About me


Photographers are expected to declare their kind, genre, or type: sports, event, wedding, landscape, wildlife, portrait, fashion, etc., and so on.


I'm an everyday life photographer--and that means horse shows, horses, dilapidated and abandoned things, animals at zoos and in the wild, detours into macro photography, episodic but infrequent travels or vacations, things I see while hiking trails, etc.. Then again, parts of everyday life are sometimes extraordinary, like visiting the Galápagos.


I hope you enjoy whatever time you spend here.


Best, J.M. Barker

"Michael"

Juvenile Lava Gull. San Cristobal, Galápagos; 6/27/2022. Endemic to and found only in the Galápagos. The rarest gull in the world.