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On a walking tour of Dürnstein,  in lower Austria, my iPhone 6s in hand, centuries were evident on every building. Every stone was...

Take the annual Weird Austin Homes Tour and see for yourself. Weird Homes Welcome | iPhoneography by Jann Alexander ©2016 Welcome. Let’s...

If you believe, as I do, that life is lived in the details, your camera must always be ready to take in what you can’t. Melk Abbey...

In 2008, as today, the building cranes loomed everywhere in Austin, giving us an unusual skyline and giving me my Vanishing Austin series.

Austin Business Journal made it “official” four years ago, in its year-end issue: Austin’s Been Vanishing Over the Last 30 Years. As...

Grid on a Door iPhoneography by Jann Alexander ©2015 Ah grids, how I love thee . . . Let me count the ways: You line up so nicely You...

Whitley’s Went. And then came the tower. ©2011 by Jann Alexander ‘In the heart of downtown Austin , at the intersection of 3rd & Brazos,...

Rusty Hadacol by Jann Alexander ©2014 “Hadacol is a Dietary Supplement . . . formulated as an Aid to Nature in rebuilding the Pep,...

You won’t often find perfect symmetry in nature, in human faces or in the cosmos. But wherever you find the architectural touch of man,...

Mean Cat Meets Condo by Jann Alexander © 2010 As Austin, Texas marks its 175th birthday, and as we head into another boom year for...

Nature’s Angles by Jann Alexander ©2014 In the Western Wyoming environment that’s given over to waving grasslands and towering trees...

Top to Bottom in the Dome ©2014 Jann Alexander There are architectural interiors so impressive that they demand photographs—even if the...

Towers of Power by Jann Alexander © 2014 The next time you aim your camera at a cityscape and curse the power lines that you can’t...

Counting Cranes by Kayak by Jann Alexander ©2014 “Mayor Wynn has set a goal of having 25,000 downtown residents — that’s 20,000 more...

Arches in Valladolid by Jann Alexander © 2014 Who can resist an arch?  These arches come from Mexico and New Mexico, and are...

Mexico Textures by Jann Alexander ©2014 There’s no shortage of  texture  in Mexico’s Yucatàn. From crumbling walls to stone monasteries...

Izamal ZigZag by Jann Alexander © 2014 You  zig here, zag there on your way up to the massive convento that sits atop a former Mayan...

Austin, Texas, Congress Avenue, 2004 — Where once was the Avenue Cafe , there came Las Manitas. Owned by two sisters, it was revered for...

Deco Dazzle by Jann Alexander ©2012 It’s impossible for me to resist the marquee of an old movie palace. They’re relics of an era when...

Oysters as Eye Candy by Jann Alexander ©2014 Eye Candy. It was the way I described  San Francisco, the first time I was there. Later, it...