The Foreign Service Journal, October 2021

86 OCTOBER 2021 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL 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 . BY CAMERON WOODWORTH n COCORA VALLEY, COLOMBIA Cameron Woodworth is associate editor of The Foreign Service Journal . His wife, Monica Smith, is a Senior Foreign Service officer with USAID. They just finished an assignment in Bogotá. He shot this picture with his Android phone. T he wax palm trees of Colombia are the tallest palms in the world, reaching up to 200 feet. Their trunks are coated with a thick wax (unlike other palm species), and they thrive only at high altitudes of up to around 10,000 feet. The trees cast an otherworldly atmosphere during a six-hour hike through the cloud forest of the Cocora Valley. n