Here’s your Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Amanecer for sunrise. I know I have been warning you guys about Winter’s coming for a few weeks, well, Winter has finally arrived. Here’s what sunrises look like during the Winter season. We normally wake up to freezing temperatures, from 10ºC/50ºF to 15ºC/59ºF for a couple of … Read more
Well, it looks like the nice Summer weather in Antigua Guatemala has waved goodbye. As I type these words, we are getting lots of rain, probably due to the proximity of the sixth tropical storm, Franklin, which might become hurricane by the time it reach us or Mexico within a few hours. Come back tomorrow … Read more
Fortunately hurricane Otto didn’t reach Guatemala and except for some cloudy skies we had to endure for yesterday, we are back to our normal gorgeous blue skies, typical of the dry season. However, we did felt a very strong earthquake, 7.2, around lunch hour yesterday, which hit the gulf of Fonseca in El Salvador. This … Read more
Once again it seems like it’s going to be a very dry year in Antigua Guatemala. We still have September, hurricane season month, to get some rains. Of course, I am not complaining as many of you know, my favourite season is the dry season. Anyhow, this is what sunrises look like in Antigua Guatemala. … Read more
As I have said many times before, the best time of the year to visit La Antigua Guatemala, or Central America for the matter, is now, the dry season. The months of November through February are the coolest—in some places even as low as under 0°C/32°F (and even Canadians complain)—; there is no rain or … Read more
Not often we get the opportunity to see a full moon setting behind the volcanoes Fuego and Acatenango at sunrise, so when it happens one has to be quick to capture it because the moon moves fast across the sky. I have another picture with the Fuego volcano erupting as the Moon passes by; you … Read more
To capture the amazing sky on the first sunrise of Summer in Antigua Guatemala, a super wide-angle lens, 10-22mm, was employed and set it at f3.5 for 1/100 of a second with an ISO of 100 and the help of a polarizing filter. This picture was taken before 6am, literally at sunrise and within an … Read more
About three years ago while doing a job with the terrible weather conditions I was able to capture this sunrise vista which is one of the few photos that saved the trip for me. 🙂 text and photo by Arturo Godoy.