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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| Me & Slab Man, a sculpture by Duane Hanson. [photo by my friend Robert] Hanson, who died in 1996, had this to say about his statues: People enjoy seeing a sort of reflection of their society. The human form is so close to all of us and we don't really get a chance to analyze it, to look at it because of taboos and staring at people...This sums up a lot of my own motivations for portrait taking. |
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| Rodin's The Age of Bronze at Stanford's Cantor Arts Center. There's also one at the Met in NYC, see 2004.12.12 for my picture.
Puppy or Chicken? |
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| This is a vacant supermarket in Sunnyvale. It used to be an Alpha Beta then a Lucky's. Now it's just empty. |
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| Another tear-down on my block. They leave up a token bit of the structure for either permit reasons or assessed property value. In this case, they left up the garage door. |
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| This dumpy apartment building in Mountain View belies the notion that northern California is nothing like LA. |
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| Some overpasses along the Stevens Creek Trail in Mountain view. I like how the vines explode out from the column once they reach the base of the overpass.
Car in Swimmingpool. It's David Hockney meets Canonball Run |
Grant Road Farm
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| Grant Road Farm in Mountain View on Grant Road & Levin Avenue. It's one of the last open plots left in Mountain View altho word is that it will soon be developed. It's 15 acres and worth something like $20 million. With all the rain last month the mustard plant is really blooming like crazy. |
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I'm finally getting around to ripping my thousand or so CDs [slowly]. I'd previously made half-attempts, picking off my favorite songs. This time I'm ripping every last one--the promos, the singles, the unfortunate purchases--all of it. There's an intellectual satisfaction of knowing my entire collection resides on a single hard drive [well, two counting the back-up]. I can't help but wonder if the whole excercise is a little pointless. In high school, for instance, I was obsessed with Pink Floyd. I still listen to Dark Side of the Moon every year or so, but Ummagumma? Atom Heart Mother? I don't think so. Second that for my many live versions of Grateful Dead's Dark Star.
Zunil, Guatemala Cemetery Zunil is a small village in the Guatemalan highlands near Quetzaltenango, where I spent three weeks at a Spanish school in 1997. The village possesses one of the most stunning cemeteries on the planet; simple graves of tile and stone painted in varying shades of white and pastel on a ridge overlooking a valley and in the shadow of a volcano. I was reminded of this over the weekend while looking at some oft-overlooked, pre-digital travel photos. A quick search on flickr reveals that I'm not the only struck by it's beauty and that they have an astounding Day of the Dead celebration there. I'm ready to book my ticket. |
Bodega Bay
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| A few pictures of some really rough seas on a rainy Sunday at Bodega Bay
LA Question: how come TV newscasters and the LA Times use the term "Southland" but no one ever says it in everyday speech? [ref: Greater Los Angeles Area on wikipedia] Oilfields in the middle of LA, well maybe Balwin Hills isn't quite middle. Still I'm fascinated that LA's biggest park is next to an oil field. Some really cool photos of the Millau Viaduct in France [the world's highest bridge]. When I was there last year I was all set to drive 200km from Toulouse just to see it but it was rainy and cloudy every one of the five days I was there.
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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. |