Holy Cross and Construction Worker Day on May 3rd
A few days ago, on May 3rd, Pamela, from Tenerife Daily Photo, posted a somehow modest cross for the Día de la …
Perfect Weather for Retirement
One aspect of life in La Antigua Guatemala which drives many people to move here is the temperate weather. Even in the …
Holy Week Elements: The Churches
Churches serve as terminals from which processions depart or arrive. Churches also serve as home-base for all the brotherhoods of cucuruchos and sisterhoods. Churches also put their best face for the Holy Week and many get a paint job and/or restoration works in the weeks prior to Semana Santa.
With this photo we wave goodbye to Semana Santa and to Holy Week’s processions. I was told the last procession, the Resurrection (Resurección) procession comes out on Easter Sunday (today) a 6 a.m. and its back in the church by 10 in the morning.
Holy Week Elements: The Making of the Carpets
The making of carpets from sawdust, pine-needles, flowers, vegetables is a community-forming tradition. People get together by block or near-by neighbors to create the carpets on which the processions will pass by. Sometimes the making of the carpets is done at night, all night so they are ready for next day’s procession.
Name All the Tropical Fruits
One of the things I like best about La Antigua Guatemala is its location. One hour or less from Guatemala City and …
Glimpse into a Guatemalan Bicycle Repair Shop
Normally, I try to publish clean, with almost no visual noise, photographs as in Shadow Casting Lamp, the wallpaper series, Palo de …
Stain Glass Señor or Mister
Even simple details like the marker for the men’s bathroom is done with style in many places around Antigua Guatemala. Here you …
Guatemalan Textiles Market at La Fuente
Here is a better shot showing how the Guatemalan textiles literally carpet the garden around the fountain (fuente in Spanish) at La …
Name the Seeds!
Can you name all the seeds in the photograph? I will help you with the one my finger is pointing to: Chile …
Striking stripes
Thanks to a comment by Sarah from San Antonio Daily Photo, I noticed the opposing stripe patterns weared by this couple on …
Ice Cream Graphic Menu
One of the things that I like most about publishing the Antigua Guatemala Daily Photo and visiting the other Daily Photos Cities …
Ice Cream Handcart—Guatemalan Traditional Style
Helado is the Spanish word for ice cream. The warm winter weather has been a bonanza for the ice cream carts around …
Ice Cream Handcarts around Parque Central
Blame it on the weather. Ice cream handcarts have appeared, like mushrooms, around Parque Central in Antigua. There are all kinds ice …
Ice Cream Row
The weather has been fantastic in the recent weeks. Even though, we are in the middle of winter, temperatures have been around …
Baroque Columns at El Carmen Ruins
The El Carmen Ruins show cases some of the most baroque-style architecture. Here you can see the details of the columns. Outside …
Antigua Guatemala Map
On August 3rd, I have said that La Antigua Guatemala is a very small town (about 10×10 block grid), but there is …
X-ray of a Guatemalan House
This is the shot of a Guatemalan house at the very early stages of construction. I know this is not what you …
Daily Photo Theme: Doorways (framed shadow)
When Nuno declared on August 1st that the theme for September 1st was going to be doorways I was determined to win, …
Light is a good reason to visit Antigua
Back on July 9th I told you that Guatemala sells light and color when I showed you an open door that leads …