Morning Vista of Antigua Guatemala During the Dry Season
Even though we still get some heavy rains during October and some light rain in November, we could say that dry season …
Even though we still get some heavy rains during October and some light rain in November, we could say that dry season …
Sometimes, only sometimes, especially during the rainy season, we forget briefly about the colossal volcano Fuego eruptions. However, the moment the cloudy …
I love Antigua Guatemala; that’s what the colorful sign says all the way near the yellow wall of La Merced. I really …
As I have mentioned many times before, even during the rainy season, we get a few hours of sunshine almost everyday; especially …
As I have said a few times before through the years, we have the most beautiful and fantastic light around Antigua Guatemala …
Evergreen gardens in and around La Antigua Guatemala are one of the benefits of the 6-month long rainy season. Honestly, I never …
Antigua Guatemala is well-known for its beautiful light and vibrant colors. If you are missing the gorgeous warm light and colors that …
Did you know that grevillea trees are the most often used shadow tree used in coffee plantations in and around Antigua Guatemala. …
It’s been over a week of stormy weather with skies completely covered. In fact, we have barely seen, if at all, the …
The Antigua SkyCam Weather Station was launched in January 2017 through the collaboration of ClimaYa.com and AntiguaDailyPhoto.com. The Antigua SkyCam Weather Station …
With nearly 14 years of posting daily updates from Antigua Guatemala and with nearly 7 years of teaching others how to better …
The rains are leaving. The winds are coming. The kites are flying everywhere. That means the dry season is upon us and …
Here’s the typical vista of Arco de Santa Catalina framing the Volcán de Agua taken during the blue hour during a rainy …
I have seen her many times before and had wanted to make a portrait of her. In fact, I might have made …
Fisheye vista of Pilas de Santa Clara captured during a rainy night. If you would like to decorate your home or office …
As I mentioned in another post, as part of the Day of the Dead photography workshop on November 1st, we shot two …
As part of the Day of the Dead photography workshop on November 1st, we shot two Mayan graveyards one Spanish cemetery; giant …
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Celaje for cloudscape. We are fortunate in Antigua Guatemala that even during the rainy …
Sunday morning, June 3, 2018, began like many mornings with clear skies and Volcán de Fuego showing off with towering fumaroles that …
Rain or shine, La Antigua Guatemala offers magnificent vistas to enchant you at every corner. Here’s, for instance, a post card view …
Two small updates from Antigua Guatemala. I can’t believe that I hadn’t shared with you the flowers known here as camarones blancos, …
Rather the dry season arrived over the weekend. The light quality changed, the dry and chilly winds from up north have reached …
When is the dry weather when we need it the most in Antigua Guatemala. I mean, why did we have a full …
Well, it looks like the nice Summer weather in Antigua Guatemala has waved goodbye. As I type these words, we are getting …
Verano or summer in Antigua Guatemala is hot, but not too hot because the daily rains. We can reach 27C/80F after lunch …
Yes, believe it or not, you can find images like this one on the streets of Antigua Guatemala. Well, to be precise, …
It’s been a while since I added another entry on the I am Guatemala series. How about if this week we do …
During the rainy season you also have worry about the rivers and lagoons that show up instantaneously on the streets of La …
As I have said many times before, the color the best describes Guatemala is green. If you have ever visited La Antigua …
Good Morning! This is how the mornings look like during Summer in Antigua Guatemala; do you care to join us? In the …
This year we have been getting lots of rain, except for the last two days. So, it’s time again to water the …
Volcán Fuego does not care whether it is raining, snowing, or trembling. Fuego erupts in a regular basis, around 7 times an …
Even during the rainy season, one can sunbathe comfortably in the morning and afternoon. Here we have a an elder couple taking …
To wake up to the vista of ice capped volcanoes in Antigua Guatemala is not common at all, but it does happens …
Oh what a wonderful combination of just the right ingredients is this charming and photogenic city we call now La Antigua Guatemala. …
As some of you may already know, I lead photo walks at three distinct cemeteries on All Saints Day. After a photography …
Here I share with you the colours the Spring season during Fall in Antigua Guatemala. As I have mentioned many times in …
Evergreen gardens and vegetation in and around La Antigua Guatemala is, of course, one of the benefits of the 6-month long rainy …
The majestic eruptions of Fuego volcano sometimes meet with the right combination of cloud formation and blue hour or golden hour as …
As you may already know, Invierno in Guatemala happens to fall mostly during Summer with a little bit of Spring and Autumn. …
As I often mention during the photo walks, my two favourite buildings are Compañía de Jesús and Casa Santo Domingo. Each represents …
Art should live free among us, in sitting rooms, cathedrals, palaces, town halls and cancer wards, in pubs and on gable ends. …
I have known and collaborated with the Guatemalan guide, Carlos Mijangos, for many years. He’s tour operator agency, Guatemalan Guide is top-rated …
Sometimes life in La Antigua Guatemala feel like you’re going downhill with no break. Sometimes is the opposite. Summer is already here …
During the Secrets of Antigua Guatemala photo walk I often encourage people to go inside every restaurant, hotel, shop, cultural center, et …
The rainy season is upon us and so other fruits are now becoming available, such as peaches, nectarines, etc. Also, May is …
If you look at the photos of many tourists, Guatemalans only look like the Maya. I, however, have been making portraits of …
Often I see people placing Guatemalans into a tight, constricting box of looks, really tight set of guidelines of what Guatemalans are …
Jocón is Guatemala’s most famous green stew. We could also call it green mole if we use the wide definition of the …
The first time we “officially” drunk coffee in Guatemala was in 1743 for the celebration of the conversion of the Catedral de …
Volcán Fuego is quite active again with continuous eruptions and thunders and growls all night long. Here’s a picture of one the …
Here are some bits and pieces I found on Wikipedia: The Kaibiles (singular: Kaibil) are a special operations force of the Military …
One of the photographic techniques I teach during the Antigua Photo Walks I lead around town is natural framing or sub-framing. Of …
As I have said many times before, the best time of the year to visit La Antigua Guatemala, or Central America for …
Well, if it is pascua season in Guatemala, you know what that means, right? As I had shared before, pascuas (Guatemala) and …
Believe it or not, we are still experiencing rains this late in November. As I have said before, al mal tiempo, buena …
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Celajes or sunset clouds. Finally we are experiencing some sunset clouds, celajes pues, as …
That’s right, that is Antigua Guatemala, the land of the ice cream. Even with the heavy rains, we eat ice creams. During …
Havoc all over Guatemala as flash floods, mudslides and heavy rains pour all over the country due to low pressure tropical storm …
Here’s a quick note just let you guys know I have started making photos of the official color palette of La Antigua …
Let’s meet at the Real Palacio de la Cultura. Where’s that? You know the palace on the south side of the main …
Who says you can not enjoy the blue hours during the storm season in La Antigua Guatemala? Come on, as I said …
Early morning walks and runs around La Antigua Guatemala are the best, don’t you agree? This is especially true during the rainy …
I hope you enjoy the daily life stamps I share with you from in and around La Antigua Guatemala. A tall side …
Here’s one more post with simple photo tips to improve your images from Antigua Guatemala. Let’s start with this simple photographic recipe: …
This is a typical vista from the streets of La Antigua Guatemala. If you get up early you can catch antigüeños on …
Zero violence! Only love, happiness and peace while Guatemalans are changing the country forever with their manifestations and rejection of corruption at …
Guatemala is on fire! If you don’t know what’s going on, search the news about Guatemala. On the other hand, in La …
Worry not about being unplugged while touring the coffee plantations around La Antigua Guatemala. In fact, soon you will have 4G connectivity …
The Accounting Firm of Patricia Porras in La Antigua Guatemala has to be THE accounting firm of this colonial town. Quite possibly …
Not too long ago I shared a picture of iguashte or iwaxte, a vegetable salad made with ground pumpkin or squash seeds. …
Here’s your Spanish word of the day: Dulcería or candy store. La Dulcería de Doña María Gordillo is quite possibly the most …
We continue the series “Pase Adelante” of 24 frames of film with the iconic store La Tienda de Doña Gavi. This tiny …
This is iguashte, a vegetable salad made with ground pumpkin or squash seeds. This is quite possibly a pre-Columbian Mayan dish. This …
How would you caption this picture? We all have different approaches to documenting the quotidian life in the cities we happen to …
This morning I was looking at the photo stream of a friend from Antigua Guatemala who is living now in Willmington, Vermont, …
Welcome to the land of the eternal spring. I get it now, the slogan does not refer to the actual Spring season, …
We recently watched the film Boyhood, one of the film with more nominations and awards and a good contender for the Oscars. …
During the dry season, we experience lots deep blue sky days. The few clouds we get make interesting forms and complement the …
I don’t know if I have mentioned before, but one of the “benefits” of living in Antigua Guatemala, so close to an …
Here’s a panoramic vista of the three volcanoes Agua, Fuego and Acatenango captured this morning. This is a panoramic vista taken during …
Within two weeks the harvest time will commence around Antigua Guatemala for corn. Normally, maize is harvested from the end of October …
Another crop that I have found on my walks through the hills on the skirt of Volcán de Agua is coffee. These …
Fact #1: Right now we are in what Guatemalans call the Winter season, although in reality, we are in the middle of …
Loroco are small, green, unopened flower buds, used as a flavoring agent in Central American cuisine. They are cultivated in Guatemala and …
Here’s the story of Adam and Domingo, which is the typical story of many of the kids and teenagers of the high …
One week after I started AntiguaDailyPhoto on May 1, 2006 I pointed out how kids should be in school instead of working …
This is the vista from the runners perspective of the finish line of the half marathon of Las Rosas this Sunday morning. …
Here’s another panoramic vista of volcanoes Agua, Fuego and Acatenango during the sunset of this delicious canícula or heat wave, which in …
The seventh day of the seventh month began at 5:23am with a strong tremor, a 7.1º magnitude earthquake near the Mexican-Guatemalan border …
You know it is the rainy season in Guatemala when you see people, handy men really, on the roof tops fixing the …
A quick visit this Sunday to Santa María de Jesús, the municipality south of Antigua Guatemala and the highest community on the …
Today’s the day. And it’s going to happen, again and again. It has to happen. Nice day. If you don’t know why …
Often you find people riding on fit, well-trained horses around Antigua Guatemala, either because they own a horse or through the horse …
Here’s what the main square of Antigua Guatemala looks like on a typical day of the rainy season. Even though is an …
Ahh, selfies, what do your selfies say about you? Let’s see what this article on Psychology Today says about that: Ever since …
While I was taking new photographs of the harpy-siren at the washbasin water tank inside the renovated Casa Herrera, corner of 3rd …
As I walked the streets of the Antigua Guatemala villages I noticed the neighbours sweeping aways the carpets from Palm Sunday since …
One important aspect of the Guatemalan Portrait series is to show the rainbow of people that Guatemalans can be, although many only …