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Photo Wednesday: Furniture delivery

xensen — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:00:42 +0000

This photo of a furniture deliveryman on the streets of Antigua, Guatemala, comes from Michael R. Swigart’s photostream.

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Photo Wednesday: Agua Volcano, Antigua, Guatemala

xensen — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:00:13 +0000

This view of Agua Volcano from somewhere near the Parqueo Central in Antigua, Guatemala, is from hexod.us’ photostream.

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Photo Wednesday: Agua Volcano, Antigua, Guatemala

Photo quiz, part 3

xensen — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:00:45 +0000

Here’s another image by our mystery photographer (see also the past two days’ posts). What’s going on here? (Hint: the picture documents a subject for which the photographer is well known.) Who is he? What is the approximate date of the photo?

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Photo quiz, continued

xensen — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:00:44 +0000

Come, come, I know I have some readers. Surely someone can guess the famous photographer of yesterday’s image. Okay, maybe this will help. Here’s another photo by the same lensman. Who is it? What is it? When was it? Someone has to know the answer!

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Photo quiz

xensen — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:00:06 +0000

Here’s an image from Guatemala. Can anyone guess the subject, photographer, or approximate date the picture was taken?

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113 images of Semana Santa in Antigua, Guatemala

xensen — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:00:21 +0000

112 more like this at En Antigua.

via el Blogador

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113 images of Semana Santa in Antigua, Guatemala

Guatemalan worry dolls

xensen — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:00:45 +0000

Worry people are small, rather crude (but charming) dolls, usually sold in batches of several in a bag or box. As far as I know they are particular to the Maya of highland Guatemala. Children put them under their pillows at night as a sleep aid.

Tradition — or the vendors of the dolls — has it that one confesses one’s worry to the doll before putting it under the pillow. Then by morning the worry people will have taken that worry away.

The image is from dickuhne’s photostream.

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Semana Santa in Antigua, Guatemala

xensen — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:00:28 +0000

Two videos via Carpe Diem, the blog of Luis Figueroa.

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Semana Santa in Antigua, Guatemala

Photo Friday

xensen — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:00:48 +0000

Chichicastenango market, from gepiblu’s photostream.

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Antigua through the back door

xensen — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:00:39 +0000

Paramañana paints one of the more recognizable portraits of La Antigua, Guatemala, that I have seen in a while (of course, the best portraits are from steady bloggers like Rudy Giron, El Blogador, and Luis Figueroa).

After a little getting used to, you don’t really notice the no tap water or no electricity situation any more. After all, there are more important things to think about.

The photo is from Café No Sé.

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Antigua through the back door