Mike Baird Biography - Photographer

Mike Baird: BairdPhotos.com

See Mike Baird's work in this Photo Gallery of California Seabirds.

Mike Baird is a very 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 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" (eysu.org).

As a volunteer docent for CA State Parks since 2001, he has specialized in nature and wildlife photography all along the California Central Coast. 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 photography, including long-focal-length telephotography, and optimization of imagery using post-processing environments such as Adobe Creative Suite and Photoshop CS3, etc.

Howto.dchoc.org contains Mike’s online version of his Lulu booklet 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 BairdPhotos.com