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July/August 2021 Cape Camera

Team of CTPS members wins Winner of the PSSA Website competition
prestigious international award

At the end of the PSSA monthly competition year for 2020/21,
Winning image from Nicol du Toit Nicol du Toit achieved the most points for website images en-
tered when all points scored were added together. He got a to-
tal of 395 points for the 12 images he entered during the year.
In June he was awarded 37 out of a maximum 45 points for his
image Boardsail Symmetry (see above).

National & International Salon Results

Jurassic Coast International AV Salon

Winning image Francois Roux

Two CTPS members, Nicol du Toit and Francois Roux, were mem-
bers of the South African team that won a FIAP silver medal in
the 29th FIAP Colour Biennial 2021 hosted by France this year.
With 42 participating countries, the PSSA team’s third place was
indeed an achievement!
Nicol and Francois were among the ten sports photographers Ken Woods received the Jurassic Bronze Medal in the Photo
invited by Jill Sneesby to supply two Rugby Action images for Harmony section for his AV Summertime, and in addition got a
the PSSA digital entry in this global competition. In addition, PAGB Gold Medal for Best Newcomer.
they were both members of the South African print team that
came 11th out of the 36 countries participating in the print sec- 1st Witzenberg Photographic Society
tion. The score for the print collection, titled Sport Action, was PDI & Print Salon
only one point away from receiving a FIAP Honourable Mention
(an international COM).
The Biennial is a global competition organised by the Interna-
tional Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP), the international
body to which PSSA and many other country federations are af-
filiated. The Colour Biennial is held every alternate your, and the
Nature and Black and White Biennial in the intervening years.
Each participating country must enter a panel (collection) of 20
digital images and another collection of 10 prints. Apart from
each individual entry receiving a score, the whole collection is
also judged on what FIAP calls “coherence”. The collections are
entered under a theme – PSSA selected Rugby Action as the PDI
theme and Sport Action as the print theme – and the judges
evaluate how “coherent” the tone, content, colour, etc. of all the
images entered in the collection work together.
Harmony and Posts by Kim Stevens

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