Arizona’s Old State Capitol building is now a history museum. Among its exhibits is the old House of Representatives chamber, which offers visitors a trip back into time. The room is kept exactly as it looked in 1912, when Arizona became a state. Every day, school groups tour the museum, and all of them spend some time in this room, listening to guides tell them stories from out of the past. I made this image of a schoolteacher, seated at a desk on the chamber floor. I used a 400mm telephoto lens from the second floor chamber gallery, high above her. I framed her behind two softly focused antique light fixtures, and found her brightly illuminated hands clasped before her as she gazed around the room. I found a catchlight in one eye, and an expression of awe upon her face. I hope her students were as impressed with the stories of Arizona’s political history as she seemed to be.