It was just another regular day for the Moore family and photographer Briana Inell until it wasn’t. Portia Moore brought her family to the Tidal Basin so Inell could shoot her kids’ cherry blossom pictures, but little did they know Barack Obama would photobomb them. The children, Preston and Belle, posed right underneath the blossomed trees when Obama walked past them, unintentionally “ruining” their photos and prompting the encounter to go viral online. What happened next was even more shocking. The former president, who is also a dad of two, reacted to the incident on Instagram with the most adorable apology for “stepping into the shot.”
Barack Obama apologizes for ‘stepping into’ cherry blossom photo shoot
Portia Moore and her family’s day out by the Tidal Basin took an unexpected turn with Barack Obama photobombing her kids’ cherry blossom shoot. The snap showed the two children, Belle in a gorgeous pink dress and Preston in denim top-to-bottom, posing next to the blossoming tree when Obama strolled by them, wearing a casual white shirt, grey pants, a baseball cap, and sunglasses, accompanied by the Secret Service. He even looked toward them in one snippet without realizing he was in the frame.
NBC Washington promptly covered the incident, with photographer Briana Inell also sharing a detailed post about the encounter and the photos. Moore was reportedly only there for the shoot, so her family could enjoy the peak bloom when they learned it was Obama who walked by them. The photographer wrote about immediately going “through the photos on my camera card to see if I caught and to my surprise, I DID!” Following this, local news channels contacted them for interviews, making it an even more enthralling experience.
Additionally, the following events added to the family’s shock. Barack Obama reacted to the photobombing incident by resharing Portia Moore’s cherry blossom photos on his Instagram Stories and apologizing for “stepping into” her kids’ shot. He wrote, “Preston and Belle, I hope you enjoyed peak bloom! My bad for stepping into the shot.” In the post, Moore had called their accidental brush with the former president a story to “remember” and the photo a “family heirloom (literally).”
