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
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
Iguazu Falls
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| With all my trips between Argentina and Brazil over the years, this was my 3rd time visiting Iguazu falls but I never get tired of them. |
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| The falls reflected in Vagner's sunglasses. With great reluctance he admitted that, perhaps, the Argentine side had some merit. |
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| If you can't afford the helicopter tour you can go inside the visitor center on the Brazilian side to see this model. |
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| Posto de gasolina somewhere in the state of Parana
It's a 15 hour bus ride from Sao Paulo to the border town of Foz de Iguacu. Half of that is thru rolling farmland of soy. It's beautiful for the first three or four hours. |
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| Tudo bem!
Sorry for the long blogging absence. I went to Brazil for two weeks and then it was Semana Santa here and my computer was inacesible. Since it might be awhile before I make it back to Brazil, I spent the whole time drinking cold beer and eating feijao, pao de queijo and most of all coxhinas. |
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| Everytime I come back to Sao Paulo the graffiti murals have totally changed over. This underpass which connects Avenida Paulista with Avenida Reboucas used to be painted with replicas of famous Brazilian paintings. Last year some gangs painted them over in white. For now the mural you see below graces the walls altho it's sure to change soon. |
Sifon Tripod
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| Sifones don't just carbonate your cheap wine, they can also serve as a tripod in a pinch [at Kentucky Pizzeria on Santa Fe & Juan B. Justo mas o menos].
Here's an over-the-shoulder shot: |
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| I'm going to Brazil until March 20th but I'm leaving my laptop here in Buenos Aires. That likely means fewer or no posts until I get back. Expect lots pictures of coxinhas, graffiti and go-go boys. |
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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. |