Hi, I'm Mike Baker, and this  is my website.
	is my trading name as a Digital photographer, but also as a Freelance TV Lighting Director and trainer.
...not the old radio cabinet material, which is incidentally, spelt Bakelite, although I remember it well!
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! Yes, photographs, many of them, thousands in fact. 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.
Digital Photography	takes you to a page giving more details of my client base.
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, Scotland, 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 Panoramic pictures and photos are also a particular interest of mine. I can print your own panoramas to order.   Club Stuff shows some of my pictures that have done quite well in the Vale Photographic Club.  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', Caroline's Graduation Ceremony, The big bike ride, cycle Wales 2004, home and garden and the Baker 'dynasty'. 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.
Site Map	in case you get lost. (not always up to date!)
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 will try to keep this area updated. They are short cuts to the pages listed in the 'Banner.' Newest pages at the top.
	Our main holiday this 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.
	Early July 2011 and its my first photographic trip up Snowdon. Erm, guess who forgot to take his 'proper' camera? My I phone was pressed into use.
	June 22nd saw us taking a two hour drive into England to meet up with a tour of three English gardens under the organisational banner of Border Lines. Jean, Carol, Jo and I arrived at the meeting point on time and raring to go!
	June 9th is my birthday. The sun shone brightly so my friend Ed and I took the road to Gower peninsula with our cameras for a 'boys' day out.
	In April we had a weeks holiday in Cyprus
	In  early February, we drove north to Llandudno for a few days. Whilst there, Jean took me to the Aber Falls which are only a few miles from the flat. They had been swelled by rain and were a splendid culmination to the walk from the car park. Tim and Jill were our walking companions.
	Middle of January, a nice day and its time to stretch my legs for a trip up Pen y Fan. First time this year.
	Coming soon, how I worked on Christmas Day morning on what was for me, an exciting and rewarding experience: lighting Tewkesbury Abbey for a live BBC 1 transmission.
	The big freeze continues. Now December 18th and an overnight dump of snow changes the scene yet again. Aberthin and Cowbridge; a few pics taken this very day.
	It has been cold, very cold for this time of year in South Wales. Down to minus 7 or 8 some nights. Not as cold as some places, I know, but it was cold enough for some spectacular hoar frost. Take a look.
	Three days in one of Italy's biggest and busiest cities (Milan) was just about enough for me; basically I guess I'm a country boy at heart. We flew from Bristol and were met in Bergamo by Francesca.

 

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