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.
Gay Pride 2007
I have this annual tradition of photographing a group of friends who dress up every year for Gay Pride in New York. This year I flew out there just for the occasion and, like last year, rented a couple of expensive lenses to document the whole thing. Above is the whole group posing just before embarking to crash the parade.
Jesse as Flaming Queen
Jesse, Cool Dan and and Rachel as Queens of the Jungle. Cool Dan had a broken foot so he "marched" this year's parade in a wheel chair.
From the lefth: Shaniabear as Trashy Queen, Michael as Anita Seatbelt - aka Lady Die, Sexy Dan as the Queen of Pop, Jesse as Flaming Queen and Bam Bam as Queen Bee
Javier as Queen of the Damned gets his hair done by Harrison
Anita Seatbelt - the Would-be Queen
Shaniabear as Trashy Queen
Cool Dan and Rachel as Queens of the Jungle. They're like some crazy mix of Tarzan, Kiss and Captain & Tenille. View More Photos on Flickr
I put up nearly 100 photos from the parade. Derek, the groups Videographer, has put up a YouTube Page of Queen Clips.Also, please check out Jesse's amazing Blog, Jesse on the Brink.
This is the fourth year I've documented the group's antics. See also: 2003, 2004 and 2006
Bronze model of Yosemite Valley & Half Dome with the real Half Dome out of focus in the background
Me & Mom at Glaciar Point
Tourists at Glaciar Point
Tea Room at the Awahnee
The Oleander in the San Joaquin Valley is in full bloom. There are still a few streches of 99 where it hasn't been ripped out to make room for more lanes.
Dinuba Car Show
Dinuba, the small town in the San Joaquin Valley where my mom grew up, where my aunt still lives, and where I spent this last weekend was host to their 15th annual car show. The normally moribund downtown was abuzz with activity and Mom commented that it felt a little like her high school years when the kids would drag main on Fridays in a '56 Bel Air slightly less pimped out than the one pictured above.
A grassy ridge at Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve on a hot, late spring afternoon.
On the way down Page Mill Rd. my friend Michael dangled his arm over the side of the car and took this while we went around a curve. This picture has a certain stock-photography quality to it. Let me know if you want to license it.
Brunch at the St. Regis in San Francisco and the view from a suite on the 10th floor, both courtesey of my friend Steven who was visiting this weekend from New York. Flickr: Empujando un bocho
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.