This room choed to the arguments of politicians, starting in 1901. It was the scene of the creation of the Arizona State constitution in 1912. The lawmakers have departed, moving to new quarters in a nearby building. But the debates can still linger in this chamber, if you have a good imagination and listen closely enough. I climbed to the visitor’s gallery overlooking the chamber in order to anchor the image with the delicate lighting fixture that first blazed at the turn of the last century. I use a diagonal composition to draw the eye from these lights to the legislator’s darkened empty desks and chairs below. By spot metering on the lights, the room itself goes into shadow, giving the desks and chairs a ghostly presence, and taking us back into time itself.