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Jann Alexander
Jul 6, 20151 min read
A Closed Door Is An Invitation
“You never know what doors are going to open up and why they are going to open up. You’ve got to be ready to walk through them.” —Lester...
Jann Alexander
Feb 27, 20151 min read
Being There Isn’t the Only Reward
The Reward Inside by Jann Alexander ©2015 As if being there isn’t reward enough, capturing a private moment for a more introspective...
Jann Alexander
Jan 30, 20152 min read
Into the Depths and Beyond
IkKil’s Sacred Blue Ceynote by Jann Alexander ©2014 Deep underground in the luxuriant tropical rainforest that is Mexico’s Ik Kil...
Jann Alexander
Nov 2, 20142 min read
Descent from the Pinnacles
Descent in Big Bend by Jann Alexander ©2014 The mountain was a worthy opponent , though we hadn’t seen it that way when we began the...
Jann Alexander
Aug 15, 20142 min read
A Fortress in Yellow along the Convent Route
Yellow Fortress , New and Modern by Jann Alexander ©2014 The newest fortress in Acanceh , in Mexico’s Yucatán, is a yellow church that...
Jann Alexander
Aug 8, 20141 min read
Where You Can Become Immersed in Texture
Mexico Textures by Jann Alexander ©2014 There’s no shortage of texture in Mexico’s Yucatàn. From crumbling walls to stone monasteries...
Jann Alexander
Aug 1, 20142 min read
When Time Stopped in Izamal
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...
Jann Alexander
Jul 25, 20141 min read
Bring On The Heat, Austin!
Made in the Shade by Jann Alexander © 2014 It’s summer in Texas, so you make for the shade to find your favorite hammock, and let...
Jann Alexander
May 22, 20141 min read
Why I Can’t Resist a Window
Blue Window by Jann Alexander © 2014 I can’t resist a window . When I travel, I collect images of windows, and their siblings, doors,...
Jann Alexander
Apr 14, 20141 min read
A Monument to the Ghosts of Terlingua
Terlingua Ghosts by Jann Alexander © 2012 The small town of Terlingua, Texas, near the Mexico border, is a former cinnabar-mining...
Jann Alexander
Apr 8, 20141 min read
On the Edge of Two Worlds
Mayan Messenger by Jann Alexander © 2012 You can climb to the top of a distant civilization in Tecoh, a tiny Yucatán town whose...
Jann Alexander
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...
Jann Alexander
Mar 23, 20141 min read
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...
Jann Alexander
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,...
Jann Alexander
Feb 2, 20141 min read
Snowed Under in Seco
Snowed Under in Seco by Jann Alexander © 2014 Beneath a blanket of snow in Arroyo Seco , there must be a story to go with a small and...
Jann Alexander
Jan 30, 20141 min read
Finding Wisdom Along the Mayan Path
Along the Mayan Path by Jann Alexander ©2014 “I came into this world with nothing, my experiences are only mine, and I will leave this...
Jann Alexander
Jan 27, 20141 min read
How Can We Overcome Barriers to Creativity?
We think of barriers quite literally, as physical obstacles in our paths. But barriers can be much more debilitating to our creativity...
Jann Alexander
Aug 29, 20131 min read
Terlingua Ghosts
Terlingua Ghosts by Jann Alexander © 2013 There’s a tiny speck of a town in Texas along the Mexico border that ensnares most visitors...
Jann Alexander
Aug 5, 20133 min read
I Wanted to Be a Nun. Here’s Why.
See more photographs and paintings from Mission Mexico HERE Shockingly, when I was 10, I wanted to be a nun. Perhaps that wasn’t so...
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