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.

Christmas in Tahoe

Me at the top of Diamond Peak overlooking the north shore of Lake Tahoe. I was up in Tahoe over Christmas with my brother and his family for four days.

My brother, who also came skiing with me. Actually, he's a snowboarder now. I was surprised that skiers still seem to predominate at Incline--and not just fogeys like me. There were a lot of kids and adolescents on skis too.

The view from Diamond Peak is spectacular and the weather last Sunday was perfect. On one side you have panoramic views of the lake the whole way down and then at the top you can see into Reno and Carson City.

This is looking back at Diamond Peak the next day from Crystal Bay, where our cabin was.

Here's the living room of the cabin. It was small and rustic but very cozy with the fireplace. That's my nephew Oliver in the foreground

These are some posh cabins near ours. The houses are packed in quite densely and there's no fences marking property lines. With all the pines interspersed I can see how this would just light up in minutes during any sort of forest fire.

Our cabin was on the California side about 100m from the border with Nevada. There are a few casinos there but all are run-down and kitchsy. Here I'm posing in front of the fire place at the CalNeva Resort. The stateline runs right thru their fireplace.

And here's Will poking his finger into the ear of a faux terra cotta warrior, oddly and infrequently placed about as decoration.

The kitschyness extended to our cabin's decoration. This paining was up in my room. I guess it's titled "Bear Club". It's kind of like those paintings of dogs playing poker but with bears and they're on a speed boat.

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

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 I also have an old geocities page with some outdated information but also more photos of Buenos Aires, friends and my 9/11 pictures.