...last updated on April 27th 2008.......China.......Poland......The Warlow walk.....Pen y Fan........Canada and the Olympic Peninsula..........A weeks ski-ing in Les Deux Alpes with the family.......half a day in Oxford.....A wee trip to Fife.......Caroline graduates from Imperial College......Caroline completes the London Triathlon in a good time.......Grand Canyon et al.........Nicosia 2006.......Dublin,Ireland.......Newport Pembrokeshire....Nicosia 2005.......New England.....Boston, Mass...Dyffryn Gardens......Newquay...........Barcelona...........Charles and Camilla visit the Vale of Glamorgan......

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.

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, 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

Coming soon: Las Vegas. A short working trip to Las Vegas, playground of the USA (and the rest!)

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.

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.

Mid February and the Jet stream has sent us some beautifully sunny weather. (about time too) Jean and I took a coach trip to deepest Gloucestershire to 'Snowdrop Lovers Heaven'.

The end of a wet January and I managed just one trip up our local mountain, Pen y Fan. There was a certain beauty in the detail of the hoar frost on the stones at the summit.
(The image on the left here has been accepted for display in the Welsh Photographic Salon for 2008.)

New Years Day and we try and burn off a few calories by taking one of Valeways circular walks starting from Wenvoe village.
It's a calm, dry and mild day. It's known as the Warlow walk.

December 20th when most people are thinking about shopping and presents and stuff like that. I opted out and climbed our local mountain: Pen y Fan. It was very cold but did result in a few 'snaps'.

The Liverpool Nativity, as broadcast by BBC 3 on December 16th 2007.
I was there, as part of a large BBC crew on a record breaking live drama outside broadcast. 300 actors and performers in front of camera, 150 behind the scenes.

Some rare colour pictures of BBC Bush House taken in 1961 can be seen here sent from Barry Warner in New Zealand.

October time and I usually find myself in England's beautiful Forest of Dean. Brockweir, to be precise where some TV location lighting training for the BBC is carried out by Bernie Davis and me.
We were recently christened the Mike and Bernie Show.

(That will only be appreciated by TV viewers of the 1970's I guess...)

Mid September and I was taking a few days walking 'ooop in t'Dales.' Ed (my son) and I stretched our legs around Kettlewell and Malham way.
It was like going back in time, in the nicest possible way. We stayed in B&B's and enjoyed pub meals and nice Northern Ale in the evenings.
We also spent some time in and around Colne taking a look at places remembered from my youth.

Early September 2007 saw us in the French department of Aveyron.
Easyjet took us from Bristol to Toulouse and a two hour drive took us into the Massif Central north of Albi.

During our week stay, we visited Millau to see, of course, that bridge. the worlds highest viaduct.

Bank holiday weekend 2007. Jean and I make an early start to climb Corn Du and Pen y Fan. Twice in one week...
Come and join us.

Delve further back in digital time travel by clicking on the buttons below...

	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.
		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.
		Mid February and the Jet stream has sent us some beautifully sunny weather. (about time too) Jean and I took a coach trip to deepest Gloucestershire to 'Snowdrop Lovers Heaven'.
		The end of a wet January and I managed just one trip up our local mountain, Pen y Fan. There was a certain beauty in the detail of the hoar frost on the stones at the summit. (The image on the left here has been accepted for display in the Welsh Photographic Salon for 2008.)
		New Years Day and we try and burn off a few calories by taking one of Valeways circular walks starting from Wenvoe village. It's a calm, dry and mild day. It's known as the Warlow walk.
		December 20th when most people are thinking about shopping and presents and stuff like that. I opted out and climbed our local mountain: Pen y Fan. It was very cold but did result in a few 'snaps'.
		The Liverpool Nativity, as broadcast by BBC 3 on December 16th 2007. I was there, as part of a large BBC crew on a record breaking live drama outside broadcast. 300 actors and performers in front of camera, 150 behind the scenes.
		Some rare colour pictures of BBC Bush House taken in 1961 can be seen here sent from Barry Warner in New Zealand.
		October time and I usually find myself in England's beautiful Forest of Dean. Brockweir, to be precise where some TV location lighting training for the BBC is carried out by Bernie Davis and me. We were recently christened the Mike and Bernie Show. (That will only be appreciated by TV viewers of the 1970's I guess...)
		Mid September and I was taking a few days walking 'ooop in t'Dales.' Ed (my son) and I stretched our legs around Kettlewell and Malham way. It was like going back in time, in the nicest possible way. We stayed in B&B's and enjoyed pub meals and nice Northern Ale in the evenings. We also spent some time in and around Colne taking a look at places remembered from my youth.
		Early September 2007 saw us in the French department of Aveyron. Easyjet took us from Bristol to Toulouse and a two hour drive took us into the Massif Central north of Albi. During our week stay, we visited Millau to see, of course, that bridge. the worlds highest viaduct.
		Bank holiday weekend 2007. Jean and I make an early start to climb Corn Du and Pen y Fan. Twice in one week... Come and join us.