Have you noticed that on the east quadrant of Antigua Guatemala the street lights are colonial-style lamps and the cables run underground while in the west quadrant part of town we have ugly cables above ground and modern street lights?
Did you know we have thousands of images of Santiago [Saint James Apostle] all over Antigua Guatemala such as these ceiling tiles? Do you know why we have so many Santiagos around Antigua Guatemala?
Have you noticed that on the Oriente [East] part of Antigua Guatemala the street lights are colonial-style lamps and the cables run underground while in Poniente [West] part of town we have ugly cables above ground and modern street lights?
Bakeries really put in the effort to create beautiful flower embellishments for the façades of their businesses. Here’s flower decoration found at El Viejo Café. Enjoy!
This decorated façade was awarded the third position on the contest organized by the 2nd Flower Festival of Antigua Guatemala. Once again, I made this photograph with a long exposure of 2 seconds to vanish the people walking by.
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Fachada for façade. The flower decoration of façades in Antigua Guatemala was one of the most photogenic parts of the 2nd Flower of Festival this past weekend. Because I was leading photo walks since Wednesday, I didn’t get a chance to make photos in the early mornings, … Read more
In Guatemala we are quite good at absorbing and adapting traditions from other locations. Sometimes we even combine two distinctly different traditions and we make it our own. Celebrating Halloween with Mexican Catrinas, Elegant Skulls, is a very good example of such fusion and adoption. For the first time, on October 31st, 2018 I will … Read more
In Latin American folklore, La Llorona (pronounced [la ʝo.ˈɾo.na], “The Weeping Woman”) is a ghost of a woman who lost her children and now cries while looking for them in the river, often causing misfortune to those who are near, or who hear her. At the gates of heaven, she was challenged over the whereabouts … Read more
Less is best is one of the composition rules I teach during the Antigua Photo Walks I lead around town. Here for instance we chose to remove everything in the window, except the crate bars. Thus we get an M&M in jail. Enjoy!
Most people would run away for their life at the first sight of The Predator, not me, like most street photographers, I ran towards him to get a candid shot or a street portrait even if it means dying for it afterwards, right? Well, in this case I am the predator, hunting the unexpected. That’s … Read more
In Antigua Guatemala there is an effort to disguise antennas, cellular towers and other such artifacts of modernity by camouflage them into public trash bins, plants or trees, depending on size. Another aspect you might have not noticed it is the fact of the underground cables and colonial style street lighting you find on the … Read more
Real Mayan textiles on display on live mannequins inside a boutique hotel in Antigua Guatemala. Across the patio seats a real Maya woman selling her textiles. The entire scene could be an episode of Black Mirror.
A bakery is not the place where you would expect to listen to live music, right? But, then again, you probably haven’t visited Panaderia Santa Clara in Antigua Guatemala where this bakery has added a restaurant, a mini market and and stage for live performances. It is fact now Santa Clara Cultural Center. So grab … Read more
Okay, this is your chance to caption this photograph. You have 24 hrs to do. The most creative caption published on the comment area of www.AntiguaDailyPhoto.com will receive a surprise from me on the mail. Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favour…
I don’t need NO stinking Siri or hands free earphones, I can imagine the woman thinking as she goes around making phone calls through her cellphone inside her helmet. This hands free approach is not safe, of course, but I believe it’s the norm with most, if not all, delivery motorcycle riders around Antigua Guatemala … Read more