This summer I photographed the DC Youth Orchestra Program for Bittersweet Zine and was delighted when DCYOP hired me to take some additional portraits of their students for their brochures and marketing materials. I spent a few hours with them during their classes and rehearsals and so enjoyed getting to know their wonderful faculty and students. I was also impressed at how beautiful they sounded playing Christmas music – and at such young …
In Spring 2013, Erica and I were contributors to the Bittersweet Zine on the topic of Teen Pregnancy. We had the privilege of highlighting a few organizations for the Zine who are working with vulnerable children and making strides toward breaking cycles and addressing needs. One organization, The DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative (DCPNI) asked if we could make a commemorative video for an elementary school closing down in the community of …
In 2012/2013 Brandon Bray and I created a short documentary called “Let Us Begin.” The film chronicles the recalibration of the Porter family, after their lives are interrupted by Debbie Porter’s diagnosis with Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) on May 18, 2009. At this time, there is no known cure for ALS, and while life expectancy of an ALS patient averages about two to five years from the time of diagnosis, those …
On my dear friend Sarah’s birthday we decided to have a little picnic at Gravelly Point Park. This park is amazing for quite a few reasons: 1. It is a wide open space along the Potomac River 2. It has a wonderful view of the monuments 3. It is right next to DCA airport. Do you see the plane coming into land in the photo above? It is incredible to sit …
In May 2013 I had the privilege of working with an up-and-coming coffee company called Redeeming Grounds. RG’s first coffee project is based in Colombia where farmers in a guerrilla zone cut down their coca (cocaine) fields and began growing coffee. This promo shares part of their story. Read more about RG’s mission at http://www.redeeminggrounds.com/. Produced by Dave Baker & Tyler Lund Directed by Dave Baker Edited by Tyler Lund …
Dave and I are doing some shifting of our urls this month…One of these days we will figure out exactly how we want to use our websites! We have decided to use Baker Stories as a place to chronicle our personal stories and blog about our life. This site will also include our blog posts from my photography business and projects we are working on. So, if for some reason …