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ISnAP August 2008 All the News We Make Up to Fit
Comments from the Chair
This is your first issue of ISnAP - the International Society for Aviation Photography's primary communication tool. We want you to use it. It will sink or swim depending on the input we receive from you and other members of our organization. Please, at your earliest possible convenience, send us anything - and we mean anything! - you think would be of interest to members of this organization. That includes stories about your own photo experiences, assignments, equipment, forthcoming events, personal news (birthdays, weddings, new additions to the family - and obituaries). Photographs are, of course, not only welcome, but strongly encouraged. We'll use 'em! This first issue is essentially an experiment. We - your board of directors - concluded some time ago that we wanted to become more pro-active in staying in touch with ISAP membership. Our web site, (http://www.aviationphotographers.org/) remains fully functional and very much the epicenter of our electronic communications system, but it will now be supplemented by ISnAP. We hope that both tools will be used actively by you. Member Frank Landrus has volunteered to honcho ISnAP for us. He's got the expertise and apparently the time(!) and has high hopes we can get every single member onboard to make a contribution - not just once, but many times. Frank's contact information is noted elsewhere, but for future reference, his email is: viggenja37@sbcglobal.net. Mark it and use it!
August 2008
ISnAP is primarily a communication device. If you have news you want to spread to your fellow aviation photographers, this is the device to use. If you have something to sell, you're looking for something to buy, or you plan to have a big retirement ceremony and want to invite the multitudes, ISnAP is here for you. Please, please use it! Diverging off of ISnAP for a moment and putting it to work, let me tell you that we are - as I write - negotiating with several hotels in the Everett, Washington area to serve as our venue for ISAP-IX. Things already are falling into place for this to be another extraordinary get-together. The Nikon troops called last week to say they have corralled Scott Kelby one more time for an unprecedented third-year-in-a-row presentation to our group - and we'll allocate appropriate time for him, accordingly. We're working on a special guest speaker that, we hope, will be of considerable interest to all, and the field trip is going to involve as many as five major stops in ten hours! It's looking good for some live air-to-ground demos, as well, including the strong possibility of a Boeing 777 delivery flight and our being positioned immediately adjacent to the runway at the time of take-off. We should have a lot of ISAP-IX locked-down by the release of the next ISnAP - so watch for it to appear in your e-mail in about six weeks. Would also like to mention that I am planning to attend the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta. This starts on Friday, October 3, and ends on Sunday, October 12. I would like to know if there are any ISAP members other than myself who plan to attend? I have been asked by Media Relations chief, Kathie Leyendecker (kleyendecker@balloonfiesta.com) to have all ISAP members who plan to attend to contact her; she will arrange press credentials and comp parking (the latter is a big deal, believe me!). If we can get enough ISAP members to attend, I propose we have a little ISAP party - and arrange for accommodations in the same hotel. There is a Hampton Inn in Albuquerque that I have stayed in a half-dozen times. It is convenient to the Balloon Fiesta, it is nice, and the room rates are reasonable. For those interested, their phone number is 505 837-9300. They have asked me to tell all who plan to attend that they have about twenty-five rooms left - but those will almost certainly be sold out by the end of August. Call soon! That's about it for this ISnAP. Let us hear from you!!!
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