My interest in using a drone began with the frustration I found in capturing the two dimensional landscape of Georgian Bay. There is so little elevation that the landscape is often little more than a strip along the horizon. I always felt that if I could just get up a little it would afford me a view of the place that was in some way more true.

For those who have had the privilege of flying in a small plane above the thirty thousand islands that make up the Bay’s eastern coast, you can appreciate the change in perspective. Whether it is a more true perspective is another story, but I found that drone images of the Bay were a revelation. The rocks were flattened and expressed horizontally in a way I had never seen them, the clarity of the water revealed the shape of the hidden lakebed, and the landscape became more graphic and painterly.