The Foreign Service Journal, October 2012

82 OCTOBER 2012 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL LOCAL LENS BY JAMES TALALAY n TAKEN WITH A CANON EOS REBEL T3I USING A TAMRON 28-85MM ZOOM LENS. THE FOCAL LENGTH WAS 51MM AT F5.6, 1/250 SHUTTER. Enter your photography to be featured in Local Lens! Images must be high resolution (at least 11 MB). Please submit a short description of the scene/event, as well as your name and the type of camera used to locallens@afsa.org. O ne of the secrets I learned in Agra was a rarely seen, but breathtaking place from which to view the Taj Mahal. Everyone sees and takes photographs from its front garden. But if you venture behind the monument, across the Yamuna River, and then turn to look back at it from a distance, the view is just as stunning. I went at sunrise for the pretty light, and was rewarded with a glimpse of a group of colorfully-garbed women walking along the riverbank. James Talalay is an EFM in Chennai. You can see more of his photographs at hellotalalay.blogspot.com.