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This was an incredible week. It's hard to describe really. Meeting new people, having an instant connection and sharing amazing experiences and meals together for an entire week really made this special for me. So much so, it really made me forget all about the vacation I had taken the week before.
I flew into Guatemala City to spend the week touring the country with Domingo + Kara, plus her Canadian family. I knew we were going to see some stuff leading up to the wedding weekend, but I had no idea what.
It was an adventure, and I was along for the ride - camera in hand.
We started out Monday morning in Antigua, Guatemala.
If you're from Kansas City, picture the plaza, just hundreds of years older with incredible architecture, charming little shops where practically everything is hand made, and oh yeah, volcanoes in the distance. This happens every 15 days apparently, and we happened to be there on one of those days -
We visited a candle maker's shop to pick out a unity candle and anything else that we could use for the wedding:
I love this moment with Kara and her mom, and Andrew's face in the background
We spent a lot of time on this:
Kara + Domingo didn't seem to mind:
The first day we went zip-lining in Panajachel, right off Lake Atitlan which had 3 volcanoes behind it. Imagine flying over the tree line 50-100 feet up and looking down into a valley leading to a lake with volcanoes behind it. It's even more amazing than it sounds. The whole family came along, even Kara's 9 yr-old nephew Andrew who did amazing.
Day 2 began with Domingo loading our luggage on top of the bus
I gave our bus driver Juan my sun glasses because he was cool, and I sat up front with him a lot. "Tu & Yo, Juan" (You and Me) I would say pointing at the horizon and he would laugh as I pretended to have any idea where we were going. He didn't speak a lick of English, and got lost every day of the trip.
We visited a glass blowing shop and I got to shoot them in action -
After that, we hit the hot springs - naturally heated by the volcano.
We drove further north each day getting closer and closer to Nebaj, which is where Domingo is from, and where he and Kara first met.
On the way we stopped by a children's camp to show the family what Kara's dad had been helping with on missions trips, as well as cutting down some bamboo for wedding decorations.
You'll get to see what was done with the the bamboo in the wedding post.
Let me throw in some shots of Domingo + Kara now. I'd take them from time to time, place to place, but we also had an impromptu engagement session right there in the Mayan ruins.
I'm going to leave it at that for now. I'll show you all some wedding photos and maybe some set-up stuff too in the next one...
I flew into Guatemala City to spend the week touring the country with Domingo + Kara, plus her Canadian family. I knew we were going to see some stuff leading up to the wedding weekend, but I had no idea what.
It was an adventure, and I was along for the ride - camera in hand.
We started out Monday morning in Antigua, Guatemala.
If you're from Kansas City, picture the plaza, just hundreds of years older with incredible architecture, charming little shops where practically everything is hand made, and oh yeah, volcanoes in the distance. This happens every 15 days apparently, and we happened to be there on one of those days -
We visited a candle maker's shop to pick out a unity candle and anything else that we could use for the wedding:
I love this moment with Kara and her mom, and Andrew's face in the background
We spent a lot of time on this:
Kara + Domingo didn't seem to mind:
The first day we went zip-lining in Panajachel, right off Lake Atitlan which had 3 volcanoes behind it. Imagine flying over the tree line 50-100 feet up and looking down into a valley leading to a lake with volcanoes behind it. It's even more amazing than it sounds. The whole family came along, even Kara's 9 yr-old nephew Andrew who did amazing.
Day 2 began with Domingo loading our luggage on top of the bus
I gave our bus driver Juan my sun glasses because he was cool, and I sat up front with him a lot. "Tu & Yo, Juan" (You and Me) I would say pointing at the horizon and he would laugh as I pretended to have any idea where we were going. He didn't speak a lick of English, and got lost every day of the trip.
We visited a glass blowing shop and I got to shoot them in action -
After that, we hit the hot springs - naturally heated by the volcano.
We drove further north each day getting closer and closer to Nebaj, which is where Domingo is from, and where he and Kara first met.
On the way we stopped by a children's camp to show the family what Kara's dad had been helping with on missions trips, as well as cutting down some bamboo for wedding decorations.
You'll get to see what was done with the the bamboo in the wedding post.
Let me throw in some shots of Domingo + Kara now. I'd take them from time to time, place to place, but we also had an impromptu engagement session right there in the Mayan ruins.
I'm going to leave it at that for now. I'll show you all some wedding photos and maybe some set-up stuff too in the next one...
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beautiful! Can hardly wait to see the wedding shots!
(02.04.10)AMAZING! Thanks for the pics... can I steal some and put them on FB?
(02.04.10)Wow, Mike! You are way too awesome at what you do. I am your biggest fan :) Miss you!
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