09.10.10 - Clare [SENIORS '11] Maryland

So with less than a week before moving 500 miles south west from New York to Indiana, I decided it'd be a brilliant idea to drive 300 miles south EAST to Maryland.

Makes a lot of sense huh? I was actually driving out there to shoot a wedding that I had booked earlier in the year not knowing that the time frame would be so close to moving since the move came VERY quickly.
(Wedding will be blogged next week)

Clare contacted me about doing her senior portraits during the summer. She was actually living and working about 20 mins from where I lived in New York on Lake Chautauqua most of the summer but again, driving 300 miles to do photoshoots just seems a lot more logical than driving 20 mins :)

Anyway Clare did an excellent job as you can see from these pics! Clare it was a blast working with you!

JIM baker

09.09.2010 - Colin [SENIORS '11] Youngsville, PA

Colin was one of the students in the youth group I used to pastor. I was able to shoot him the morning before I left for Maryland to do a couple of gigs. Here's a couple of my favorites.

JIM baker

09.07.10 - finally getting caught up [indiana]

Colin [Youngsville Seniors '11 - Pennsylvania]

Clare [South River Seniors '11 - Maryland]

Joanna and Gordon Calvert [Wedding Elkridge, Maryland]

The Stanton Family [Russell, Pennsylvania]

The VanHouten siblings [Youngsville, Pennsylvania]

Hey everyone! So Jess and I are in Indiana, we're moved in, but not quite unpacked. We're having an awesome time. I'm finally getting some time to process some of the pictures that I took right before I left so here's a sneak peak! Full blog posts coming soon.

JIM baker

p.s the new header is a pic of my chicken friends :)

08.26.10 - Vanessa's Senior Portraits

I had the awesome opportunity to shoot Vanessa 2 weeks ago. She did an excellent job! Here's a few of my favs!

JIM baker

08.23.10 - BIG NEWS [summer update 2010]

08.10.10 - PAINTING

taken at a Darrell Hill painting seminar in Hawaii

After 6 months of trying to choose paint colors for the apartment, we pulled the trigger and went and bought paint. (For the living room at least) Luckily there was a lady there at Lowes also buying paint that gave us some tips. I had no clue there was so many choices. Different paint finishes, different types of paints, different types of tools to apply the paint.

We ended up buying foam rollers which are much smaller than your typical roller but everyone said they were quite nice. Jess and I had never seen them before, I think they are intended to use on doors and cabinets, we'll let you know how it goes. We also got a rolling edger since we have a lot of molding in our house and Melissa Stanton said we should get one. She's pretty much the local expert on painting right now since they just bought a house and a redoing it all.

We had a small trim edger in our hands but the lady that worked there said that she had one and threw it away and recommended us a small brush. We got a corner brush too. It was really nice to get real help in a store.

We bought Valspar Hi-def paint. It's a paint that you don't have to use a primer with. We also bought matte finish, because the lady that was there buying paint asked us if we had a lot of flaws in our walls. We answered with an emphatic yes. She said glossy paints show the walls flaws more. So we bought the flat matte.

Here's a pic of how things are looking before the paint

We'll keep you updated
JIM baker

08.03.10 - Burdick Engagement Pics

Last week Jess and I went up to Presque Isle with Sarah and RC. It was our first time up there and we took some shots of this awesome couple who's getting married next year! Congrats!

JIM baker

08.02.10 - MONDAY! [new layout]

Monday! New week, new month, new LAYOUT. I like August because I get to park on the side of the street nearest to my house haha. Anyway, I feel super behind on blogging, things have been busy but thats a good thing.

I shot and edited my first video this past week with the 5dm2, I enjoyed it and learned a lot too. There's going to be some more video projects coming up soon.

I'm processing print orders for people and I feel like I've been shooting a lot more for people than usual. I'm shooting a wedding in Maryland at the end of this month and I'm starting talks with a designer so I can get some advertising stuff up and running.

Ordered two float wraps for our house. We're still in the process of making our house feel like a home.

Here's the two that we ordered.

obviously won't have the watermark... but this one will be 15x30" on metalic paper and will be hung in our "dining room"

and this one will be 16x24" also on metallic paper and will go in our kitchen.

cheers
JIM baker

07.27.10 - Maier Family Shoot

Last week I did family portraits for Pastor J and his family. We went to Betts park and here's what we got!

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07.24.10 - Leman/Eloge Wedding

On July 3rd I had the privilege to second shoot Josh and Hannah's beautiful wedding. The main photographer was Pranee Loffer a friend of mine who was in my photo school in 2008. You can see the complete collection in three parts on her blog.
[part 1] [part2] [part 3]

Here's just a few of my favorite shots from the day.

Congrats to Josh and Hannah!

JIM baker

07.21.10 - the rest of the trip

Ashlynn Mary Koenig - 1 month

So we left Memphis and headed straight to Atlanta to visit Jess' sister, her husband and their brand new baby girl! This was Aunt Jess' second time seeing her brand new niece but my first. She's ADORABLE!

Then we headed over to Hilton Head to visit my parents. My sister Jeannie was also visiting with her daughter, we grabbed lunchand hit the road to Ft Lauderdale FL. We listened to a time share presentation so that we could get our "free cruise" and boarded the boat to the Bahamas with my parents.

our cruise ship was called the "Bahamas Celebration"

We went on a snorkel tour in the Bahamas and Jess took this EPIC pic with the G11 and the wp-dc34 underwater casing. I was trying my best not to drown. I wish I still had the snorkel I bought in Hawaii, it actually WORKED. It started storming just as we left the dock in our boat, and by the time we got out to the reef it cleared up but the water was still choppy. My mask was leaking so I was just having a hard time doing anything. I handed the camera to Jess and she got some great pics.

The cruise was fine, being in Grand Bahama for such a short period of time was strange. I would have liked to see a bit more of the island before we had to get on the boat.

After we docked back in Ft Lauderdale, we drove back to Hilton Head. Then I headed to my oldest sister Jennifer's house in Candler, NC. There I got to spend some time with my sister and my 2 neices and nephew.

Sammie, Scott and Eryka

my oldest sister Jennifer.

So all in all 2 weeks, 4000+/- miles through 13 states, 2 countries, using 2 cars, and a ship. And great times with family and friends.

JIM baker