The Foreign Service Journal, December 2016

118 DECEMBER 2016 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL LOCAL LENS BY KEVIN KEEN n BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA 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. Please include a short description of the scene/event, as well as your name, brief biodata and the type of camera used, to locallens@afsa.org. F irst I heard the hoofs, clacking on the pavement. I looked outside our Buenos Aires apartment. Down on the street were uniformed service people on horseback. They were headed to a military parade and ceremony commemorating Argentina’s Independence Day, July 9. n Kevin Keen is an FS family member in Buenos Aires, where his FSO spouse is on his first tour. Kevin works remotely for the Switzerland-based Global Fund and has lived in Ecuador, Argentina and Switzerland. Previously a television news reporter, he is familiar with the video medium, but is now venturing into photography with his Canon Rebel T3i, used to take this photo. South America, he says, has limitless opportunities to practice picture taking.