Tony Bynum on an Iceberg in Iceberg Lake, Glacier Park

“Tony,  I’ve been looking at your photos for some time now and found them pretty inspiring to say the least.  For years I’ve been traveling the world studying and photographing the battlefields of WWI & WWII.  It has been a great experience and I’ve learned a lot about lifestyles and history. . .   Having the itch and being inspired by photographers like yourself and Thomas Mangelsen I want to take it a step forward.” – Todd Yankauskas -

March 2011 Interview with Tony Bynum

“I came home, opened the box, and hung the picture immediately. It is incredible, I will get my wife to take a pic and send it to you when she gets home.  We will tell everyone where to find you.  Thanks for the professional way you handles the situation, after my wife sees the image we might be in the market for something else. Thanks,”

- Vic Horn -

Hundreds of Tony’s images are published each year from cover images on the nation’s top outdoor and hunting magazines, to advertisements, tourism planners & brochures sent around the world, to t-shirts, calendars, greeting cards, and fine art.  Tony’s dedication to capturing that one image that will showcase the place, event, or product and his access to the most beautiful settings in North America make him a valuable asset to your production team.

His focus is real people, in real situations; images that speak experience; they are authentic, believable and true to life. “At Tony Bynum Photography we create images that your consumers can relate to and trust; we create authenticity in imagery and believe in regional, believable, authentic and true to life. If you need images to brand your product, look inwards and ask yourself what matters most in life, that’s what we do at Tony Bynum Photography.

Tony sets himself apart for other commercial photographers because of his dedication to the outdoors and his drive to capture images of real equipment being used by real people.  Tony likes to make sure he knows your product or your place so he uses the equipment he photographs so he knows what it’s for and how it works. This allows him to put the energy and enthusiasm for a product into capturing images that will make your print or online clients stop and say, “I have to have that,” or “that could be me.”

Tony also can deliver a great value for your dollar due to his access to spectacular western, mountain settings, sprawling prairie, thick hard wood bottoms or fir and pine forests, up to alpine above tree line and back down to huge rivers or small creeks – he’s close to any kind of environment you need. Combining his spectacular location, in the heart of wild outdoor country where there always are dramatic landscapes and plenty of unique, unspoiled locations, with his dedication to showing real people using real equipment and you have a combination that is unbeatable.

Tony is a Montana based, wildlife, nature, outdoor commercial photographer (East Glacier Park, Montana on the Blackfeet Reservation, USA). Tony photographs wild, free ranging animals in their natural habitat; there are no captive animal photographs in his archives. Tony covers North American big game wildlife photography including elk, mule deer, bighorn sheep, grizzly and black bears, moose, mountain goats, ducks, landscapes, people and events.

He has a seasonal art gallery in East Glacier Park, Montana. Glacier Impressions is on Highway 49 in East Glacier Park, on the eastern edge of Glacier National Park, (right next to the silver spoon and the John L. Clarke Gallery) where his photographs are for sale as framed and matted art, and greeting cards.

Bynum’s images have appeared on the covers and in copy of many of the country’s major traditional outdoor recreation focused magazines, including Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, Sports Afield, Fair Chase, Texas Sporting Journal, Eastman’s Hunting, and Eastmans Bow hunting, Bugle, Bowhunt America, Montana Outdoors, Montana Magazine, Western Hunter, Western Horseman, and many more. Tony recently became the photo editor for Elk Hunter Magazine and In 2010 he was selected to produce commercial advertising images for the State Of Montana’s Office of Tourism. His images are currently display on buses, trains, billboards, windows, skylights, and elevator doors from Chicago to Seattle, WA.

His list of publication credits is extensive including other industry publications like, the NewYorker, The Food Network Magazine, Popular Photography, Digital Photographer (UK), Delta Sky, Empire Builder and many, many more (complete list between 2009-2011).

Tony’s often hired to produce unique, compelling, thoughtful images to compliment editorial writing in magazines and books. He has worked or traveled to all of the lower 48 states, Mexico, and much of Canada, and writes regularly for his blog. He’s active on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Behance, and moderates and edits photography, outdoor activities and hunting forums on several very popular websites.

February 2011 interview with Tony Bynum.

Pick up the phone right away.  Call and talk directly to Tony about photography needs.  Even if you don’t have a particular assignment in mind yet are thinking about it, please contact him at his office, 406-226-9151 or 406-450-8187, or by email, tony@tonybynum.com.