{"id":14378,"date":"2018-12-03T22:24:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T03:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=14378"},"modified":"2019-02-10T09:47:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T14:47:52","slug":"members-forum-israel-with-kirk-johnson","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/event\/members-forum-israel-with-kirk-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Member&#8217;s Forum: &#8220;A Once in a Lifetime Trip to Israel&#8221; with Kirk Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Once in a Lifetime trip to Israel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kirk Johnson Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Self-portrait-bW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15566 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Self-portrait-bW-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\"><\/a>Since joining NVPS in August 2012, Kirk Johnson has been taking digital photographs of a variety of subjects, such as architecture, street and urban, portrait, black-and-white, floral and abstract.<\/p>\n<p>Armed with his trusty Nikon D5300 and LG G6 smartphone and a variety of post-processing tools (Photoshop CS6, NIK Collections, Topaz, Portrait Professional 18, and Photomatix), Kirk has been recognized internationally, nationally, and locally with a variety of photographic awards including: 2017 International Fine Arts Photography Award (FAPA) &#8211; Nominee Award for Abstract photography; the Great American Country&nbsp; (GAC) &#8211; Hunt for Americana Photo Contest &#8211; United States Southern Region Finalist \u2013 in 2014; numerous NVPS monthly competition awards.&nbsp; Additionally, his photographs have appeared in Bliss Magazine and twice in Shutterbug.com \u201cPhoto of the Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kirk, who retired from the U.S. Navy in 1999 as a Lieutenant Commander, currently lives in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife, Leslie and their dog, Orville.&nbsp;&nbsp; Presently, Kirk is a Principal Director working for the federal government in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>For the February 2019 Member\u2019s Forum Kirk will discuss his October 2018 trip to the Holy Land and share some background information on a number of sites he and his wife, Leslie, visited along with photographs taken during the one week stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Once in a Lifetime trip to Israel Kirk Johnson Biography Since joining NVPS in August 2012, Kirk Johnson has been taking digital photographs of a variety of subjects, such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"America\/New_York","_EventStartDate":"2019-02-26 20:00:00","_EventEndDate":"2019-02-26 21:30:00","_EventStartDateUTC":"2019-02-27 01:00:00","_EventEndDateUTC":"2019-02-27 02:30:00","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"prefix","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[158,163],"class_list":["post-14378","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-activities","tribe_events_cat-members-forum","cat_activities","cat_members-forum","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/14378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/14378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15569,"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/14378\/revisions\/15569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14378"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nvps.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=14378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}