Color palette

Guatemalan sweets

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Guatemalan traditional candies and sweets are still made with fruits and seeds (they are so behind!). At front we have sweets made with white meat of the coconut, the colored one have a fruit juice added to the mix, and sugar, lots of it. In the background you have sweets made with seeds, mainly squash, … Read more

Guatemalan candies

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First of all the answer for yesterday question is candies. These are artisan candies and Antigua is one of the best places in Guatemala to buy them. Please, watch out your sugar intake, these candies are very sweet and delicious. Tags: Antigua Daily Photo / Antigua / Guatemala / artisan candies / colors / Guatemalan … Read more

Pump up the color

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I am sorry guys, I know it gets boring, but I have to bring another photo with rich colors. These are wrappers made with tusa (dried cornhusk leaves) and then colored. Tusa is used most commonly for wrapping tamales, but you can see it can wrap other things. Can you guess what is inside? Tags: … Read more

Antigua’s colors, post #100

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Antigua’s colors, originally uploaded by rudygiron. Nuno suggested that we should always look up, beauty is on every direction. That is exactly what I did for this shot; although it lacks the beauty that Nuno is giving us in July 2006, it serves to show you the color and quality of light at sunset, as … Read more

Guatemala sells light and color

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This is the view from the dining room. Guatemala sells itself as tourist destination and they focus mainly on the colonial towns, the Mayan people, the Mayan ruins and the Lake Atitlán. Well, they are missing the gorgeous warm light and colors that are available throughout Guatemala. Here I leave you with the image: you … Read more