Thomas Locke Hobbs

Hi! Thanks for visiting. I'm an American photographer living in Buenos Aires. These are photos from the blog I kept on my site from 2003 to 2009. I now have redesigned the home page to just show a portfolio of my current work. I also blog at BuenosAiresPhotographer.com where I post my baires snapshots.

Cosas de Bs.As.

Pictures of some random, "typical" things of Buenos Aires that have caught my eye of late:

El Frutero de la Esquina

Cartel del Inmobilario

All the apartments and buildings for sale have these wedge shaped signs advertising their status. These days, as the economy has gotten better, a lot of them say "vendido" (sold). I don´t know why this building has four signs hanging off it.

Persianas

All the windows here have these exterior blinds (persianas) which roll down and form a nearly light-tight seal--a very useful thing when you come back from the disco at 10am and need to sleep until 4pm.

Cobble Stones

Lots of the streets here in Palermo Viejo still have the original cobble stones. In addition to being charming to look at, they slow down cars to a safe speed. In Manhattan the few remaining cobble stone streets are almost like landmarks. I have only a passing familiarity with the outer neighborhoods in Buenos Aires, but I wouldn`t be surprised if half the residential streets here still had cobble stones.

Medialunas

They call croissants "medialunas" or half-moons. Yummy!

Thursday, March 10, 2005

Hi. I'm a 33 year-old American currently living in Buenos Aires. Before that I lived in California, Sao Paulo and New York and if you browse through the archives below you can see photos of all those places. Currently I'm posting most of my pictures on BuenosAiresPhotographer.com. I also have an old geocities page with some outdated information but also more photos of Buenos Aires, friends and my 9/11 pictures.