First Antigua Estelar Festival
As part of the First Antigua Estelar Festival we were treated to a night of music recital, theater, plays, astrology talks, body …
Flower Headers Façade Decoration
Flowers headers were the most popular façade decoration found as part of the 2nd Flower Festival of Antigua Guatemala. Flower headers were …
The Haves and the Have Nots
Today you write the caption… I will send a real post card via regular mail to the best caption.
Chronicle of the largest eruption of Fuego volcano in four decades
Sunday morning, June 3, 2018, began like many mornings with clear skies and Volcán de Fuego showing off with towering fumaroles that …
Ruins of Antiguo Colegio de la Compañía de Jesús
Antigua Guatemala is world famous among other things because its many ruins; each at different point from total abandonment to restoration. The …
Antigua Makes Me Happy — Take 10
In these 12 years of photographing the people whom I’ve came across in La Antigua Guatemala and surrounding area, I have been …
Antigua Makes Me Happy — Take 8
Everyone who visits Guatemala agrees that what really makes every visitor happy is friendliness of Guatemalans; always ready to offer a smile. …
Antigua Makes Me Happy — Take 7
That’s right La Antigua Guatemala has a very special kind of magic that puts everyone in such a good mood. Here I …
Cucurucho Drummer and Flute Player
The Maya play the drum and rustic flute commonly known as tzicolaj, although some people claim it to be an actual xul. …
Market Day — Color and Repetition
We continue our Market Day series with sampling of color and repetition found at junk food vendor inside the mercado of La …
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 …
Protecting Mayan Textiles with Copyrights
Last week, Guatemala’s Constitutional Court sided with the Guatemalan weavers and their copyrights to intellectual property of their weavings. Now congress will …
Street vendor selling tamales outside a church
We continue with the series of portraits of strangers made on the streets of Antigua Guatemala that later on I print to …
Portrait Prints as Gifts — Don Jaime
The synergy created by the act of giving prints of the portraits made on the streets of Antigua Guatemala is incredible. I …
Giving Portrait Prints as Gifts
As I have mentioned before, I really enjoy looking at the happy faces of those who receive a photo print that they …
Medio Maratón Las Rosas 2017
As every year, a Sunday or two before Día de Santiago, or Saint James Day, celebrated on July 25, a half marathon …
The Authentic Diet of a True Panza Verde
The myth of why people from Antigua Guatemala are called panzas verdes, or green bellies, states that the reason is all the …
Mayan Family Playing Religious Music
As I have said before, I find the singing of the Maya people extremely haunting and touching, even though, they are singing …
Maya Portraits — Young Woman on the Move
The streets of Antigua Guatemala are full with people on the move, the Mayas not excluded. So, often times, it’s best to …
Maya Portraits — Young Woman from Santa María de Jesús
Many people believe that the Maya don’t like to be photographed or filmed. Well, if you browse the archives of AntiguaDailyPhoto.com you …
A Tailor’s Shop in San Pedro Las Huertas
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day — Sastre for tailor. Another interesting aspect of real life in the villages of …
The Butcher and His Shop
Here’s another typical small entrepreneurial shop found in the villages of Antigua Guatemala, in San Pedro Las Huertas in this particular case. …
Collecting Renewable Wood Fuel
As requested by many of you here and on Facebook’s AntiguaDailyPhoto fan page, here’s a vista of the real life in the …
Mayan family in a hurry
Oh what a wonderful combination of just the right ingredients is this charming and photogenic city we call now La Antigua Guatemala. …
Un Mensaje al Cielo 2016
Last Saturday night, once again, “Un Mensaje al Cielo” or “A Message To The Sky” event released over 1,000 hot air balloons …
Black Mirror: Live Mannequins Displaying Mayan Textiles
Real Mayan textiles on display on live mannequins inside a boutique hotel in Antigua Guatemala. Across the patio seats a real Maya …
Eternal Spring Colors in Fall Season
Here I share with you the colours the Spring season during Fall in Antigua Guatemala. As I have mentioned many times in …
Calle del Arco Should Be A Pedestrian Street Always
It only takes a weekend stroll on Calle del Arco to realise this short 3-block street should be a pedestrian walkway every …
Having Lots of Fun During Photo Walks
No camera is too small to have lots of fun while doing street portraits and learning photographic composition during the Antigua Photo …
Family Business Meeting
At the end of a photo walk, I captured a family meeting outside their business to watch passers-by. I raised my camera …
Antigua Photo Sessions
How about a sneak preview at a street photography session I made recently in Antigua Guatemala. I hope this is something I …
Overcoming Your Fears of Photographing Strangers While Traveling
As I have written before, I really enjoy sharing my approach to photographing strangers and seeing how other timid photographers dramatically transform …
The Art of Street Portraits of Strangers
If you would like to learn the art of photographing strangers, you should book a street photography photo walk through my www.AntiguaPhotoWalks.com …
Consecutive Day 3649 — Food Trucks
As real estate spaces become prohibited expensive in Antigua Guatemala, many have opted for the food truck option. I wonder if soon …
Consecutive Day 3633 of 3654 — Photographing Strangers
What kind of photography would you like to do in Antigua Guatemala, candid street photography or street portraits? Why choose, let’s do …
Consecutive Day 3630 of 3654 — Portraits of Selfies
As you take a photographic tour through the entries about selfies, you realise that “portraits of selfies” could be a very popular …
Selfie Generation During The Holy Week
We wave good-bye to Semana Santa 2016 with the most emblematic image found during the Holy Week: The Selfie. As every year, …
Holy Week Vistas: Maya Selling Palm Sunday Bouquets
So, finally we have arrived at Domingo de Ramos, Palm Sunday. Even though I have shared a few photographs and posts during …
Conquering Your Fears of Photographing Strangers
One of the things I enjoy the most about leading the Antigua Photo Walks is to share my approach to photographing strangers …
How to Keep an Eye on Volcán Fuego Most Recent Activity
Volcán Fuego is quite active again with continuous eruptions and thunders and growls all night long. Here’s a picture of one the …
Repurposing Colonial Water Tanks and Sinks
How do you turn a living city into a shopping mall? Well, unregulated businesses will pay top money for real estate and …
What’s A Town Fair Without Table Football
Well, I don’t know the answer because I have never been to a town fair in Guatemala that didn’t have table football …
Burning of the Devil Portraits
El hombre propone, Dios dispone y El Diablo lo descompone. What better way to caption these portraits of strangers at the Burning …
Sympathy for the Devil
Well, not really. See you see all these masks are for parades celebrated through out Guatemala, but prominently at Ciudad Vieja and …
Decide, it’s the phone or me!
I walk around I see people, lots of them with their smartphones out, held on their hand as the move around. They …
Strolling Through San Juan del Obispo
Here’s your Spanish word of the day: Aldea for village. When was the last time you visited one of the villages of …
Antique Coffee Pulper As Decoration
Often I have shared in the past how La Antigua Guatemala has its own aesthetic values. I really appreciate the old, worn, …
Salty or Sweet Granizadas?
Here’s your Guatemalan Spanish word or the day: Granizadas, that’s shaved ice. Granizadas are just as popular as helados, ice cream, in …
Antigua Photo Walk Captures
It’s been a busy week with Antigua Photo Walks every day. I am feel so fortunate to be able to share my …
Portraits of Strangers: The Violin Player
Many years ago I shared a portrait of a rugged violin player. This was one of the first portraits of strangers I …
Some people live in color, some people live in black and white
Dorothy: Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore. [from the film The Wizard of Oz] I clearly remember the film The Wizard …
Street Photography Walk Portraits
Believe it or not, often during the photo walks, people ask some of the photographers to take a picture with them. Here …
24 Frames of Film: Casa Gómez-Ovalle
If you are looking for a music store, Casa Gómez-Ovalle is the place to go in La Antigua Guatemala. This music store …
24 Frames of Film: Almacen Troccoli
Another great venue to enjoy a bottle of wine is Almacen Troccoli, established in 1903, in La Antigua Guatemala. With an Italian …
Holy Week Vistas: Palm Sunday Arrangements
Once again it is Domingo de Ramos, or Palm Sunday, in Antigua Guatemala. Palm Sunday marks the beginning of the Semana Santa …
The Shoe-shine Transaction
Here’s one of my tips from the street photography walks: Anticipate your photos. In other words, visualize your picture before it becomes …
The Buñuelo Transaction
As I mentioned yesterday, Cuaresma [Lent] has street food that is sold at the booths outside the church where the velación, vigil, …
The Maya and Smartphones
Several times I have covered the usage of technology by the Maya of Guatemala, either here in the archives of AntiguaDailyPhoto or …
Antigua Photo Walks: Learning to photograph strangers
I believe I have developed a reproducible crash course that turns shy and timid photography enthusiasts into fearless, in-your-face street photographers by …
Nísperos from San Juan del Obispo
Apparently the nísperos, loquats, from San Juan del Obispo are the best of Guatemala. Just look at the size of those nísperos …
Acts of Kindness: Free Milk for Granny
If you have followed the daily updates of AntiguaDailyPhoto, you already know Don Ezequiel, the goat herder and milkman from San Juan …
Acts of Kindness: Feeding the Street Dogs
I believe the majority of real heroes are anonymous. The real heroes do their work out of conviction and love. I spotted …
The Tienda Transaction
I invite you to caption this photograph of an abuelita buying some soda bottles. The winner selected next Wednesday, will get photo …
Portraits of Strangers: An African Face in Antigua
He said he’s from Uganda. He was so jovial and well-humored, even chatty. He suggested I visit the African continent where I …
The Wedding Selfies
Of course people still hire a professional photographer to capture their wedding ceremony, but many still use their mobile camera phone to …
Corn, Beans and Light
I enjoy talking to and interviewing the campesinos I encounter on my morning walks on the hills of the skirt of Volcán …
Take my picture, take my picture!
Smiles, big smiles, that’s something that I really enjoy about roaming the streets with a camera in hand. Sometimes I look for …
Texture of the Kitchen Cupola at Casa Herrera
Look up, always look up and down, you’ll never know what interesting things you might find. In today’s case, by simply tilting …
Keeping the Banana Republic Alive
One of the benefits of having a Banana Republic (not the clothing store, but the real thing!) is the tremendous amount of …
Who Are Your True Friends?
At present, I believe, in the English language we throw around certain words so much that often we are diminishing their true …
Holy Week Elements: The Roman Soldiers
Since everyone is taking colour photographs of the Semana Santa in Antigua Guatemala, I decided to do a black and white coverage …
Holy Week Elements: Corozo for Palm Sunday
Today’s Palm Sunday or Domingo de Ramos as today’s known in the Catholic world. By the way, here’s another picture of the …
Buying banana leaves for tamales
Almost eight years ago I set out to bring you images of the daily life in and around Antigua Guatemala and for …
Los Patojos Need Your Help
Contact Juan Pablo Romero Fuentes or Gary Jepson to learn how you can help Los Patojos. In the meantime, read about what …
Fuego Volcano Is Quite Active During the Dry Season
I don’t know they reasons of why Volcán Fuego is quite active during the dry season, which happens to be the cold …
Antigua Street Portrait: Lilli
Lilli reminds me of Ramona Flowers character from the film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World in this street portrait taken in Antigua …
Atol de elote for the refacción
Who wants atol de elote right about now? I make home and office deliveries! Refacción or the shorten refa is the Spanish …
Churreria La Huasteca
A town fair is not a fair without the churros. A churreria is the place where they make churros; [CHOOR-roh] Similiar to …
Tortilleria and Fruit Stand
¡No pongas todos los huevos en una canasta! Don’t put all your eggs in one basket! Oh the wisdom of idioms do …
Buying the daily morning bread
Last May I showed you a picture of a little girl playing with her shadow while she was going for the morning …
New Year Means New Visits to RENAP
Do you know why Guatemalan have to visit the RENAP at the beginning of the year? If you don’t know what RENAP …
Placida Antigua Hotel Posada Sign
It’s been a while since I last fed the Signs category, over two months ago to be precise. As many of you …
This Christmas Give Your Talent and Creativity As Gifts
Instead of buying stuff, these two musicians decided to play and sing some Christmas carols for a group of shoe-shiner boys who …
Angels and Saints for Sale
Back in May 2008 I shared the first of photo of this old man from the high lands of Guatemala who comes …
Autumn Antigua Afternoons
After having spent a couple of weeks in New York, I really appreciate the “cold” weather of Antigua Guatemala. I mean, on …
Blossoms From The Land of the Eternal Spring
As many of you know because we have discussed previously, Guatemala does not have the traditional four seasons. Well, really, we do, …
One horse of power
I really like to see well taken care of horse riding through the streets of Antigua Guatemala and surrounding villages. That’s why …
Coffee Props
I really like all the coffee props or decoration found in the many coffee houses in Antigua Guatemala. This antique weight scale …
Ironwork Candle Wall Holder
Let’s start easy on this Monday. Here’s a simple candle wall holder made by the blacksmiths of Antigua Guatemala. This is really …
Mora Chipotle Lomito
That’s blackberry-chipotle beef steak for you. I don’t remember if I mentioned it before, but in Guatemala blackberry is the berry more …
School Anniversary Parade
I believe that processions and parades are the most popular public manifestations of antigüeños. It’s almost impossible to conceive Antigua Guatemala without …
Texture And Patterns at Capuchinas
Often enough you find lots of textures and patterns in my photography such as in this column found inside Convento Las Capuchinas …
Ask for your Super Ice Cream
These are, of course, the traditional Guatemalan ice cream carts. If you don’t like wholesome food with lots of flavor and real …
Strange-looking plants seen at the nursery
Guatemala is certainly rich when it comes to flora and fauna. Here’s a really strange-looking plant that I found at Vivero La …
INGUAT shows for the OAS
As always, Guatemala’s tourism institute, INGUAT for short, put up a show of “Mayan” ceremonies and dances to welcome the members of …
Parking prohibited, motorcycle exit
It’s been a while since I shared an interesting sign. In this case, the sign is found everywhere, generic really, but the …
High Key of La Merced Church in Black and White
Another series that I am working on is all the ruins, churches and landmarks of Antigua Guatemala taken at night and in …
Sunsets at Parque Central
Interesting enough, Parque Central or main plaza is a great place to not only watch people, but also to enjoy the light …
The Black Christ of Esquipulas was carved in Antigua
As I have mentioned before, every year, on 15th of January, thousands of pilgrims from Guatemala, the United States, Europe, Mexico and …