Guestbook

I love your latest book! I was at a river cottage last weekend and fell in love with it - your work is superb!

Let me congratulate you on your newest book "The Best of the 1000 islands" As with all your previous books the photographs are superb and bring us great memories of all the places we visited while we sailed for 22 years in the islands.

I came across your information in an article that I read in Lakeland Boating, March 2009. A little slow since I get my Dad's old magazines. What a beautiful place the 1000 Islands region must be, I hope to get out there sometime soon. Thank you for sharing the stories and wonderful pictures.

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!!!