(as provided to, and published by, about.com in 2007)
Mike Baird is a serious amateur photographer, and a retired Silicon Valley Internet entrepreneur, now living in Morro Bay on the Central Coast of California, where he edits the community service site http://morro-bay.com.
Mike has a PhD in Computer Science, and an MBA, and was the first VP of Engineering of the successful $7 billion ask.com start-up, and is author of the 15-year best-selling entrepreneurship book entitled "Engineering Your Start-up: A Guide for the High-Tech Entrepreneur" (http://eysu.org).
As a volunteer docent for CA State Parks since 2001, he has specialized in nature and wildlife and surf photography along the California Central Coast. http://BairdPhotos.com is his gateway to over a dozen of his various photo-related sites.
Mike is a Canon equipment enthusiast, and specializes in mastering technical aspects of nature and surf photography, including long-focal-length telephotography, and optimization of imagery using post-processing environments such as Adobe Creative Suite and Photoshop CS3, etc.
http://Howto.dchoc.org contains Mike’s online version of his Lulu booklet http://LuLu.com/mikebaird entitled San Luis Obispo County California Nature Photographers -- Their Works and Techniques: Interviews with local nature photographers about how they take such great photos.
See more of Mike's work at http://BairdPhotos.com
Alternative version for Click-Click 2007 promo and as evolved...:
Mike Baird (bairdphotos.com) is an avid amateur photographer, specializing in nature, wildlife, and surf photography along the California Central Coast. He works as a State Park Docent, leading nature walks and helping the docent organization with his knowledge of the Internet, computers, and photography. Mike was the engineering vice-president at ask.com, and is the author of a 15-year best-selling entrepreneurship book entitled Engineering Your Start-up: A Guide for the High-Tech Entrepreneur (eysu.org).
Artist's statement: “I like photography because when you look at a recorded image you see more than what the naked eye yields.”
My
personal philosophy:
“A photo taken but not shared might just as well not have
ever been taken in the first place.”
"Make your
photos public, because, for most of us, all we leave behind after we die will be
the bits that we create on the Internet that do not expire when we do."