I wish y’all a new year full of light, creativity and love. If you would like to get a gorgeous print from any of the photographs from this week, simply tap on the photo to be taken to my Wall Art Print Gallery. I would be honored to have one or more of photographs as wall … Read more
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Cúpulas for cupolas or domes.
Always remember to look up, down, left and right. You’ll never know what you will by simple change of perspective.
I wander what those dog figures are guarding. What do you think?
All along these 1,124 consecutive entries, I have been compiling a collection of abstract photographs of La Antigua Guatemala with the idea that one day, perhaps, I will have another exhibit called Antigua Abstracta as a follow up to Antigua in Black and White. Anyway, in the mean time, you get to enjoy my findings. … Read more
Somehow, I manage to do everything backwards, on purpose, or not. See El Arco de Santa Catalina is the most famous landmark from La Antigua Guatemala; the photo that everybody carries in the camera memory or film, whatever the case may be, to show they have been to Antigua Guatemala. So you might think it … Read more
Normally, the cathedral is the most important church in a town, but in La Antigua Guatemala, a colonial town full with so many churches, the San Francisco El Grande Church has to be the most important of all. Can you guess why?
In the picture above you can see the dome of the Ciudad Vieja Cathedral; a town four kilometers away from La Antigua Guatemala. Now a little trivia information. Ciudad Vieja was the second settlement of Guatemala City right before they moved it to where La Antigua Guatemala is now. Thus, its name means Old City or Ciudad Vieja in Spanish (check the aerial shots of Ciudad Vieja).