"One of the proudest and most special things I have covered," was how top press photographer Rebecca Naden described her most recent assignment, Her Majesty The Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations in London.
A former Royal Photographer of the Year award winner, Rebecca, of Penally, decided she wanted to make a career in press photography while still a pupil at The Greenhill School.
After her first press picture, of a newly formed synchro-swimming team at Tenby Dolphins, was published in the Tenby Observer some 26 years ago, she single-mindedly pursued her dream and became the first woman staff photographer appointed by the Press Association.
Over the years she has viewed sporting stars, world leaders and Royalty through her lens many times, but admitted that the remarkable Jubilee festivities in the capital this weekend was her "most spectacular" photo shoot to date.
"I was on the stage shooting the concert on Saturday," Rebecca told the Observer. "I had serious goose-bumps when the Welsh choir started to sing!
"Covering the whole extended weekend was the most unbelievably special thing for a photographer to do, and it's the proudest thing I have done."
And the icing on the cake for Rebecca, one of no fewer than 20 Press Association photographers covering the events, was that one of her shots graced the front of not one, but two national newspapers on Wednesday morning.
The picture, of a smiling Queen regally waving to the crowds as her Gold State Coach processed up The Mall to St. Paul's Cathedral, appeared on the front of both the Daily Express and the Daily Mail.


