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.

Oscar Niemeyer's Niteroi Museum (see also 2005.03.31). The museum is often compared to a flying saucer. In fact, astute observers will have already noticed the small craft in the upper right-hand corner coming in for a landing on the mother ship.

I didn't feel like lugging my SLR around Rio's notoriously dangerous streets so this photo and the ones below were taken with a $3 disposable camera. I was actually in Rio a month ago but I just got these developed now.

Thumbs up for Jesus on Corcovado.

The view from Corcovado of Ipanema, Leblon and Lagoa. The statue is buzzed four times a minute by helicopters but just being up there is almost like being on a helicopter ride, so dramatic is the view.

Garoto de Ipanema. This guy and a friend were selling henna tatoos. They asked if they could drop their books next to our seats while they went swimming. I asked only for a photo in return.

Sheltering from the Evil Sun at Praia Lopes Mendes on Ilha Grande. 30 minutes without reapplying my 45 sunblock after a swim and I went from the whitest boy on the beach to the pinkest.

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Thursday, April 27, 2006

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 I also have an old geocities page with some outdated information but also more photos of Buenos Aires, friends and my 9/11 pictures.