David Valdez (photographer)

[2] Following his graduation from high school in 1967, Valdez was drafted into the Air Force, where he was told he was going be a field photographer.

He worked for the base newspaper and often photographed generals during the Vietnam War at Strike Command headquarters.

[2] Valdez left the service in 1971, and went on to attend the University of Maryland,[2] where he majored in journalism and radio and television production.

It is also by far, Valdez's most republished image of his career, and in an interview with NBC News, he felt the way it resonated with the general public was that it was in line with what Bush always said were the most important things in life – family, faith and friends.

He also published a picture book, George Herbert Walker Bush: A Photographic Profile, which was released in 1997.

Having photographed three generations of the Bush family, Valdez told the Georgetown View that this was "kind of neat".

Andrew Delbanco of The New York Times described it as "a feel-good album ranging from boyhood photos to snapshots of the grandkids.