Rusty Latshaw http://www.pbase.com/russellt ) has traveled from Pennsylvania to Arizona four times since 2006 to work with me in my one on one tutorial training sessions. He made dozens of images of me during the two days we worked together, but the one we both liked the best was this portrait he made of me working with him in my office. He catches a characteristic hand gesture – I was expressing how and why I feel about the point at hand, and I seem to be referring to myself by bringing my hands towards myself. He also frames me within my environment, surrounded by the softly focused stuff that accompanies my iMac computer. (We can even see about half of my dog curled up within my desktop image.) And finally, there are all those pairs of glasses. I was wearing my computer glasses at the moment, but my regular glasses hang from my neck so I don’t have to hunt them down when I next need them. I think this is among the most expressive images as I’ve seen of myself in the role of a teacher.