GERARD BLAIR
Farne Island Towers

The Farne Islands off the North East coast of England are now almost exclusively a bird sanctuary - but a destination to be seen from boats coming out from the harbour at Seahouses. Always beautiful, often rough, the North Sea invigorates.

Author
Gerard Blair was raised in the North of England and has lived in the South, in Scotland, Israel, Japan and now in the United States. Professionally, he is a Microchip designer and is pleased to note that in 1986 he wrote the first drafts of a funding proposal for his Professor at Edinburgh University to begin early research into CMOS digital cameras – although this does not really help him take better photographs.
Gerard’s first attempts at photography was in 1998 with a basement darkroom, all in black and white; since then he has moved into digital but has retained a love of contrast. Semi-retired in 2020, he is now able to devote time to the study of the history of painting, and to explore the creation of his own art using the camera.
His goal in photography is to discover ineffable joys. to capture beauty that might otherwise have passed unseen.

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