What's Vanishing Next?

Not unlike the many landmarks that I photograph in my Vanishing Austin photography series, my Blogger blog is vanishing, too. But like lots of our luckier Austin icons, it's merely moving--to wordpress. Now you'll find it at VanishingAustin.wordpress.com where commentary (mine and yours) appears and Austin's iconic eye candy lives on in my photographs . . . and fans of Vanishing Austin (if that's not a contradiction in terms) will also appreciate my Facebook page, facebook.com/VanishingAustin, where all the latest news, events, images, fan comments plus invitations and special offers for fans appear.

The entire Vanishing Austin series, and purchasing options for signed, numbered, limited-editionVanishing Austin photographs and for the $35 Endangered Species of Austin poster are at my website, VanishingAustin.com, with many more of my photographs and paintings at AustinDetails.com

Hope to hear from you at wordpress and on facebook!

Here's a parting shot:

So Long from the Ladies at the Boatyard

Vanishing Austin / Boatyard Farewell (c) Jann Alexander 2010

Is Your Austin Vanishing?

Soon a bland corporate hotel chain revered the world over for its predictability will stand in place of this textural, colorfully cheeky block of individuality, replacing the contrasts of angles and styles and skies that exist now along Congress and 2nd. A corporate logo stamped on countless buildings will take the place of the gaudy vibrancy of Tesoros and the Joseph's mural and will cast its own lengthy shadows on the sparkling Frost Tower.

That's Austin, Vanishing.

What's next? Post your concerns for what's uniquely-Austin, yet poised for visual mediocrity--when you fear your favorite bit of Austin eye-candy is about to be overtaken by bland new development, comment here.

I've been photographing the visual derring-do that is Austin's homegrown architectural charm in my Vanishing Austin series since 2004. I've got 40 images to date, many juxtaposing the old against the new; and sadly, many more in the photography pipeline to go. Your thoughts about this series, and your suggestions for places you'd like to see honored in the series, are welcomed here.