PHOTOS: See Favorite pictures of President Obama in 2015, as release by his official photographer

The President carries the twin boys of Katie Beirne Fallon, Director of Legislative Affairs, into the Oval Office

Obama makes a last-minute plea with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi after a meeting at the White House

Former NBA player Shaquille O'Neal dwarves 6ft 1in Obama in the Oval Office

Obama and Chancellor Angela Merkel at the G7 Summit in Krün, Germany

Obama plays with Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes' daughter in the Oval Office

At his leaving party, Social Secretary Jeremy Bernard dances with Obama in the State Dining Room of the White House

The First lady shows off her boxing skills

The First Lady snuggles against the President in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House

The President jokes with a little girl in a school

The Obama family greet Pope Francis as he arrives in the United States

The President meets a boy in New Orleans' Treme neighbourhood

Obama couldn't resist shooting some hoops when he passed this gym after a speech on education at Georgia Tech in Atlanta

The First Family walks across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to commemorate the 1965 civil rights march on the same span

The President’s daughter Malia wipes something off dad's face in the Oval Office

Obama plays again with Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes's daughter, wearing an elephant costume for a Halloween event at the White House

The President hugs his niece Savita Ng after his sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, and her family dropped into the Oval Office

Obama meets President Putin on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Turkey

Obama mimes bicycle ride as the US Marine Band plays the score from the 1982 movie, ET

The President has a selfie with an 11-year-old boy and his four-year-old brother

The President's wave aligns with a rainbow as he boards Air Force One from Kingston, Jamaica