http://bairdphotos.com/bio/
Michael "Mike" L. Baird Biography
(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 billionask.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
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