This is the moment President Barack Obama slips his wedding ring into his pocket as he meets and greets a group of Argentinian youngsters he appears to be worried might rob him.
The US leader was all smiles as he visited an arts centre in Buenos Aires with his bodyguards in tow during his official visit to the south American country.
But the cameras captured a scene he would probably have preferred to keep private - the moment he takes a valuable ring thought to be his wedding band off his finger and put it into his trouser pocket during a round of handshakes.
He makes the move as one of his bodyguards approaches him from the left, sparking suggestions he received a gentle whisper in the ear from his security staff.
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