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Chicken Bus Terminal in Antigua Guatemala BY RUDY GIRON

Chicken Bus Terminal in Antigua Guatemala

This photograph and many of the images I have shared during the last ten days were made while leading a very intense and comprehensive one-on-ne street photography workshop. We shot inside the market, the bus terminal, the municipal cemetery, on the streets of Antigua Guatemala and the Mayan village of Santa María de Jesús. We shot in the morning, afternoon and at night. As part of this comprehensive workshop we also covered Lightroom workflow and editing and camera settings for different photo styles and best lenses for street photography and street portraits. If you would like to bring up the level your photography book a comprehensive and intensive photography workshop with me. I will be glad to share everything I know.

Guatemalan ponche for Christmas

Guatemalan ponche, fruit punch is the most popular drink for the Christmas season. The fruit punch above was prepared from package from …

© Guatemalan Food: Patín by Rudy Giron

Guatemalan Food: Patín

Patín is quite possibly the most popular food found around the villages in Lake Atitlán. Hardly ever we can find patín in …

Vibrant Antigua Guatemala Flora

I never get tired of reminding you guys about the vibrant rich and saturated colours one finds in Antigua Guatemala year round, …

Guatemalan Fruit Punch Recipe by Rudy Giron - www.rudygiron.com

Guatemalan Fruit Punch Recipe

Even though you can find ponche, fruit punch, year round in Guatemala and no town fair is missing the stands selling ponche …

Colorful Rainy Season Vista by Rudy Girón

Colorful Rainy Season Vista

Whoever claims that you can not find rich saturated colors during the rainy season in Antigua Guatemala is lying to you. Don’t …

Guatemalan Chicken Bus Kitsch by Rudy Girón

Guatemalan Chicken Bus Kitsch

I am truly convinced that Guatemalans can not do anything in a mild, neutral, gray manner. Guatemala is a country of extremes …

Colorful Doors: Red

The category of Doors and Windows has always been among the most popular. It seems that people find fascinating many of doorways …

Guatemalan Style School Bus by Rudy Giron

Guatemalan Style School Bus

In Guatemala, nothing can be plain and simple, not the public transit system buses nor the school buses. Here’s a very good …

Guatemalan Ceramic Owls

The traditional ceramic owls in La Antigua Guatemala are yellow, orange and brown as I have show you before, but more recently …

Colorful and Tiny Nativity Scenes

Don’t you wish you can have one these adorable Guatemalan nacimientos (nativity scenes) in your own home for the next Christmas? In …

Colorful Circus Bar Sign

I found this colorful sign at the entrance of El Jaulón building, just one block east of Parque Central. I am sure …

Guatemalan Sweets Stand

I posted a photo showing some of the Guatemalan sweets on November 1. Today, I am showing you the booth of the …

Guatemala’s Fiambre

There’s no way to go by Día de Todos Los Santos (All Saints’ Day) and Día de los Fieles Difuntos (All Souls’ …

Guatemalan Sweets Sampler

In Guatemala we celebrate Día de Todos Los Santos (All Saints Day) on November 1 and Día de Los Fieles Difuntos (Day …

Guatemalan Kites As Decoration

Through October and November you can find many businesses using Guatemalan kites as decoration. Last year I showed you some colorful giant …

Vibrant Guatemalan Women

As a graphic designer I can never ceased to be amazed by the intricate brightly colored textiles worn by the Maya people …

Guatemalan Culture and History Through Textiles

The Maya were among the most prominent story tellers. The Maya ‘wrote’ just about everything. I am sure that if the ancient Maya scribblers had access to Twitter and Facebook, they would have had busy timelimes; heck they would have used aggregators to fill their lifestream with every imaginable media.

Colorful Fiambre Chapín

Guatemala is such a colorful country; everything from flora to textiles, from architecture to food is saturated with the richest rainbow. If …

Guatemalan Style Backpack

Guatemala has some of the best textiles you can find in the world. If you come to La Antigua Guatemala, you can …

Guatemalan Fruit: Caimito

I tell you, those Costa Ricans have no shame. First they made the entire world believe that Central America was them. Then, …

Guatemalan Money Sampler

Just like everything else in Guatemala, money is very colorful. I believe I could also do a series in Guatemalan currency. What …

Guatemalan-style Salt and Pepper Shakers

eck, sometimes we even do some local recycling too. For instance, all those empty hard liquor bottles can have a fulfilling second life as salt and pepper shakers.

What I like about the people of Café No Sé is that they know when they are onto something; at once they apply the Café No Sé branding, and just in case, they make sure it is registered. These are my kind of hippies! 😉

Guatemalan Carnival Cascarones for 25 Centavos

Cascarones are empty eggshells that are filled with pica-pica paper confetti and then covered up with another piece of papel china (tissue paper) and finally painted in colorful ways; like everything else in Guatemala. The final painted eggshells are reserved for the Carnaval as it is known carnival in Spanish which is the ‘Sad Tuesday’ before Ash Wednesday; why ‘Sad Tuesday’?, well carnival means “farewell to meat”, you can only be sad if you are going to keep a vegetarian lent. 😉

Colorful Guatemalan maracas or chinchines BY RUDY GIRON

Happy New Year 2019

Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Chinchines for maracas as they are widely known. Let’s begin the new year …

El Carmen Handicrafts Market

Visiting the El Carmen ruins folkart market is among the top things people do on the weekends and holidays in La Antigua …

Giant Sunflowers from Antigua Guatemala by RUDY GIRON

Sunflower Fields Forever

Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Girasol for sunflower. In the Land of the Eternal Spring we are fortunate to …

Strongylodon Jade Flowers Against Bright Yellow Wall BY RUDY GIRON

Enjoy the Torquoise Jade Vines

The Strongylodon jade vines are commonly known as emerald vine or turquoise jade vine; although in Antigua Guatemala the popular name is …

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Morning Vista of Calle del Arco

With nearly 14 years of posting daily updates from Antigua Guatemala and with nearly 7 years of teaching others how to better …

Boys show their ash crosses for Ash Wednesday

Let Lent Begin

Here’s your Guatemalan illustrated Spanish word of the day: Miércoles de ceniza for Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, …

I Love Antigua sign BY RUDY GIRON

I Love Antigua… How About You?

This year theme for the Flower Festival of Antigua Guatemala was The Little Prince as  it’s claimed that Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was inspired to …

The Creation of Alfombras BY RUDY GIRON

The Creation of Alfombras

Today’s photographs were made while I was teaching a street photography workshop during Easter & Holy Week in Antigua Guatemala. Take home …

Iglesia La Merced at Dawn

Here are some of the Christmas lights installed at Iglesia de La Merced in Antigua Guatemala. The really colorful lights were off …

Guateflora — Jade vine

Strongylodon Jade flowers are vines similar to the colorful and strange-looking flowers of a climber plant known locally as Tumbergias (tunbergia misurense …