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.

Itaipu

The Parana River forms the border between Brazil and Paraguay before entering Argentina and meeting the ocean at Buenos Aires. Sao Paulo, despite being only 30km from the coast at Santos, is up on a plateau that tilts inland. The flowing cesspools of the Pinheiros and Tiete rivers empty into the Parana which is damed just north of Foz de Iguazu. Until the construction of the Three Gorges Dam in China it was the largest hydroelectric dam in the world. It's hard to get a sense of the scale but imagine a 60 story building up next to the dam. That's how tall it is.

Here's the Parana river with Foz in the background. The river was pretty low so that massive spillway, a 600-foot Mississippi-sized waterslide, wasn't open.

I like their logo. The green and yellow represents Brazil while the blue and red Paraguay. Tecnically the dam is run by a binational consortium but it seems like it's mostly Brazilians running the show. They use something like 80% of the electricity generated and the 20% that's left over essentially powers all of Paraguay's needs.

Monday, March 31, 2008

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 I also have an old geocities page with some outdated information but also more photos of Buenos Aires, friends and my 9/11 pictures.