The Iconic Búcaro Fountains of Antigua Guatemala
This type of half fountain embedded on a wall are known as búcaro and they are everywhere in Antigua Guatemala. So much …
Fuente de Las Sirenas Illuminated with Blue Lights
Even the Fuente de las Sirenas received a bath of blue light during the inauguration of the Christmas lights decorations in Antigua …
Fuente de Las Sirenas at Twilight
At the end of a recent afternoon photo walk I ended by the parque central and while sitting down to reply back to pending messages and emails, the light were turned on and the already nice ambience at the main square became beautiful. I made this shot of one of the mermaids from Fuente de las Sirenas from my mobile office, I mean the bench I was sitting at. Enjoy!
Enjoy Sunshine and Gardens Everyday in Antigua Guatemala
Even during the rainy season that spans from May through early November, we get to enjoy sunshine bathed evergreen gardens with flowers …
The Remains of the Flower Festival
Today I share with you the latest portrait I got a chance to make of Erica’s family with the remains of the …
Antigua Guatemala is the city of the búcaro fountains
A búcaro fountain is half fountain normally embedded in a wall, usually near an inside patio, but it can be anywhere. Since …
Mermaids Fountain Adorned with Sunflowers
Often the Fuente de Las Sirenas, mermaids fountain, is decorated with flowers. Today I share with you one such vista where the …
Swimming Pools in Antigua Guatemala
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Piscina for swimming pool. Swimming pools are perfect for this heatwave we had …
Antigua Guatemala Has Sunshine and Vibrant Flowers All Year Long
No wonder people from really cold latitudes love to hibernate in Antigua Guatemala during the harsh winter months. Imagine having gorgeous warm …
Colonial style fountain from Antigua Guatemala
Take a photographic tour through different fountains of Antigua Guatemala; there are over 130 fountains thus far. Participate in the Thanksgiving raffle …
Fountain Decorated with Gerbera Flowers During the Festival de Flores of Antigua Guatemala
As I have mentioned before, it is common practice in and around Antigua Guatemala to decorate windows, entryways, façade and fountains with …
Fuente de las Sirenas at Antigua’s Main Square
Come and listen to the singing of the mermaids at Parque Central; there’s nothing more relaxing and enchanting than that. In fact, …
Lush and Lavish Gardens in Antigua Guatemala
Evergreen gardens in and around La Antigua Guatemala are one of the benefits of the 6-month long rainy season. Honestly, I never …
Sights of Our Times — Pigeons at Parque Central
Parks are still closed so pigeons are the only ones enjoying Parque Central on beautiful sunny morning in Antigua Guatemala. I am …
Colors and Sunshine from Guatemala
It’s a lovely morning in Antigua Guatemala. I am sending y’all the best vibes from our little town. My new goal is …
Typical Vista of the Winter Season in Antigua Guatemala
As I have shared with you before, this is what Winter season looks like in Antigua Guatemala. If you are suffering from …
The Remains of the Flower Festival
Even though the Flower Festival is held on the weekend only, there are still remains of the flower arrangements and decorations all …
Flower Decorations at Parque Central
With each new edition of the Flower Festival of Antigua Guatemala, the flower arrangements and decorations become more complex and elaborate; the …
Fountains Decorated with Flowers in Antigua Guatemala
It is common practice in and around La Antigua Guatemala to decorate fountains with flowers, especially during the Flower Festival of Antigua …
Antigua Gardens: Verdant Walls
Verdurous walls covered with lush wall creepers or bougainvillea plants are quite common in the gardens of Antigua Guatemala. Take a photographic …
Antigua Gardens: Lush and Serene
The calming nature of a green gardens with the murmur of running fountain make for very peaceful and relaxing atmospheres, don’t you …
Antigua Gardens: Vertical Succulent Garden
Antigua Guatemala is full with lush gardens. In fact, along with colonial color palette and the fountains found everywhere, I believe the …
Fuente de Las Sirenas, Antigua Guatemala
The fountain of the sirens at Parque Central is a sight you can never get tired of and if you hear singing …
Fuente de Las Sirenas at Night
Tonight I share with you a vista of the mermaids fountain located in the middle of the Parque Central of Antigua Guatemala …
Antigua Guatemala’s Streets Without Cars
This week as part of the excessive security for the XXVI Cumbre Iberoamericana, 26th Ibero American Summit of Heads of States and …
Día de Santiago Decorations
As part of the Día de Santiago celebrations on July 25th, or Saint James Day, La Antigua Guatemala has been hosting all …
Fountains in La Antigua Guatemala
I often wonder how many public-access fountains there are in Antigua Guatemala. Also, there’s truly something special about the many and gorgeous …
Enjoy the lush gardens and patios of Antigua Guatemala
Evergreen gardens and vegetation in and around La Antigua Guatemala is, of course, one of the benefits of the 6-month long rainy …
Inside the walls of houses from Antigua Guatemala
During the Secrets of Antigua Guatemala photo walk I often encourage people to go inside every restaurant, hotel, shop, cultural center, et …
Bonding time at Fuente de La Merced
Follow the white rabbit to » A photographic tour of the fountains in Antigua Guatemala.
Consecutive Day 3639 — Antigua Guatemala Patios
Often during the photo walks I lead around Antigua Guatemala, I encourage people to enter every hotel, restaurant, shop and building to …
Repurposing Colonial Water Tanks and Sinks
How do you turn a living city into a shopping mall? Well, unregulated businesses will pay top money for real estate and …
Iconography from La Antigua Guatemala
There are so many elements of the iconography found through out La Antigua Guatemala in this picture. The lions, the mermaids, the …
Lion Bucaro Fountain from Antigua Guatemala
If you have been following the daily updates of AntiguaDailyPhoto, you guys know I have covered dozen of times the mermaids that …
Long exposure at midday in El Jaulón
Here’s another long exposure photograph from Antigua Guatemala. How would you caption this picture?
Long exposure at midday in Parque Central, Antigua Guatemala
I am guilty as charged: I don’t show enough movement in Antigua Guatemala. To fix that, I will begin a series of …
Antigua Guatemala’s Niche and Fountain Decoration
Your Spanish word of the day: Nicho for niche. We already know that there are over hundred mermaids in La Antigua Guatemala. …
The Hunt for Mermaids in Antigua Guatemala
Sirens or mermaids are everywhere in La Antigua Guatemala. Now, my focus is to capture with my camera as many as there …
Fountains as Decoration Pieces
The other day while scouting for new locations for the Artistic Photo Sessions I now offer, I came across a large garden …
Hunting Mermaids in Antigua Guatemala
Honest, I don’t know if I am hunting mermaids in Antigua Guatemala with my camera or I am blindly following the singing …
Fountain in a Alley in Antigua Guatemala
Here’s your Spanish word for the day: Callejón or alley. In Antigua Guatemala a callejón is an even narrower street, usually not …
Fuente de las Sirenas, Antigua Guatemala
Here are some the notes from the talk “Las Sirenas de La Antigua Guatemala” by Dr. Miguel F. Torres that I attended …
Fountain at San Juan del Obispo, Antigua Guatemala
The question should be, when was the last time you visited San Juan del Obispo? If the answer is not recently or …
Caption This Photo and Win a Post Card
As in previous photo contests, the most creative caption published on the comment area of www.AntiguaDailyPhoto.com for this photo wins a photo …
Antigua Guatemala Nights At the Park
Now is the perfect season to spend some time at the parks during the evening hours since there are no rains and …
Why is Saint James the Patron Saint of La Antigua Guatemala?
La Antigua Guatemala used to be the capital city of Guatemala (which meant the Central American territories at the time) and at …
Green exuberant gardens of Antigua Guatemala
If you have visited Antigua Guatemala, you know this is how virescent and lush gardens are Antigua Guatemala and especially so during …
Our Lady of Guadalupe in Antigua Guatemala
This picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe was found in a búcaro fountain inside Hugo’s Ceviches on 7a calle poniente. I could …
Are They Sirens or Mermaids?
I ask because it seems that somehow we are drawn to them and I am not sure if it is just the …
Antigua Guatemala Celebrates it’s 470th Anniversary
The fountains are decorated with flower arrangements as part of the low profile celebrations for Antigua Guatemala’s 470th anniversary this March 10th. …
Fuente de las Sirenas Around Christmas time
The Plaza Mayor, main plaza, or Parque Central as we normally refer to main square in Antigua Guatemala is among the best …
Looking for a place to spend your Winter season? Antigua Guatemala is the answer
A cup of the best coffee in the world, sun, lots of it, and great company, either a friend or a book …
Flowers in fountains
I don’t know how many times I have shown flowers inside a fountain in AntiguaDailyPhoto, but certainly it’s more than five. I …
Façade of Iglesia de San Gaspar
After several previous tries I believe I have captured the essence of this tiny colonial church in San Gaspar Vivar. Sometimes it …
Iglesia Escuela de Cristo Reflected on a Fountain
I have not idea why La Escuela de Cristo church is so important in Antigua Guatemala. The two largest processions from Antigua …
Mirror Mirror
I am sure I have shared this beautiful twist to the typical Narcissus story by Oscar Wilde since it’s among my favorite …
Please, take our photo instead!
I just love it when photographs walk or ride into my viewfinder. Better yet, when they even call on me to take …
Sunday Morning at San Gaspar Vivar
For this Sunday, we continue in a tranquil and relaxing mood with tone set by the theme day Tranquility. Once again, here’s …
San Juan del Obispo Main Square Fountain
This fountain in San Juan del Obispo was my second choice to show tranquility for the theme day of the Photo Daily …
Theme Day: Tranquility
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. —Thomas Jefferson As most firsts of the month …
Enjoying the Sunset in Ciudad Vieja
Slowly, but surely we progress in our own unique way. Just before we leave Ciudad Vieja, I wanted to share with a …
Ciudad Vieja’s Fountain
If Antigua Guatemala means the Former Guatemala City, then Ciudad Vieja (Old City) would mean the former former Guatemala City. For a …
Architectonic Details: Búcaro Fountains
A búcaro fountain is half fountain normally embedded in a wall, normally near an inside patio, but it can be anywhere. I’ve …
Colonial Pila & Lavadero Fountain
I have mentioned it a few times, but let me repeat it again. There’s are aesthetic principles which are used and apply …
Colonial Style Fountain Detail
It’s nice to see colonial pilas and lavaderos (water tanks + washbasins) being used now as fountains and as decoration. If you …
Garden Art: Monkey Sculptures
Business owners take note, how do you take something as mundane as a parking lot and turn it into a delightful experience? …
Garden Art: Rabbit Sculpture
I really like these ceramic sculptures found in the green areas of Santo Domingo del Cerro. I especially like this rabbit. I …
Garden Art: Horse Sculptures
These beautiful and playful sculptures can be found in the green areas of Santo Domingo del Cerro, one of my favorite destinations …
Garden Under The Rain
Here’s a rainy season vista from A Room With A View. Believe it or not, La Antigua Guatemala always shows its most …
Central Park Water Fountain
Oftentimes we do things driven by the unconscious mind and that’s why is very difficult to have the coherent answers for them. …
Central Park’s Main Fountain Pump Repairs
A couple of weeks ago as I checked in at the Plaza Mayor (Main Square) with Foursquare, I mentioned that everyone was …
Theme Day: Color Green
As every fist of the month, the Daily Photo community has a theme day and the color green is what was chosen …
Skyping from the Garden
Since there are so many wireless Internet access points (Wi-Fi) available in La Antigua Guatemala, it’s not unusual to see people calling …
El Calvario Fountain
This fountain is located on the parallel path of Alameda El Calvario. At sunset you can find teenagers and students having atol …
Launching Antigua Guatemala As A City Brand
This is not the first time I shared with you a photograph of fountain adorned with flowers. As a matter of fact, …
Garden Dining at Epicure
Following the advice provided by RWOrange on Dining in the Garden from a few days ago, I decided to pay a visit …
Dining in the Garden
We are so lucky in La Antigua Guatemala that almost every day of the year we can dine in the garden. The …
Mermaids Fountain with Flowers
Cool and peaceful are the afternoons in Central Park nowadays, except for the murmurs of the mermaids and the people enjoying the …
Theme day: Favorite Part of Town
It’s been a while since AntiguaDailyPhoto participates in the Theme day of the City Daily Photo community; since the theme bright colors …
A Fountain’s Top
Like many fountain’s around Antigua Guatemala, there is always something very soothing about them (oh, and the light was just beautiful), but …
Antigua Garden At Night
I love walking around our garden at night. There’s something enchanting about looking at all the different flowers illuminated by spot lights. …
Antigua Styled Water Fountains
This is another perspective to the Flowers and Fountains post from a week ago. In today’s photo I focused tightly and managed …
Flowers and Fountains
Incredible the things that can be made with simple things like huge large pot and several dozen fountain spouts. I can’t say …
Corner Búcaro Fountain
According to Foursquare, I hold more mayorships than anyone in La Antigua Guatemala, including the current elected Mayor, Dr. Vivar. 😉 So, …
Playing With Running Water
Three simple shots of fountains found inside the patios of Casa Santo Domingo. In the picture above I decided to freeze the …
Finca Washbasins and Water Tanks
Don’t ask me, but how did the venerable utilitarian pila (water tank) and lavadero (washbasin) became decorations elements or design accents? In …
Leaves of Grass
I am sure you were already thinking of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. Gotcha! Well, this is really a literal snapshot or …
Inside Patio and Fountain
Here’s an interesting idea, cover the patio with transparent laminas plus a pergola framework where one can hang the Colas de Quetzal …
Palo de Izote Reflected
Palo de Izote is the Mesoamerican cousin of the Joshua or Yucca tree. I have a fascination with the Izote tree; I …
Fountain Fragment
Besides signs, I also have a fascination for fountains. I am glad in La Antigua Guatemala there is an abundance of both. …
Lazy Afternoons At The Park
The fountains around the Plaza Mayor provide the perfect sound track for spending a relax time sitting on a bench and watching …
A Room With A View
Don’t we all would love to have a room with a view? Even though this is not my daily view, I can’t …
A Room With A Window
Arched windows are quite common in La Antigua Guatemala; I am sure I have shown you one arched window before, but I …
San Jerónimo Ruins Fountain
I wonder how many fountains there are in La Antigua Guatemala. Everywhere I go, even in fast food restaurants, there is at …
Colonial Búcaro Fountain
One or more búcaro fountains are found along a patio or corridor away from the main fountain normally found in the center …
Antigua Colonial Patio
What better way to enjoy a Sunday morning than to bring a freshly brewed cup of the best coffee in the world …
Chepito, Let Me Show You…
I like to photograph old people. I like to photograph young people. I like to photograph people, regardless of their age, really. …