Author Archives: Jim Baker

01.10.10 – MY NEW CAMERA IS HERE!!!

first pic with the 5dm2 and EF 24-105 f4 L IS USM -taken on jan 8 2010 in Jamestown NY first pic with the 20d and EF 28-105 f3.5-4.5 II USM – taken on feb 2 2006 in Columbia MD. Quite the contrast… 4 years ago no wedding ring, no beautiful wife, and the pic […]

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01.07.10 – accumulation

shot with the canon g11 edited in imovie hd Tuesday was our day off and I spent it making this video, all shot from the warmth of my home. I’ve had plenty of days off but this was the first one that felt like a “real day off.” Jamestown NY is starting to feel like […]

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01.04.10 – out with the old and in with the new

Kailua Kona Hawaii 2008 – School of Photography It’s been a week without a dslr and well, enough is enough. So today I ordered my new camera. I bought the Canon EOS5d Mark II with the 24-105 f4 L lens. I’m pumped to have pro gear to go to Africa which happens to be a […]

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01.01.10 – happy new year

NYE @ camp mission meadows 2009Jess and I brought in the new year with over one hundred kids grades 7-12 from six different churches at Camp Mission Meadows. Andy Frudd from Bemus Point Methodist brought an awesome message about allowing God to unload our backpacks full of junk and start the new year fresh. I […]

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12.31.09 – how to change your blog layout

A screen shot of what the old layout looked like…(yes its off center, thats what happenes when the picture is to big for your layout) A few people have asked how I changed my layout so here’s what I did. Pranne Loffer gave me this link this past summer after I asked her the same […]

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12.30.09 – just come home

I saw this video on Perry Noble’s blog which was recommended to me by Justin Joyner at starbucks yesterday. I went up to The Flip Side last night in Bemus to lead worship for the Camp Mission Meadows Staff Reunion. Their theme for the summer was “Now What?!” And 4 months after camp is over […]

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12.29.09 – Robert Park… wow he did it.

taken at a Korean-American young adult missions conference 2007 If you don’t know what I’m talking about… the article is here. But basically Robert Park a 28 year old Korean America went into North Korea and was detained. “He did this to bring awareness to the situation in North Korea, alert the churches around the […]

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12.28.09 – provision

jamestown audubon 2008 Matt 6:26 – Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Mark 8:14-21 read it in context here.14The disciples had forgotten to bring bread, except for one […]

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12.28.09 – what the blog?!

a gift from my mother-in-law. it has a ball in it that lights up too. Gary S Chapman tweeted recently a quote that he read in Collide Magazine. “Use social media because you have something to say, not because you want to be heard.” When I met with Stanley Leary this past summer and we […]

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12.27.09 – trusty and FAITHFUL

Canon 20d with EF-S 10-22mm f3.5-4.5 USM EF-S 60mm f2.8 USM and EF 70-200 f4 usm I woke up to an e-mail Christmas eve saying that someone wanted to buy my photography equipment. An amazing gift because now I can upgrade to PRO gear before I go to Africa in one month. But I wanted […]

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