The Foreign Service Journal, October 2020

LOCAL LENS 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 . O n a cool June morning, I took this photo in Reykjavík’s Old Harbor. This past summer, I was able to escape the COVID-19 oppressiveness of Washington, D.C., and spend time teleworking from the world’s northernmost capital. You can see some of Reykjavík’s landmarks in the photo, including the Harpa Concert and Conference Center and the spire of Hallgrímskirkja church. A pair of unusually cranky eider ducks is quacking loudly just out of frame. n BY ÁSGEIR SIGFÚSSON n REYKJAVÍK, ICELAND Ásgeir Sigfússon is AFSA’s executive director and director of communications. He has rarely been more appreciative of his dual U.S.-Icelandic citizenship than he was this summer. He used the wide-angle lens option on his iPhone 11 to take the photo.