No wonder

Throughout every election campaign, heaps of terrible photos of policiticans appear in a variety of news outlets. I now understand why.
When a politician makes a campaign stop he is swarmed with people, and a lot of them have cameras. So there is a big group of photographers trying to get a picture, they're pushing each other out of the way, holding cameras over their heads and just hoping to get a clear shot. This results in a lot of crappy pictures. How would I know? I was one of these photographers yesterday.
I'm not a great photographer to begin with so this was an added challenge. But here I am, all 5'4 of me, trying to take a photo from behind a half a dozen other taller photographers. I have a lot of pictures of the back of their heads. Luckily, a security guy helped me get into a clearer vantage point to get a picture of Paul Martin without the back of some bald guy's head in it. I know I've got something in there, once I crop out a lot of heads...

This is probably the bet shot I took of the PM, post-cropping.

This is what it felt like, plus the heat of a lot of smelly photographers. I have a lot of pictures from varying degrees of closeness of the bald guy in the red coat.