Years ago, perhaps as long as a decade, I began making portraits of selfies. Believe it or not, this is not the first time I captured a bride and groom doing a selfie. Take a photographic tour through the many portraits of selfies found in the archives of AntiguaDailyPhoto.com. Enjoy!
Believe it or not, I have been making portraits of selfies for quite a while now. Take a photographic tour through the many portraits of selfies found in the archives.
Today I share with you the latest addition to my series Portraits of Selfies where I have been capturing people in the act of doing a selfie. Believe it or not, I have quite a few images of the Maya making selfies; so don’t think for a second that the Maya don’t like to be … Read more
My photo series of “Portraits of Selfies” is getting large enough that I might be able to something more meaningful with this photo collection. The last entry was capture during a flash photography workshop during Halloween as part of my Day of the Dead photography workshop.
We live in the era of the selfie thus a picture of landmark we visit is not as important as a selfie made at said landmark, right? What are your thoughts regarding selfies?
There’s a belief that states the Maya people don’t like to be photographed or make photographs. I am happy to report here and many times before in the archives that this is not true. They take pictures like anyone else, portraits and even selfies, as you can see here. What are your thoughts or experiences … Read more
Often during the photo walks I lead around town, people ask me if the Maya don’t like to be photographed. I say the Maya are just like any other people, there are shy, introverted Mayas as there are extraverted, exhibitionist. The difference lies that because they are so attractive to the cameras and exotic-looking to … Read more
As you take a photographic tour through the entries about selfies, you realise that “portraits of selfies” could be a very popular series with an endless supply of images. In fact, I believe that without really applying myself, I could easily make two or three portraits of selfies everyday in Antigua Guatemala. That’s too easy … Read more
We wave good-bye to Semana Santa 2016 with the most emblematic image found during the Holy Week: The Selfie. As every year, I always like to share with you my impressions about the bad and ugly of the Holy Week. That’s right folks, this year more than others, selfies are the most common seen vista … Read more
This is the time we have to live, let’s make the best of it.
Needless to say, the selfie practice is so prominent in La Antigua Guatemala and even more so around Calle del Arco. Talking about selfies, check out this video by Bill Maher about selfies and time spent with the smartphone. Enjoy!
Believe it or not, La Antigua Guatemala is another fallen city under the spell of narcissists who now have access to very inexpensive Chinese selfie-sticks being sold on the streets and central market. You can put a dot over Central America as another region infected by self-obsession and telescoping sticks. Since we are in an … Read more
I know that through history artists have realised self-portraits. Also, I am aware that the people started taken self-portraits when the Instamatic or Polaroid cameras appeared, perhaps even before so. Furthermore, I am certain this practice probably increased with the appearance of point-n-shoot cameras. However, I don’t remember the self-portraits being so pervasive and omnipresent … Read more
Of course people still hire a professional photographer to capture their wedding ceremony, but many still use their mobile camera phone to take selfies during the wedding ceremony to post to Facebook and other social media network. My solution, shoot and share through a Wi-Fi card directly from my camera to other mobile devices so … Read more
Ahh, selfies, what do your selfies say about you? Let’s see what this article on Psychology Today says about that: Ever since smartphones came equipped with cameras that face not just outward but also backward at the user, the self-portrait—dubbed the “selfie”—has taken over social media, particularly Instagram. (It’s popular on dating sites, as well.) … Read more