I was recently invited via a Google+ photo walk opportunity to photograph the South Lawn of The White House prior to the public opening of their annual Spring Garden Tour. My initial assumption was that they would have the Google+ photographers focus on the Rose Garden, however when we arrived the Rose Garden was closed to photography. Instead, The White House Vistor Center staff and their Digital Communications team gave us a tour of the South Lawn and a meeting with White House Photographer Pete Souza. This was a fantastic opportunity and a lot of fun, with Pete Souza's slide show of his favorite President Obama images being the petal on the icing of the cake.
Since there were no flowers to shoot I opted to focus on mystery and abusrdity. After all, being on the gounds of a beautiful house with a meticulously kept landscape dotted by security cameras and men in uniform with lethal weapons is quite a strange feeling. In the image above the fact that you can't see the face of the Secret Service agent and the woman's eyes in the background is obscured by her sunglasses suggest that there are many secrets being kept at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. We are not sure exactly what's going on but it seems full of intrigue. Perhaps, it can serve as a refelction on the current environment we live in today.
Over the course of the next week or so I will post more of my favorite images from The White House Spring Garden Tour 2012.
I have been sucked into the vortex known as Google Plus for over a week now and I absolutely think it is the social network to end all other social networks. However, all of my time on G+ has meant neglect for my Twitter and Facebook friends. I found if I really wanted to share something I had to post it three times. 
