The Foreign Service Journal, March 2014

78 MARCH 2014 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL LOCAL LENS BY JANIE JAMES-HIGH n TAKORADI, GHANA Enter 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. D uring my assign- ment on an observation mis- sion for the 2012 Ghanaian presidential race, children saw my camera and would run toward me—singing out for me to take their picture. This particular shot was taken in the city of Takoradi, in an outlying rural community that was both jubilant and peaceful during the elec- tions. I found the T-shirt of the young girl—the “Obama Girl”—to be very poignant on that Election Day. n Janie James-High, a native of California but longtime resident of Arizona, has been with the State Department since May 2010 as an Office Management Specialist. Now posted in Accra, she served previously in Brussels at the U.S. mission to the European Union. She holds a B.A. in commercial photography, and previously worked in higher education and the business world. She took this photo in December 2012 with a Pentax K100 digital SLR camera.