The winner of the Isle of Wight County Press Camera Club Big 50 photo competition has revealed being furloughed, during the Covid-19 lockdown, made her stop and take notice of things around her - and want to capture them on camera.
Speaking at the launch of the autumn exhibition, at Dimbola Museum and Galleries, in Freshwater Bay, Marilyn Berridge revealed walking her dogs and taking in her surroundings had led to her using her smart phone to take pictures.
Her photo, of a swan and cygnets, won her an Island Photo Centre voucher and a print of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, taken by renowned Fleet Street photographer Larry Ellis in the 1960s.
From Thorley, and better known by her artist name 'Mally Boo', her stunning image was taken through a drain pipe and was shot on a Huawei phone.
Her photo was captured near Off the Rails, Yarmouth and wowed judges Dr Mike Maloney (former chief photographer of the Daily Mirror), Sienna Anderson (award winning Isle of Wight photographer) and David White, Dimbola vice-chair of trustees and another well known Island photographer.
The competition attracted landscape shots, animal pictures and portrait photographs.
Second place went to Tanya Rock, for her superb lightning over Culver Down image.
In third place was Tom Packham's 4am image of the moon over The Needles.
Brian Hinton, chairman of the Dimbola trustees, said: "It is wonderful for Dimbola and the Isle of Wight County Press, two Island institutions, to team up for an event like this.
"These pictures will be seen by hundreds of people over the next couple of months in this exhibition open until the end of the year.
"I hope this will become an annual event."
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