Ruinas El Carmen are among the best preserved samples of the Moorish baroque architecture found in Antigua Guatemala. In fact, putting the close-up detail of the façade of Iglesia de La Merced and Ruinas El Carmen we get to appreciate back to back the intricate details found in the most detail-rich façades found in our … Read more
I believe this is only the second time in over decade that I have found Ruinas El Carmen totally clear from vendors and parked vehicles outside. Of course, this is the only time I have photographed it this way and to top it off, I was fortunate enough to have a person walked by to … Read more
La Ruinas de El Carmen in Antigua Guatemala are a magnificent example of baroque colonial architecture. Even in it’s decay and abandoned state, the ruins of El Carmen are quite impressive. The best time to visit is very early in the morning when the light from the east is bathing the architecture, thus making every … Read more
Visiting the El Carmen ruins folkart market is among the top things people do on the weekends and holidays in La Antigua Guatemala. Here’s a little secret. One of things on my to do list is to capture through time-lapse photography the contrast between the stark, almost monochromatic muted colors of the El Carmen ruins … Read more
Michele Woodey already so eloquently described the emotions La Antigua’s ruins evoke. In her Antigua Abstracted #3 post she wrote: “These are places where episodes of history become entangled with our dreams- where stories and fables are as intricately woven together as the creeping vegetation that threatens to overwhelm the architecture itself.” Yet, the very people … Read more