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Cape Camera September/October 2021

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26th October 2nd November Human portraits
A likeness, personality and mood of a living subject, human or animal, where that sub-
ject is dominant in the image. Portraiture is not restricted to head and shoulders and
may include just a part of the face, a back view or even a full-length study. Colour or
monochrome.
30th November 7th December Monochrome photography
A black and white work fitting from the very dark grey (black) to the very clear grey
(white) is a monochrome work with the various shades of grey. A black and white
work toned entirely in a single colour will remain a monochrome work able to stand in
the black and white category.

President’s Annual Report from the recent AGM

October 2020 to September 2021

The activities of the year under review remained restricted to a August 2021 - James Maher from New York on street photogra-
certain extent by the Covid-19 lock-down regulations; however, pher (a shared evening with Tygerberg PS)
I feel that our Society experienced a full and active time, albeit September 2021 - Hendrik Low on macro photography
we lacked person to person contact. Nevertheless, our year-end What has been of great benefit to our members is that some of
social evening was able to be held on the 4th of December 2020 these talks have not only been recorded, so that members can
at my home where 36 members enjoyed a cocktail party, held see them in their own time, but they are cross referenced to our
mainly outdoors. The results of the annual competition were website and can be seen on YouTube at any time in the future.
announced and the awarding of medals and certificates took
place. We have Mike Pace, Lesley Parolis, Sean Fautley and Anna Engel-
hardt presently doing the JAP course.
Outings and Meetings Membership
We felt comfortable enough with the decrease of Covid to
proceed once more with outings in October 2020, and twenty We have had twelve new members join us during the past year,
three people spent a weekend photographing at Kromrivier many of whom are members of other clubs. Our membership
Farm in the Cederberg. In November we held a morning out- remains the same as last year at 127. Especially pleasing are
ing to Kirstenbosch. As outings were considered low-risk of those joining from other parts of the Country, which just shows
Covid-19 being basically outdoors, we proceeded to hold out- the benefits of operating our activities via Zoom. CTPS now
ings throughout the year. We visited, the Wijnland car museum, have four members who sit on the board of the Photographic
The Castle, Franschhoek, Hout Bay harbour, Kalk Bay harbour, Society of South Africa.
Tokai Forest, Cape Agulhas weekend, Harmony Park Strand, We welcomed the following new members:
Intaka Island, and will have had a weekend at the West Coast Glynn Katzin, Jessica Nitschke, Alan Johns, Julian Hulme, Justin
Park by the end of September 2021. So for those members who Fletcher, Janice Ashby , Mariana Visser and Johan van Wyk , all
supported the outings, quite a lot of person to person contact from Cape Town – and Amorien van Heerden, Francois Roux,
took place. In May 2021 the lock-down level had decreased to Evelyn Gibson and Ken van Wyk, all from Gauteng.
the extent that Council decided to try out a meeting once more The following members gained the top level of Master photog-
at St Stephens Hall. Only sixteen members braved this meet- rapher this past year. Congratulations to Dave Gordon, Kim Ste-
ing, which was a combination of a print competition, an evalu- vens, Neels Beyers, Crighton Klassen, Jacoba van Zyl, Jeanette
ation of images evening, mixed with a cheese and wine social. du Toit, Lesley Parolis, Lambe Parolis, Anna Engelhardt, Nicol du
It was intended to hold such evenings every two months, but Toit and Dave Barnes.
as another wave of the virus started to increase, and given the
reluctance of members to risk an increased social contact, it was Audio Visual
decided to hold further meetings at the hall in abeyance. Ken Woods has made great strides in maintaining interest in
Education and Development our Audio Visual section members this past year by keeping in
personal touch and giving encouragement. He has held a num-
The following is a list of Educational and Development speakers ber of instructional meetings over Zoom and has sent out Barry
we have enjoyed, thanks to Kim Steven’s organisation this past Beckham videos on how to master the PTE software. The in-
year : terest is ramping up with an educational session held with our
October 2020 - James Kerwin from Georgia on abandoned ar- ex-member, Ingrid Gain, who now resides in Australia and is an
chitecture expert on AV’s. This meeting had about 20 participants from all
November 2020 - Russel Smith on portraits from a pandemic over South Africa, not only CTPS members, with more meetings
February 2021 - Richard Barnard from Manchester on street scheduled in future.
photography Council
March 2021 - Colin Harrison from the UK on composites and Your Council met monthly via Zoom meetings, which worked
creatives very well. In addition we were able to hold a special planning
April 2021 - Charlotte Bellamy from Holland on in-camera meeting in person in November. Thanks are due to all Council
movement members who carried an additional load in their respective
June 2021 - Adrian McGarry from Wales on cell phone photog- portfolios this past year. The online Education and Develop-
raphy ment talks, the competition evenings, the website and Snap-
July 2021 - Ernest Porter on bird photography in the Kgalagadi
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