Barack Obama, President of the United States

The long-expected speech that not even Greenpeace activists would have ever hoped for (surely it won't stop them from blocking up the roads later today, though) opened up with a surprisingly long Czech prelude on first Czech president Tomas Garrique Masaryk and the legacy of Czechoslovakia as "the country that brought down The Soviet Union without a single warhead". Which as a Czech citizen I'm not particularly sure of.

Shot at a distance of only twelve metres during President Obama's visit to Prague, Czech Republic as part of the EU-USA Spring 2009 summit on D200, Nikon 180mm/2.8 lens with a 1.5x Kenko Teleplus SHQ teleconvertor (= eq. ~ handheld 500mm).