Bakerlite - that's me,

Freelance TV Lighting Director and Trainer, Digital photography

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!

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

Wales is subdivided into four areas: West, Mid , South and North.

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

...last updated on August 26th 2008.......

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, Chile, Turkey, Cyprus, France, Germany, Barcelona, Boston, North America, New England, New York, Italy, Canada, Rumania, Poland, China 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.

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

Rhyader is pretty close to what I would call the centre of Wales. It's also a pretty place in its own right with a strong character and some excellent scenery all around. It is also known as the home of the Welsh Red Kite feeding centre that was just a short distance from our chosen accommodation.
And, then there's the Elan Valley...

Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes is, or was, one of Britain's best kept secrets. 9000 people worked around the clock throughout most of World War 2 breaking codes used by the Germans.

Coton Manor is a beautiful 17th Century Manor house set in 10 acres of gardens. It is built of mellow Northamptonshire stone and set on a hillside. It's gorgeous!

Mid July and Jean and I took a short break in deepest Pembrokeshire. The National Trust's splendid Llanerchareon was on our hit list.

Mid June and I am off to Istanbul on a short, working trip.
I did manage to get a few more non work pics of this amazing city though. Surprise, surprise.

June 9th, and it's a day trip to the superb beaches of Gower.

The first day of June saw us in the Kenfig national nature reserve.
'It is one of the finest Wildlife habitats in Wales and one of the last remnants of a huge dune system that once stretched along the coast of Southern Wales from the River Ogmore to the Gower peninsula. The reserve is home to unique wild orchids, as well as insects and wildlife.'

Only two weeks after returning from China, I'm off to Las Vegas, once again on a work related trip. 'Work?' my friends exclaimed. Well, yes, it was. To attend N.A.B. a giant Television exhibition. That's the exhibition that's giant you understand.
But there was also time to take a few 'snaps.'

A short but intensively pictorial look at my farthest travels yet: China. I had a few days visiting Yuyao a large provincial town in the province of Zhejiang in south east China. Fascinating and very interesting, especially for a photographer.

A tale of two cities, Krakow and Warsaw.
We took a short trip to Poland in which we see a great deal of that country's history and its people.
We also visited Auschwitz, Birkenau and the 700 year old salt mines.

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For occasional visitors to my site, below is a list of recently added pages. Older pages 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 keep this area updated. They are short cuts to the pages listed in the 'Banner.' Newest pages at the top.
	Rhyader is pretty close to what I would call the centre of Wales. It's also a pretty place in its own right with a strong character and some excellent scenery all around. It is also known as the home of the Welsh Red Kite feeding centre that was just a short distance from our chosen accommodation. And, then there's the Elan Valley...
	Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes is, or was, one of Britain's best kept secrets. 9000 people worked around the clock throughout most of World War 2 breaking codes used by the Germans.
	Coton Manor is a beautiful 17th Century Manor house set in 10 acres of gardens. It is built of mellow Northamptonshire stone and set on a hillside. It's gorgeous!
	Mid July and Jean and I took a short break in deepest Pembrokeshire. The National Trust's splendid Llanerchareon was on our hit list.
	Mid June and I am off to Istanbul on a short, working trip. I did manage to get a few more non work pics of this amazing city though. Surprise, surprise.
	June 9th, and it's a day trip to the superb beaches of Gower.
	The first day of June saw us in the Kenfig national nature reserve. 'It is one of the finest Wildlife habitats in Wales and one of the last remnants of a huge dune system that once stretched along the coast of Southern Wales from the River Ogmore to the Gower peninsula. The reserve is home to unique wild orchids, as well as insects and wildlife.'
	Only two weeks after returning from China, I'm off to Las Vegas, once again on a work related trip. 'Work?' my friends exclaimed. Well, yes, it was. To attend N.A.B. a giant Television exhibition. That's the exhibition that's giant you understand. But there was also time to take a few 'snaps.'
	A short but intensively pictorial look at my farthest travels yet: China. I had a few days visiting Yuyao a large provincial town in the province of Zhejiang in south east China. Fascinating and very interesting, especially for a photographer.
	A tale of two cities, Krakow and Warsaw. We took a short trip to Poland in which we see a great deal of that country's history and its people. We also visited Auschwitz, Birkenau and the 700 year old salt mines.