Mr Blackburn has shot recognisable countryside scenes from across the region, including Fountains Abbey, Castle Howard and Yorkshire Arboretum.<\/p>\n
Some of his favourite photography includes wildlife; in particular red squirrels which he said he had to be “very patient” in order to capture.<\/p>\n
While taking pictures from his powerchair proved to be “challenging at first”, he has learnt to overcome its limitations and find the best position to shoot from.<\/p>\n
According to him, there is a temptation too stray too far, which once resulted in his chair being extracted from a bog – but luckily everyone saw the funny side, he said. <\/p>\n
For the last four years, Mr Blackburn has also created a calendar of his images, which has helped to raise \u00a32,500 for the charity MND Association. <\/p>\n
He has been invited to the Rob Burrow Centre for MND in December to view his artwork.<\/p>\n
The \u00a36.8m facility, at Seacroft Hospital is due to open later this year, and will offer care and support to those with motor neurone disease and their relatives.<\/p>\n
Mr Blackburn said it meant a lot that his pictures could serve a good purpose, leaving a legacy after he moves away from Yorkshire, to relocate to Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n
“I see it being something that other local people with MND can enjoy in the future,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Blackburn has shot recognisable countryside scenes from across the region, including Fountains Abbey, Castle Howard and Yorkshire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-210624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}