Daily life vista from Antigua Guatemala: Wall Textures
Of course, wall textures are another common quotidian life vista from Antigua Guatemala. Take photographic tour through the many textures and wall …
Of course, wall textures are another common quotidian life vista from Antigua Guatemala. Take photographic tour through the many textures and wall …
I never get tired of sharing with you all the wall textures I find during my photo walks. Of course, to celebrate …
I believe the wall textures of the façade of La Tienda de Doña Gavi must one of the most often used backdrops …
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Believe it or not, before February 4th, 1976, most walls of the traditional houses in Guatemala were made with adobe or a …
I have shared with you pictures or wall textures. I have also shared photographs of the colorful buses of Guatemala. However, I …
Believe it or not, even fast-food restaurants have fantastic wall textures in Antigua Guatemala. For instance, this portrait was made with one …
You can find this vertical garden wall in the village of San Gaspar Vivar, about 3 kms from the heart of Antigua …
This house is the newest textured wall found in Antigua Guatemala. As I have said before, because the high levels of humidity …
Imagine living in town where everyday the temperate weather provides the conditions for flowers to be blooming all the time; a place …
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Cubre muros for wall creeper plant. As I mentioned yesterday, rustic walls and …
Antigua Guatemala has gorgeous wall textures everywhere, making it the quintessential destination for lifestyle photo sessions that produce some of the most …
Today I share with you a portrait of Giovanna against green wall texture. I really like the color contrast between her attire …
Verdurous walls covered with lush wall creepers or bougainvillea plants are quite common in the gardens of Antigua Guatemala. Take a photographic …
It’s been a while since our last post on the Guateflora series. Our daily life vista is framed by the plant called …
You know, 12 years ago when I started Antigua Daily Photo, there weren’t as many wall textures as they are today. I …
Here’s another typical vista of daily life from Antigua Guatemala; someone looking for work, another person going to work. I don’t know …
I shoot these informal street photos, using mostly available light and some fill-flash, perfect for those seeking a professional street photographer to document their trip in a natural style, whether candid and/or posing in ‘A day in the life of’ style photoshoot…
Here’s another quotidian vista from Antigua Guatemala that includes the classic ladder, wall textures and hand-made sign of Tienda de Doña Gavi, …
It’s a delight to walk around a city we so many beautiful textured walls. This wall is one of my favorites. You …
As I was saying a couple of days ago, you could taking a walk by any given street of Antigua Guatemala when …
Starting on May 1st, I look up to sky and ask, “is the rainy season over yet?” I do this the first …
As I have said many times before, the color the best describes Guatemala is green. If you have ever visited La Antigua …
Check out the new decorative spot lights on the side wall of the cathedral building in Antigua Guatemala. The restoration works of …
It never ceases to amaze me the creative decor pieces people hang on their walls and corridors in Antigua Guatemala. These little …
During the Secrets of Antigua Guatemala photo walk I often encourage people to go inside every restaurant, hotel, shop, cultural center, et …
Even though I have shown every color possible that you can find in Antigua Guatemalan and surrounding communities under the archives of …
It’s an easy decision to leave the studio for the streets in Antigua Guatemala because outside, on the streets we have literally …
La Antigua Guatemala is the ultimate destination for textures and beautiful wall patterns, don’t you agree? Stay tuned, during March I will …
Here’s yet another colourful picture that might work well as wall art. Enjoy a little color from Antigua Guatemala.
I have to admit it to myself: I am a lucky guy. Let me explain. See, as I was driving towards Parque …
As promised, here’s candle-lit view of the wall candle holder found on the walls of Hotel Antigua. Please visit the daylight vista …
Let’s start easy on this Monday. Here’s a simple candle wall holder made by the blacksmiths of Antigua Guatemala. This is really …
Antigua Guatemala is the photographer’s paradise because almost every wall provides an excellent and unique photographic backdrop on top of the so …
Here’s another take on one of my favorite wall in Antigua Guatemala. If you’re in town, don’t miss this wall on the …
To get us into the mood of the Christmas season that can be felt everywhere in Guatemala now, here’s the first free …
It’s been several weeks since I shared a FREE wallpaper with you, almost a month. We have to fix that. So here’s …
If you have followed the daily updates of AntiguaDailyPhoto for a while you would know that here we only served rich saturated …
Here's another wallpaper for your iPad, tablet or laptop of volcanoes Fuego and Acatenango taken from a coffee plantation in San Pedro …
Let me share with you this image of Volcán de Agua taken from the village of San Gaspar Vivar at the mid-point …
This is what it looks like as you walk inside a coffee plantation from Antigua Guatemala. I thought some of you might …
If walls could talk, what kind of stories do you think we would hear from this wall?
Everywhere, the times they are a-changin’ Libertad, Expresión, Conciencia the wall declares. Liberty, Freedom of Expression and Conscience could be the rough …
Often the perimeter walls for residential homes have carefully guided bougainvillea trees flowering all year long along to the top. In a …
I believe this is the second time I noticed these wooden rustic chairs hanging from a wall. In the post Hanging Chairs …
Here’s yet another photograph of a garden wall taken at Sabe Rico restaurant in Antigua Guatemala. As I have said in previous …
In La Antigua Guatemala there is an appreciation for rustic walls. If you visit the post Let me show you my guts, …
Climber plants are very popular to cover walls around La Antigua Guatemala as shown in Guateflora: hiedras. As you can see in …
This kind of stoned wall is found through out Guatemala, especially, in the highlands. The purpose of this kind walls is to …
I read this tweet about the Earth Hour (Hora del Planeta): @AndyStalman: Mas que apagar las luces habría que encender las conciencias! …
Okay, enough I say; it’s been way too long since I gave away free wallpapers; since December 23, 2010 to be exact, …
We finish our little mini night photography tour with this simple image of a red wall and sign illuminated by a lamp. …
It’s been a while since I shared a wallpaper with you, so I thought why not make one of Antigua’s handmade stone …
Wow, time flies by; I just realized I have not shared a wallpaper with you since the Earth Day Wallpaper From Antigua …
Today is Earth Day so I am sharing with you a wallpaper for your computer from a typical green vista of Colas …
As mentioned before the Gravilea trees are planted next to coffee bushes to provide the necessary shade for the coffee plants. Once …
First wallpaper download for 2009 from La Antigua Guatemala Daily Photo (LAGDP). You can browse the wallpaper category to get the other …
The already narrow sidewalks of La Antigua Guatemala get even narrower with benches that literally grow out of the walls. Even though …
I don’t get it, why would anyone would go through the hassle of building a fake door, then painting it to look …
Here’s yet another gift for those Guatemalans living abroad, the jocotes de corona wallpaper that you can download from here at 1200×900 …
Not only in walls can you find textures in La Antigua Guatemala; sometimes even wooden beams can provide moth-eaten textures. If you …
I could spend a good hour photographing all aspects of La Tienda de Doña Gavi and perhaps bring you a series… but …
In September 2007, I brought to you the façade and sign of La Tienda de Doña Gavi, remember? Today I bring to …
Here’s another wallpaper for your desktop as an appreciation for a donation someone made today towards the hosting bills. Thanks! I know …
Tomorrow the La Antigua Guatemala Daily Photo (LAGDP) will be two years old. About 744 consecutive daily photographs and descriptive narratives of …
Today’s is Earth Day and to celebrate it, I am posting a desktop wallpaper photo for your computer which shows the harmony …
After all those years, all those rainy seasons, all those earthquakes this old wall still stands.
Here is yet another textured old wall that can be used as wallpaper or desktop image in your computer. This image even includes the electric meter so you can keep a log of how much electricity you are using while in front of your computer. 😉
Remember that you can also browse the Wallpapers category for another 7 images of La Antigua Guatemala that can be used as wallpaper or desktop images for your desktop PC, Mac or Linux workstation. To download the images as wallpapers, all you need to do is click the photos in this site and you will be taken to a larger-size image (1600í—1200) that you can download. The rest depends on the operating system you use.
You just have to be a bit more creative with the rain and the white and gray skies. For instance, a visit to our garden for some macro photos gave us this close-up shot of two rain drops on top a nopal penca (cactus pad) to be used as a possible wallpaper for your desktop computer. If you would like other Antigua Guatemala wallpapers for your computer, please, take a look at the wallpapers category. I hope you like options available there. Let me know either way.
This niche and the surrounding walls was basically the only color I found at the San Lázaro Cemetery. This piece was between two sets of above-ground crypts; the set on the right was empty and the set on the left was not vacant.
Perhaps it is not too late to introduce some of the wonderful Antigüeño color palette into the La Antigua Guatemala’s main public cemetery.
Although this image is not as elegant and clean as the one shown in Fire and Acatenango Volcanoes Wallpaer, I thought some of you may enjoy having it as wallpaper for your desktops. If you do, download th image (1600×1200) Electric Wire Grid and Volcanoes Wallpaper.
I don’t know why I have a fascination for this horrible electric wire grids or webs that break up into pieces, the otherwise, gorgeous sky line around La Antigua Guatemala. Well you can at least use this visual noise as wallpapers for your computer.
Often as you stroll around La Antigua Guatemala, you come across walls with lots of texture made from the many layers of natural lime-stone-based paints. Below is a quote from an previous entry about Natural paint textures.
Volcán de Fuego (“Volcano of Fire”) is an active stratovolcano in Guatemala. It is close to the city of Antigua Guatemala. It …
Oh what the heck, I am feeling generous. Here is yet another yellow wallpaper for your desktop. Lessie is right, I find …
Is either yellow a very popular color in Antigua or I have a tendency towards photographing yellow walls. I mention this because …
If I’m not mistaken, Isabella, from Naples, Florida Daily Photo, said that she became more aware of her surroundings after she began …
Here is my first gift of the new year to you. This is textured wall of Nicolas, a five-star restaurant in Antigua …
Here is another example of metal sign for a business. Gran Muralla, great wall, is a Chinese restaurant in Antigua. I wish …
There are now 5,400 posts in the archives of AntiguaDailyPhoto, organized neatly in reverse chronological order, by category order and by hash tags. This is the largest multimedia resource in English about the Guatemalidad or the Guatemalan identity, traditions and culture. I have tried to cover just about everything I have come across in these +16 years…
This type of half fountain embedded on a wall are known as búcaro and they are everywhere in Antigua Guatemala. So much …
The moment I saw the red Ferrari slowly moving along the deep red walls of the former convent of the Jesuit Society …
Here’s another take on the series Antigua Makes Me Happy. Once again, I share a portrait of a Spanish student enjoying her …
I have always believe that the exterior wall of the former Casa de la Moneda, Minting House, is fabulous backdrop for my …
Today is observed and celebrated the Día de la Santa Cruz, Day of the Holy Cross,in the Catholic world. As in previous …
I can believe it’s been over a year since I last posted a picture for the fun series: Antigua Makes Me Happy. …
12 Onzas is the newest specialty coffee shop in Antigua Guatemala. They only serve coffee from their family coffee plantation Concepción Buena …
This is one of my favorite textured walls in Antigua Guatemala. I often use it as backdrop for my Antigua Photo Shoots.
It’s been a while since I shared with you a niche detail. Today’s picture is a architectonic detail found at side wall …
The most recent ruins to open up their doors to the public is Ruinas de San Agustín, located on the corner of …
Starting with the first Sunday of 2022 I will be offering you the opportunity to decorate your home or office with a metallic print or luster print or digital download so you can make your own print that you can use dress up walls or to give as gift to a friend or family member… TAP to see the full size photo and post.
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…
Today I share with you two of the most popular colors found in Antigua Guatemala: Blue and Orange. You can also appreciate …
Today I share with you one of the newest façades with chipped paint textures. This one can be found near Pollo Campero, …
A búcaro fountain is half fountain normally embedded in a wall, usually near an inside patio, but it can be anywhere. Since …
Today I share with you a fisheye vista or Parroquia de San José Catedral, well to be precise, the side nave as …