May 10th is Mother’s Day in Guatemala, so I decided to surprise a few mothers with portrait prints. Most Guatemalans take their mothers to dine in their favorite restaurant. I give photos away. Happy Mother’s Day wherever you are! As I said before, the synergy created by the act of giving prints of the portraits … Read more
This is the end of the daily updates of AntiguaDailyPhoto.com; it’s been 4,384 days since our first post on May 1st, 2006. There were over 16,399 comments made through the years and over 5.1 million visits. With over 4,000 pages of content AntiguaDailyPhoto.com is the number 1 resource in English about everything Guatemala. You can … Read more
Two more days until the end of daily updates of AntiguaDailyPhoto.com, which began on May 1st, 2006. What a photographic ride this has been. I hope you have enjoyed it. AntiguaDailyPhoto has spawned many side photographic projects such as the portraits of strangers, the photo prints of portraits of strangers, the Antigua Skycam, and so … Read more
That’s right La Antigua Guatemala has a very special kind of magic that puts everyone in such a good mood. Here I captured two Guatemalan girls taking a break to update the life stories on Instagram and Facebook. If you doubt there is some real magic in Antigua Guatemala I dare you to spend a … Read more
And with the Antigua Makes Me Happy mini series I will finish my daily updates of AntiguaDailyPhoto.com. I hope you have enjoyed the ride in this amazing photographic trip of 4384 consecutive days.
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La Antigua Guatemala is the ultimate destination and most charming backdrop to create street style, fashion and health multimedia content for the web and social media. Thousands of bloggers and vloggers come to Antigua Guatemala every year to create mesmerizing images of video. Here I captured fitness blogger Marisa Mendez while creating content for her … Read more
That’s Guatemala for you, total strangers are willing to give you a smile to make your day a better day. It’s only fair to smile back and be nice and polite, methinks; how about you?
Last week, Guatemala’s Constitutional Court sided with the Guatemalan weavers and their copyrights to intellectual property of their weavings. Now congress will have to make news laws to protect their intellectual property even further. But even, now, the courts are siding with the weavers. Follow the the Twitter account @TejedorasGuate to keep an eye on … Read more
Even though Day of the Dead is actually observed on November 2nd, and All Saints Day is celebrated on November 1st, we celebrate Día de Muertos on both dates. In Guatemala we celebrate Día de los Difuntos, defunct, Día de Muertos as it is known in other parts of the world or Day of the … Read more
My response will always be the same: Its people, its happy smiling people, to be precise. Don’t you agree?
Did you know that chocolate means bitter drink in Nahualt? Who needs a hot body when you can have hot chocolate? This smiling Guatemalan woman asks on her t-shirt. I don’t know for sure, but one thing I know, chocolate makes everyone happy, don’t you agree?
Today was a very good day. This morning I lead a group of 11 volunteers through the streets of Antigua Guatemala. During the photo walk we encountered a beautiful Maya woman whom I had photographed months ago and only now I was able to give her printed photographed. After the photo walk, I stopped to … Read more
I never get tired of spotlighting the fact that Guatemalans are eager to give you smiles at every chance they get. You only need to walk a few blocks in Antigua Guatemala to realise there’s something odd, something not quite like home, specially if you come from a huge city where one is rushing all … Read more
Guatemala’s National Telephone Company was so bad that land lines only represent less than 5% of all the telephone lines in Guatemala. On top of that, it used to be so expensive and with waiting periods of years to get a telephone line. Lucky us that cellular telephony came to be and soon enough Guatemala … Read more
One more entry for the 5-day countdown to the 11th anniversary of AntiguaDailyPhoto on May 1st with the miniseries of street photography slices of daily life through out Antigua Guatemala. This is not the first time I share the urban street style of young Maya people, which is quite interesting to look at the juxtaposition … Read more