Obama pics

If you like taking photos or looking at photos and somehow and still not following the Whitehouse flickr page, do it now. 

The series is one best teacher of events photography. You cannot ask POTUS to pose all the time or angle his face to a softbox or umbrella. Rarely would we have the chance to arrange the best possible light for each picture that we take. But in this case, the photographer is a real expert in mastering available light and getting his camera in to take the shot given the chance. In the process, he shares a glimpse of the daily grind of the president. 

In this picture, see how Obama is a master speechwriter himself. After blowing up the picture, we can see how he understands the cadence and rhythm of the spoken words against the written.  

This photographer, Pete Souza, is fantastic. I wonder how he blends in the room  unobtrusively. And then how he is ushered out in a top secret meeting after taking hi shots.

Now, one funny result from Obama being this open to everyone (to have a flick page at that, which is updated almost daily) is this:

Just to check if this is exaggerated or not, I tried these pictures: 

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Could the most powerful man on Earth have planned this during college? If no, has he discovered this funy complication by now? If I can change my signature, I'll devise something similar.

:-)