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Pairings by Jann Alexander include creativity, inspiration, books, writing, photography, art, history, travel, Texas life, lore and more

How to Awaken the Creative Spirit

Apr 6, 20142 min read

How to Awaken the Creative Spirit

Awakening by Jann Alexander © 2014 “May our heart’s garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.” —Thich Nhat Hanh Captured on...

There Is Nothing Fair About Fair Use

Apr 3, 20148 min read

There Is Nothing Fair About Fair Use

Too Late to Look for the Spear by Jann Alexander © 2013 Royalty-free art is everywhere. Why rip it off? One of my cherished,...

How Does Nature Inform Your Art?

Apr 2, 20141 min read

How Does Nature Inform Your Art?

Centering by Jann Alexander © 2014 Nature inspires Being centered is the best place to be when you’re making art. Nature enlightens...

Divergent in Photography and Thought

Mar 30, 20141 min read

Divergent in Photography and Thought

Choices by Jann Alexander © 2014 With apologies to Robert Frost: Two canals diverged in a field, and I – I focused on the most alluring...

Life on the Street in Color

Mar 28, 20141 min read

Life on the Street in Color

Street life in Mexico doesn’t get much more colorful than this. On a sizzling summer day in Valladolid, in Yucatan, it’s all quiet—but...

Watering the Desert: Reflections as Distortions

Mar 23, 20141 min read

Mission: Mexico

Watering the Desert: Reflections as Distortions

Desert Reflections Jann Alexander ©2010 Reflections of the vast brown Chihuahuan desert that surrounds a vivid green church in the tiny...

Reflections: Like a Mirror Unto the Soul

Mar 21, 20141 min read

Reflections: Like a Mirror Unto the Soul

Mirrored Lily by Jann Alexander © 2014 Reflections are easily found in nature. Reflections upon oneself, within one’s soul: not so...

Pi in the Sky Writing

Mar 20, 20143 min read

Pi in the Sky Writing

Pi in the Sky Writing by Jann Alexander © 2014 Look up. You might be surprised at what you see, and what you can shoot. When I stepped...

Meet the Beetles

Mar 18, 20141 min read

Meet the Beetles

Meet the Beetles by Jann Alexander © 2013 You get a different perspective on things when you look inside . Viewed by a human, a Texas...

To Dive Inside a Pistachio Dream

Mar 16, 20141 min read

To Dive Inside a Pistachio Dream

Pistachio Dream by Jann Alexander ©2013 If you dream in green and ice cream, you may want to dive inside a pistachio-colored booth at...

Why It’s Called Social Sharing

Mar 14, 20142 min read

Why It’s Called Social Sharing

Branch Out After You Plant Your Roots by Jann Alexander © 201 How I finally learned to be as sociable online as I am off If you’re an...

How to Deal With the Loneliness of Creativity

Mar 12, 20142 min read

How to Deal With the Loneliness of Creativity

Why is creativity so lonely, even when we’re part of a team? Creativity is pre-destined to be lonely. We are all alone with our ideas,...

Perspective from a Wildflower’s Vantage Point

Mar 11, 20141 min read

Perspective from a Wildflower’s Vantage Point

Outer Space Flower by Jann Alexander © 2014 From a Texas Hill Country wildflower’s vantage point, March means spring is in the...

Cause and Effect in Two Photos

Mar 10, 20141 min read

Cause and Effect in Two Photos

Cause: Gridlocked Gridlocked by Jann Alexander © 2014 Water Colors by Jann Alexander © 2014 Effect: Water Colors SHARE THIS ON...

It’s All About Your Perspective

Mar 9, 20142 min read

It’s All About Your Perspective

Overtowering Sandy’s by Jann Alexander © 2013 In Austin, Texas, we take our local landmarks seriously , and our city ordinances decree...

Welcome to Austin. You’re Gonna Love It!

Mar 7, 20142 min read

Welcome to Austin. You’re Gonna Love It!

You’re Gonna Love Austin by Jann Alexander © 2014 Welcome to Austin, all ye visitors to SXSW. You’re gonna love Austin. We all do....

The Challenge Comes With A Risk: Print, Or Paint?

Mar 6, 20142 min read

The Challenge Comes With A Risk: Print, Or Paint?

The photograph (left) that inspired the painting (right) . See both here. As a photographer who paints, and a painter who photographs,...

Remember the Alamo?

Mar 6, 20141 min read

Remember the Alamo?

Remember the Alamo by Jann Alexander © 2014 “Remember the Alamo!” If you’re leading a charge against a conquering army with but a ragtag...

Has HDR Gone Too Far?

Mar 3, 20142 min read

Has HDR Gone Too Far?

From the No-HDR Zone: Sunset at the Pier by Jann Alexander © 2013 When was the last time you looked at an HDR photograph and thought,...

Abandoned. Why?

Mar 2, 20141 min read

Abandoned. Why?

Abandoned by Jann Alexander © 2014 Why am I so drawn to photograph abandoned places and things? My image library is overflowing with...

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