102 SEPTEMBER 2024 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL BY NOAH ROSE n TAIPEI, TAIWAN 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. LOCAL LENS A coffee chemist is at work on the observation deck of Taipei 101, the world’s tallest building until Dubai’s Burj Khalifa was completed in 2010. Taipei was my mother’s first posting, as a consular officer, and my introduction to the world of third culture kids in 1996. I was able to return just before taking up my own first assignment as a consular officer. n Noah Rose is a political officer serving in a consular-political rotation in Ankara. He took this photo in October 2023 on a Nikon Z6.
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