Other sites have serious photographs of new deacons prostrating themselves before the bishop, and receiving the gift of Orders through the laying on of hands. So it seemed to me that you might enjoy a little "apres ski" – or rather, post ordinationem. If you look very hard you may see Bishop Crispian, above, over the shoulder of Deacon Graham Smith (rt).
The diocese of Portsmouth is very hospitable, so after this morning's liturgy, the Bishop invited us into his house — all who had assisted at the deaconing of the three former Anglicans, David Elliott (seen above with friends — including an ubiquitous photographer), Jonathan Redvers-Harris and Graham Smith.
Each of them had a supporters' club in tow; Jonathan (rt. above) managed to round up three of his five offspring, together with his wife Wendy (below with the Dean, Canon David Hopgood). The three all escaped from their various Universities for the day — and for Jack's birthday. The remaining two are at school but will be present for his priesting.
Before the Ordination, the Chancellor of the Diocese, Canon Richard Hind, helped me administer the Oaths. I had supposed a Bible might be difficult to track down in a Catholic Cathedral (only joking), so the oaths were sworn on a King James Bible – indeed, the very one given to me by another Bishop of Portsmouth on my ordination to the Anglican priesthood on May 28th, 1961 — fifty years ago but for a few days. How time flies when you are having fun!
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Bishop Barnes read theology for three years at Oxford before finishing his studies at Cuddesdon College (at the time a theological college with a rather monastic character). He subsequently served two urban curacies in Portsmouth and Woking. During his first curacy, and after the statutory three years of celibacy, he married his wife Jane (with whom he has two children, Nicola and Matthew). In 1967, Bishop Barnes received his first incumbency as Rector of Farncombe in the Diocese of Guildford. After eleven years, the family moved to Hessle, in the Diocese of York, for another nine years as vicar. In 1987, he became Principal of St Stephen’s House, Oxford. In 1995, he was asked by then Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, to become the second PEV for the Province. He was based in St. Alban’s and charged with ministering to faithful Anglo-Catholics spread over the length of Southern England, from the Humber Estuary to the Channel Islands. After six years of service as a PEV, Bishop Barnes retired to Lymington on the south coast where he holds the Bishop of Winchester’s license as an honorary assistant bishop. On the retirement of the late and much lamented Bishop Eric Kemp, he was honored to be asked to succeed him as President of the Church Union, which office he still holds. 
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