His said his award-winning shot of Ratcliffe’s cooling towers was taken on his first time photographing the area.
“It’s such a dramatic landmark,” he said.
“I feel it was quite a unique perspective – typically when you see images [of Ratcliffe] they tend to include the river, or they tend to include the canal boats, the disused ones on the fields in front, or the road by the train station, but I personally had never seen anybody take a picture of the house [with] the scale of the power plant and the cooling towers.
“I thought it made for quite an impactful image, and the black-and-white worked with it really well, to give off the industrial feel, harking back to the 60s industrialised Britain.”
Though it will take until at least 2030 to clear the whole site, Mr Tomlinson – who is due to finish his studies next year – said he was delighted to capture the local landmark before it disappears forever.
“We’ve got a little while before [the demolition], but I think it’s quite poignant that it was the last operational coal power plant to be decommissioned, and I definitely want to get more pictures of it,” he said.
“I’d like to get the same shot as the cooling towers are coming down if that’s possible.”