The Foreign Service Journal, January-February 2015

94 JANUARY FEBRUARY 2015 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL LOCAL LENS BY ED MIRON n DAKAR, SENEGAL Please submit your favorite, recent photograph to be featured in Local Lens. Images must be high resolution (at least 300 dpi at 8 x 10”) and must not be in print elsewhere. Please submit a short description of the scene/event, as well as your name, brief biodata and the type of camera used, to locallens@afsa.org. A female vendor, with her baby on her back and her older daugh- ter trailing behind, walks along the beach in late afternoon. is was a familiar scene at the small, rocky beach used by locals in the Almadies section of Dakar, less than a mile from the new U.S. embassy. n Regional Medical O cer Ed Miron joined the State Department For- eign Service in 2006 after 23 years of private practice as a family doctor in a small town. He spent two years in Riyadh, and was then posted to Dakar, where he took this photograph. In October, he completed an assignment as chief of foreign programs in the O ce of Medical Services in Washington, D.C., and is now at FSI for the eight-week Portuguese FAST course in preparation for his next assign- ment, São Paulo, in January. is photo was taken with a Canon EOS 5D Classic with a 70- 200 mm zoom lens.