Baron has worked in a few different jobs including dishwasher across the street from Kaimuki High School at Sekiya’s. Baron is currently employed as a staff photographer at the daily newspaper West Hawaii Today and sister publication North Hawaii News based in Kona on the Big Island. Baron also has done assignment work for the Associated Press, New York Times, USA Today, Seattle Times, Hawaii Magazine, PC Laptops Computers Magazine and has photos or video appear in numerous other publications like Newsweek, American Photographer, World Book Encyclopedia, ABC-TV, CNN and all the Hawaii daily newspapers. Please meet Baron, a very tech savvy classmate who’s the web master for our class web page.Although he never worked for The Bulldog newspaper or Kaimuki Yearbook while in high school he did later work for the U.H. newspaper Ka Leo and worked at the Honolulu Advertiser as an intern during college as a photographer along with Sun Press & MidWeek. His photos did get published in the Bulldog once, but that was while at the U.H. and a Kaimuki High student asked to borrow one of his concert photos to go with her story. He got started in photography as a concert photographer.
Photography has allowed him to meet sports stars, rock stars, celebrities (O.J. Simpson has a super strong handshake, he could have done it), the everyday person young and old. He has gone to many places in Hawaii to bring it to people via photos, in submarines, hanging out of helicopters, on mountains, in mud, fires, lava, rain and snow.
He also works a lot with computers and was newspaper’s first webmaster (West Hawaii Today was the 2nd daily newspaper in Hawaii on the web, after the Maui News, the Garden Isle was first on the internet though via newsgroups). He also put together this class website, though you should thank Wendy for much of the information on here and maintaining it.
Not married and no kids that he knows of.