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Obama's line in the sand
June 4, 2009 5:07 pm No Comments
You had to pinch yourself to remember that he IS an American president, I mean a president of the United States of America. The world view Obama laid out in Cairo today was something it is almost impossible to imagine any other US leader ever attempting. I urge you to read it or watch it [...]
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Meetings with remarkable men (cont.)
March 24, 2009 11:19 am No Comments
Sauntering past the west wing of the White House this morning, having passed the Photoshop store on the other side of Pennsylvania Avenue, I ran into Barack Obama in a rather smart, roundish office.
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The president and the cameraman
March 12, 2009 6:48 pm No Comments
My two good friends Dai Baker and Chris Shlemon, cameraman and editor respectively in our Washington bureau, are sitting down for lunch with Barack Obama. They have both won prestigious White House photography awards, and they get to sit next to the president as part of the award.
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Gongs agogo for ITN at the White House
February 23, 2009 5:57 pm No Comments
I am going to eat my hat. My good friend and colleague Dai Baker, our cameraman editor in Washington, has just scooped a White House News Photographers Award. It’s the fourth time he’s done it in five years. But this year he also won the editing award for a fabulous little piece we did on [...]

