above to receive the dead.
Antigua’s Market Fruit and Vegetable Stand
Please, do not attack this fruit and vegetable stand with your liquidiser. Your blender would probably work better at this tropical fruit …
Christmas colors from the Antigua Guatemala’s Market
Red is the most prominent color around Christmas time. You can see it in the many people who dress up like Santa …
Antigua’s market vendor
Antigua’s market vendor, originally uploaded by rudygiron. Supermarket is the theme for today in 25 daily city blogs. Antigua does not have …
Antigua’s market vegetable stand
Veggies and Lucky, originally uploaded by rudygiron. Antigua’s market days are Monday, Thursday and Saturday. Although, you can go to the market …
A look at Antigua’s market
Veggie stands, originally uploaded by rudygiron. Although this is not a very good shot, it shows of one the areas of the …
Sights of Antigua Guatemala: The Nutcracker
We begin 2022 with this portrait of the nutcracker of Antigua Guatemala taken during a recent market photo walk. I believe my …
Antigua Guatemala’s Bus Terminal Photo Walk
Today I share with you a photo from Antigua Guatemala’s bus terminal. I made this image during the photo walk I lead on Thanksgiving while I was teaching how to properly use natural frames, an effective use of layers as well as perspective. Down below you can see the photo made by Sergey… TAP to see the full size photos.
Antigua Makes Me Happy — Take 13
Today’s image is the portrait of a smiling grandmother and her granddaughter that I made a couple of days ago. On my …
The Weekend Artisans Market is Back at Real Palacio de La Cultura
Poco a poco, slowly, some of the activities from the old normality are coming back in with modified and healthy protocols into …
Sights of Our Times: Part of the Market Setting up at the Compañía de Jesús Atrium
As part of the effort to bring the rate of infection to the colors orange or even yellow, the Ayuntamiento of La …
Pandemic Sights: Farmer’s Market Stand
Not everything is bad about the Cover-19 pandemic. Farmer’s Markets and local fruit and veggie stands are popping up everywhere. For instance, …
New Community Farmers Market Opened in San Pedro Las Huertas
We are very fortunate in Antigua Guatemala because a lot of the food that we consume in the municipality it is grown …
Framed Butcher at Mercado Municipal of Antigua Guatemala
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Carnicero for butcher. This framed portrait of a butcher was made on a market …
Chicken Bus Terminal in Antigua Guatemala
This photograph and many of the images I have shared during the last ten days were made while leading a very intense and comprehensive one-on-ne street photography workshop. We shot inside the market, the bus terminal, the municipal cemetery, on the streets of Antigua Guatemala and the Mayan village of Santa María de Jesús. We shot in the morning, afternoon and at night. As part of this comprehensive workshop we also covered Lightroom workflow and editing and camera settings for different photo styles and best lenses for street photography and street portraits. If you would like to bring up the level your photography book a comprehensive and intensive photography workshop with me. I will be glad to share everything I know.
Antigua Guatemala Group Photo Walks
The Antigua Photo Walks are the #1 rated activity in Antigua Guatemala. No two photo walks are alike as every time we …
Market Day — DVD Movie Vendor
Believe it or not, DVD movies are still a popular item on demand at the market days inside the Mercado Municipal of …
Market Day — Tostadas are Us!
Where is Waldo? I mean where’s the tostada vendor? This is what a typical tostada shop looks like inside the Antigua Guatemala’s …
Market Day — Color and Repetition
We continue our Market Day series with sampling of color and repetition found at junk food vendor inside the mercado of La …
Market Day — Bus Terminal
The bus terminal behind the mercado of Antigua Guatemala is full of color and vibrancy. There’s such an effervesce there with buses …
Market Day — Hand-pulled Cart Vendor
In the Antigua Guatemala’s mercado many of the deliveries are still done by someone carrying on their back with one these hand-pulled …
First Flower Festival of Antigua Guatemala
The first Flower Festival of Antigua Guatemala took place this past weekend, November 18 and 19, with hundreds of flowers on display …
Fruit and Vegetable Delivery in Antigua Guatemala
Here’s another typical vista from Antigua Guatemala, fruit and veggie delivery on market days. Enjoy!
Vegetable stand at the Santa María de Jesús market
Market days or Días de mercado in Santa María de Jesús fall on Tuesday, Friday and Sunday, although you can find vendors …
National Police Patrolling in Antigua Guatemala
How many different kinds of police do we have in Antigua Guatemala? Let’s see if I can recall all of them. Policía …
Free Water For All in Antigua Guatemala
Thanks to Ecofiltro’s water stations, peppered through out Antigua Guatemala we now can offer free water for all. You can find these …
Market Sights — Niña Maya and Strawberries
Push and pull, push and pull, slowly but with all the strength of her little muscles this little girl was able to …
Market Sights — A Head Among The Herbs and Spices
Here’s your Spanish word of the day: Mercado for market. If you want to see many more sights of the mercado of …
Squash Flowers at the Mercado in Antigua Guatemala
Squash is available all year long as ayote, güicoy or even chilacayote, all members of the squash and pumpkin family. Squashes are …
Fresh and Sweet Fruits Year Round in Antigua Guatemala
Oh market days in Antigua Guatemala and it’s never-ending supply of fresh vegetables and fruits all year round. If you like fruits, …
Consecutive Day 3637 — Beer Choices in Antigua Guatemala
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Cervezas for beers. Slowly but surely, we are getting many more beer choices in …
Guatemalan Christmas Decorations Market Stand
Here’s a sampling of the most popular Christmas decorations used in Guatemala. How many Christmas decorations do you recognise or which one …
Guatemalan Beans and Maize Stand at the Mercado, Antigua Guatemala
We are what we eat. So Guatemalans are made from a big proportion of maize, beans, fruits and vegetables. Of course, beans …
The selfie-stick has arrived to the streets of Antigua Guatemala
Believe it or not, La Antigua Guatemala is another fallen city under the spell of narcissists who now have access to very …
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of the Holy Week in Antigua Guatemala
The Holy Week Is Officially Over! Yes, it’s official, the Semana Santa is over. Now, it is time to ponder over the …
Mango Season in Antigua Guatemala
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, while some people in the northern hemisphere are still suffering the struggles of a harsh …
Marraneria La Divina Providencia, Antigua Guatemala
I came across the pork shop, marraneria, La Divina Providencia, at the market the other day. This pork shop is one of …
Typical market vendor of grains
El mercado of Antigua Guatemala is such a photogenic place. Almost everywhere you point you camera, you have interesting vistas to capture. …
#GoOrganic: Antigua Organic Tours
We have a lots tours in Antigua Guatemala, from coffee tours to organic farm tours and don’t forget the Antigua Photo Walks …
A Day in the Life of a Tuc Tuc Taxi Driver in Antigua Guatemala
Here’s the first photojournalistic project of the Foundry Photo Workshop I am sharing with you. As soon as I get other projects …
Antigua Photo Walk Captures at Calle del Arco
This is one of the photos taken during the last “street photography challenge photo walk” I lead on the streets of Antigua …
The Licuados or Smoothies Culture of Antigua Guatemala
Let’s go grab a licuado! Sweet. Refreshing. Natural. Licuados are one of those treats that truly define a Guatemalan experience. The blended …
Selling Fruits on the Streets of Antigua Guatemala
We have so many different measurements in use in Guatemala nowadays it is difficult to make sense of all. We use the …
Marimba Days in Antigua Guatemala
Most weekends in Antigua Guatemala are marimba days. There are quite a few places, private and public, where one can listen to …
Handicrafts Market El Carmen
Here’s another panoramic vista taken from Cerro de la Cruz, which shows 3a avenida norte and the handicrafts market of El Carmen …
The Antigua Guatemala Brand Launching Event
In my humble opinion, I believe that La Antigua Guatemala is among the best places in the world to live, don’t you …
Antigua Guatemala Fire Department’s Tuk Tuk Unit
I don’t recall exactly when tuk tuk motorcycles arrived in Guatemala, but they were absorbed as part of the Guatemalan traditions and …
Colonial-style Marketing Gimmicks
Casa Escobar resturant is known for having people dress up like colonial-times Spaniards to cry out the specials and menu options to …
Baltika Beer in Antigua Guatemala
You know La Antigua Guatemala is a cosmopolitan town the moment Baltika beer specials are found in the local supermarket. That’s right …
Market Marchers Manifestation
La Antigua Guatemala sí es Guatemala after all. I hate to admit it, but Manolo was right! Just when I think Antigua …
El Carmen Handicrafts Market
Visiting the El Carmen ruins folkart market is among the top things people do on the weekends and holidays in La Antigua …
Market Pick-Me-Up
Sweet. Juicy. Succulent. Happy. Fresh. Inviting. These are just some of the words that come to mind whenever I spy the overflowing …
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 …
The Computer Enters the Guatemalan Market
There’s no coming back. I was surprise to see a computer being used among all the fresh produce in the mercado (market) …
Guatemalan Market Fruit Stand
WANTED: Blenders are needed to process all the tropical fruits in the market stand above into licuados, smoothies and milkshakes. Experience is …
SAT Office in La Antigua Guatemala
Well, you may be wondering what SAT office means. Behind this placid view of this government building hides one of the reason why Guatemala is so poor; a beggar really if we consider that Guatemala begs money for road repairing, road building, new modern national identification card, fertilizers, schools, libraries and the list goes on and on. The picture above is the local office of the Superintendencia de Administración Tributaria, SAT for short and the equivalent of the IRS.
La Antigua’s Old-style Mercado Stand
Diversify is very sound advice for any business. Patsy, who loves chicken, would say, don’t put all the eggs in one basket. So, it is no surprise to find stands, like the one pictured above, in La Antigua Guatemala’s market which sells all kinds of items. This photograph gives an idea for a new easy game (we haven’t got a game for a while) for this weekend.
Guatemalan Textiles Market at La Fuente
Here is a better shot showing how the Guatemalan textiles literally carpet the garden around the fountain (fuente in Spanish) at La …
New Year’s Celebration in Antigua
New Year’s Celebration in Guatemala is very similar to Christmas Eve. People stay up all night to receive the new year, but …
Antigua’s backstreets
Antigua’s backstreets, originally uploaded by rudygiron. If you find yourself on the outskirts of Antigua, for sure you will be next to …
Book fair in Antigua
La Antigua Guatemala was founded as Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala (Saint James of the Lords of Guatemala) on July 25th, …
Football Game in Antigua
Football Game in Antigua, originally uploaded by rudygiron. Yesterday while I was looking for a car-wash around Antigua, I found this soccer …
Crowded Flowers Stands the Day before All Saints Day
Every year October 31st is the best day for flowers vendors as the sales skyrocket for the entire week as everyone is …
Theme Day: What would you miss?
As every first of the month, the City Daily Photo community has a theme day. For February 1, 2015 theme challenge is …
Wear it with Pride (Part 2)
Lo que no se conoce no se ama One can not love what one does not know — Julia Montoya Source: Interview …
Dried Autochthonous Corn from Guatemala
I still can’t believe that in the US over 99% of cultivated corn is the exact same type: Yellow Dent #2. What a difference is the situation in Guatemala and the rest of Mesoamerica, the cradle for the most popular cultivated cereal in the world… TAP to see the full size photo and post.
Free Portrait Prints Projects Delivers
Today I bring you an update on the Free Portrait Prints Project. Some of you might remember tale behind these portraits I …
New Textiles Stand Stand Near La Escalonia
Since the Municipal government has forbidden the ambulant vendors in all the parks of Antigua Guatemala, including the world-famous Parque Central, vendors …
Sights of Our Times: Trucks Used As Public Transportation
As I have mention before, public transportation was forbidden at the start of the pandemic Covid-19 in March 16 throughout Guatemala. People …
Sights of Our Times: Masks, Gloves, Soap and Sanitizing Gel Everywhere
Even though I have focus mostly on the face masks or face coverings, there are other things that we find everywhere, from …
Sights of Our Times — Queue at The Veggie Stand
Queues are part of this new normality. Keeping a healthy physical distance, 1.5 meter at a least, is part of our new …
Baroque Pillars of Ruinas El Carmen
For today, I bring you a close-up view of the intricate stucco details plastered on the pillars of Ruinas El Carmen, one …
Mercado Municipal Vistas: Framed Portrait of a Butcher
Making environmental portraits of strangers can be quite a challenge, especially at places where people shy away from cameras. I enjoy sharing …
Mercado Municipal Vistas: Pop-Up Fruits and Vegetables Stand
In the beef, pork and fish corridors of the municipal market of Antigua Guatemala one can often find pop-up stands selling mostly …
Mercado Municipal Vistas: Grain Flours Young Vendor
Making portraits of strangers can be quite challenging, especially at places where people shy away from cameras. I often share the necessary …
Mercado Municipal Vistas: Black Tortilla Stand
In the back of the market, towards the bus terminal end, there are quite a few tortilla booths, many preparing black tortillas …
Mercado Municipal Vistas: Pepsi vs Coca-Cola
This battle is fought every day at every market in the world; doesn’t matter who wins, the people always lose, right? All …
Freshly Pressed Orange Juice Everywhere in Guatemala
We are very fortunate in Guatemala to be able to have freshly pressed jugos [fruit juices] and licuados [smoothies] everywhere in the country, from the streets to the markets, as well as the omnipresent specialty juicing shops.
For Ever-present Flowers and Smiles Come to Guatemala
So, how are you enduring this harsh Winter season thus far? Don’t suffer any longer, pack your bags and come and enjoy the smiles and flowers available even now in Guatemala.
Great Guatemala Layover Photo Walks
Recently I organized a layover photo walk for a couple from Indiana. This included the arrangement of private transportation pick up at …
Eternal Spring Colors in Fall Season
Here I share with you the colours the Spring season during Fall in Antigua Guatemala. As I have mentioned many times in …
Consecutive Day 3640 — El Carmen Ruins
La Ruinas de El Carmen in Antigua Guatemala are a magnificent example of baroque colonial architecture. Even in it’s decay and abandoned …
Guatemalan ponche for Christmas
Guatemalan ponche, fruit punch is the most popular drink for the Christmas season. The fruit punch above was prepared from package from …
Delivering Christmas Pantry Baskets in San Pedro Las Huertas
You can sense the Christmas spirit already in and around La Antigua Guatemala, alright. From the processions, the convites, the town fairs, …
Guatemalan Food: Iguana
The Guatemalan gastronomy can be very exotic at times. Iguana prepared with tomato and chile sauce as shown here, with black tortillas …
What Makes Guatemalans Hot? Part 2.
Once again, there you go again thinking I am going to share with you the recipe for Guatemalannes… wrong. However, I can …
Light and flowers at the mercado
If you go to el mercado on “market days” you can get an ever larger selection of flowers at lower prices than …