Barack Obama, Waiting, Muscatine, Iowa, 2007

Barack Obama listens from a back stairwell as he is introduced to a crowd in Muscatine, Iowa on November 7, 2007.

"It was his second or third speech of the day. Unlike many of the politicians I have photographed in the past, I find it is easy to get a photograph of Obama alone. He lets his staff do their jobs and not fuss over him." - Callie Shell