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Light Between the Lines by Jann Alexander © 2014 When I’m out with my camera and determined to make a photograph, I’m looking for light...

Alone Along the Highway by Jann Alexander ©2014 Lost: Johnny A. Lucero. Found: A roadside grave along the highway, New Mexico. Not...

Serendipity at the Lobster Shack by Jann Alexander © 2014 “It’s a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you...

Room with a View by Jann Alexander © 2014 Is is not every writer’s dream to have a room with a view? A room just for writing needs not...

Patience on the Pier by Jann Alexander © 2014.jpg “The greatest art is to sit, and wait, and let it come.” —Yogi Bhajan She was still,...

In Panama City Beach, Florida, clouds find harmony with the setting sun’s palette in a daily dance that twists from sea to sky.  ♣ A few...

A Twist on Fall Color by Jann Alexander © 2014 “The gift of an image is that it provides a place to watch your soul.” —JAMES HILLMAN...

Open by Jann Alexander © 2012 “Art is everywhere: in nature, in architecture, in literature, and more. It’s anywhere we see beauty and...

You’re in a car and on the move,  itching to shoot what’s flashing by, but there’s a window and 75 mph between you and your...

Pearls Before Lobster by Jann Alexander © 2014 By Jann Alexander How one thing leads to another. Live and Cooked ©2014 I followed the...

Letters from Genesee by Jann Alexander © 2012 By Jann Alexander Letters from Genesee’s Past: It’s not often you score three times in...

When it’s ready to throw up its March bloom, the Spanish Dagger’s magnificent flower always comes out on top. The thick-leaf yucca...

A Pot of Gold in the Badlands by Jann Alexander © 2012 As if the Badlands in South Dakota aren’t breathtaking enough, a rainbow...

Are you possessed by color? For artist Paul Klee, the attraction to color and light was a turning point in his career. On his 1914 visit...

Terlingua Ghosts by Jann Alexander © 2012 The small town of Terlingua, Texas, near the Mexico border, is a former cinnabar-mining...

Mayan Messenger by Jann Alexander © 2012  You can climb to the top of a distant civilization in Tecoh, a tiny Yucatán town whose...

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

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...

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

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