CONSERVATION grazier Helen Roderick is pictured with one of the highland cattle she and her husband are farming on the Allt, high up in the Usk Valley.

It features in a new photographic portrait exhibition, which has opened at Brecon Library and is on display there until August 28.

‘Diamond People’ celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Brecon Beacons National Park’s designation as a national park and features 21 portraits of people from the Brecon Beacons area taken by Billie Charity, a local photographer.

Billie ventured to locations all over the park including caves, mountains and fields of sheep.

Amongst those she photographed are Rob Davies MBE, a gold medal-winning Paralympic table tennis player and a few of the National Park Authority Volunteers, including the Upland Path Volunteers that maintain the network of popular footpaths in the park.

Powys county councillor David Meredith officially opened the exhibition joined by Brecon Town Mayor Cllr Ieuan Williams and many of the ‘Diamond People’ themselves.

Diamond People will tour around the park throughout the year and into 2018. After the library exhibition, ‘Diamond People’ will visit the Black Mountain Centre, Upper Brynamon.

It can also be seen at the Party in the Park event on July 30 at the National Park Visitor Centre, Libanus, and Craig-y-nos Country Park.