Made it !!!!

I made it. It was really hard going though. I started out from the Humber bridge just after mid day on Tuesday. The weather was just right for cycling as it was not too hot or windy. I had to try to block out any thoughts of how far I had to go as I had made it my goal to make my brother Kevin's house in Warwick my first stop over. The route took me through some really picturesque towns and villages and before I realised it I had traveled almost seventy miles.Great I though! but I still had a long way to go though and finally reached my destination between eleven and midnight totally shattered and with serious backside pain. I sat outside on Kevin and my sister in law Karen's patio and between us we managed to drink two bottles of wine in celebration. At six thirty next morning I got up showered, dressed and had some breakfast then it was time to check the bike over ready to get started again. I set off around seven and withing a couple of miles almost decided to give up. The pain when I sat on the saddle was almost unbearable but after about an hour it seemed to ease off. I had it mind to stop and find somewhere to stay when I reached Cheltenham. When I got there I stopped in at a Brewers fayre pub for a coke. With the help of a Tom Tom I realised I was only about thrty odd miles from the Severn Bridge so after a drink I set off again and at around four thirty I was at the Bridge Services looking at the awsome site that joins Bristol with Wales. I can't tell you how good it felt knowing that I was not going to have peddle one more metre. Oh joy!!!
All thats left for me to say is a big thankyou to everyone that made this possible.

Sponsored Bike Ride!!!!!

Well today is the day. I am finally getting off on my Sponsored bike ride. I will be driving up to the Humber bridge this morning with the intention of starting at 12 O'clock. My first overnight stop off is going to be in Warwick. I realise that this is very ambitious but unfortunately I couldn't get any of the B&B's I called to put me up FOC. Shame really as I had offered free advertising for them here on my blog and my website. "Their loss". I chose Warwick as my brother and sister in law live there and have offered to let my stay with them for the night. Handy as well because they own the Tea rooms in St Nicholas Park opposite Warwick Castle so I will get a good breakfast tomorrow to set me up for the day! Their cafe is so cool. It is an old building with a thatched roof and a patio area outside where you can just sit and watch the world go by. If your in the area call in and mention my name and who knows you might get the VIP treatment.
Anyway best get going. Lots to do still. I will be taking pictures along the way so keep looking at my blog to how I'm getting on.
Pete.

Hi everyone. I just finished putting together a slideshow for Kat & Tom who's wedding I shot last week. They are such a cool couple and we had a real blast on the day.

Hi everyone.
I thought it was about time I updated here again.
So much has happened since I last posted but the most major thing was my computer crashed in a big way. I upgraded the memory so that I could speed things up a bit and by accident managed to pull a wire off my hard drive. When I switched on again it wiped out everything. I got my friend Glyn Dale from Action Response Computing to come over to fix it but it was dead. He had to completely re-install Windows XP for me. This meant I now had to re-install all my programs as well. It has taken me almost two weeks to get them back in. It's not until something like this happens that you realise just how much stuff you have stored in there. Luckily I have a strict rule of back everything up on a separate hard drive and anything really important gets burned onto disc as well so that side of things was OK. Never the less a real pain though.
One thing I thought I had lost though was a few images I took at a seminar day I attended at Photomarts London showroom. It was a great day and I learned so much. We even had the chance to photograph two stunning models. Sarah was the first to be photographed. She actually held the title of Miss Trinidad & Tobago so it goes without saying she is gorgeous. I felt so sorry for her though. It was a cold showery day and she had to pretend she was on a sun drenched beach in the Caribbean. She even had to get her hair all wet by dunking her head in a bucket of water. Sarah you're a star! In the afternoon we were inside and took a class on studio lighting setups with Jon Gray a well know fashion photographer. For this lesson we had the honour of photographing Katie a very well established model. She had photographers at the show almost fighting to get her images into their cameras. All in the name of proessionalism though! Saying that we all had a great day. Thanks to Simon and his staff for looking after us all ( and the great buffet to). I'm so looking forward to the next event. Oh yeah. My sponsored bike ride has now been rebooked and I will start peddaling on 24 July and nothing bar being dead is gong to get in the way this time!