September 11, 2025: “Highlights of Israel” with Mike Walker | Monthly Meeting

Our September Monthly Meeting will be on Sept 11, 2025 at 6:45 pm!

The monthly club meeting is a free event for anyone who shares a passion for photography, from the total beginner with your phone to a professional with multiple gear sets. Please join us in-person or online and invite anyone who may be interested in exploring and learning about photography!

We meet at Atlanta Tech Park at 107 Technology Parkway, Peachtree Corners, GA 30092.

You are welcome to arrive at 6:15 pm for fellowship and social time to meet new and current members.

Join in-person meeting:

Date: Thursday, Sept 11, 2025
Time: 6:45 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 107 Technology Parkway, Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 | Atlanta Tech Park

Join Zoom meeting on September 11th at 6:45 pm:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87095233534?pwd=9nyB9pZpm3YSRaA43A5jkcLEAYBmOx.1
Meeting ID: 870 9523 3534
Passcode: 752175

Our September Speaker is Mike Walker and the topic will be “Highlights of Israel”!

Mike will primarily be presenting photos taken during a trip he and his wife took to Israel in April of 2023, about 6 months before the October 9th Massacre. He will open by briefly discussing his style and philosophy of travel photography. The tour they took was a non-photography focused tour, but their tour guide was very accommodating to the photographers in the group. The tour title was "The Christian Heritage Tour" and was focused on visiting the places in the New Testament where Jesus was born, grew up and conducted his ministry through to and including the events surrounding the crucifixion. Additionally, the tour visited a few Old Testament, Crusader and other sites important in Jewish history such as Masada. The tour was not, nor will his presentation be primarily focused on religious themes but will provide the secular historical context in which these events occurred and were later documented, and which context necessarily includes the religious foundations underlying those events.

What will we learn:

What is travel photography and how does it differ from other photography genres?
What are the typical and unique challenges of travel photography?
What makes travel photography interesting to the viewer?

About Mike Walker:

I am a self-taught amateur enthusiast photographer. Translation, I spend a lot of time taking and working on photos, but don’t make very much money from it. I purchased my first 35mm film SLR, a Canon Rebel, in the mid-1990s, but it wasn't until I acquired a 6.3 MP Canon 10D DSLR in 2004 that I developed a passion for and began to devote significant time and effort to photography.

While I read a ton of books on both the mechanics and art of photography, including post production techniques, I found most of my inspiration came from studying photographers whose work I liked, both on the internet and in photobooks, and then experimenting using whatever information I could glean from the artists notes and/or EXIF data to build or improve my skill sets.

While I enjoy shooting most photographic genres, my primary interests mostly tend towards wildlife and landscape/cityscape photography, which dovetails well with my and my wife's other passion, travel.