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. |
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| When people ask me for blogging advice, I say the most important thing is to make it sustainable. When i'm totally lacking in inspiration, I open up the fridge and snap a photo. In 30 years the consumer product design and implicit diet selection will be fascinating. Maybe.
Camera Talk The new Nikon D40 looks small, cute and well-designed. It's 6 megapixels and only $600. I'd still have to recommend the Canon Rebel XTi which is 10 megapixels, has dust removal and is nearly as small. It's $815 right now on Amazon. [I own the first generation Canon Digital Rebel. I'll probably wait another product release cycle before upgrading.] If you're looking for a small point and shoot, get the Canon SD800 IS. This camera has two features I really like. The first is image stabilization which is just all-around useful. The other is a wide angle lens. People have this phallic fascination with how long their zoom lens is but, umm, wider is better. It's easer to take group shots or interiors. The SD800 is currently $361. A cheaper option is the Canon SD600. It doesn't have the wide zoom or the image stabilization but it takes very good photos, it's a tad smaller and a lot cheaper--only $217. Flickr Camers is a page on what cameras their users use. This is a very cool page if you like data and excel. One thing that jumps out at me is that Flickr is really a digital SLR community. The top five are all Canon or Nikon dSLRs. Here's my flickr profile. I don't use Flickr so much since they annoyingly limit the number of slideshows non-paying users can create. They already limit the upload amounts for free users so restricting slide shows is just petty. Cute Photo: a Xolo dog wearing a lucha libre mask. |
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 | 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 I also have an old geocities page with some outdated information but also more photos of Buenos Aires, friends and my 9/11 pictures. |