Well done to Tina Nicholls for winning Isle of Wight Photographer of the Year award. Quite right too as the shot that won her the prize was a stunning capture of a staircase in Reykjavik.
The shot, ‘Stairway into Darkness,’ was captured at the Hilton Nordica Hotel in Reykjavik, Iceland’s capital, this August.
Tina told VentnorBlog that when she saw the staircase, her reaction was, “I’m having that staircase – that’s mine.” After a dash up nine flights of stairs, she saw what she needed to capture.
When VB asked Tina her reaction to the award, not surprisingly, she told us “I am thrilled, And on a personal note it is my own personal tribute to John. He’d have been thrilled about this too!”
John Lobb, Tina’s partner who suddenly died in March, was also a passionate photographer.
As well as the pride of winning the award, Tina also wins a Nikon CoolPix camera.
