北德州亞裔攝影協會 NTAPA: December 2007

As expected, we had a most crowded attendance in our monthly meeting last night. Most members came trying to catch our Master Tang's presentation on Photoshop Techniques.

Master Tang is so experienced in this key photo editing tool and so professional in public address that his knowledgeable and humorous speech attracted all participants from the beginning to the end. The meeting lasted two hours and 40 min.

We thank Master Tang and salute with a 90 degree bow here!

In order to improve the situation, the President has decided to move the monthly location to another bigger room starting next month, the Toastmaster Room, at the center of the same building (the aisle to the wash room.)

2008 is still two weeks away, 2008 BOD has be warm up to serve the team. Both our 2008 VPs Windus and Dave brought a big basket of hot "spring rolls" and a dish of home made chocolate pecan nut cake, respectively, to our monthly meeting last night to entertain all attendance. We give you two a big hug! Thank Woindus and Dave!

We welcome our visitors/new members Tao An, Wu Zu Chiu, Wen Chen Chiu, and Bernadette Wang last night in our monthly meeting! We are looking for more new friends to join us in 2008. We have organized an ever stronger BOD to serve all. NTAPA is heading a prosperous future. Cheer !!!

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We had our Annual Convention and Christmas Party joinly held on Friday evening 12/7 at DFW Technology Activity Center. Following is a report by gh:

Congratulations! We had a warm and happy Annual Convention & Christmas Party last Friday. Though we did not have everyone here, but everyone here was fully enjoyed through out the evening. The highlights of the event were:

1. The 2008 9-seat new Board of Directors have been selected

2. The 2008 President has been voted by the new BOD

3. The new President has appointed his two Vice Presidents and Secretary

4. The second photo contest winner awards were done

5. The 2008 membership due collected (all participated current members)

6. A total of 9 new members joined the Association

7. A review of the 2007 activities was given by the current President

8. Two full attendance awards were done

9. A small scale donation for a local hospital was done

10. Member works were exhibited

11. Keynote speech was given by Dr. Lai

12. Entertainment programs were impressive

We welcome the President 2008:

Richard Chen

We welcome the Vice Presidents 2008:

Dave Tyler and Windus Wong

We welcome the BOD 2008:

Richard Chen

Dave Tyler

Windus Wong

Linfen Hwang

Pauline Chen

Walt Hsu

Rick Pang

Joyce Wang

Anita Thurmond

Pauline has organized a very strong and complete team for next year. 2008 will be a better year

New BOD team picture attached (more pictures for the evening will be posted tonight)

We welcome our new members:

(熱烈歡迎新團員加入我們的行列)

Janet Lin

Sally Chen

Amy Lai

Bill Tien

Ching Tien

Ziping Hu

Nancy Chiu

WuZu Chiu

Grace Chang

(may miss some?)

Congratulations! Photo contest winners:

Ming Zeng

Rick Pang

Windus Wong

Linfen Hwang

Howard Lie

Walt Hsu

Dave Tyler

Winners and losers are neighbors; you are a loser today, you may be a winner tomorrow, let all keep on!

We thank the photo contest judges:

Edward Tang

Charles Lai

David Hsu

April Kao

Garcia

We thank the current President and her team:

Mission completed

Excellent job done

Congratulations and thanks to all participated members during 2007

The current term of the President and BOD will end on December 31, 2007

The new President and his team will be on board January 1, 2008

We are looking for another challenging year of exploring the bottomless photography world

Basic PhotoShop Training Class:

Set on our routine monthly meeting date and time

Wednesday, 12/19, DFW Technology Conference Room

7:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Instructor - Edward Tang

We selected Basic Photoshop this time because we have more "basic" members than "advanced"

Let's leave the "Color Management" to a little bit later

Bring our own notebook if possible

We are looking for more training classes in 2008

Our warmest wishes to our ex-president David Hsu:

David is going to have a minor surgery next week

With a weak health, David joined among us this evening

We highly appreciated his love and care of our big family

We wish him all the best and get well soon

We are looking for another life model in January or February

We thank Amy Zhou and Zoe Peng:

They are sharing the same traditional spirit of NTAPA with us.They came back to see us on the Annual Convention evening. We welcome them all the time! We welcome all ex-members to come back and share photography knowledge and skills with us.

Together we will build up a permanent beautiful world of the past, the present, and the future.

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