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Cape Camera January/February 2021

Successful start to the 2021 JAP course

by Nicol du Toit, Chairman Western Cape Photographic Forum
Despite the unexpected load shedding that cut many areas off Carstens, assisted by Alicia Greyling, asked for time off. During
from the Zoom meeting to introduce the 2021-22 Judging Ac- the first two courses Johan Kloppers also assisted the team in
creditation Programme (JAP), it was attended by about 30 en- his capacity as Western Cape Regional Director. During the last
thusiastic delegates. Within the following few days, more than (2018-2019) course, I replaced Johan as Regional Director, and
20 of them signed up for the year to be trained as judges, while as the last man standing of the former team, convinced Lynne
several signed up to attend the lectures, without the practical Kruger-Haye, Stephen Burgstahler and Trudi du Toit to assist
judging evaluation. me as part of a new admin team.
They were, no doubt, inspired by the glowing reports about the Following recommendations from previous graduates, we de-
previous course from former graduates Chris Coetzee, Jane Bur- cided to split the sessions into the genre lecture delivered by
sey and Gary Scholtz. With the thoughtful unpacking by Lynne an expert, followed by a practical judging session for the dele-
Kruger-Haye of the ethics of judging and Stephen Burgstahler of gates after the break. This prompted some people who already
your responsibilities when evaluating images surely convincing got accreditation to sign up to complete the judging course
any remaining sceptics. As Lynne said: To be asked to judge is again to gain more judging experience.
an honour! We also received several requests from accredited and expe-
This year there will be several changes to the previous courses: rienced judges to attend the lectures as a “Refresher” course
the main one being that the Covid pandemic dictates that we – and several signed up for the year. They will also receive ac-
meet via Zoom – to start, at least. This does offer the benefit cess to the topical Reading Material – articles and books about
that we can offer lectures by experts from across the country a specific genre - made available to all delegates on the Teams
at a reasonable cost and there is no need to limit the number platform.
of people attending a session. During the new course there will To give you an indication of what is in store during the first
also be much more emphasis on practical judging experience, year of the course, here is the programme for the first year. The
and there is a new admin team. second part of the course will commence on the first Saturday
After developing the framework and curriculum for this two- of February 2022 and end with a graduation ceremony in No-
year course and nurturing three groups of about twenty del- vember 2022. In August and September there will be practical
egates to become accredited judges, Celia Fouché and Antenie evaluation sessions.
Course programme for 2021

Saturday 6 February 2021 Introduction of programme If here are other Western Cape club
members who want to attend the
Saturday 6 March 2021 Visual design by Izak van Niekerk lectures as a “Refresher” or attend
the course to become an accredited
Saturday 10 April 2021 Nature by Koot Marais judge, please contact me on nicol@
Saturday 1 May 2021 Landscapes by Francois Roux sportstrader.co.za. Please feel free
to contact me if you attended the
Saturday 5 June 2021 Sport photography by Christiaan Kotze introductory meeting and need a
reminder of where and how to pay
Saturday 3 July 2021 Macro photography by Hendrik Louw
or require any other information
Saturday 7 August 2021 Portraiture by Lynne Kruger-Haye about joining the course.
Saturday 4 September 2021 Tbc
(please note that this will be up-
Saturday 2 October 2021 Common judging mistakes by Antenie Carstens dated regularly)

Saturday 6 November 2021 Practical evaluation
Six of the eight
CTPS members who
graduated in 2020:
(front) Steff Hughes,
Kay Laishley & Tru-
di du Toit; (back)
Chrighton Klassen,
Chris Coetzee and
David Barnes. Ab-
sent: Viv Harpur and
Sandra Cattich.

Some of the CTPS members who attended and graduated from the JAP course in 2018 with
administrators Antenie Carstens (back) and Alicia Greyling (front), both from CTPS. In front
are Julie Dyer and Margaret Collins and at the back Len van Wyk (one of several members
who attended out of interest), Jason Purcell, Shaun Laishley and Nicol du Toit. Kim Stevens
was absent.

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