Author Archives for Roger Harris

A night at the Museum

An evening for the Children In Need charity at the Natural History Museum last night. Treated to dinner with the dinosaurs and a performance by the English National Ballet.

A couple of successful Entrepreneurs

2 very enjoyable days for the company Equiteq, photographing 2 guys who’d sold their businesses and were now able to spend  more time on other activities. A really nice relaxed brief, though with an aim to get a horizon in if possible and some space to lay text over for their website.

NatWest

Nice to open the post and unexpectedly see your pictures smiling back at you – a day in the studio for NatWest, we did lots of different business start up types and obviously they feel I clearly tick the box of young female working in the building industry..IMG_5455

Yet more Parliamentary bits

 

Up in the rafters at the Commons end of Parliament to get a couple of shots of the Memorial of the 50th Anniversary of Winston Churchill’s death a couple of weeks ago. The first shot of the wreath laying is of Sir Nicolas Soames, Churchill’s grandson, and then of the PM saying a few words.

The black and white shots are of the Parliamentary Archivists preparing the Petition of Rights from 1689 and the Bill of Rights 1628 for display alongside the Magna Carta last week. Interestingly it’s felt that there’s more risk of damage when wearing gloves than without.

 

Magna Carta

To mark its 800th anniversary, the four surviving original copies of Magna Carta were displayed in the Houses of Parliament on Friday. On loan for one day only, they were delivered under tight security (ridiculously early in the morning!), with last week being the only time they’ve ever been assembled together. I was lucky to be asked to record the event for Parliament, enabling me to get up close as they arrived and were condition checked. Seen by many as a global symbol for the rule of law, they definitely seemed to produce a universal feeling of almost holy reverence from the lucky few who got to see them – from school children and ticket ballot winners, to Lords and the endearingly mad professor-like Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, who spoke passionately about their relevance in the modern world and the need for a new Magna Carta for the internet.

 

 

Party Leaders

Had the great fortune/misfortune depending on which way you look at it, to hear all 3 party leaders do their x-factor final electioneering performances for the CBI judges this week. Surprisingly it was Ed Miliband who came across with the most charisma, actually answering the questions he was asked and as the one i’d most like to go for a pint with…i’d have lost money on that! He also attracted the most paps, all out to get the picture of him pulling a silly face or something. Highlight of the day though was definitely R2D2 trundling op a ramp onto stage with the Pinewood CEO’s missing speech.