Evan Barrientos Photography

10/14/2026

Bringing little birds to a BIG screen! Last weekend Bend Film Festival screened “Shoreline Sentinels of Great Salt Lake” twice. It was amazing to convey the gravity of Great Salt Lake’s situation and highlight its importance to birds in a movie theater. Thank you to BendFilm and Tin Pan Theater for the opportunity and to everyone who attended the screenings! And stay tuned, the film comes out on National Audubon Society's YouTube channel this Friday!

09/22/2026

There are two upcoming, in-person opportunities to watch “Shoreline Sentinels of Great Salt Lake,” my new film for the National Audubon Society/Audubon Rockies about Snowy Plovers! The Natural History Museum of Utah is screening it in Salt Lake City this Thursday, Sept 24. The event will include a Q&A with some of the plover monitoring team. Tickets: https://nhmu.utah.edu/events/documentaries-dusk

On Oct 9 and 10, Bend Film Festival is screening it in Oregon! I’ll be there in-person. Tickets: https://bendfilmfestival2026.eventive.org/Film_Guides/6a84b154a7f7c78085ad9e14

If you live nearby, I hope you’ll join!

Follow passionate conservationists as they study how Snowy Plovers nesting at Great Salt Lake are being impacted by recreation.

08/18/2026

There were a whole bunch of these Celastrina butterflies on top of Dismal Falls earlier this month, sipping some kind of mineral from the rock.

August 1, 2026
Jefferson National Forest
Giles County, Virginia

08/17/2026

I usually avoid photographing tourist destinations, but last year on a trip to Yellowstone, I thought I’d try photographing the ways tourists interact with this extremely unique landscape. I have very mixed feelings about national parks, and I think these photos reflect that.

July 25 and 26, 2025
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

08/09/2026

A longhorn beetle feeding on one of the many Prairie Coneflowers (Ratibida columnifera) in my yard prairie.

Fort Collins, Colorado
July 1, 2024

08/08/2026

Three final photos from the amazing Dense Blazingstar field near me in Jefferson National Forest. So far, this meadow has been unlike any other I've found in Virginia. Although I photographed one Eastern Tiger Swallowtail there, there were far fewer insects than I would've expected for so many flowers.

July 20, 2026
Jefferson National Forest
Montgomery County, Virginia

08/05/2026

I believe this is Mentzelia multiflora, but correct me if I'm wrong. It only bloomed in my yard the first year of my restoration. Hoping it'll show up again one day.

August 16, 2023
My yard
Fort Collins, Colorado

08/05/2026

Rocky Mountain Bee Plant (Cleome serrulata) is beautiful native that colonizes disturbed sites. They dominated my yard prairie in the first year and attracted hordes of bees. Each year since there have been fewer and fewer, but whenever I seed a new section, they do their job and hold the ground until the more conservative plants come in.

August 16, 2023
My yard
Fort Collins, Colorado

08/04/2026

Soapstone Prairie, one of Colorado's greatest blessings. It can be hard to convince yourself to go there at this time of year, when it's brown and hot. But at sunset and sunrise, the prairie transforms into ripples of gold. I found my first Greater Short-horned Lizard at Soapstone the day I took these pictures, after years of looking. Another sign of the excellent prairie quality there.

Larimer County, Colorado
August 2, 2024

08/02/2026

How many crayfish is too many? What are they planning?

July 19, 2026
Natural Bridge State Park
Rockbridge County, Virginia