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Sun-drying Coffee Fruits in Finca Filadelfia

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These delightful fruit you see above are coffee fruits being dry after they have been hand picked from the coffee bushes. You might remember mini series I run last year of the coffee harvest: The coffee colors, which showed the coffee in its different colors green, golden yellow and cherry red. Coffee harvest time in … Read more

Show Me The Moon from Antigua Guatemala

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Detalles, detalles, detalles. What better way to show you the brand new paint job at the Iglesia de La Merced than to find a contrasting color to warm yellow of the La Merced church. To get a nice deep blue to contrast yellow and white paint and the Moon hanging right up there is just … Read more

Guatemalan Bread Sampler: Name the Bread

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Details, details, details. To celebrate the first anniversary of AntiguaDailyPhoto on May 1st, 2007, I published a sampler photo of sweet bread from Guatemala which included tortas, cubiletes, champurradas, cemitas and other such goodies. The Guatemalan sweet bread sampler was a hit and still remains among the most visited and commented of the over 1,057 … Read more

Wireless Antigua Guatemala

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Details, details, details. Oh boy, here are those ugly power lines again. But wait, what’s in the background? Sure enough, now everywhere you look in and around Antigua Guatemala, you find yourself with antennas. It feels like there’s a race to turn La Antigua Guatemala into the first full wireless city in Latin America. The … Read more

Farol or farolito

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Details, details, details. There are so many different street lamps or faroles, as they are known in Spanish, in La Antigua Guatemala that if I run a different one each day, it would take so many months to show all the different kinds. Now, can you tell me what’s inside the lamp or in its … Read more

Dr. Cascarón or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Eggshell

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These colorful Guatemalan eggshells filled with confetti are known as cascarones and are the sure sign that marks the arrival of carvinal and then Ash Wednesday (Miércoles de ceniza), which is the first day of Lent (Cuaresma) which in 2009 will be celebrated on February 25th. That’s right folks, on Wednesday 25th we will begin … Read more

Guatemalan Chinchines or Sonajas

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The sonajas or maracas take on a different name in Guatemala, they are called chinchines; an onomatopoeia (onomatopeya in Spanish). Generally, Guatemalan chinchines are found painted black with incisions made to expose the natural color with patterns similar to what you may find in textiles, but more recently chinchines can be found of all colors. … Read more

Guatemalan Money Sampler

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Just like everything else in Guatemala, money is very colorful. I believe I could also do a series in Guatemalan currency. What do you guys think? Would you be interested in knowing a little bit of history and background information on the bills and coins from Guatemala? Can you imagine a series on bills and … Read more

Theme Day: Circles/Spheres

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“I miss playing tenta, el botecito, escondite, kick-ball, cincos, trompos and all the good old games kids play…” —MO It was only last week that Claudia and MO brought back those sweet memories from their childhood in Guatemala and as a good fellow I have to fulfill with images, let’s hope, that ease the nostalgic … Read more

Colonial Style Door Knocker and Knob

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Lucky me that I learned to have new aesthetic values for things antique and old. Lucky me that I find beautiful and unusual things on my strolls around La Antigua Guatemala. Lucky me! 😉 To appreciate an old colonial town like La Antigua Guatemala you need a new set of aesthetic values. See the beauty … Read more