In June of 2015, my colleague Niels Lesniewski sent me an email about a moose coming to the Capitol. A what, in the where? This sounded like a prime feature photo.
Al Drago, then our photo intern, and I scrambled to the Hart Senate Office Building loading dock to capture Marty the Moose and Kodak the Bear being transported from a U-Haul up to the 5th-floor office of Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H. Thus was born an annual photo-op, which, 10 years later, has expanded from just a Roll Call feature into a crowded media melee.
These moose on the loose photos have even won Roll Call three awards over the years in the White House News Photographers Association’s “Eyes of History” contest.
