I find fascinating the transformation that public speakers go through – the gradual changes from “private mode,” to focussing on the event, to appearing before the audience and delivering the presentation, to winding down again. And, for a number of obvious reasons (historical, sociological, and practical), I find the changes even more interesting with female speakers. This photograph from before a presentation at a large scale event, Los Angeles Century City, InterContinental Hotel, 2009.