Obama With PM Modi: White House Releases Top 2014 Photos

The White House has released the best of behind-the-scenes pictures for the sixth consecutive year in 2014. The pictures are a courstesy of Pete Souza, Director and Chief Official White House Photographer and his staff. Here's how the year went by for US President Obama and his invitees.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi travels with US President Barack Obama in his car to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on September 30. During a five-day trip to the US, PM Modi addressed the Indian diaspora at New York's Madison Square Garden Photo Credit: Pete Souza, Director and Chief Official White House Photographer

'Don't make rabbit ears', the US President said to students from elementary school at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida before taking a photo with them.
Photo Credit: Pete Souza, Director and Chief Official White House Photographer
US President Obama sits for a 3D portrait being produced by the Smithsonian Institution.
Photo Credit: Pete Souza, Director and Chief Official White House Photographer
President Obama soughts out help of a hotel employee to see how a pair of earings he had bought for his daughter Malia might look. Photo Credit: Pete Souza, Director and Chief Official White House Photographer

US First Lady Michelle Obama hugs family pets Sunny and Bo during a video taping in the Map Room of the White House. Photo Credit: Pete Souza, Director and Chief Official White House Photographer
Barack Obama swats a fly that was invading his space in the Oval Office. Photo Credit: Pete Souza, Director and Chief Official White House Photographer
US President Barack Obama speaking with Russia's Vladimir Putin at the White House. Photo Credit: Pete Souza, Director and Chief Official White House Photographer

Barack Obama with the daughter of a departing staff member in the Oval Office
Photo Credit: Pete Souza, Director and Chief Official White House Photographer