I spent the most of Friday evening at a Gala Event hosted By T. Richard Jones ( TRJ ) at Parc y Scarlets in LLanelli. It was a fabulous night in which Friends of the Company came together to celebrate TRJ’s 75th anniversary. Highlights of the evening included a fantastic speech and humorous insight to the Ammanford based Company’s history by it’s director. It was nice to meet the   ever entertaining Roy Noble. Also if you ever get the chance to catch up and  coming comedian Rod Woodward, do it.

Here are a couple of frames from the evening, Including a couple of shots of the companies vintage vehicles that were parked outside the Stadium for the evening.

June 2010 brought  the sad sad news of the death of the ex Stereophonics drummer and local hearo, Stuart Cable. I was in Aberdare to cover his funeral on what was one of the hottest and brightest days of the year so far. Over 5000 people attended the funeral and lined the streets of Aberdare . His coffin was carried out to the sound of AC/DC’ s back in black played by a band made up of his friends. Here are some pics from the funeral along with some a tearsheet from the Daily Star. The Photographs of Kelly Jones and of Rob Brydon in the Star are mine.

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It’s been a few months now since being in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, taking photos of Rosie Swale Pope finishing her ‘ run ‘ of 26 marathons in 26 days. I took the main photograph of Rosie on the Cycle path between Llanelli & Burry Port and the inset photo was taken in Tenby, Pembrokeshire the following day when Rosie was celebrating her achievements by running a 27th marathon. The photographs appeared in Yours Magazine the beginning of June 2010.

With it being a fairly quiet end to the week so far with press  assignments & all the action happening around one street in London and nothing aside from maybe yet another new shop opening ( or moving ) in Carmarthen it was a good chance to gather some early morning stock and maybe the odd landscape while waiting for the day to unfold, and I have to say that coast road through Amroth  never disappoints. I was up at 4 and in Pembs within half an hour.

What a great way to start the day.

So if you get the chance and you find yourself on the Carmarthenshire / Pembrokeshire border go and take a look.

Oh, and by the way, Amroth was awarded blue flag status this week. It was  one of the beaches that made up this years record braking amount of  beaches to get the award.

After Amroth it was on to Saundersfoot for a cuppa before heading home for about 7.30 am

So all in all not a bad early morning sneak around Pembs .You may even find me sneaking around tomorrow..

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I’ll be adding these to the landscape gallery here before long, but if you would like to buy one in the mean time drop me an email.

Al