Swansea Bay photo man flies flag for media

Terry Morris made his earliest strides in professional photography as a freelance with the Llanelli Star.
That was in the early years of the new century.
In 2006 he broke into a new sphere with the publication of his book Cool Cymru Collection.
It had portraits of Welsh icons such as Dame Shirley Bassey, Ryan Giggs and Kelly Jones. His Cool Cymru shot of Katherine Jenkins is on the right.

An exhibition ran at Cardiff's Wales Millennium Centre. ITV Wales ran a documentary series produced by Llanelli media big guns Tinopolis.
Now Morris has opened a studio in Dafen and is set to celebrate St David's Day with a show of his most celebrated celebrity images.
They will be on display at Llanelli Library where another Morris book - Faces of Stradey Park - is a popular item.
Mark Jewell, regional library manager, told Media Master: “Cool Cymru Collection and Faces of Stradey Park are amongst the most requested books in Llanelli Library, so it's fitting that Terry will exhibit here soon.”
The development of a Swansea bay media talent is always to be celebrated - get along to chat with Terry on his big day amongst the bookshelves.

Twitter king Kev tweets up Swansea

Congratulations to Kev Johns, breakfast show presenter on Swansea Sound.
Not because he's won an award but because he's fast understanding the forces that are Facebook and Twitter - http://twitter.com/KevJohnscymru.
In fact, he's astonishingly gregarious on these most 2010 of social media platforms.
In the next few hours - as it's now Saturday - look out for him plugging his popular Sunday phone-in ... unless he's taking a bit of time off for his wedding anniversary, of course.
A lot of Swansea area businesses, including those in the media, can take a leaf from this presenter's book: get hooked on social media because it's a fabulous bolt-on to your traditional publicity activity.
Kev's tweets yesterday numbered 10 and included plugs for Swansea Sound, Swansea City, American's Top Model, Katherine Jenkins and TV show Dragons Eye.
Keep it up, Kev.
A few of his Gowerton colleagues, meanwhile, are owed a belated congrats from this blog because they have won awards in the past few weeks.
Steve Barnes, programme controller at The Wave and Swansea Sound, has been named programmer of the year in the annual media awards programme of parent group UTV.
Steve, who joined the station as a presenter 23 years ago told me he was honoured to receive the accolade. And so he should be - UTV's a biggish player in the UK and Ireland radio market with 23 stations. See http://www.utvradio.com/.
The same awards, incidentally, saw the Wave and Swansea Sound named as runners up in the station of the year category. Wave breakfast buddies Badger and Emma, and the advertising team's Alison Gibbard were finalists.
Well done, all - all glory for Swansea Bay is worth cheering.