Early this morning, with this simple, joyful photograph, Barack Obama scored yet another victory: the most-liked Facebook photo of all time.
As of now, nearly three million people have given the photo — uploaded to Barack Obama’s timeline and adorned with a message of “Four more years” — a thumbs up. Between it and last night’s most popular tweet ever (same picture, same words), Obama’s win has clearly been sanctified by the United States of Internet. [Facebook via Atlantic]
It's very lovely and inspirational and all... but if that wasn't posed and professionally shot I'd be veeery surprised.
(I mean, maybe it really is a candid and unplanned shot. If it is, wow.)
You don't think that with the millions of photos taken yesterday they couldn't get a couple of this quality.?
Hmm, perhaps, I guess. We're talking uplifting pose quality, not picture quality, right?
But yeah, snapping thousands through the day... I concede to your point. Great shot though hey. Whoever is responsible should be chuffed. I mean, that's some JFK and Jackie s*&t there.
This would be a candid. Ever since Lyndon Johnson, the American President has hired a professional photographer that follows the President pretty much everywhere.
I remember watching a NatGeo doco months ago called The Obama White House, Through the Lens which followed Obama's photographer. It was pretty interesting.
Her hair is all over the place.. If it were too set up, her hair would be perfect
I know the US election is important to the whole world because of the US's position and power. But, irrespective of the results, surely our saturation coverage is way over the top. Unlike Americans, we know that the US is not the centre of the universe, so we need to do something about our sense of perspective here.