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.

The tallest building in the universe. It rises to infinity.

Actually, no...

The Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco.

Cool: Dubai in a Dust Storm.

New Canon Digital SLR. The 3rd generation [I have the first]. It's 10 megapixels but the biggest improvement is the self-cleaning sensor to get rid of dust. This is a big problem with Digital SLRs if you change lenses a lot. Dust gets on the sensor and can be very hard to remove.

The best review I've ever read on Amazon is the first one for the Canon 50mm f1.4. There's no way to link to the review directly so scroll down to the one by "Careful Critic". It's the first one. 400 out of 403 people found it useful [make that 401!] so I suppose it's pole-position will remain. In the review he lucidly explains why you'd want to spend $320 for the lens as opposed to a mere $70 for the "nearly identical" 50mm f1.8 lens [it has something to do with "buttery smooth" bokeh]. It's a bit technical but still a gem of clarity. FYI, bokeh is the a Japanese word for "blurry background" [I guess if they make the cameras they can invent the words]. I use the cheaper lens. I suppose this makes my portraits' "bokeh" have more of a "margarine" smooth quality.

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 I also have an old geocities page with some outdated information but also more photos of Buenos Aires, friends and my 9/11 pictures.