The Man Chair

A Photo from the grand opening of Charity's closet in Savage Mill, MD

Jess and I were on a walk the other day and stopped by a small boutique called LMS Boutique here in quaint Manoa, Hawaii.

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

06.09.10 - Alex [Maryland Seniors 2011]

I actually taught Alex guitar lessons when she was in middle school. She's been a fan of my photography for a while. She even interviewed me for her photography class! Way before she was a senior, she told me she wanted me to shoot her senior portraits. Well the time has come and I was glad to. She did an AWESOME job.

Upgraded to Lightroom 3 and am very happy with some of the new features. Watermarking being one of them. I'm getting some logos designed up currently I'll let you know how that goes.

If you're interested in working with me for your senior portraits contact me! jimjessbaker (a) gmail (.) com

JIM baker

06.03.10 - back from MD

Check out the video of Jess eating her first maryland crab :) Sharon was an awesome instructor. Sorry for the crappy quality, when I uploaded it to blogger, blogger compressed the heck out of it.

Here's a highlight recap of our time in Maryland. (Kinda a long post) Click on the links if you want and LEAVE COMMENTS! I LOVE COMMENTS! If you've having problems leaving comments, let me know via facebook or e-mail.

Saturday night, Jess and I went to Phillips Restaurant at the Baltimore Inner Harbor. We went with some friends we were doing a senior portrait shoot for. I tweeted something like "showing Jess real seafood" and got some flack for it on facebook from a couple Marylanders. My parents don't like seafood so I didn't grow up eating it, so I didn't know any better. My friends didn't like the fact that I called it "real seafood" when its a chain. Honestly it was the BEST crab cake I've ever eaten. And it seemed a lot more authentic and fresh then anything I can get here in Jamestown NY :)

Hopefully we redeemed ourselves by having Jess eat a crab from Bo Brooks. We were hanging out with the Hidey's and Sharon insisted that Jess had to try a crab to fulfill her Maryland experience.

We got back from Maryland yesterday. I'm not going to lie, it was hard to leave. It's strange, I never used to look forward to going back to Maryland, but this time I was REALLY excited to get back, and when it came time to leave I didn't want to.

It was a full week. I feel like I really need at LEAST a week and a half when I go and visit, but I was very grateful for having a complete week. I wish I had some pictures to show you but I don't. I need to start 365ing again. Maybe I'll start this summer. Oh here's a pic I can show you :) Its me and the fam!

from front to back, me, jess, my mom, jeannie (my sister), my dad, lindsey (my neice) and Stephen (my nephew)

My float wraps came, and I'm really happy with the way they turned out! They were put on the wall in our church lobby today! Thanks to Holly Aipolani for taking the pic with my iphone.


I had the float wraps sent to MD so I could share with some people what God has been doing in our lives over the past 9 months. I really truly feel SENT here from Maryland, with an awesome team of people back "home" that are very supportive and encouraging.

It was also great to catch up with a lot of people that I haven't seen in sometime. Its crazy how fast time flies.

I enjoyed driving around Maryland. I got horrible gas mileage (city driving) but I felt like I was actually driving. Weird, some of the things you miss. Checking your blindspot, switching lanes, accelerating quickly.

I was going to keep listing things I liked about MD and things that I learned to appreciate in NY but I decided I won't do that. This has gotten long enough. :)

JIM baker