Happy New Year!

01.01.08
I know this blog doesn't look any different than my previous photography blog but I just wanted a separate one for this upcoming season.

On thursday Jan 3rd I will be headed to Kona Hawaii to participate in an intensive 3 month photography course. (For more information click here.)

This school is run through YWAM (Youth with a Mission) which is an interdenominational Christian missions organization that was started in the 60's with the desire to see young people sent to the nations as missionaries. You might have heard about YWAM in the news recently with the shooting in Colorado, I was at that base in 2004 doing a school of worship, I did not know anyone involved. Here is an article that talks about the shooting and the organization.

I've been looking into this school ever since I started with YWAM in 2003. They only accept 16 people a year. Even though tomorrow will be my last day here in the continental US it still doesn't quite feel like a reality.

Along with updating this blog (how frequent I don't know, that will be based on how much free time I have) I will be sending out monthly e-mail updates. If you'd like to get those you can send me an e-mail to ywamjim@yahoo.com with "subscribe" in the title.

I've also committed to doing one self portrait a day for 2008 (it's a flickr thing) you can follow that here.

Here's to an awesome 2008.
jim baker

p.s if you leave a comment please leave your first and last name so I know who you are!

Saturday, January 19, 2008

01.19.08 - efs 60mm macro

I can't believe our school is already a quarter of the way over. I just woke up from a pretty long nap its 2pm here. It's our weekend again for kitchen duty so we all were up at 5am and served breakfast to around 400 people. We're going to be back in the kitchen again in an hour to serve dinner.

One of my classmates Johanna (pictured below) has the EF-S 60mm Macro lens and Sophia (another classmate) was borrowing it and doing some awesome portraits with. You can see Sophia's work here. So I decided I'd try it out as well, its a great focal length for portraits as well as macros so here's a little taste of both. I was looking at this lens before I left but I didn't end up going with it. I wish I would have... Anyway, onto the pics.

Johanna

red flower

Sophia

saltines

Jim Baker

3 comments:

bonnie said...

I LOVE these!

JStanford said...

sweet stuff!

said...

ahh! i love these pics! and i love johanna's hair!!!
hope your getting blessed in hawaii:)