CTPS again concluded the 2023 competition year in style, with an elegant function in the opulent setting of Simon’s Function Venue on the Groot Constantia wine estate. This was again made possible by our accomplished event organisers,  Anna Engelhardt and Joyce Goldschmidt.

Jacoba van Zyl and Lesley Parolis looked after the competition aspects. It is a tremendous task to select the best three photographers of the year in each rank in both Open and Set subject categories and Jacoba had to add up the total of the ten highest scores earned by all members during the year. Marius Stockenstrom had the 21 medals made.

Monthly competition winners

The highest scores in the monthly competitions per ranking with the members’ ten highest scoring images were:

Annual Competition

Lesley appointed the judges to select the winners in the eight categories of the annual competition

from the 354 images entered by CTPS members in the year-end Annual Competition.  She also made the slideshow of winning images and designed certificates.  The judges were:

Danie Bester: Open Colour and Open Monochrome.

Charlotte Bellamy: Art Photography and Scapes.

Leon Oosthuizen:  Portraits and Photojournalism.

Hendrik Louw: Nature Wildlife and Macro and Close up.

Kim Stevens was the clear winner of the Annual Competition with 12 points earned with three category winners in Portraits, Photojournalism and Nature Wildlife, plus a joint runner-up in Open monochrome and joint third place in Open Colour.

The winners in the  different categories of the Annual Competition were:

Every year a number of Salon-ranked members are promoted to Master status, which is earned with at least 10 Gold medals and ten new salon acceptances during the year. This year eleven members achieved Master status, namely Neels Beyers, Theo Potgieter, Dieter Bütow, Lambe Parolis, Nicol du Toit, Trudi du Toit, Jacoba van Zyl, Kim Stevens and Lesley Parolis. Absent: Anna Engelhardt and Michele-Ann Nel.

Past President Jacoba van Zyl honoured Kim Stevens with the President’s Award for the eight years that she was responsible for the E&D portfolio on Council and her willingness to advise members. Jacoba also mentioned Kim’s PSSA involvement  as part of her motivation for the award, namely as a member of the prestigious Honours Judging Panel and her advisory role in the Western Cape Honours Group. Kim also received the PSSA Impala Trophy for winning the print category and  a medal as author of the Best Salon image of the Year, namely Calatrava Graphics. The DPSSA Prints she earned this year qualified her for DPSSA (Vers) – DPSSA Honours in three categories.

CTPS received three awards from PSSA this year: as the Western Cape club with the most Impala salon points in the 2023 competition year, for winning the Website competition and for being the runner-up in the Magazine competition.

• Neels Beyers was the Impala Top Achiever in CTPS member for earning the most salon points in the club.
• Nicol du Toit received an Impala  Top 10 certificate for print salon acceptances, in addition to the DPSSA Prints he also earned this year.
• John Alexander earned LPSSA Mono.
• Anna Engelhardt, who earned CTPS Life Membership as well as LPSSA Mono and APSSA Colour, could unfortunately not be present at the awards function.