Learn How To Shoot Environmental Portraits in Antigua Guatemala
Through the Antigua Photo Walks I found a vehicle to teach how make fun and interesting environmental portraits by surrounding the subject …
Street Photography Walks in Antigua Guatemala: Environmental Portraits
During the Antigua Photo Walks we learn how make environmental portraits by putting the subject on either side of the frame and …
Celebrations of Environment Day in Antigua Guatemala
What a day to be celebrating the Environment Day in Antigua Guatemala, especially so as many places up north are about to …
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. …
Organic Wall or Vertical Garden in San Gaspar Vivar
You can find this vertical garden wall in the village of San Gaspar Vivar, about 3 kms from the heart of Antigua …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Walking Among Giants in Antigua Guatemala
Since we are talking about the Gigantes, which are used in Dances of the Giants or Baile de los Gigantes, through this link you will find the agenda of activities for The End of the Year Festival at Calle del Arco. Enjoy!
Fresh produce home deliveries in Antigua Guatemala
There’s nothing like the fresh produce, harvested the same morning, home deliveries available in the villages of Antigua Guatemala or even in …
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 …
Eco-friendly fruit and vegetable delivery in Antigua Guatemala
There are so many ways in which Guatemalans use eco-friendly lifestyles, such as hand carts for deliveries, recycling and repurposing of junk …
Have a Happy Guatemalan Independence Day
First of all, I want to wish a very happy Guatemalan Independence Day to all the loyal readers out there! With each …
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 …
#GoOrganic: Saving Seeds
This is part of the seed bank at Caoba Farms in Antigua Guatemala, the last stop of the organic tour hosted by …
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 …
We’re Hombres de Maíz
As I have mentioned before, it is impossible to think of the Guatemalan, Mexican and Mesoamerican diet without maize. From the Popul …
Real Guatemala: Milpa Fields with Flowers and Squash
So far in these milpa fields I have found beans, squash, red onions, fruit trees, and flowers. However, as explained before, in …
Real Guatemala: Working The Milpa
Don Alejandro, 78, has four cuerdas [1/6 of block equals 1 cuerda] on communal or municipal land where he grows maize and …
Meet Photographer Juan José de Jesús Yas
Japanese-born photographer Juan José de Jesús Yas (1844-1917), was one of the most renowned photographers of the late 1800, early 1900. Below …
Portrait of Gonzalo de Cordova, Guatemala 1886
Today we are inaugurating the Antique Photographs thanks to a kind soul in Texas who donate a batch of photos taking between …
Peasants on their way to work
Another common sight of the #RealGuatemala around Antigua Guatemala is the peasants on their way to work their land. This is especially …
Café Barista Recycles Used Coffee Grounds
Café Barista is the Guatemalan coffee house chain equivalent to what Starbucks is in the U.S. more or less. I don’t visit …
Guatemala has approximately 1,000 species of orchids
Seven hundred species of orchids out of 1,000 are actually native to Guatemala. I found these fragments in an article about orchids …
Today Is Children’s Day in Guatemala
Two kids, one on each side of the fun, are seen in this Día del Niño, Children’s Day in Guatemala. I wish …
Going to Tend the Milpa
This photos was taken on the outskirts of Volcán de Agua where many people have milpas and orchards. Besides the obvious corn …
We’re Women of Maize
As I said before, it is impossible to think of the Guatemalan, Mexican and Mesoamerican diet without maize. From the Popul Vuh …
Colonial Pila & Lavadero Fountain
I have mentioned it a few times, but let me repeat it again. There’s are aesthetic principles which are used and apply …
Guatemalan Coffees Are Truly Green
Today, I continue learning about the Guatemalan coffees. In the past I have mention how I thought coffee plantations were beneficial for …
New Closing Time City Ordinances
There is new seismic activity in La Antigua Guatemala’s grapevine. For a while now, I’ve been hearing rumors about new closing times …
Nature-inspired Beauty Pageant Floats
Here’s a lesson to be learned. Even though San Pedro Las Huertas was one of the villages that was hit the hardest …
Solar Water Heaters, Clear Energy
Water heaters is another important area in Guatemala where one can bring clear energy and help the environment and the economy. That …
Proyecto Biodiesel Antigua Guatemala
This is what I shared with you before about the Antigua’s Biodiesel Project: Antigua Guatemala is full of Quixotes who do not …
Guatemala Green: Recycling Hi-Tech Junk
I have always believe that Green should be the color of Guatemala; green should be the flag and all other national iconography …
A Motorized Boost for Bicyclists
Reading the New York Times Sunday supplement that comes with Prensa Libre, I learnt about a revolution is taken place without making …
Acting Against Femicide in Guatemala
Women. They are the subject of these pictures. Why? The gruesome brutality hasn’t stopped. In fact, it has barely dipped. The Latin …
We’re Men of Maize
It is impossible to think of the Guatemalan, Mexican and Mesoamerican diet without maize. From the Popul Vuh (Popol Wuj in modern …
Birds-Eye View of Nature
Antigua Canopy Tours isn’t just about the unique experience of gliding… it’s about gliding through a tropical rainforest or cloud forest canopy. …
Have a Safe Flight
“The three most important factors for the canopy tour are security, a family-oriented experience and promoting nature,” Antigua Canopy Tours Manager Pascu …
Local Bottled Water Station Hunapu
In Guatemala exists a near monopoly of bottled water called Salvavidas; surely you remember the photo of the pile 5-gallon jugs known …
Colorful Guatemala
Colorful Guatemala, I tell you, colorful Guatemala! Si ni los mismos guatemaltecos logramos entender la complejidad cultural en la que vivimos… —Ale …
Gas Tanks are Ugly Too
This is what Guatemalans think of when you utter Tanques de gas (gas tanks); it doesn’t cross their mind the fuel tank …
Guatemalan Cuisine: Rabo Guisado
Okay, get your Guatemalan notebook handy, we’re about to learn a few Guatemalan words and concepts. Rabo Guisado translate roughly as ox …
On the Way to the Maize Mill
The Guatemalan way of life is rapidly disappearing right in front of our eyes. Today’s entry is such a case, as the …
Guatemalan Cuisine: La Enchilada
If tostadas had a kingdom, La Enchilada would be the queen of the tostadas. Good, you say, I’m glad to know, but …
The Ecological Way to Celebrate the Burning of the Devil in Guatemala
For those who would rather break a piñata than playing around with fire, I present to you the Lucky 7 Burning of the Devil Piñata for you to fill it with all your frustration and negative vibes and virtually burn it or break it with your mouse, trackball or tablet until your let it all out. Happy Burning of the Devil everyone!
Window view of Mountains around La Antigua Guatemala
As beautiful, cosmopolitan, antique and modern as it is La Antigua Guatemala, many people choose to live in one of the surrounding villages that belong to the municipio (county) of La Antigua Guatemala. There are many reasons for this decision which range from the economics, ‘real guatemalan experience’, or simply to live in a more natural and greener environment.
Theme Day: Men at Work
Architecture arose from man’s necessity to shelter from the environment. First, he used the caves where he left registered scenes from his daily life, to then build, with the materials found in nature, his home. As humankind organized socially and the jobs became specialties, the first masons appeared and transformed the natural materials such stone and wood, and invented others like adobes and bricks from clay. (fragment from La mano de obra en la arquitectura from JM Magaña in Recrearte Magazine, page 8, available in Spanish as a PDF download)
Guatemalan Cuisine: Frijoles colorados
Frijoles colorados or red beans is the second best dish after black beans, of course, in the Guatemalan kitchen. Here you have …
Close-up at a coffee plantation
Coffee trees do not grow very tall and that is why they are easy to harvest. Here you see coffee trees which …
Guatemalan Cuisine: Mayan Pizza or Giant Pupusa
Pupusas is a name inherited from El Salvador to a dish which can be found in the Southeast Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, …