The Foreign Service Journal, May 2017

74 MAY 2017 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL LOCAL LENS BY KEVIN CHAMBERS n STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN Please submit your favorite, recent photograph to be considered for Local Lens. Images must be high resolution (at least 300 dpi at 8” x 10”, or 1 MB or larger) and must not be in print elsewhere. Please include a short description of the scene/event, as well as your name, brief biodata and the type of camera used, to locallens@afsa.org. T wo young Swedes talk beneath the giant elm trees of Kungsträdgården (King’s Garden) Park in central Stockholm. The park’s central location and its outdoor cafés make it one of the most popular hangouts and meeting places in the city. Built during the Middle Ages as the royal kitchen gardens, the stretch of greenery was opened to the public in the early 19th century and now hosts cultural festivals, open-air concerts and other events in summer and ice skating in winter. In the early 1970s, the “Battle of the Elms”—protests that ended the demolition of central portions of old Stockholm—took place at the site of the photo. Today, it hosts a tranquil Tea House. n FSO Kevin Chambers is a commercial officer at U.S. Embassy Stockholm. He took this photo with a Sony A7R.