# Live/work photography studio on Stoney Lake

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2018-07-15

architecture, canadian-shield, cottage-country, creative-space, design, gh3, kawartha-lakes, kawarthas, live-work, minimalism, ontario-cottage, photographer, photography-studio, stoney-lake, stony-lake, studio, uncategorized

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It’s the dog days of summer right now and I suspect that some of you may be spending your time (or at least some of it) near water. So here is one of my favorite lakeside homes. It is a live/work photography studio sitting on top of a boathouse on [Stoney Lake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stony_Lake_\(Ontario\)) in the Kawartha Lakes region of Ontario. It is by [gh3\*](https://www.gh3.ca/). They do terrific work.

![image](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/3fb7697a49cf41d581c075fdbf17f69a.jpg)

I love the relationship to the [Canadian Shield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Shield) (see above). And I love how it is a dramatic departure from the archetypal Ontario cottage. I am more impressed by a project like this (it has 1 bedroom) than I am by a 5,000 square foot “cottage estate.”

Some of you may be wondering how a largely all glass curtain wall box performs environmentally during these dog days of summer and I am wondering the exact same thing. But it is north facing. And the goal was to create a space that would enable photos not possible in a conventional studio.

For more on the project, including other photos, [go here](https://www.gh3.ca/work/boathouse-studio).

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/livework-photography-studio-on-stoney-lake)*