Restless Native Podcast - Brad Luttrell talks with Tony Bynum about Photography, the Business of Photography, and POMA
Podcast interview with Montana Based, Outdoor Photographer Tony Bynum, how Tony approaches his professional photography career - Conservation Photography, Business of Photography, Outdoors, Wildlife, the Professional Outdoor Media Association.
In this podcast, Tony Bynum, Outdoor Photographer, and President of the Professional Outdoor Media Association reveals, for the first time, one of the biggest mistakes of his photographic career and what he learned from it when he talks with Brad Luttrell of GoWild.
Brad has a great podcast. He does his homework and gets to know a guest before the discussion making for some very good content.
Brad and Tony met some months ago over the phone. They planned to do a podcast and it finally happened at this years 2018 POMA conference in Lincoln, Nebraska. Brad was also a guest panelist at the POMA conference. The panel titled, "Content that Matters: Creating Purpose-focused Partnerships and Content," was a massive hit and set the stage for the theme of this year's conference. POMA is grateful for his participation.
Brand publishes his podcast under the title "Restless Native." He's also the Co-Founder of the GoWild app (available for both android and apple products) the best online social platform for sharing story's about hunting, fishing, and the outdoors.
Tony and Brad talk about the 2018 POMA conference, and Tony's approach to the business of photography, including stories about travel, commercial photography, and conservation.
Find Brand on Instagram @bradluttrell and the GoWild app @gowildapp
And Tony on Instagram @huntphotos
You dont want to miss this one.
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Tony Bynum in the photographed in the Canadian Rocky Mountains by © Rod Sinclair - Sinclair Imagery
Podcast Hal Herring and Tony Bynum discuss photography and conservation
Podcast and blast tony bynum and hal herring talk about photography, conservation tony shares his secrets to great images and describes how he captured the "caveman" shot
Hal Herring talks to Tony Bynum about photography, the life of a photographer, places, people, favorite photos, public lands conservation, conservation photography, wildlife photography, and hunting.
Tony Bynum tells the story behind one of his most iconic images, "The cave man."
Montana Outdoor Photographers Interviewed
Interviews - Photographing wildlife in Glacier, birds in Montana, and Yellowstone Tours
Three Montana Photographers share some of their knowledge about capturing Montana's wildlife and what it takes to be a successful wildlife photographer.
A cow moose wonders off across a placid lake in Glacier National Parks, Many Glacier Valley, Montana. This image and others can be purchased, visit this link © Tony Bynum
This article first appeared in the fall 2017 issue of the popular magazine, "Big Sky Journal," read the personal accounts of Don Jones who shares his thoughts on photographing birds, Cindy Goeddel on leading photographic tours in Yellowstone, and me, Tony Bynum on photographing wildlife in Glacier National Park.
Podcast - Tony Bynum - thoughts on Conservation, Photography, and the Business of Photography
Podcast interview with Montana Based, Outdoor Photographer Tony Bynum, "how Tony approaches his professional photography career - Conservation Photography, Business of Photography, Outdoors, Wildlife
In this podcast, Tony Bynum, Outdoor Photographer, talks with Bruce Hutchens of Whitetail Rendesvous. Tony describes his approach to the Business of Photography, Hunting, and Conservation. Click on the link below to access the Podcast.
Tony Bynum in the photographed in the Canadian Rocky Mountains by © Rod Sinclair - Sinclair Imagery
Record Breaking Snow - East Glacier Park, Montana
Watch Tony Bynum in 45 seconds, move a mountain of snow after an epic east glacier park snow storm.
East Glacier Park, Montana winter's are notoriously long. Snow drifts as deep as a backyard swimming pool and hurricane force winds are as normal as heat in Arizona. Deep snow, days of sub-zero temperatures are no surprise, they're expected. The weather on the east-side of Glacier National Park, also the Blackfeet Indian Reservation is brutal, just ask anyone who's spent a half dozen or more winters here.
By most standards winters here are as long as a pregnancy. Snow can linger in the shade until June. Over the dozen or so years I've called East Glacier Park my home, I've seen, in one year or the next, snow on the ground every month of the year.
So when the news is reporting a, "major storm" in some other part of the country, we pay attention because we like to know who else in the Nation may share our lifestyle. Unfortunately, what's breaking news for most, is life for residence of the Rocky Mountain Front in Montana.
As if that description of our winters was not bad enough, this winter was a bit different, a little more dramatic. Instead of getting our snow spread throughout the winter, half of it fell in four days. 62.5 inches as recorded by some friends who live a few blocks away - I trust them, they're kinda weather fanatics and know how to accurately record snowfall.
I was gone while it piled up. I returned just as the snow stopped. Here's what it looked like, and here's what I did about it!
Watch this time lapes as I move 60" of snow in about two hours (no telling what model snow thrower this is - Bubbles say's I'm not suposto tell. This video was watched more than a quarter million times on facebook.
Enjoy the rest of your winter, I know I will, how much worse can it get - right!
Badger Two Medicine A landscape to be protected - #toowildtodrill
Photographs of the Badger Two Medicine Area - Controversy oil and gas drill - Obama Cancels remaining oil leases blackfeet nation
Photographs of the The Badger Two Medicine area of the Rocky Mountain Front, Montana - #toowildtodrill
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Horses on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana.
The Badger area of the Rocky Mountain Front as seen from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
Winter sunrise along the Rocky Mountain Front, Montana. The Badger Two Medicine Area.
A lone bison wonders across the prairie on the Blackfeer Indian Reservation, Montana
The Badger Two Medicine, Montana
A fork of the Two Medicine River, Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Montana
Spring along the Rocky Mountain Front, Montana. The Badger Two Medicine area as seen from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation from along Highway Two.
Birch Creek along the Rocky Mountain Front, Badger Two Medicine area, Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Montana
An American flag proudly standing against the backdrop of the Badger Two Medicine area of the Rocky Mountain Front, Montana. Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
Fall colors in the Badger Two Medicine, Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Montana.
An aerial view of the Badger Two Medicine, and the in the distance, the Bob Marshall Wilderness area. This area of the Badger Two Medicine is now protected from oil and gas exploration and leasing.
Lush, dense grass and prairie wildflowers spring to life along the Rocky Mountain Front.
Bison roam on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Oil and gas drilling once threatened the Badger Two Medicine area. Nearly all the leases have been retired or canceled. Two remain and the fight will continue to save the Badger - #toowildtodrill Blackfeet Indian Reservation. The oil pump jack was part of an earlier oil exploration project organized and supported by the Backfeet Nation.
Glacier National Park Storm Cell
Glacier National Park Storm Cell, August 29, 2016 Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Montana
Photographs of a Glacier National Park storm cell. There's not much to say, that the pictures don't already describe, other than to add, it was cool to watch this storm develop and move across the front of Glacier National Park. I just wanted to share these photographs of the storm cell in Glacier National Park, Montana - It's a simple post with not much more that a few pretty pictures and some description of the equipment and a short explanation of my camera settings. These images of the storm cell over Glacier National Park, were taken from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
The first photos is of the storm cell developing and letting go of it's moisture. The following images are the cell developing, beginning to collapse and then moving though the area dropping heavy rain and creating high winds. I'd say the winds locally were 50 miles per hour as the storm moved though. I eventually had to quit shooting because the wind and rain became unbearable. What's interesting about these photographs of the Glacier National Park storm cell, is how uncommon and rare it is to see this kind of cell develop, almost out of know where, over the mountains, and this late in the season. We see them more often on the prairie.
All of the Glacier National Park storm cell photographs were taken with a Nikon D810, Nikon 17-35 f2.8 lens (Because I left my 14-24 in another Pelican case back home), mounted atop a Really Right Stuff tripod / ball head combination with a bag of rocks hanging from the center support. The shooting data indicates that I was all over the place with my settings and for good reason, because I was. I created these images at various ISO's from 31 (yes iso 31, the D810 goes that low) to 400 with shutter speeds ranging from a fraction of a second to up to 10 seconds and apertures from 3.2 to f22. What you cant really see in these Glacier National Park storm cell photographs is the lighting. There was lighting in the clouds, which is why there are lighter spots in the clouds. But what I did not capture were any of the lighting bolts. . . Unfortunately, my lighting trigger failed to pick up on the strikes (on the bright side, I got home and fiddled with it and got it working again, so now I'm ready for the next storm - which means the lightning storms are over for the year. . . Ha, Ha, Ha.
Happy Shooting! Tony Bynum
Photography Inspiration from a "Friend"
Photography Inspiration comes from all kinds of places. Even from people you may not know. Sometime in early April 2016 I received a letter in the mail. I checked the address, it was from a person I did not know. What makes that worth a blog post? This was a handwritten letter from a "friend" I'd never met.
Joe's thank handwritten thank you note.
The envelope contained several postcard photos. On the back of one was a handwritten note. It read,
"Tony,
Thank you for being such an inspiration!
Seeing your work has inspired me to use my voice & platform as an artist, to be an advocate for Hunting and Conservation.
Thank You!
Cheers,
Joe Mannino"
There was also an invitation to attend Joe's, Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition in Greenville, North Carolina.
I'm often asked about what I did to "make-it" in the photography world. Most of the time I reference something very simple, like, "I just do what motivates me."
Thank you Joe Mannino,
Sincerely,
Tony