The Foreign Service Journal, June 2018

94 JUNE 2018 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL LOCAL LENS BY MATTHEW L. HORNER n DUBLIN, IRELAND 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. 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 image is of the Long Room in the Trinity College Library in Dublin. The largest library in Ireland, it is truly impressive. The library was built between 1712 and 1732; and, at nearly 65 metres in length, it is filled with 200,000 of the library’s oldest books, including the famous Book of Kells. n Matthew L. Horner is currently the sole consular officer at U.S. Embassy Reykjavík. He has also served in Cambodia, Mexico and Barbados. He took this photo recently, while on a long weekend in Dublin, with his handheld Canon 6D, using an EF 17-40mm wideangle lens.