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January/February 2021 Cape Camera

This year’s Interclub Helderberg Photographic Club
Competition invites all AV makers in the Cape

According to Trudi du Toit, Fish Hoek Photographic Society was Helderberg Photographic Society (HPS) welcomes any AV mak-
thrown a curve ball at the January meeting of the Western Cape ers from any other club to join in on their meetings via Zoom.
Photographic Forum when they learnt they were next in line to It will take place via Zoom on every last Wednesday of every
host the 2021 Interclub awards evening. This was because the second month.
two smaller clubs ahead of them on the list felt they simply did
not have the resources to take on this challenge. Fish Hoek chair 2021 Dates & Set Subject Topics
Keith Lyle was given an opportunity to discuss this with his com- Wed 31st March : Macro
mittee before accepting the task.
At this stage, Trudi du Toit can report that the Interclub competi- Wed 26th May : What a wonderful world
tion will take place again, probably on the last Friday of October (any version of music)
- maybe in a virtual format like last year, or with a bit of luck in a Wed 28th July : Black & white / Graphic
hall. Ways are being discussed to incorporate the exhibition of
prints again. Wed 29th September : Third Image
The Forum has decided that the Communication Award – won Wed 24th November : Thirty Days (1 image a day)
by the team from CTPS last year – will again be a feature of the
2021 Interclub competition. This is because it acknowledges the Their Zoom meetings will be free until everything is back to
hidden work done by the club’s communicators who do not of- meeting in person again, after which attendees are requested
ten get recognition for their hard work. to make a donation to cover the hire of the hall – which will be
at the Lutheran Church Hall, Stellenbosch.
To participated, please contact Irmel Dunaiski (Irmel@avcrea-
tions.co.za) who runs the HPS AV Section and convenes the
meetings which start at 7pm and end about 9.30pm.

News from the Western Cape Photographic Forum

The WCPF was founded as a platform for photographic clubs members and then opens the meeting to visitors during
in the Western Cape to share ideas, challenges and resources. the last few minutes to ensure we don’t exceed zoom’s limit
Richard Goldschmidt for example, kindly offered to store any of 100 participants.
hard copies of the WCPF documents in the CTPS storage facility • AV Makers from the Western Cape are invited to attend
– and also offered this option for any other clubs seeking stor- meetings of the Helderberg AV group - for more informa-
age space, reports Trudi du Toit. tion see above.
Like CTPS, who have been inviting other club members to at- • Helderberg is always open to sharing outings and informa-
tend our E&D evenings on zoom, several clubs have issued invi- tion with other clubs, and welcome anyone to their meet-
tations to visitors to share in their activities. CTPS members are ings, says Chairperson Nettie Warncke.
therefore invited to join the following club activities: • Hermanus is planning on continuing the popular third
• Level-Up is an initiative started by Lynne Kruger-Haye, co- Wednesday interactive photography training sessions on
hosted by Stephen Burgstahler, and although they placed zoom, open to the public.
it under the Tygerberg Photographic Society banner, it is
open to people from all clubs and other regions. The aim The discussion of members’ images, instead of judging and
of the programme is to encourage people to explore their scoring in a competition, is becoming a popular trend in the
own creativity and work towards creating a body of work, region. CTPS, for example, have been discussing images that
or series, that expresses a concept that is driven by crea- members are considering entering in salons in the salon group,
tive vision, says Stephen. Any art medium is acceptable and and also wants to introduce image discussion as a meeting op-
participants are supported by accountability partners. The tion.
content is mind-blowing! says Lynne. Although people can Several other clubs in the region are going a similar route: Ty-
still join, newcomers will have to work exceptionally hard to gerberg last year added an image review evening to their cal-
catch up with the rest of the group who have already done endar, Helderberg restarted their BWI (Black and White and
so much work, she adds Information) evenings where they review and discuss images,
• 8th June: Tafelberg Fotografieklub is hosting a zoom talk which are sent to members before the meeting to think about
comments, Creative Camera Club introduced a meeting where
by David Clapp from the UK on how to create Images with members can get feedback on images, while Tafelberg intro-
Impact. He is a renowned landscape and travel photogra- duced a new competition category, Second Time Around, to
pher and he will cover landscapes, travel photography, to which members may submit images that received silver awards
architecture and much more. Contact Tafelberg chair Mari- in the previous month after they made the changes recom-
ana Visser to attend. They will be following the CTPS exam- mended by the former judge.
ple for non-club members: Lesley Parolis first admits CTPS

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