Because the high levels of humidity around Antigua Guatemala, people have to paint their walls often, sometimes in a yearly basis. Not every time walls get painted they use the same color and after so many years when the paint peels, you get the gorgeous texture where the different colors peek through. The National Council … Read more
I just love the dry season that goes from late October to late April in Guatemala, also known in Guatemala as Summer even though it actually spans part of Fall, the entire Winter and half of the Spring season. Go Figure! The weather is wonderfully cool, literally and figuratively. There is no rain. The sky … Read more
Greed and ambition do not know of any limits. That’s how we got ourselves into the present economic crisis… sure the free market will police itself and the chief executive officers will regulate their corporations to not be as profitable as they could in favor of a more stable and fair marketplace. Yeah right Alan … Read more
Details, details, details. There are so many different street lamps or faroles, as they are known in Spanish, in La Antigua Guatemala that if I run a different one each day, it would take so many months to show all the different kinds. Now, can you tell me what’s inside the lamp or in its … Read more
Details, details, details. I also believe that, some times, details are like opportunities: you blink and they are gone. So you always have to be on the look out for those ephemeral details as well as for those fleeting photo opportunities. 😉
Wow, it is incredible how fast time goes by; it seems like last week when I posted a photo of Antigua’s street lighting, yet it was on May 17th. Today I bring you another example of a street lamp. You can click the “lamp” tag below to see many more styles.