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Blog Guy, I love the way your blog offers tips to aspiring photojournalists. I’ve memorized your advice on shooting handshakes and shoes. What other elements make for a great political photo?
Stairs. If you are able to spot candidates climbing back onto their campaign plane, readers eat that up. I find roughly 8,500,000 tarmac stair-climbing photos from this campaign alone, and I’m thinking of publishing a coffee table book called, “Steps to the White House.”
Awesome! I bet that would sell a lot, and these examples are gripping and dramatic. But as important as the candidates are, isn’t there a way they could arrange for moving stairs to their planes at each stop?
Yes, they could. The legal term for having that in a contract is “escalation clause.”
You are such a loser! That’s it, I’m never coming back here!
You’ll come back. They always come back.
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Above: Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain, his wife Cindy and vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin wave from the top of the stairs of to their campaign plane, September 6, 2008. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Below: Combo of countless candidate stair-climbing photos by REUTERS
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What’s so remarkable about this? Political giants of this caliber are bound to attract stairs wherever they go!
…Oh… Um… Never mind.
This is no fun.. I want to see pictures of candidates “tripping” on stairs. We can put them in a vid clip and call it America’s funniest stair videos.
Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin is noticeably absent from most stair shots; when asked why, she claimed to be afraid of the “glass ceiling” she hears most women encounter in corporate and government situations, and doesn’t want to mess up her hair.
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