My very good friend Anto Guerra-Gabaldón came to stay. We went out with my son William and spent a night around Kelham Island…including eating at Cutlery Works. The photo is Anto’s picture collage.
Peter Bargh
Sights & SoundsArchive for the ‘Celebrations’ Category
A proud day for me as my son, William, graduated with a 1st in Maths at Sheffield Hallam University. Today was the graduation ceremony at Sheffield’s City Hall. I met up with family to help Will celebrate the day.
Will Cheung tied the knot with Joanna Raines today and he’d invited me to be his best man.
We’ve been good friends since he employed me as his technical writer on Practical Photography back in 1991. Over the years we’ve travelled around the world together, eaten in some of the finest restaurants and when our hosts were taking the rest of the European Journalists on the usual tourist excursions we’d wander off together photographing the back streets of the cities.
When he asked me I froze. It’s not that I didn’t feel honoured…more terrified of having to stand up and do the best man speech. Public speaking is a big phobia of mine and I usually avoid it at all costs!
After months of worry the big day arrived and we spent a wonderful day at Wadenhoe House nr Oundle Peterborough.
They were married at 1:30pm.
Good to meet up with old friends and colleagues in the afternoon and evening including my previous bosses Karen Lynch and Richard Hopkins, work colleagues Roger Payne, Chris Robinson, Ian Fryer and Mike Elliott, and industry friends Graham Armitage and Angela Warnes.
I took a few snap shots using the OM-D in between my minimal duties.
Will’s stag night was a fairly quiet affair…just the way we both like it…and so it turned out so did his old school friends. We met at Charters on the river Nene. Had a few beers and then crossed over to the Peterborough Beer Festival where we sampled some real ales from the 350 on tap, and then had a go on Dodgems.
The festival was on its last day and many of the breweries had sold out and shut up but there were still plenty of options to choose from.
We finished the night out at the curry house and were surprised the Indian had run out of Pilau Rice…when does that ever happen?
Back to Will’s for a late night game of brag..I didn’t do very well so suggested we played shoot and took over as winner.
Canon held their Christmas Press Party at Circus, London W1
Host
Diane Johnson
Press
Peter Bargh
Fujifilm’s Christmas Editors’ Lunch 2005 was held in the Library Lounge at the Marriott Hotel, London County Hall, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7PB
Host
Adrian Clarke, Jenny Hodge
Fujifilm’s Christmas Editors’ Lunch was held in the Penthouse Room at Radisson Edwardian Hampshire Hotel, 31-36 Leicester Square London WC2H 7LH
Host
Adrian Clarke , Jenny Hodge
Book launch for Grays of Westminster – In The Company of legends.
With Guest speakers David Suchet (below) and Gary Coward Williams.
I also got to meet one of my photography heroes, the late Sir Simon Marsden (below)
The event was held in the Private dining room of Quaglino’s in Bury Street London
We were all given a copy of the book. I managed to get mine autographed by just about everyone who was at the event who’d had a quote in the book.
