President Obama came to Allentown last week to visit a bunch of small businesses as his first stop on his “Main Street Tour” of America. I happen to work at a television production company only one half-mile away from his first stop, so naturally the whole area was on lock down. They halted traffic on small streets and major highways, stopped trains, and also, (rumor) welded the manhole covers down on streets he was to use. When he passed by my work early in the morning I wasn’t prepared for how fast his caravan would speed by, so I only got one shot. This picture is from later that day when he visited the Hamilton Family Restaurant for lunch (I took an extended lunch break to play paparazzi). There are usually two Presidential Limo’s on any excursion, which are totally bad-ass, but with their super-thick glass they make taking pictures of the President kind of difficult. This is the only one where you can kind of make him out. Anyway, as an Obama supporter and volunteer during the campaign, it was fun trying to catch a glimpse of the guy I helped put in office.
