Mike Baker's Lighting and Digital Photography Home page

that's me,

Freelance TV Lighting Director and Trainer

Digital photographer [AFIAP]

Last updated June 10th 2013

Hi, I'm Mike Baker, and this is my website. Bakerlite is my trading name as a Digital photographer, but also as a Freelance TV Lighting Director and trainer.

My web site is largely a photographic record of where I live and some of the places that I have been. It has got rather large, now exceeding 500 pages! I recognise that it also needs a facelift: maybe later this year.

I live in Aberthin near Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan which is near Cardiff in South Wales, in the U.K.

My photographs of Wales are subdivided into four areas: West, Mid , South and North.

Below, underlined in red, are the main areas on my Web site:

TV Lighting and Training

Here you will find my C.V., career history, details of my involvement in TV lighting training as well as illustrated articles of assignments abroad that I have written for the Society of Television Lighting Directors quarterly journal. You can also see some Helium Balloons in action.

Photo Gallery

This is the backbone of the site, in that there are a growing number of galleries (and countries) that cover some aspects of my life long interest in photography.

England, Wales, Ireland, Australia, Chile, Turkey, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Barcelona, Boston, North America, New England, New York, Italy, Canada, Romania, Poland, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Jordan Taipei and Syria feature with many sub categories below them. (Most images are 'clickable' to get a larger image. Then use 'back' on your browser to return to the page.) There's also my recollections of the Swinging 60's and my work at BBC Bush House

Concorde at Cardiff and her last flight into Filton are also here.

Family and Home

...is self explanatory. Within this area, you can check out 'Through the Barbed Wire', The big bike ride, cycle Wales 2004, My place of birth and youth: Colne, Cottontree, Trawden and Wycoller feature here.

Links

...are also self explanatory. There are also feedback pages where comments, good and bad are there for all to see.

Contact Me

Takes you to my contact page

For occasional visitors to my site, below is a list of recently added pages. Older pages (previous years) have been filed elsewhere to keep the size of this page reasonable.

This should help you know what's new without having to trawl through everything.

I always try to keep this area updated. They are short cuts to the pages listed in the 'Banner.' Newest pages at the top.

Mid May 2013 saw me attending Showlight in the Czech republic at a place called Cesky Krumlov.

Easter was spent in North Wales as we often choose to do. Graeme and Francesca came over from Milan to join us.

Mid January and its time for my first ascent of Pen y Fan this year.

We have just returned from an amazing holiday in Peru. Take a look.

Fairford Air Display in Gloucestershire is an annual event, but this was my first visit. leaving home at 0450 to get there before the crowds was challenging, but we made it. the pictures of the day can be seen here.

Our main holiday last year was to somewhere called 'Australia.
'The trip ticked all the boxes including one box marked: 'Its a very long way.'

We broke the outward journey in a Colonial outpost called Singapore. On our return, we stopped in Hong Kong.

A 10 day working visit to the capital of Taiwan, Taipei

My brief was to do some lighting training for PTS Television.

For occasional visitors to my site, below is a list of recently added pages. Older pages (previous years) have been filed elsewhere to keep the size of this page reasonable. This should help you know what's new without having to trawl through everything. I always try to keep this area updated. They are short cuts to the pages listed in the 'Banner.' Newest pages at the top.

	Mid May 2013 saw me attending Showlight in the Czech republic at a place called Cesky Krumlov.
	Easter was spent in North Wales as we often choose to do. Graeme and Francesca came over from Milan to join us.
	Mid January and its time for my first ascent of Pen y Fan this year.
	We have just returned from an amazing holiday in Peru. Take a look.
	Fairford Air Display in Gloucestershire is an annual event, but this was my first visit. leaving home at 0450 to get there before the crowds was challenging, but we made it. the pictures of the day can be seen here.
	Our main holiday last year was to somewhere called 'Australia. 'The trip ticked all the boxes including one box marked: 'Its a very long way.'
	We broke the outward journey in a Colonial outpost called Singapore. On our return, we stopped in Hong Kong.
	A 10 day working visit to the capital of Taiwan, Taipei My brief was to do some lighting training for PTS Television.