Starting on May 1st, I look up to sky and ask, “is the rainy season over yet?” I do this the first days of the following months. It’s a tortuous exercise, I know, like every one else as well, that only until November, maybe, the answer will be yes. Well, it doesn’t hurt to ask, … Read more
Even though I have shown every color possible that you can find in Antigua Guatemalan and surrounding communities under the archives of AntiguaDailyPhoto, I still tend to be partial to yellow walls; don’t ask me why. If you want to take a colourful photographic tour through Color Palette or even the Walls category, follow the … Read more
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.
Oh what the heck, I am feeling generous. Here is yet another yellow wallpaper for your desktop. Lessie is right, I find myself photographing yellow walls because I love them. So here you have all the yellow wallpapers for your desktop, I have posted so far: Wall texture, Another wallpaper and Textured Yellow Wallpaper. You … Read more
Is either yellow a very popular color in Antigua or I have a tendency towards photographing yellow walls. I mention this because this is the third wallpaper I share with you and I just noticed they are all yellow. To download the image as a wallpaper, all you need to do is click the photo … Read more
First wallpaper download for 2009 from La Antigua Guatemala Daily Photo (LAGDP). You can browse the wallpaper category to get the other 23 Guatemalan wallpapers for your computer available from LAGDP. Just two weeks ago I shared with you a photo red and yellow pascuas (poinsettias) and I mentioned that poinsettias were native to Guatemala … Read more
We continue our close-up look at the flowers found in the gardens of Antigua Guatemala with camarón amarillo, as we know the yellow shrimp plant in Guatemala. The most popular colors for the shrimp flowers are red, white and yellow. The scientific name for the yellow shrimp flower is Pachystachys lutea. The red shrimp flower’s … Read more
As I said the other day, for the foreseeable future my new goal is to try to only share beautiful, sunny and colorful images to try to uplift the spirits and bring a little hope in these critical times. Once again, I’m also sending y’all the best vibes from Antigua Guatemala! It is Time for … Read more
We continue the Antigua Color Series with yellow wall, Amarillo La Merced, to be precise, as backdrop for this interaction between a local and a visitor. This precisely what I like to capture when I hit the streets, human interaction, gestures, and emotions. Have a happy Sunday everyone. Stay tuned for a week full of … Read more
Okay, enough I say; it’s been way too long since I gave away free wallpapers; since December 23, 2010 to be exact, it was the Christmas present from AntiguaDailyPhoto. Honest, I should give away free desktop/laptop wallpapers at least once a month, don’t you agree? Download the three free wallpapers from Antigua Guatemala from here: … Read more
Here’s yet another gift for those Guatemalans living abroad, the jocotes de corona wallpaper that you can download from here at 1200×900 pixels. Several of you wrote to me to let me know that you haven’t had jocotes in a long while and since I’ve been given the gift to think ahead about your suffering, … Read more
I could spend a good hour photographing all aspects of La Tienda de Doña Gavi and perhaps bring you a series… but I won’t; I promise I will only post two more wallpapers. Today’s wallpaper, like yesterday’s, is take from the broken up wall at Doña Gavi Store. You can download the 1200×900 wallpaper from … Read more
In September 2007, I brought to you the façade and sign of La Tienda de Doña Gavi, remember? Today I bring to you a yellow-red wallpaper for your computer desktop, which you can download from here at 1200×900 pixels. I hope you like it and use it for at least a day. 😉
We all live in a yellow house Yellow house, yellow house We all live in a yellow house Yellow house, yellow house And our friends are all on board Many more of them live next door And the band begins to play Here’s yellow to complete the olympic colors from yesterday’s photo, which only had … Read more
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.