Aren’t you glad you are human? This means that you can see more shades of green than any other predator in the planet. That comes handy as you visit Guatemala because we have so many shades of green, especially so during the rainy season. Your eyes will have a feast of greens. By the way, … Read more
Who says you can not enjoy the blue hours during the storm season in La Antigua Guatemala? Come on, as I said many years ago, stop complaining and try to capture the beauty of the rainy season or storm season as the one we are experiencing now in Guatemala. I hope you enjoy today’s picture, … Read more
Here’s one more post with simple photo tips to improve your images from Antigua Guatemala. Let’s start with this simple photographic recipe: The first ingredient is quality light, that’s 50% of the recipe. Second ingredient is strong photographic composition; that’s another 25%. The third and last ingredient is an interesting subject; the last 25% of … Read more
As clockwork the rains arrive with May. Soon we will see sompopos, leaf-cutter queen ants, will arrive as well. I have plans for a strange foods from Guatemala series. Stay tuned for that!
On the last day of September we experience one of the heaviest storms of the season. There was rain flying in every direction because of the strong winds. There goes September and with it the rains; well, sort of, we might still have another 31 days of rain. I was able to capture this picture … Read more
Even though we have experienced a drought in Guatemala since the canícula, heat wave, on early July, that has brought terrible consequences for many crops, September is just as usual with lots of downpour provided as result of the hurricanes on either Atlantic or Pacific Ocean. Here’s what a typical raining morning looks like; sometimes … Read more
You know it is the rainy season in Guatemala when you see people, handy men really, on the roof tops fixing the leaks. Do houses and buildings get annual repairs and new paint jobs where you live? If you would like to take a photographic tour through the rainy season vistas, just follow the white … Read more
To capture the amazing sky on the first sunrise of Summer in Antigua Guatemala, a super wide-angle lens, 10-22mm, was employed and set it at f3.5 for 1/100 of a second with an ISO of 100 and the help of a polarizing filter. This picture was taken before 6am, literally at sunrise and within an … Read more
What to do while it rains? Here are some of the suggestions by our loyal readers. NYChapin: I don’t do much when it rains, but I am often overwhelmed by a sensation that all things dear to my heart, from which I have been separated either by time or distance, are as close to me … Read more
Here’s another take on the cathedral taken from the municipal building. If you recall, I am taking a certificate course on the history of La Antigua Guatemala and there are many things I have learned so far. For instance, this church which I have always called Catedral is not a cathedral anymore. Once the capital … Read more
Wishful thinking, yeah, I know. Anyhow, let us hope these are the last days of the rainy season 2013 which has been extremely copious since the beginning of September. As I promised once, I will complain less about the rain and try to find the beauty of it. I hope you like it.
Here’s what I see with these group of Maya women: Have lunch Continue weaving Gossip a little Tell jokes Make some calls What about you, what do you do while it rains?
This is the typical picture looking west of the mornings in Antigua Guatemala after a night of heavy rains. I hope you like it.
This vista is not a scene from the latest zombie movie of which there’s new one every week, from World War Z to Stake Land. I wonder why? Anyway, this sad picture of the empty streets with the ice cream carts just laying around unattended is what happens when the rains comes down so fast … Read more
The portales, the long corridors, on each side of Parque Central get really crowded when the rain begins falling. People get together and talk about hard hard is raining or whatever. Some take some pictures. Unless there is tropical storm or hurricane that causes the chipi-chipi rain, that’s the light drizzle for you unaware of … Read more