Photo of the Year: Wildcards (Part 1)

(1) President Obama in Kotzebue, Alaska (Photo by Mark Seliger/Rolling Stone)

(2) Pete Souza: “The President’s daughter Malia stopped by the Oval Office one afternoon to see her dad and, while they were talking, she wiped something from his face.”

(3) Family Portrait (Photo by Pete Souza)

(4) Pete Souza: “The President greets nine-month-old Josephine Gronniger, whose father, Tim Gronniger, brought his family by the Oval Office for a family photo.”

(5) Pete Souza: “An amusing moment as the President made a last minute plea with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., following their meeting at the White House.”

(6) The late Rev. Clementa Pinckney’s daughter, Malana, reaches up to President Obama next to her sister Eliana, right, as their mother Jennifer hugs first lady Michelle Obama after the president eulogized Rev. Pinckney during funeral services at the College of Charleston TD Arena in Charleston, S.C. (Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

(7) Pete Souza: “The Obama family and Biden family greet Pope Francis as he arrives in the United States for the first time at Joint Base Andrews.”

(8) Vice President Biden and his granddaughter Finnegan Biden tour the Dachau concentration camp in Germany with Max Mannheimer, a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor (Photo by David Lienemann)

(9) Touring the Panama Canal Miraflores Locks in Ancon, Panama (Photo by Pete Souza)

(10) Pete Souza: “Throughout the first half of the year, the President met often with our team during the P5+1 negotiations with Iran. Several times he conducted secure video conferences from the Situation Room while the negotiators were on the ground in Switzerland.”