Antigua Street Colors: Red and Yellow
This picture was made during a photo walk where I was teaching how to compose a photograph using symmetry and color contrast. …
Antigua Street Colors: Aqua and Orange
These two aqua doors are part of the Casa Presidencial in Antigua Guatemala. For a long time I have wanted to photograph …
Antigua Street Colors: Red and Blue
Here I captured a couple deciding what to eat at Romeo & Julieta. Of course, after I had made a few shots, …
Antigua Street Colors: Shades of Blue
I have always believe that the exterior wall of the former Casa de la Moneda, Minting House, is fabulous backdrop for my …
Antigua Street Colors: Green and Lilac
Whenever I roam the streets with my camera, I am hyper aware of color combinations, from the basic complimentary colors of red …
Wall textures and colors from Antigua Guatemala
I never get tired of sharing with you all the wall textures I find during my photo walks. Of course, to celebrate …
Typical colors of Antigua Guatemala: Blue and Yellow
After our Holy Week coverage, we are back to our normal Antigua Guatemala photography feed. I hope you enjoy this touch of …
Antigua Guatemala Colors and Textures
This is one of my favorite textured walls in Antigua Guatemala. I often use it as backdrop for my Antigua Photo Shoots.
Vibrant Colors of Antigua Guatemala
The vibrant colors of Antigua Guatemala seem to glow or shine when the morning or afternoon light hits them, don’t you think?
Antigua Guatemala Colors of the Dry Season
One of the constant color of the dry season in Antigua Guatemala is the sky blue. If you pair the sky blue with the rich tones of the yellow and orange houses and buildings found everywhere in Antigua Guatemala you get a picture like the one shown above. Enjoy!
Colors and Vistas of the Dry Season
The dry season is upon us and the colors and vistas keep on getting better and better. As usual, during the dry …
Antigua Colors — Browns with a touch of red and orange
Today I share with you a candid slice of daily life in Antigua Guatemala with a touch of vibrant colors. I don’t …
Antigua Guatemala’s Most Popular Colors
I would venture to say that these two colors are the most often used to paint the façades of houses and buildings through out this enchanting town… TAP to see the full photo and the official Cartilla del Color of La Antigua Guatemala.
The Colors of the Eternal Spring of Antigua Guatemala
What better way to show you the colors of the Eternal Spring of Antigua Guatemala than with the vibrant hues of the …
Colors of Antigua Guatemala
When was the last time you walked through these streets? Question for you guys. I have been considering creating a quarterly photographic …
Antigua Autumn Colors: Vibrant Red and White
Who can tell the name of this peculiar flower?
Antigua Autumn Colors: Vibrant and Exotic Orchids
You can never go wrong with the vibrant and exotic orchids of Guatemala. By the way, in case you didn’t know, Guatemala …
Antigua Autumn Colors: Osteospermun jucundum
I just realize many of the flowers blooming now are either purple or lilac. That’s interesting, don’t you think?
Antigua Autumn Colors: Duranta Blooms
You will not believe how many flowers are blooming right now in Antigua Guatemala. I wish you were here to enjoy all …
Antigua Autumn Colors: Pink Hydrangea blossoms
Pink hydrangeas are not as common as lilac and light blue hydrangeas in Antigua Guatemala. Well, at least I haven’t seen it …
Antigua Autumn Colors Are Coming to Antigua
Take a photographic tour to see some plants blooming now: Dry Season Blossoms in Antigua Guatemala Blossoms From The Land of the …
Volcán de Agua and Antigua House Colors
Take a photographic tour around the Volcán de Agua through these posts: Antigua’s Cathedral and Volcán de Agua Winter Sunrise over Volcán …
Afternoon Colors of Antigua Guatemala
The afternoons colors in Antigua Guatemala are usually warm with the light hitting the walls to make it a delightful experience. I …
Colonial Colors from Antigua Guatemala
Before the pandemic, if you wanted to make photographs of Antigua Guatemala with almost no cars on the streets, you had to …
Enjoy the Vibrant Colors Found Everywhere in Antigua Guatemala
As I have said many times before, we are very fortunate to have flowers in bloom all year long thanks to the …
Vibrant Colors and Smiles from Antigua Guatemala
Today I share with you the vibrant colors and smiles from Antigua Guatemala. Meet the sisters Erica and Jackelin, two of the …
Morning Colors from Antigua Guatemala: Yellow and Blue
As I said the other day, for the foreseeable future my new goal is to try to only share beautiful, sunny and …
Colors and Sunshine from Guatemala
It’s a lovely morning in Antigua Guatemala. I am sending y’all the best vibes from our little town. My new goal is …
Colors and Smiles from Guatemala
Here are some smiles and colors from Antigua Guatemala to brighten your day where you are in the world during these trying …
The Mayan Colors of Antigua Guatemala
Today I share with you the beautiful and colorful smile of world-famous and friend of mine, Ruth and her family. Also, what …
The Colors of Antigua Guatemala
Even though the slogan for La Antigua Guatemala is the city of the perpetual roses or as we say in Spanish, La …
Colors and Textures from Antigua Guatemala
Here’s a Saturday’s early morning shot from Antigua Guatemala showing the typical colors and textures found through out the city. A simple …
The two most popular colors in Antigua Guatemala
Here I present you two of the most popular colors in Antigua Guatemala. I believe Amarillo La Merced is my favorite. By …
The colors of Antigua Guatemala
Do you know the ten official colors of La Antigua Guatemala? Which one is your favorite?
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 …
Guatemalan Colors and Smiles
Today I share with you a candid portrait of Ruth, one of the vendors that offers colourful hand-woven Mayan textiles from the …
I want to take home all the colors from Guatemala
Winter is coming! Better be prepared. That’s why I am taking all the colours of Guatemala with me to help cope with …
Antigua Guatemala Colors — Rojo Santo Domingo
Rojo Santo Domingo is another popular color from the Antigua Guatemala palette. Even more so than Rojo Concepción. Another rojo shade you see …
Antigua Guatemala Colors — Amarillo and Celeste Colonial
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Celeste or sky blue. Celeste comes from cielo, sky. Celaje is another word that …
Fluorescent colors are back in Antigua Guatemala
Believe it or not, it seems fluorescent colours are coming back. From a fluorescent pink bicycle to electric green socks. Or perhaps …
The Colors of The Guatemalan Grill
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Pinchos for skewers. Simple tray showing the colours and shapes of what goes on …
The Colors of La Antigua Guatemala
Here’s a simple façade that shows some of the colours of La Antigua Guatemala. This façade was captured in the village of …
Colors and Textures from Antigua Guatemala
One of the aspects that makes walking around La Antigua Guatemala is its many textures and colours, even on broken down abandoned …
Antigua Guatemala Colors: Yellow
We continue the Antigua Color Series with yellow wall, Amarillo La Merced, to be precise, as backdrop for this interaction between a …
Antigua Guatemala Colors: Red
Did you guys know that there is an official color palette for Antigua Guatemala? The official color palette has 12 colors, I …
Antigua Winter Colors: Fuchsia
Welcome to the land of the eternal spring. I get it now, the slogan does not refer to the actual Spring season, …
Antigua Winter Colors: Orange
Today has been the coldest since the dry season began at the end of October. Between 6am and 7am we experienced a …
Guatemala’s colors are on display every year on September 15 to mark Independence Day
Honestly, I don’t know why we still celebrate Independence Day in Guatemala. What we should be doing is putting a classified in …
Eternal Spring Guatemalan Colors
As we have mentioned before, if you’re planning a visit to Guatemala, make sure you pack your sunglasses if you don’t want …
Guatemalan Wealth of Colors and Textiles
I don’t know in what position is located Guatemala in terms of wealth resources as measured by the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) …
Coffee Colors
In Spanish we use the word café to mean coffee and brown. Coffee berries, however, begin their color palette lifecycle as green …
Guatemalan Christmas Colors: Poinsettia Red
Pascuas (Guatemala) and Flor de Noche Buena (Mexico) are how poinsettias are known in Spanish. Poinsettias are native to Guatemala and Mexico …
The Coffee Colors
The other day we heard many voices on the other side of the fence; voices of children and women just talking and laughing. We approached the windows on the second floor to see what was all the commotion; then we saw men, women and children harvesting the coffee. At this moment, you can see the turning point of coffee from green to golden yellow and finally cherry red.
Guatemalan Kitchen Colors
These are some of the most often used ingredients in the Guatemalan kitchen. This photo was taken on Calle del Arco in front of La Fonda de la Calle Real at a booth that the restaurant put out to showcase their flavors and the ingredients they use in their kitchen. You can take this photo to your local Latin market and start cooking some of the recipes found in this site under the Food and Drinks category. Bon Appetite!
Colors and Patterns
I must confess, I have a weak spot for colors and patterns. Maybe it is the fact that I am, after all, …
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 colors, post #100
Antigua’s colors, originally uploaded by rudygiron. Nuno suggested that we should always look up, beauty is on every direction. That is exactly …
Sunshine and Temperate Weather Available Now In Antigua Guatemala
Attention, attention, In Antigua Guatemala we are offering shelter and refuge to those in need of sunshine and temperate weather. Everyone is …
Holy Week Details: Cucurucho Candles Vendor
Purple or violet and black are the colors of Lent and the Holy Week. Cucuruchos, float bearers, wear their cone-head purple robes …
Colorful Bus with Volcanoes Fuego and Acatenango
Today I am sharing some the vibrant colors and typical vistas from Antigua Guatemala. Enjoy!
Blue and Orange in Antigua Guatemala
The colors orange or warm yellow are quite common in Antigua Guatemala, however to pair them with blue, you must wait for …
Street Portrait of Maya Textile Vendor — Take 3
Today, once again, I am sharing with you the vibrant colors and warm smile of another Maya ambulant vendor through a portrait made a few steps away from Fuente de Las Sirenas at Parque Central… TAP to see the full size photo and post.
Street Portrait of Maya Textile Vendor — Take 2
As I often say, I really enjoy sharing my approach to photographing strangers through my Antigua Photo Walks and seeing how other timid photographers dramatically transform from being shy to really conquering their fears and making beautiful portraits of strangers or candid authentic slices of life in a single session… TAP to see the full size photo and post.
Street Portrait of Maya Textile Vendor — Take 1
Today I share with you the vibrant colors and timid smile of this Maya ambulant street vendor made a few steps away from Fuente de Las Sirenas at Parque Central… TAP to see the full size photo and complete post.
Poinsettias Flowers: A Gift from Guatemala to the World
Poinsettias are autochthonous to Guatemala and Mesoamerica so they can be grown in gardens either by design or as wild intruders as well as in the fields as wild plants. In Guatemala poinsettias are known as Flor de Pascua, or simply as…
Antigua’s Flower-decorated Doorways and Façades
Honestly, I don’t know why we don’t have more flower-decorated doorways and façades all year long. I mean, flowers are always in …
Enjoy the Fall Morning Light of Antigua Guatemala
Today I share with you two of the most popular colors found in Antigua Guatemala: Blue and Orange. You can also appreciate …
Fall is Here, Winter is Coming!
As I mention every year at the beginning of the Fall season: you better start making your way towards Antigua Guatemala to enjoy the Fall and Winter light and colors and our temperate weather. Don’t get caught in the long, cold, harsh Winter…
Sunflower Fields Forever
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Girasol for sunflower. In the Land of the Eternal Spring we are fortunate to …
Sights of Antigua — Ruinas de San José El Viejo
The rainy season brings out the vibrant colors of the gardens of Antigua Guatemala. You need to take strolls during the wet …
Sights of Antigua: Cat against a Bougainvillea Backdrop
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Gato for cat. You would not believe the things I come across during the …
Antigua Guatemala Has Sunshine and Vibrant Flowers All Year Long
No wonder people from really cold latitudes love to hibernate in Antigua Guatemala during the harsh winter months. Imagine having gorgeous warm …
Colorful Portrait of Maya Girls
One thing is for sure, we love color in Guatemala. It is quite understandable since we are exposed to vibrant colors in …
Street Portrait of World-famous Ruth
My good friend Ruth needs no introduction; she’s probably the most famous Maya woman in Antigua Guatemala. Ruth is a polyglot. Ruth …
Maya Portraits — A Young Maya Mother and Her Baby
As I have said before, one of the things that I share during the Street Photography Walks I lead here in Antigua Guatemala …
Framed Dome of Iglesia de La Merced
In today’s photo I managed to share with you two of the most iconic landmarks of Antigua Guatemala: El Arco de Santa …
Antigua Guatemala Wall Textures
This house is the newest textured wall found in Antigua Guatemala. As I have said before, because the high levels of humidity …
Organic Guatemalan Christmas Decorations: White Poinsettias
As I have shared with you before, flores de Pascua or pascuas, are the most popular Christmas floral displays. Poinsettias are also …
Winter is coming!
You better make your way to Antigua Guatemala to enjoy the Fall and Winter light and colors and our temperate weather. Today …
Couple Enjoying Parque Central’s Morning Light
Take a photographic tour around the Parque Central through these posts: Chilling around Parque Central Listen to the alluring singing of the …
Colorful and Sunny Antigua Guatemala Awaits for You!
Antigua Guatemala is well-known for its beautiful light and vibrant colors. If you are missing the gorgeous warm light and colors that …
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 …
Guatemalan Yellow and White Corn on the Cob
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Elotes for corn on the cob. Elotes are one of the most popular …
Antigua Awaits You!
Since many of you might still be under lockdown or quarantine regulations [that’s the case in Guatemala] and traveling is still out …
Street Portraits of Strangers — I am Guatemala No. 12
We continue our countdown to May 1st, 2020, the 14th anniversary of Antigua Daily Photo with a portrait of a Maya Ambulant …
Guateflora — Yellow shrimp flowers from Antigua Guatemala
We continue our close-up look at the flowers found in the gardens of Antigua Guatemala with camarón amarillo, as we know the …
Guateflora: Hortensias
We continue our close-up look at the most common flowers found in the gardens of Antigua Guatemala with Hortensias the common name …
Antigua Guatemala is Colorful and Sunny
Winter is coming, we know what’s coming with it. —Jon Snow Well, if you are looking for a warm and colorful destination …
Colorful Poinsettias for the Christmas Season
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Pascuas for Poinsettias. With each passing year, poinsettia growers develop new colors and …
Antigua Guatemala is full of instagrammable spots
I never get tired of showing all the photogenic places of Antigua Guatemala I come across through my strolls through town. With …
Panza Verde Portraits — Meet Carol
I have seen her many times before and had wanted to make a portrait of her. In fact, I might have made …
Explore the architectonic elements of Antigua Guatemala and take amazing pictures in the process
Not only we visit interesting spots in Antigua Guatemala, at every spot we learn different photography skills. ⠀⠀If you like taking pictures, …
Hortensias or hydranga bloom all year long in Antigua Guatemala
This particular flower (which most people in the US call hydranga) has an additional lesson for me. You can find them in …
Antigua Photo Walks for are the perfect short and fun activity for Cruise ship passengers
For cruise ship passengers who enjoy taking pictures, Antigua Guatemala is paradise with so many photographic opportunities no matter in which direction …
Textures of Antigua Guatemala — Take 2
We continue the mini series of Antigua Guatemala textures with this red and yellow wall textures; two of the most popular colors in town. I will turn them into calendars and high quality decoration prints. Let me know if you’re interested. Cheers!
Photo Tip for Better Images of Antigua Guatemala
Follow this simple recipe to make better photographs of Antigua Guatemala and elsewhere.
Enjoy the most fun and #1 rated activity in Antigua Guatemala
“Great photowalk in Antigua! Our group had the perfect size and Rudy told us about the most important rules about photography. I …
Street Photography Walks in Antigua Guatemala: Architectonic Details
If you like taking pictures, Antigua Guatemala will be paradise for you, with so many photographic opportunities no matter in which direction …
Unconventional and Interesting Group Portraits in Antigua Guatemala
If you like taking pictures, Antigua Guatemala will be paradise for you, with so many photographic opportunities no matter in which direction …