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New NY Times photoblog

The NY Times kicks off their new photography blog with a video that shows just how short White House photo ops are.

When a photo-op is scheduled, the photographers, camera operators and reporters gather in the colonnade outside the Oval Office and wait โ€” sometimes it can be as long as an hour โ€” shuffling feet and making nervous small talk until the flutter of the fingers of the young staffer who calls, “Pool.”