© Cecil Stoughton

Pete Souza, the Obama Administration’s Chief Photographer revealed that he and his team aver­ages about 20.000 image cap­tures per week, some are pub­lished online from this flickr page.

Accompanying the PBS’ National Geographic spe­cial pro­gram (aired Nov 24), a book is being pub­lished by the National Geographic Society that fea­tures select work from the White House’s pho­tog­ra­phy depart­ment, as well as the behind-the-scenes from some of the most well known shots like the one fea­tured above.