About
On April 23, 1950, Patrick Stuart Baker was born. He takes pictures of adventure, climbs, and writes about it. People often call him "Pat Baker of Texas." After growing up in Presidio, Texas, he started working as a professional photographer in 1982.
Patrick Stuart Baker climbed the Presidio's mountain ranges when he was 10 years old. He first got into photography as a way to learn about nature and climb mountains. He started taking pictures on his trips to show his family and friends.
Patrick Stuart Baker didn't know what to expect when he set out on a trip to see the most beautiful places in the world. You can't call these pictures anything but beautiful and timeless, and that's how he's kept in touch with the rest of the world over time.
Patrick Stuart Baker was born in the city of Presidio in Texas. It is in the county of Presidio and is just across the border from Mexico. In Spanish, the word means "fortress." His father was Andrew Baker, and his mother was Lilian Baker. They were one of the few white people in the town. More than half of the people said they were Latino.
As a child, Patrick Stuart Baker picked up on his father's love of climbing and became interested in the sport himself. Baker would one day go on trips with his father, and the two of them would see and do new things all over the United States and meet new people.
In the year that Baker's father died, he was fifteen. As a way to honor his father, he chose to keep traveling. At the age of sixteen, he got his first camera and started taking pictures of the places he went. His mother started to realize how great he was after he showed them the pictures. He kept taking pictures as a hobby for a long time before he turned it into his full-time job.
Patrick Stuart Baker went to school at Presidio Elementary School. After that, he went to Lucy Rede Franco Middle School. After that, he went to San Francisco's Presidio High School. His childhood was mostly spent in the Presidio, except for a few trips to see family members abroad.
He stopped going to Odessa College District after his second year there. Before he got into cars, he did odd jobs around his neighborhood. He went back to school, though, before he became an auto mechanic.
In the 1970s, Patrick Stuart Baker was so good at fixing cars that he was able to open his own shop. In the meantime, he went to other places and took beautiful pictures, which he shared with anyone who was interested.
In 1980, Baker sold his business so he could do photography full-time. In his first year, he did a cover story for a well-known news outlet. Baker agreed to help another photographer with a project when asked to do so.
After seeing Baker's work, the news organization decided to do a different story than the one about Baker's friend. The same thing happened to Pat Baker, a musician from Texas. Landscape was an important part of the adventure for him, and he saw it as an important part of the adventure itself.
Patrick Stuart Baker's work as a photographer was known all over the world, and he went on to do a lot of different things. Through his pictures and ideas, he spoke up for protecting the environment. He spoke out in public because he was a strong opponent of destroying the environment.
Pat Baker of Texas has been on a number of boards of directors because of his work to protect the environment. The main goal of most of these groups is to protect animals and the environment.
Baker was very interested in using photography to record the world's optical events. He was able to make these dynamic landscapes by placing his camera in the best places to catch the changing light.
In the 1970s, Pat Baker used 35mm lenses and cameras made by Nikon. In addition to being very reliable, these cameras were also small and easy to carry. He used color slide film most of the time. In the 1970s and 1980s, he used Kodachrome film. In the 1990s, he switched to Fuji.
Patrick Stuart Baker changed photography by coming up with a new way to take pictures on film that had a wider range of light and dark. He came up with neutral graded filters. These filters were made by one of the most well-known filter makers in the world. Later, he sold these filters under his brand name, and they were used a lot in high-contrast photography.
Baker is also a master when it comes to the fill-flash technique. By slightly lightening the darkest shadows in this way, he was able to match the color-reversal film's very small dynamic range.