At Ferranti he formed a photograph and film unit which was commended at several industrial film festivals. In the late 1960's Mr Robb formed his own company following a rationalisation at Ferranti. His company grew into a studio, colour laboratory and two camera shops, with staff of 24 and a turnover of £500,000. In 1983 Mr Robb remarried and moved two years later from Edinburgh to North Sutherland, where his wife is from. After an unsuccessful venture in the licensed trade, he has returned to photography and established Caithness Photographic.

Mr Robb studied part-time for three years at Edinburgh College of Art, spent 18 months on National Service in the Royal Navy and served three years as a pilot in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. A founder member of the reforming of the Edinburgh Flying Club at Edinburgh Airport, he held a pilot's licence for 33 years.

He was a member of the Association of Cinematograph and Allied Technicians, Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, Edinburgh Press Club and the Royal Forth Yacht Club.

George Robb's astonishing photographs depict a strange, magnificent Caithness, unfamiliar even to some of it's inhabitants. Its glories lie mostly along its fantastically craggy coasts. For their entire length the east and north coasts are indented with inlets, goes (in Orkney geos). Some penetrate deep inland, vertical-walled, gloomy, cavernous and in bad weather, dangerous to sea-farers of any kind. Guarding entrances and doing sentry around headlands are splendid contorted stacks and rock islands, all homes of black-backs, herring gulls and fulmars.

Its coastal aspect and the area's sparse but significant small-scale human settlement of recent centuries, are strikingly illustrated in this collection of aerial photographs. Editor and contributors hope that this publication please those who live here and visitors alike, that it will enable them both to understand and enjoy Caithness better.