Tony Bynum talks with Randy Newberg - Podcast - photography, public lands, conservation

Photography, the business of photography, conservation, hunting and public lands and telling your story

I'm excited to share with you this podcast with me, Tony Bynum and Randy Newberg. In this podcast, I share my story about my photography business. We discuss conservation and public lands issues facing us today.

One important element of my photography business is story telling. I discuss the finer points of telling your story and why it's important to the future of our public lands in American.

Randy, provides his views, his own personal story about his life and what's important for all outdoorsmen and women who use or care about our public lands. Randy Newberg Unfiltered - Hunt Talk Radio. 

In this episode of Randy Newberg's Hunt Talk Radio (EP 038), brought to you by Leupold, Randy and renowned wildlife photographer, Tony Bynum, talk about many issues including public land threats, the importance of every hunter telling "their story," Randy's "public land story," how hunting's image is being crafted by

Improve your photography - the most important advice I can give you

In this short interview, I tell you the single most important thing you can do to improve your photography.  It's so simple and you never hear anyone talk about it. I guarantee if you follow my directions, you'll improve your photography the first time out. 

Thank you Ryan Gresham for the interview, Honey Brake and the Professional Outdoor Media Association for the opportunity.

This short interview was filmed during a recent media event we're calling #pomavissionsaffield. The event at Honey Brake was sponsored by the Professional Outdoor Media Association (POMA), Nissan, Honey Brake, Banded, Gunner Kennels, SPG, Browning, Federal Ammunition, Hobie, Voormi, Sure-Shot Game Calls, Vista, Avery, Ducks Unlimited, Confluence Group. 

Podcast - Tony Bynum - thoughts on Conservation, Photography, and the Business of Photography

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

12 Photography Gadgets I use and love

• Cotton Carrier - worn on the chest it allows me to be mobile while packing a camera.

• Custom USB thumb drives by USB Memory Direct I store portfolios and image files on them and give them away. The one I now have is a real bottle opener -  my clients keep it handy!  

• Panasonic Eneloop Professional rechargeable AA batteries. Panasonic finally figured out how to make rechargeables that hold a change and have more power than standard alkaline! After a year, these batteries still have 80% of their power!

• Eyelead Sensor Cleaner. Nothing I've ever used works better or is more simple to use one you know how to use it. It’s tricky, but it’s worth it!

• Custom 100% cotton rags. Old high-quality bed sheet torn up to make rags.

• Large gear twist ties - these things are cool I use them to secure things to my pack and to hold small flashes to branches or poles.

• Portable micro tripod. Usually used to hold a flash, I couple it with the gear twist ties when needed.

• Corded mini charger strip with USB ports. Enough said.

• Two types of outlet converters so no matter where I go around the world I can get juice.

• Headlamps. In every box or bag I own. I like Petzl, but you can't go wrong with the cheaper Princeton Tec.

• Extra caps for lenses, and camera.

• Handheld luggage scale. This is the one I use, it’s been all over the world and still works great!

Badger Two Medicine A landscape to be protected - #toowildtodrill

Photographs of the The Badger Two Medicine area of the Rocky Mountain Front, Montana - #toowildtodrill 

All Images are protected by Copyright - no unauthorized use allowed.              All rights reserved. Contact Tony Bynum for licensing.                © tonybynum.com 

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.

On Northwestern Outdoor Radio

Presently, I am out in the field for a special research project involving Wolverines, but I wanted to share this clip from this week's Northwestern Outdoors Radio show.

I was interviewed by John Kruse, host of the show, to talk about two things:

1. Elk photography and my free e-book on wildlife photography.
2. My thoughts on the work that the Wilderness Society is doing to protect and promote our wild public lands, as well as my role in the #OurWild Campaign.

It was a pleasure doing the interview and I hope you enjoy it!

#OurWild - My Story for Protecting Public Lands

#OURWILD

The #ourwild campaign is about real people telling their public lands stories. This #ourwild video, produced by The Wilderness Society, is part of my public land story. I'm a father. I'm a hunter. I'm a photographer, friend and advocate for keeping the public domain in public hands. I am firmly against selling, or trading the public domain to the states. I'm not a preservationist, I'm a conservationist, which means I believe in using the natural resources, not locking them up. I also believe some places should be off limits to extraction. I'm for sensible, reasoned, and smart use of our public resources.

As a hunter and photographer, I support hunter education in the form of learning the history of conservation in America, in addition to how to be safe with a gun. For example, in order to bow hunt in Montana, during the early elk season, you have to have a special permit and pay an extra fee for it. In order to receive that permit you must go through an approved educational course that includes the history of conservation, the history of bowhunting, and the people who were instrumental in creating of the modern bow.

Conservation and resources management are more important than ever. Resources are limited and as we've seen our appetite, or demand for them is limitless. I believe that all children should be taught the history of conservation.

Conservation and Environmental Reading List

Here is a list of Authors, and titles worth reading.

Aldo Leopold - A Sand County Almanac

Rachel Carson - Silent Spring

Marc Reisner - Cadillac Desert

Henry David Thoreau - Walden

Wendell Berry - The Unsettling of America

James Lovelock - Gaia

Edward Abbey - Desert Solitaire

Vine Deloria - Spirit and Reason

#OURWILD Photographs

Please help by making your story known. You can also take action here, on the #ourwild page.  Leave a comment or share this post and together we can insure that our children have #ourwild. #keepitpublic

Tony Bynum

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.

Dramatic storm cell over Glacier National Park, Montana

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

Dramatic storm cell over Glacier National Park, Montana

Dramatic storm cell over Glacier National Park, Montana

Dramatic storm cell over Glacier National Park, Montana

Dramatic storm cell over Glacier National Park, Montana