More About Robert W. Baker

My great-grandfather W. E. Perry was a professional photographer who taught me about photography.  Ansel Adams has always inspired me with his magnificent landscape photography.

I grew up in a small town in the flat lands of the Texas panhandle, where the state tree is a telephone pole.  At the age of 12, I remember watching the TV Series called "Sierra" which chronicled the lives of National Park Rangers in Yosemite National Park.  At the time, I did not know the name of the park, only that the place with the beautiful cascading waterfalls in a valley carved out of granite was somewhere in California.  From that point forward, I wanted to be a Park Ranger.  

I grew up near a National Park in Texas where I received my first start with the National Park Service as a lifeguard.  I obtained my  certification as Emergency Medical Technician and obtained training as a structural firefighter.  I attended a law enforcement academy in California in the mid 1980's, where I was approached by an instructor at the academy about working as park ranger at Yosemite National Park.  It was not until I drove into Yosemite did I realize it was the same park from the TV series "Sierra."

I spent the following 23 years working as a ranger at some of the most beautiful National Parks in the service.  I spend countless hours of my free time looking for that perfect photograph that would even inspire Ansel Adams.  I left the National Park Service after 25 years of dedication to pursue other career goals, but along the way I will always have my camera close by.