England for Obama

In a word: cooooool.

In more than a word: I think this picture symbolises what I once wrote about BHO being simultaneously very gifted and yet also very normal. It doesn’t get more gifted than becoming the first African-American POTUS at the age of 47; and more normal than shooting hoops. Mind you, he even looks gifted doing that. The clever bugger.

There are more wonderful pictures here. I particularly like the one at the deli counter.  (Hat-tip: Hugh Matkin.)

Time magazine has compiled an online gallery of its best Barack Obama photographs. Which is great, as long as you have the patience to work through the supreeeemely irritating ad that appears between every picture. No mind: here are my favourites:

All of the photos above - bar the one of Michelle and Barack backstage at the Bruce Springsteen/Billy Joel concert - were taken by Callie Shell. As was this one, which I just love, but which didn’t make it into Time’s gallery:

You can see more of Shell’s brilliant photographs from the campaign trail here (note: keep clicking ‘Show more images’). In fact, it’s better than the Time gallery because the pictures are larger, and include fascinating insights from Shell. There are also no supreeemely irritating ads.

This beautiful photograph has now become rather famous -

- and I expect we’ll only see more of it as inauguration day approaches.

It was taken by Pete Souza, a freelance photographer (and former official White House photographer) whose stunning images of Barack during his early years as a senator have now been compiled in a book called The Rise of Barack Obama. You can see the photos - which include pictures taken during Barack’s trips to Kenya and Russia - here in Souza’s online gallery. Wonderful stuff.

(Hat-tip: Darrell Morris.)

These are also from the Barack Obama Flickr page:

Some highlights from the thousands (probably) of photographs at Barack Obama’s Flickr page:

(With Michelle’s mother, watching the results come in)

Following last Sunday’s art special, at the suggestion of England For Obama friend Darrell Morris, today’s post are devoted to photos of Barack Obama And Friends.

And much as I’d like to include dozens of beautiful shots from the likes of AP and Reuters, little things like ‘copyright law’ prevent me from doing so. But I’m going to try and sneak in one exception - this now-famous photograph from Getty Images, which was taken after a townhall discussion at North Farmington High School in Michigan on September 8:

(Peruse Getty, AP, Reuters and other images of Barack to your heart’s content here on Dailylife.com.)

Goddammit, is there anything the new leader of the Free World can’t do?!

Here’s the story behind this doodle:

So, today’s edition of England For Obama comes with a special cut-out-and-keep section celebrating Obama-related art.  Well: look at, print off and then cut-out-and-keep.

And we’ll kick off with this gem of a picture gallery from The Guardian:

(Thanks to John Q for the link.)

I’ve just uploaded my photos from the night to my Flickr page here.

It was so great to spend the night with friends who a) know their election stuff and b) care about it, c) make me laugh and d) don’t mind buying champagne. With a) and d) coming marvellously together when Ohio was called, and we knew it was all over. Even if many of the people around us didn’t.

And we were, I am proud to say, literally the last people (of about 500) to leave. Partly because we ended up having a row with both the security and the management about their selling us a bottle of champagne and then making us drink it in roughly five minutes. Earlier that evening, I had told Nick that “Tonight, we’re going to make history”. Nick later said that he had, in fact, made history - because it’s the first time he’s ever been escorted out of a venue by a bouncer.

Take a look at this slideshow of people celebrating the Obama victory around the world.

Wait ’til you get to ‘London’…