AUGUST 13, 2009 GILFORD, N.H. - FREE Capturing picture-perfect moments across the globe BY LAUREN TINER he began to immerse himself
[email protected] in his photography. Bayless Gilford summer residents stayed in West Virginia for Charles and Joan Bayless three years, which explains love to travel the world one why he had so many pictures picture at a time, as Charles from West Virginia Tech’s focuses on exotic destina- popular football teams, tions like Africa, Russia, and women’s champion basket- Norway, or even more famil- ball teams, and Arizona’s iar locales like the Bayless Grand Canyon, near his sec- family’s own backyard. ond home. Charles Bayless describes “I told the kids if I could himself as a “photo fanatic,” do one thing for college stu- a personal hobby he picked dents I would bring them all up while working as an En- over the world. They are bet- gineer and CEO of PSNH in ter off than yesterday’s stu- Illinois and Tuscan, Ariz., dents, but they don’t see where his second home is. everything,” said Bayless. After retiring from PSNH His found his real photo- Bayless received a call from frenzy peak to be when he West Virginia Tech College, was required to travel, as op- which has two regional cam- posed to traveling for leisure, puses, and was asked to take and remembered moments PHOTO BY CHARLES BAYLESS a job as president of the col- he may not otherwise find on A Mao Chinese soldier posing for PHOTO BY CHARLES BAYLESS lege where Bayless received more traveled paths.