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.

Exactly a week ago I saw the Giants beat Arizona in a fast and dramatic game in SF. Behind most of the game the Giants tied and then won in the bottom of the 9th with a home run by Moises Alou. This game came a day after the Giants had been mathematically eliminated from the playoffs so none of it meant very much. The first picture makes the park look huge because I took it with a wide angle but really it feels small, especially compared to Dodger Stadium, where I saw a game in August. Update: My thanks to Bob for helping me fix the color on the second photo.

Colliding with death at 37,000 Feet. This has got to be the strangest crash in the history of aviation. Two planes in, traveling in opposite directions, the collide in mid-air in the middle of the Amazon. One plane, a full 737, crashes killing all 155 aboard. The other, a corporate jet, survives and makes an emergency landing. The jet, it turns out, is carrying the New York Times Business Travel columnist who writes about the experience in the above link.

I remember flying over the Amazon last year. Smoke from the slash & burning obsured the landscape [but only down low] and gave it a blue cast, making it look like the ocean. The expanse is huge. That two planes could collide in such empty airspace boggles the mind.

Tuesday, October 03, 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 I also have an old geocities page with some outdated information but also more photos of Buenos Aires, friends and my 9/11 pictures.