Kevin Baird

For three decades I've worked as a Fringineer, blurring the lines between art/media and engineering.

 

It would seem that I shoot a lot of space, astrophotography, sunset, and Comic-Con photos, particularly Star Wars-y stuff.

 

Twitter: @KevinBaird

 

Published / licensed / exhibited images:

 

San Diego Business Journal article about Leslie Fishlock. (non-paywall credit)

 

Several images featured on the Smithsonian Air and Space Magazine's Instagram account during my week-long "takeover" in late 2016, beginning with this one.

 

Ars Technica article about drone safety and one on PetaPixel.com about commercial drone use.

 

NASA's Orion capsule arrival in San Diego was featured in a Smithsonian Air & Space magazine daily "snapshot"

 

Photographed NASA's Orion capsule for a Planetary Society article on the retrieval of EFT-1 to San Diego

 

Space Answers article on NASA photographer Bill Ingalls

 

San Diego County Fair, 2013 Honorable Mention. Also included in Reddit's FAQ on SkyPorn and a Forbes article on the eventual disappearance of solar eclipses

 

Planetary Society blog post about Comet Pan-STARRS

 

University of Maryland Dept. of Geography article about their participation in the Landsat LDCM project

 

San Diego County Fair, 2012 Honorable Mention + Donated Award from The Art of Photography Show

 

San Diego County Fair, 2012. 4th Place, Sports

 

San Diego County Fair, 2012

 

io9 article on a proposed 2020 mission to Mars

 

Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at University of Colorado New Media Workshop

 

San Diego's official Facebook page and the NBC Los Angeles "Worth The Drive" local travel blog, plus mention on blogs of The Washington Post, ABC News, and the LA Times

 

San Diego Union-Tribune's curated collection of San Diego Power Outage photos

 

StarWars.com home page

 

Rear cover of Qualcomm's 2010 Yearbook of People

 

Eve Selis Band Facebook page profile photo

 

Licensed by AVID for use in their 2010 NAB booth

 

Featured in an art exhibit on water conservation and use

 

Mars in 3-D article on MSNBC's Cosmiclog science blog

 

SpaceWeather.com's Fourth of July feature

 

KPBS used this for a story on desert wildflowers

 

Licensed to owner of this boat

 

Front page of SpaceUp.org

 

Video featured on Yahoo!Kids

 

Birch Aquarium photo contest runner-up

 

Atmospheric Optics Photo of the Day

 

CNN i-Report featuring my time lapse footage of Comet McNaught

 

Time lapse clip on SpaceWeather.com

 

SpaceWeather.com