Obama Is All Smiles in New Official Portrait

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Alex Fitzpatrick
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Obama Is All Smiles in New Official Portrait
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Photo courtesy of Flickr, Pete Souza/The White House

It's a little-known fact that President Barack Obama and official White House photographer Pete Souza made a bit of history in 2009 by releasing the first official presidential portrait taken with a digital camera instead of painted on canvas.

Continuing his digital tradition, Souza released Obama's newest presidential portrait via Twitter Friday.

New official portrait of President Obama: bit.ly/VaiPxk— petesouza (@petesouza) January 18, 2013

The new portrait features Obama, arms crossed and smiling, in front of his desk at the Oval Office. It was shot on a Canon 5D Mark III.

Obama's new portrait is a much different take on the president than Souza's 2009 take, which showed a content but not beaming Obama:

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Photo courtesy of Flickr, Pete Souza/The White House

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