The Foreign Service Journal, April 2019

62 APRIL 2019 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL LOCAL LENS BY ANDREA NAGY n GUILIN, CHINA Please submit your favorite, recent photograph to be considered for Local Lens. Imagesmust be high resolution (at least 300 dpi at 8” x 10”, or 1MB or larger) andmust not be in print elsewhere. Include a short description of the scene/event, as well as your name, brief biodata and the type of camera used. Send to locallens@afsa.org. T his photo shows a woman drawing water from a well in the abandoned stone village of Jiu Xian on the outskirts of Guilin, in southern China. Guilin is best known for its impressive karst rock formations, which are featured on the back of the Chinese 20-yuan currency note. n Andrea Nagy recently returned from a two-year posting in Chengdu. She joined the Foreign Service in April 2016 with the 141st specialist class and is currently on her second tour, as an office management specialist in the Regional Security Office in Brasilia. She took this photo with a Nikon D5200.