According to Wikipedia, commuting is regular travel between one’s place of residence and place of work or full-time study. It sometimes refers to any regular or often repeated traveling between locations, even when not work-related. Here’s one take on the commuting imagery around Antigua Guatemala. As part of the series #RealGuatemala, I will create the … Read more
We continue our series #RealGuatemala with a photograph of drying clothes in one of the villages of Antigua Guatemala. If you look into the picture, what are the things that you find interesting and what makes you feel this image, if anything at all? For other laundry day pictures in the archives, follow the white … Read more
I don’t know if the Electric Company of Guatemala, EEGSA, does tree trimming at the beginning of the year every year or just now, but I encountered several crews around town chopping down tree branches and large canopies that might interfere with the distribution of electricity. I wish all those cables were run underground to … Read more
Do you know why Guatemalan have to visit the RENAP at the beginning of the year? If you don’t know what RENAP stands for, I suggest you visit the past entries: RENAP Is Retiring Guatemala’s Old ID Cards and Guatemala’s RENAP DPI Station to get up to date. We continue our #RealGuatemala series with a … Read more
Okay everyone, let start 2014 with new goals for AntiguaDailyPhoto, more series, more people, more #RealGuatemala [let’s create a hashtag and category for it], more raw images, more in depth and researched entries. Nevertherless, I will try to do less landscapes, less signs, less food unless it is real authentic Guatemalan cuisine; I honestly will … Read more
I am afraid the paraphrasing of the title might scape most people since it is a nerd thing that only the most geeky from the olden days would understand. Anyhow, here’s a worker for hire with a mule and fumigator that can travel to you parcel and get rid of those pesky pests. I wonder … Read more
Alright, we will finish the first part of the Real Guatemala series with portrait of two police officers who were deployed during Semana Santa, Holy Week, to keep everyone “safe.” Only a few times during the year we get the opportunity of seeing so much policías on the streets of Antigua Guatemala, but never as … Read more
The land belongs to those that work it with their own hands. —Emiliano Zapata La tierra es de quien la trabaja con sus manos. —Emiliano Zapata One more addition to the Real Guatemala series. The campesino, the fieldworker, is an ever-stamp in the daily life of Guatemala we see then going to work the fields … Read more
Of course, we can not leave out the albañiles, construction workers, from a series about the Real Guatemala. I don’t know if everyone is building or rebuilding their houses because it seems there are albañiles everywhere you look. Here for instance, we’re looking at the almost finished salón municipal, municipal ballroom, in Ciudad Vieja. Watch … Read more
Each morning the streets are filled with people of all ages going or coming from doing errands, as simple as buying fresh tortillas or pan (bread), or taking kids to school, or whatever. Here we can see a grandmother on her way to get tortillas. Inside the tienda we can see people buying all kinds … Read more
Even though you can not fully see the girlfriend, believe me she’s there, she just pulled her upper body to be in the picture. Anyhow, I will let you to the caption for this. The best one will receive a post card made from one of my photo via the postal service. Let the creative … Read more
Of course, these ladies who prepare us our daily tortillas can not be missing in series about the real Guatemala. Here we see the clay comal ready to receive the uncooked corn cakes to be turned into fresh tortillas. Below the comal we can see the fire and the ever present pot with frijoles (black … Read more
Here’s a Guatemalan idiom for your ever-increasing Spanish vocabulary: “zapatero, a tus zapatos” Ne sutor ultra crepidam — “Let the shoemaker venture no further.” Another idiomatic translation might be: cobbler, stick to thy last. Used to critize someone who opines about a subject without knowing it. (source: Wiktionary) What other translation can you offer for … Read more
We continue our series Real Guatemala series with a photograph of a grandmother from Ciudad Vieja buying the eggs and salchichas at la tienda to prepare el desayuno for those going to work or school. Do you know what else would be served at breakfast for the typical Guatemalan home?
These women from Ciudad Vieja are wearing what I would consider the typical dress code for rural Guatemala women, except, of course, for the typical Guatemalan traje or corte worn by indigenous women. Here they are going to their mandados. How do you like the Real Guatemala series thus far?