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The Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement

July 6, 2012 by thirdeyemom

This week’s WordPress photo challenge is the evasive, ever so hard to capture, movement. I don’t have many photos of movement that didn’t end up in the trash can. Quite frankly, I’m terrible at photographing movement. However, the subject of this challenge brought me back to my recent trek to the Santa Maria Volcano in Xela, Guatemala. About these ads

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Categories: ACTIVE TRAVEL, BLOGGING, Guatemala, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY, Trekking/Hiking, Weekly Photo Challenge, Xela • Tags: CULTURE, Guatemala, mayan culture, movement, postaday, Santa Maria Volcano, thirdeyemom, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge, Xela

The Weekly Photo Challenge: Close

June 15, 2012 by thirdeyemom

The theme of this week’s photo challenge is close. You can pick any photo or series of photos that represent close to you. I thought of several good ones I had for this week’s challenge, yet kept returning to my latest spectacular experience with close…. Upon completing my first early morning volcano climb of Volcan Santa Maria in Xela, Guatemala I got an amazing surprise and close encounter with a neighboring volcano Santiaguito erupting. You can’t get much closer to close […]

Categories: ACTIVE TRAVEL, BLOGGING, Guatemala, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY, Trekking/Hiking, Weekly Photo Challenge, Xela • Tags: close, eruption, Guatemala, postady, Santa Maria Volcano, thirdeyemom, Weekly Photo Challenge, Xela

Watching a live volcanic eruption from my perch atop Santa Maria

March 27, 2012 by thirdeyemom

“No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied — it speaks in silence to the very core of your being”. —-Ansel Adams Around 10:30, five hours after starting our hike up the dark and slippery path of the Santa Maria Volcano we had finally arrived at her pointed peak. The clouds had started to form and blanket the valley of Xela thousands of miles below. Yet fortunately they hadn’t fully conquered the peak. There […]

Categories: ACTIVE TRAVEL, CULTURE, Guatemala, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY, Trekking/Hiking, Xela • Tags: CULTURE, Guatemala, Nature, Photography, Santa Maria Volcano, thirdeyemom, Travel, trekking, Volcanoes, Xela

My 5 am climb up the Santa Maria Volcano

March 26, 2012 by thirdeyemom

“The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it…” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery View of the grand Santa Maria volcano off in the distance as I was leaving Xela via shuttle on my way to Antigua. There are things you’ll experience in Guatemala that will […]

Categories: ACTIVE TRAVEL, CULTURE, Guatemala, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY, Trekking/Hiking, Xela • Tags: Climbing, CULTURE, Guatemala, Nature, Photography, Santa Maria Volcano, Sports, thirdeyemom, Travel, trekking, Volcanoes, Xela

Volcanoes of Guatemala

March 24, 2012 by thirdeyemom

Reblogged from Broken Light: A Photography Collective: Photo taken by Thirdeyemom: Eight years ago after the birth of my first child Max I knew something was terribly wrong. Not with my newborn son. He was healthy and as beautiful as can be. Instead, something was wrong with me. I began to suffer terrible insomnia, constant anxiety and worry and loss of appetite. By the time Max was 4 weeks old, I was sleeping on average two to three hours a […]

Categories: BLOGGING, EDUCATION, HEALTH & FITNESS, Reblogs, Women's Health • Tags: Guatemala, life, Photography, Postpartum Depression, Santa Maria Volcano, thirdeyemom, Women's Health

Weekly Photo Challenge: Unusual

March 16, 2012 by thirdeyemom

Photo taken on top of Santa Maria Volcano in Xela, Guatemala After waking up at 4:30 am to climb the Volcan Santa Maria in the heart of Xela, Guatemala, I was so overwhelmed by the nearby volcanic eruption that I messed with the settings on my new camera while trying to find the video record button. Somehow or another, I ended up with this setting which I am assuming meant to make the colors literally as vivid as possible and […]

Categories: ACTIVE TRAVEL, BLOGGING, CULTURE, Guatemala, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY, Trekking/Hiking, Weekly Photo Challenge, Xela • Tags: CULTURE, Guatemala, Photography, postaday, Santa Maria Volcano, thirdeyemom, Travel, Xela

5am climb on Santa Maria Volcano

March 8, 2012 by thirdeyemom

Just a short note to let you all know that I had the most spectacular day today in Guatemala! I rose at 4:45 am and set off in complete darkness to climb the fourth highest volcano in Guatemala, Santa Maria at 12,375 feet/3772m. It was so intensely beautiful that it made me melt. When we got to the top of the volcano a few hours later, I saw my first ever live volcano eruption right across the way at Santiaguito […]

Categories: ACTIVE TRAVEL, CULTURE, Guatemala, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY, Trekking/Hiking, Xela • Tags: CULTURE, Guatemala, Hiking, Nature, Santa Maria Volcano, thirdeyemom, Travel, Xela

5am climb on Santa Maria Volcano

March 8, 2012 by thirdeyemom

Categories: ACTIVE TRAVEL, CULTURE, Guatemala, TRAVEL BY COUNTRY, Trekking/Hiking, Xela • Tags: CULTURE, Guatemala, Hiking, Nature, Santa Maria Volcano, thirdeyemom, Travel, Xela

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The Weekly Photo Challenge: Close

Watching a live volcanic eruption from my perch atop Santa Maria

My 5 am climb up the Santa Maria Volcano

Volcanoes of Guatemala

Weekly Photo Challenge: Unusual

5am climb on Santa Maria Volcano

5am climb on Santa Maria Volcano

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