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Cape Camera September/October 2021

In the News

Women power at CTPS & Western Cape First club twinning competition
photographic clubs between CTPS & Kirkcaldy Photographic
Society in Scotland
When CTPS elected Jacoba van Zyl as president and Lesley Pa-
rolis as vice-president at the recent AGM, it completely changed On Monday the 4th October a competition was held via Zoom
the leadership make-up of Western Cape clubs’ by bringing the between the Kirkcaldy Photographic Society, based in Kirkcaldy,
total of women-led clubs in the region to seven out of 15. They in Fife in the east of Scotland, and our club. KPS was founded in
join Nettie Warncke of Helderberg, Lynne Kruger-Haye of Tyger- 1898 and, like CTPS, is one of the oldest photographic societies
berg, Mariana Visser of Tafelberg, Leney Stipp of Paarl, Lin Ad- in the world, reports Lesley Parolis. The Society was one of the
shade of Worcester and Belinda Ruhl of Swartland. founder members of the Scottish Photographic Society in 1903.
The changes at CTPS mean that there are now five women out Currently they have around 45 members and have a long and
successful history with several members doing well in national
of eight council members holding council positions. Apart from competitions.
Jacoba and Lesley, these are Margaret Collins, Anna Engelhardt
and Kim Stevens. Several years ago, Roy Balfour, the (now late) president of KPS,
visited us at a competition evening at St Stephens Hall. After-
wards he expressed a desire to collaborate in some way with
Composition of the new PSSA Board his home club in Scotland. It took a few years, with Covid-19
interfering, before the event finally took place in the form of a
The outgoing President Francois Roux, who has led PSSA for the joint competition. Sadly, Roy passed away earlier this year and
last two years with dedication and passion, handed over the couldn’t see his project come to fruition.
reins to Jill Sneesby, with Simon Fletcher being appointed as 1st The first competition evening was organized by KPS. Each club
Vice President and Martin Barber as 2nd Vice President. submitted 25 images, one per photographer, and the judge was
Russell (Rusty) Lindsay FBPE EFIAP MPAGB AWPF. Rusty is a fre-
quent club judge, a speaker on many photographic topics and
an avid photographer.
The images were shown, alternating between the two clubs,
and the scores out of 20 were tallied continuously on the
scoresheets sent to everyone. At the halfway point KPS was
leading by one point but at the end of the 50 images CTPS man-
aged to overtake them to win by a solid 6 points. Congratula-
tions to all our photographers whose images were selected.
In 2022, it will be the turn of CTPS to organize another competi-
(From left: Jill Sneesby, Simon Fletcher,& Martin Barber) tion between the two clubs.

Latest National & International Salon Results

Sandton 8th National Digital Salon Krugersdorp Camera Club National PDI Salon

Sonja Grünbauer received a Certificate of Merit for her Deep Saravanakumar Paramasivam received a Certificate of Merit for
Forest and an additional 3 Acceptances; Kim Stevens got 8 Ac- his Tranquillity amidst the storm and an additional 4 Acceptanc-
ceptances; Theo Potgieter – 4 Acceptances; Trudi du Toit & Eric es; Kim Stevens & Dieter Bütow achieved 5 Acceptances each;
Decloedt – 2 Acceptances each; Dieter Bütow, Nicol du Toit, Dave Gordon – 3 Acceptances; Richard Goldschmidt, Nicol du
Richard Goldschmidt & Michael Pace – 1 Acceptance each. Toit & Trudi du Toit – 2 Acceptances each; Theo Potgieter & Son-
ja Grünbauer – 1 Acceptance each.

5th Lowveld National Salon AFO 10th Digital Salon
Dieter Bütow got 2 Acceptances; Nicol du Toit, Richard Gold- Kim Stevens received 7 Acceptances; Saravanakumar Parama-
schmidt & Theo Potgieter – one Acceptance each. sivam – 4 Acceptances; Dieter Bütow – 3 Acceptances; Trudi du
Toit, Richard Goldschmidt, Michael Pace & Theo Potgieter – 1
Acceptance each.
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