The Foreign Service Journal, October 2014

74 OCTOBER 2014 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL LOCAL LENS BY ED MALCIK n PARIS, FRANCE Please submit your favorite, recent photograph to be featured in Local Lens. Images must be high resolution (at least 300 dpi at 8 x 10”) and must not be in print elsewhere. Please submit a short description of the scene/event, as well as your name, brief biodata and the type of camera used, to locallens@afsa.org. E very tourist to Paris eventually winds up on the Montmartre hill, a haunt of the Impressionists, and hangs out in the cafes around the Place du Tertre. Paris is famous as a city for lovers, and here a bride and groom gaze into each other’s eyes. No, wait: she is looking into her dish of ice cream, and he into the endless depths of his phone. Somehow, however, love still transcends technology. n Ed Malcik joined the Foreign Service as a management o cer in 1984 follow- ing a tour in the Peace Corps, and served in Douala, Mumbai, Bridgetown, Dakar, Abidjan, Djibouti, Berlin and Stockholm. He retired in 2010 and now relishes his role as a trailing spouse, following his wife, Susan, to Paris and Chennai. e photo was taken with a Nikon 300s and 24mm lens.