{"id":254468,"date":"2025-11-10T07:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/254468\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T07:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:17:09","slug":"ratcliffe-on-soar-power-station-image-wins-national-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/254468\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station image wins national award"},"content":{"rendered":"

His said his award-winning shot of Ratcliffe’s cooling towers was taken on his first time photographing the area.<\/p>\n

“It’s such a dramatic landmark,” he said.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

Though it will take until at least 2030 to clear the whole site<\/a>, Mr Tomlinson – who is due to finish his studies next year – said he was delighted to capture the local landmark before it disappears forever.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

“I’d like to get the same shot as the cooling towers are coming down if that’s possible.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His said his award-winning shot of Ratcliffe’s cooling towers was taken on his first time photographing the area.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-254468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254468","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=254468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}