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Thirty Thousand Islands
Title:Thirty Thousand Islands
While paddling my canoe among the Thirty Thousand Islands of Georgian Bay I was rewarded with capturing this image of the sun attempting to burn through the autumn morning mist.


Ron Smid
Canada



Biography: Ron Smid is a Canadian landscape photographer living outside Powell River on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. The child of refugees from Czechoslovakia, Ron was the first member of his family to be born in Canada. He grew up on the edge of the Canadian Shield in the small town of Orillia, Ontario – the birthplace of Gordon Lightfoot and the painter Franklin Carmichael, a founding member of the Group of Seven. His earliest memories include swimming in Lake Couchiching and later fishing and boating among the Thirty Thousand Islands of Georgian Bay. Inspired by the works of early...