Georgian Bay, 2025
I spend time each year in Georgian Bay, a 100 x 300 km bay off the side of Lake Huron and home of the 30,000 Islands archipelago. Anyone who’s been there knows what a stunningly beautiful place it is. Crystal clear water, clean granite shorelines, deep dark forests.
But this year, I have struggled to capture the essence of the place. One of the problems is that Georgian Bay has no hills - just low, hard, austere islands with not a soft, green, sympathetic mound in sight. And the forests aren’t the manicured, well-organized type we often find in Europe. Canadian wilderness is a jungle - and it’s hard to find order or rhythm in the chaos that grows untended in Canada’s north. Frankly, I think would be easier to paint this landscape and impose your own order on the canvas rather than try to find it in the unforgiving landscape we have in Georgian Bay.
In 2025, I found that perhaps the best I could do was to create impressions of the landscape using ICM and multiple exposures - soft blurry images that hopefully convey the character of the place, if not the detail. Perhaps it’s just a matter of more diligence and hard work required to create the images i think the place deserves. Anyway, let me know what you think below.
