Guestbook

What a pleasure to shake your hand at the Clayton Opera House on Saturday night. The evening complete with The Great Lake Swimmers' music awakened my own dormant energies. The last two and one-half years have been brutal but the last few days have been incredibly peaceful. I attribute that calm well being to THE river; the wonderful, one-of-a kind St. Lawrence. Be assured I do not intend to visit your guest book with ANY regularity (my first comment appears previous to this) but I WOULD LIKE YOU AND THE SONG SINGING SWIMMERS to realize what your work can evoke.

Being a technological dinosaur I just lost my comment. Sadly I am aged in other respects as well but I still have a "good eye". That eye captured your sublime, The very best......, on Monday afternoon, June21, in Alexandria Bay. 72 hours later I obtained two of the remaining 21!!!! tickets for your presentation at the Clayton Opera House this Saturday. I want to know more, see more, and hear more from the man who created a book to delight two senses. The very best.......is both visually AND tactilely a treasure. I can hear the gulls, smell the catch, and almost taste the river in your work. How you deserve the praise which flies your way. Pleasen excuse that pun, most especially because the body of this comment is totally sincere.

I love your pictures (especially the ones of the Summerland Group)!

To Ian and his fans: I had the privilege of being presented book number 3, which came off the press in late April. As the editor of Thousand Island Life, the online magazine, I can emphatically say, His new book is really outstanding and it does “raise the bar.” Thousand Islands Life Magazine has three articles in our May 2010 issue. The book is introduced in TI Life in May 2010, we take the opportunity to thank this amazing individual in Many thanks, Ian, and we learn more about Ian and the Great Lake Swimmers in Photos and Music Celebrate the Thousand Islands written by Erin McCarthy Brick. All three were a pleasure to post!

Thanks for a wonderful web site. The web cam in particular keeps me going through the winter. We open the cottage across the river from you at Blind Bay late May. Can't wait.

I wrote about you today. Thanks for new inspiration! Weirview Photography, Gananoque Reporter, Brockville Recorder and Times

Thank you so much for the breath-taking images that have graced my screen; they have provided countless gentle moments of pleasure and contemplation. I am looking forward to your new book.

Just thought I would leave a note, pretty cool site, and got a nice picture of the river for my screen saver. I grew up in TI, Just down from Linda Island on Rte 12E. Miss the river and think of it often. Only comparable and majestic body of water other than the islands that I have been on is Lake Jocassee in South Carolina. Keep up the good work, photos are great!

Your pictures are amazing. I purchased a piece of property on the river and plan to build a vacation/retirement home there. The river is my Shangri La!

Some of the best photography I've seen in my life. Portrays where I'd rather be. Thanks Ian.

I love your work! When I was at the river this past weekend and as I look at your photos I feel like I'm still running around TIP. Thank you for sharing your art and love of the river. Let every "river rat" live on.

Just read about your novel and excerpt on ThousandIslandsLife.com.... Sooo excited can you tell me more, when is it available and will you be someplace signing? I gotta get me one of those babies!!!

I just want to thank you for all the beautiful photography you have done of what I consider to be the most beautiful place on Earth. I have 2 of your books and will ask for the 3rd for my birthday. On my slide show screensaver at work are many of your photos of the islands and they help get me through the work week until I can be at the river again. As a child I was a river rat kid. My father was part owner of Ina Island during the time it was run as a bar/restaurant and we sent the Monitor to the town dock in Alex Bay to pick up guests who had no other way of getting to the island. For years before that we kept our boat at Calumet and I remember trying to touch the sheep who ran wild on the island just to feel their soft fleece. I was nearly electrocuted there when I was about 7 after climbing out of the river to grab a hot cleat at the top of the ladder on the side of the pier. The mice had been chewing on the wires that ran to the big lights on the pier and shorted them out. My dad's best friend was Mike Bresnahan Sr. who has the most beautiful island in Lost Channel and Mike Jr., his sister Patty and I spent hours swimming the current down to Constance, swimming across to Little Georgina and then walking back up to Big Georgina to swim back down to Bresnahan's island. 45 years later I remember it like it was yesterday. Oh, so many memories! Your breathtaking photographs bring it all back every time I look at them. Thanks!

I had the privilege of reading your Book Water, Wind, and Sky while I was on vacation this past week. You have the nack of capturing the "Thousand Islands Awe." I tell my friends that they have just got to go up there and stay. But those pictures are just WOW. I would love to purchase a copy of your book. Some of the pictures just take my breath away. I read the passage about W.O. and how he built his "house" on the island and his first night there was his last. That just struck me as WOW. I have been going up to the Thousand Islands my whole entire life. My Grandfather started to come up to Schermerhorn's Landing in 1942 and has been going up there ever since bringing his family (5 children) to stay on the St. Lawrence river. I have many fond memories of the Thousand Islands. This book was an honor to read. It is not often that someone can say "I've been there, I've seen that" to a picture/place in a book. Thank you so much for sharing your unique gift. I look forward to see anything else that you publish!

Discovered your brilliant photography and the 1,000 Islands scenery thanks to the band Great Lake Swimmers whom I've admired for four years and interviewed Tony Dekker about three years ago at the Calgary Folk Music Festival. Thanks for connecting him to this region and by good fortune, others who connect to GLS. You've already got me thinking of making a visit to the area when I visit my sister in Ottawa in the future. Will definitely point others in my area to check out your site.