Crowded Flowers Stands the Day before All Saints Day
Every year October 31st is the best day for flowers vendors as the sales skyrocket for the entire week as everyone is …
Pandemic Sights: Farmer’s Market Stand
Not everything is bad about the Cover-19 pandemic. Farmer’s Markets and local fruit and veggie stands are popping up everywhere. For instance, …
New Community Farmers Market Opened in San Pedro Las Huertas
We are very fortunate in Antigua Guatemala because a lot of the food that we consume in the municipality it is grown …
Mercado Municipal Vistas: Framed Portrait of a Butcher
Making environmental portraits of strangers can be quite a challenge, especially at places where people shy away from cameras. I enjoy sharing …
Mercado Municipal Vistas: Pop-Up Fruits and Vegetables Stand
In the beef, pork and fish corridors of the municipal market of Antigua Guatemala one can often find pop-up stands selling mostly …
Mercado Municipal Vistas: Grain Flours Young Vendor
Making portraits of strangers can be quite challenging, especially at places where people shy away from cameras. I often share the necessary …
Mercado Municipal Vistas: Black Tortilla Stand
In the back of the market, towards the bus terminal end, there are quite a few tortilla booths, many preparing black tortillas …
Mercado Municipal Vistas: Pepsi vs Coca-Cola
This battle is fought every day at every market in the world; doesn’t matter who wins, the people always lose, right? All …
Framed Butcher at Mercado Municipal of Antigua Guatemala
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Carnicero for butcher. This framed portrait of a butcher was made on a market …
Chicken Bus Terminal in Antigua Guatemala
This photograph and many of the images I have shared during the last ten days were made while leading a very intense and comprehensive one-on-ne street photography workshop. We shot inside the market, the bus terminal, the municipal cemetery, on the streets of Antigua Guatemala and the Mayan village of Santa María de Jesús. We shot in the morning, afternoon and at night. As part of this comprehensive workshop we also covered Lightroom workflow and editing and camera settings for different photo styles and best lenses for street photography and street portraits. If you would like to bring up the level your photography book a comprehensive and intensive photography workshop with me. I will be glad to share everything I know.
For Ever-present Flowers and Smiles Come to Guatemala
So, how are you enduring this harsh Winter season thus far? Don’t suffer any longer, pack your bags and come and enjoy the smiles and flowers available even now in Guatemala.
Market Day — DVD Movie Vendor
Believe it or not, DVD movies are still a popular item on demand at the market days inside the Mercado Municipal of …
Market Day — Tostadas are Us!
Where is Waldo? I mean where’s the tostada vendor? This is what a typical tostada shop looks like inside the Antigua Guatemala’s …
Market Day — Color and Repetition
We continue our Market Day series with sampling of color and repetition found at junk food vendor inside the mercado of La …
Market Day — Bus Terminal
The bus terminal behind the mercado of Antigua Guatemala is full of color and vibrancy. There’s such an effervesce there with buses …
Market Day — Hand-pulled Cart Vendor
In the Antigua Guatemala’s mercado many of the deliveries are still done by someone carrying on their back with one these hand-pulled …
Vegetable stand at the Santa María de Jesús market
Market days or Días de mercado in Santa María de Jesús fall on Tuesday, Friday and Sunday, although you can find vendors …
Beans and grains booth inside the Antigua Guatemala market
Look at all the different kinds of beans available at this grains stand inside the mercado of Antigua Guatemala. The same can …
Eating ceviche at the mercado of Antigua Guatemala
I only recommend to eat ceviche at the mercado to those with very strong stomachs, such as Andrew Zimmern and Misha Moliviatis. …
Eternal Spring Colors in Fall Season
Here I share with you the colours the Spring season during Fall in Antigua Guatemala. As I have mentioned many times in …
Lunch in Antigua Guatemala for $2
Antigua Guatemala is a wonderful place where everyone can have a meal at the price range they are comfortable with. Do you …
Market Vs Supermarkets in Antigua Guatemala
Here are two different approaches to the distribution and sale of food. On one hand, the mercado is an agglomeration of small …
Market Sights — A Head Among The Herbs and Spices
Here’s your Spanish word of the day: Mercado for market. If you want to see many more sights of the mercado of …
Squash Flowers at the Mercado in Antigua Guatemala
Squash is available all year long as ayote, güicoy or even chilacayote, all members of the squash and pumpkin family. Squashes are …
Fresh Tropical Fruits Anyone, Anyone?
A visit to el mercado of Antigua Guatemala can be an assault on the senses. Rich saturated colours, beats and rhythm to …
Eggs Are Us
How much for a 30-egg carton of eggs in the mercado of Antigua Guatemala? Well, it depends on the size, the price …
Herbs and Greens Antigua Market Booth
Market days are awesome days to be in the mercado municipal of Antigua Guatemala. Everything is fresh and there’s so many more …
Licuado Stands Inside the Mercado, Antigua Guatemala
Licuados or smoothies are the most popular beverage after atoles, of course. The price can range a lot depending where you get …
Guatemalan Christmas Decorations Market Stand
Here’s a sampling of the most popular Christmas decorations used in Guatemala. How many Christmas decorations do you recognise or which one …
Guatemalan Beans and Maize Stand at the Mercado, Antigua Guatemala
We are what we eat. So Guatemalans are made from a big proportion of maize, beans, fruits and vegetables. Of course, beans …