Wall Art: Colorful Guatemalan Capirucho Toys
Here’s yet another colourful picture that might work well as wall art. Enjoy a little color from Antigua Guatemala.
Here’s yet another colourful picture that might work well as wall art. Enjoy a little color from Antigua Guatemala.
Perhaps you need a little Guatemala to alleviate to effects of winter? If so, here are some colours to paint over your …
Here’s your Spanish word of the day: Carnaval, or meat festival, or carnival. As I have said before in previous years, the …
Welcome to the land of the eternal spring. I get it now, the slogan does not refer to the actual Spring season, …
Today has been the coldest since the dry season began at the end of October. Between 6am and 7am we experienced a …
Honestly, I don’t know why we still celebrate Independence Day in Guatemala. What we should be doing is putting a classified in …
Today, I will let you caption this photograph. Have fun!
It’s been a while since I updated the color palette category and since there are so many house now with new paint …
Here I was able to capture the three of the four most popular means of transportation around Antigua Guatemala. Walking and cycling, …
The dry season is also best time to watch sunsets and sunrises. By the way here are your Spanish words for the …
Capiruchos is what Guatemalans called this wooden toys, very similar to cup-and-ball. According to Wikipedia, capirucho is a traditional child’s toy it …
In a time and world where everything is manufactured in assembly lines in China, Guatemalan artisans still make colorful pieces by hand. …
Please help me identify these colorful red and yellow flowers I found during one of my morning walks. The first correct answer …
This image of a stand of the typical Guatemalan sweets was captured in the little market on the main square of San …
Pitaya Juice Bar is the newest healthy venue in Antigua Guatemala. You can find juices, salads, soups and wraps among its offerings. …
Here’s an unusual and interesting bird’s eye view of the typical public transit bus which is used in most of Guatemala. In …
Whoever claims that you can not find rich saturated colors during the rainy season in Antigua Guatemala is lying to you. Don’t …
Green is the most often found color in Guatemala. Green is our Quetzal. Green is also our quetzal bill. Green our Ceibas, …
These colorful public transit buses are just another way Guatemalans recycle the junk from the U.S. and Canada. Of course, we live …
The blue looks even more colorful against a gray unpainted wall, don’t you think?
The category of Doors and Windows has always been among the most popular. It seems that people find fascinating many of doorways …
As published last year, these colorful Guatemalan cascarones [eggshells] filled with confetti are known as cascarones de carnaval [carnival] and they mark …
Let’s do an observation experiment. What things do you find interesting in the picture above?
If you want to do street photography you have to be quick and be ready at all times because you never know …
Rich colors, patterns and textures are what one gets when buying a piece of Guatemalan textiles. A good example of this statement …
Guatemalan Fiambre is a rare and unique dish which includes close to 50 ingredients. Fiambre is primarily a salad, served chilled, made …
Every once in a while we all need a break. La Antigua Guatemala will be having such a break in a few …
Don’t you wish you can have one these adorable Guatemalan nacimientos (nativity scenes) in your own home for the next Christmas? In …
Here’a another entry for the Color Palette category. Make sure you wear sunglasses if you decide to follow the white …
I found this colorful sign at the entrance of El Jaulón building, just one block east of Parque Central. I am sure …
As every fist of the month, the Daily Photo community has a theme day and the color green is what was chosen …
Jardín Antigüeño is also another series that needs to be awaken. Jardín Antigüeño is a photographic tour through the most often found …
As we have mentioned before, if you’re planning a visit to Guatemala, make sure you pack your sunglasses if you don’t want …
I don’t know in what position is located Guatemala in terms of wealth resources as measured by the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) …
The food served at fair stands is becoming more colorful. Not too long ago I showed you black pupusas at Feast of …
So much art to see and absorb and so little time! I take my hat off to El Gato Viejo. The cartoon …
These plastic balls are the most popular and thus the most often seen balls in Guatemala. They are very inexpensive and very …
I did it again. I spotted an image I like and then just waited for life to walk into the frame. You …
I normally don’t like red, however, I make an exception for antigüeño red. In fact, I make an exception for any color …
In Spanish we use the word café to mean coffee and brown. Coffee berries, however, begin their color palette lifecycle as green …
We are so lucky in Guatemala to have an abundant supply of fresh and colorful vegetables all year long. This colorful side …
I am a firm believer that if Alfred Hitchcock had lived in Guatemala his nightmares would have been in Technicolor. Certainly, Hitchcock …
As a graphic designer I can only have admiration for the excellent handling of color, texture, patterns and shapes found in Guatemala’s …
I am completely ruined. After having spent so much time around rich, intense colors, textures, idiosyncrasies, how could I ever live again …
These pilas go for a little over Q500/$60 because they use higher quality paint and more cement in the concrete mixture. Cheaper …
Pascuas (Guatemala) and Flor de Noche Buena (Mexico) are how poinsettias are known in Spanish. Poinsettias are native to Guatemala and Mexico …
Colorful Guatemala, I tell you! It is quite common for businesses to decorate with colorful Guatemalan kites during October and November. Above, …
Guatemala is such a colorful country; everything from flora to textiles, from architecture to food is saturated with the richest rainbow. If …
When was the last time you visited the Color palette category? Well, I know I fed it exactly one month ago. Talking …
Colorful Guatemala, I tell you, colorful Guatemala! Si ni los mismos guatemaltecos logramos entender la complejidad cultural en la que vivimos… —Ale …
Here’s another addition to the color palette category. Also, this is second version of the Show Me The Moon from Antigua Guatemala. …
Watercolors from La Antigua Guatemala can be found and bought in just about every tourist town in Central America. In Calle del …
It’s been a while since I last updated the color palette category. What do you think of the new colors?
A quick trip to the handicrafts market provides a handful of colorful images like the one above. Stay tune for upcoming photos …
Here’s one more entry to feed the Color palette category. You can see red, green, blue, and black… ah, let’s see what …
Ah, look at all the lovely colors Ah, look at all the lovely colors Where do they all come from? Where do …
The other day we heard many voices on the other side of the fence; voices of children and women just talking and laughing. We approached the windows on the second floor to see what was all the commotion; then we saw men, women and children harvesting the coffee. At this moment, you can see the turning point of coffee from green to golden yellow and finally cherry red.
These are some of the most often used ingredients in the Guatemalan kitchen. This photo was taken on Calle del Arco in front of La Fonda de la Calle Real at a booth that the restaurant put out to showcase their flavors and the ingredients they use in their kitchen. You can take this photo to your local Latin market and start cooking some of the recipes found in this site under the Food and Drinks category. Bon Appetite!
Once again, La Antigua Guatemala Daily Photo is participating in the theme day of the Daily Photo community. This time the theme is about the color red. Here you can see the Compañía de Jusús building under care of the Cooperación Española which is huge red building; one full block to be specific. This building has had many uses through history, like the home of Bernal Díaz del Castillo, home to the Jesuits of Central America in colonial times, thus its name, and more recently it houses a public library, culture center under the administration of Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional. You can see the big entrance of the building, the interior gardens and arches and one the side wall of the ruins. I decided to photograph this building because it’s the biggest red thing in La Antigua Guatemala, but I was lucky to have a red motorcycle and a red jeep enter the viewfinder at the moment I snapped the shot; how lucky, indeed.
I must confess, I have a weak spot for colors and patterns. Maybe it is the fact that I am, after all, …
A few Guatemalans living abroad asked for photos of tamales colorado (red) and negro (black) made especially for Christmas Eve and Christmas …
Red is the most prominent color around Christmas time. You can see it in the many people who dress up like Santa …
Since the pictures for the last two days had way too many colors, I decided to make today’s choice simple. If you …
This is close-up view of the “undocumented alien” in my garden. I plan to have more strict rules for this migrant plants, …
On texture through color I introduced you to Café Concepción, a small and lovely bistro, located about half-block away from my office. …
If you love the bougainvillea flowers as much as Pamela does, and you don’t want to move to a secret island called …
Okay, welcome back from an ease going weekend. It is Monday and you want things to be mellow, so I am not …
To follow up the texture in yesterday’s sign and to get you prepare for this coming week series about color, here is …
Frijoles colorados or red beans is the second best dish after black beans, of course, in the Guatemalan kitchen. Here you have …
I am sorry guys, I know it gets boring, but I have to bring another photo with rich colors. These are wrappers …
Antigua’s colors, originally uploaded by rudygiron. Nuno suggested that we should always look up, beauty is on every direction. That is exactly …
This is the view from the dining room. Guatemala sells itself as tourist destination and they focus mainly on the colonial towns, …
Painting Antigua, originally uploaded by rudygiron. PLEASE NOTE: this site has a new address, would you please update your links so it …
Antigua’s red, originally uploaded by rudygiron. The restaurant La Fonda de la Calle Real is another of Antigua’s landmarks. You can find …
Antigua’s green corner, originally uploaded by rudygiron. This corner has appeared in two previous photos: the street lamp on Antigua’s rush hour …
Wood Window works, originally uploaded by rudygiron. The wall’s zapote color takes its name from the fruit Mammea americana, known here as …
Yesterday I started the photo series about Antigua’s color palette. In this photo you get two of my objectives: 1. the color …
The Antigua’s color palette only accepts about 12 colors. Here you see the antigüeño yellow. This week’s photos will be about the …
The color red is the official color of Nochebuena and Navidad in Guatemala and nothing exemplifies this better than the Pascua plants, poinsettia flowers… TAP to read the entire post and see the full size photo.
Attention, attention, In Antigua Guatemala we are offering shelter and refuge to those in need of sunshine and temperate weather. Everyone is …
Started with the night of December 15, there have been sightings of Joseph and Mary’s quest for shelter around the streets of …
How was it, a room with a view or a lunch with a view? Well, here it was lunch with a panoramic …
The chilly winds blowing from the true north create the conditions for flying colorful kites over the skyline of Guatemala. Come and …
Here’s a sneak preview of a wedding anniversary photo session that I shot this week in Antigua Guatemala with a couple visiting from California. …
In less than a year all the traditional ice carts found in Antigua Guatemala have transformed into colorful buses and trucks. Take a photographic tour through the many ice cream carts found in the posts I have shared with you thus far. Have fun!
Not only is Antigua Guatemala a colorful destination, perfect for vibrant lifestyle photo shoots, this colonial city also has its fair share …
Healthy and delicious normally are not together in a sentence; somehow someone forgot to send the memo to the staff of Unión …
Once again I have the pleasure to share another photograph from the series Antigua Makes Me Happy. In this case I captured …
After so many years, probably decades, Starbucks Coffee was able to open their first coffee house in Antigua Guatemala; it is the …
Purple or violet and black are the colors of Lent and the Holy Week. Cucuruchos, float bearers, wear their cone-head purple robes …
The vibrant and colorful backdrops of Antigua Guatemala provide to opportunity for stunning photogenic images, don’t you agree?⠀Antigua Guatemala is full a …
The best time to take photos of Calle del Arco without pedestrians and traffic is early in the morning, around 7am. That’s …
These jacaranda flowers also mark the Lent season with their vibrant purple flowers. Today I share these colorful vista of the purple …
Antigua Guatemala is full a colorful locations, making it an ideal destination for lifestyle and street style photo shoots that produce some of the most instagrammable portraits and headshots… TAP to see the full size photos.
Antigua Guatemala is full a stunning settings everywhere making it an ideal destination for lifestyle and street photo shoots that produce some of the most instagrammable images you can imagine. Bring home fun-tastic portraits of you or your loved ones taken in this magical and charming town at the most attractive locations…
Here’s a way to show your support for the work I have done over 15 years of daily posts at AntiguaDailyPhoto.com and …
The colors orange or warm yellow are quite common in Antigua Guatemala, however to pair them with blue, you must wait for …
Here’s the opportunity to show your support for the work I have done over 15 years of daily posts at AntiguaDailyPhoto.com and receive at the same time a gorgeous 11″x14″ metallic print… TAP to see the full size photo and post.
Today, once again, I am sharing with you the vibrant colors and warm smile of another Maya ambulant vendor through a portrait made a few steps away from Fuente de Las Sirenas at Parque Central… TAP to see the full size photo and post.