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to enjoy the company of other pho- Margaret Collins - Secretary
tographic enthusiasts. Margaret joined CTPS in 2014 and
Before retiring, he worked for 24 was persuaded by Richard Gold-
years as sales support manager for schmidt (the previous President)
a large plastic pipe manufactur- to join Council in 2017 and to
ing company which included site take over the position of secretary
training, problem solving and the which she has held ever since.
resolution of product complaints in She works as a structural engineer
the irrigation, civil engineering and and occasionally also provides in-
building drainage market sectors. put into structural design courses
at UCT.
Andre Mouton – Webmaster & Design Her main reason for joining CTPS
was that she was very interested in
Andre became a member of CTPS creating AV’s, although in all these years she had never enough
in 2002 (one of the longest serving time and leisure to make more than four AV’s. Occasionally, she
members of the club). He did it out also likes to try her hand in creative photography.
of curiosity after a friend had invited
him to come along to attend one of Portfolio Managers:
the monthly competition evenings.
He was appointed to Council in Away outings: Richard Goldschmidt
Local outings: Andre Mouton
2017 - initially to assist with begin- Venues: Mike de Villiers
ners’ training but later to improve Facebook: Steff Hughes
and maintain the CTPS website, AV: Ken Woods
handle communication to mem- Archives: Trudi du Toit
bers via Snapshot and to do the fi-
nal layout of Cape Camera. He is a
business analyst by profession and also a professional wedding
photographer in his spare time.
*) The first CTPS female president was Tita Wilson - elected for three terms in 1976, 1979 and 1984.
So near and yet so far!

The WCPF Interclub Competition 2021

Trudi du Toit reports
Only 6 points were required to win the 2021 Western Cape Competition Results
Photographic Forum (WCPF) Interclub trophy. In the end only
5 points separated CTPS and Tygerberg Photographic Society 1 Tygerberg Photographic Society 1705 Pts.
(TPS). But, alas, it was not to be. TPS was declared the winner 2 Cape Town Photographic Society 1700 Pts.
with 1705 points, closely followed by CTPS with 1700 points.
Individual CTPS members were, however, winners: Anna Engel- 3 Tafelberg Fotografieklub 1639 Pts.
hardt’s lovely Evening view of Venice was awarded the “Judges 4 Fish Hoek Photographic Society 1635 Pts.
Choice” accolade by Judge Shane Else, who is the PSSA Eastern 5 Helderberg Photographic Society 1617 Pts.
Gauteng Regional Director. This image got the 10th highest
score of the 264 entries, namely 75 out of 90. This 10th place 6 Creative Camera Club 1603 Pts.
and score was shared by CTPS members Kim Stevens for Rhap- 7 Hermanus Photographic Society 1603 Pts.
sody in Blue and Jeanette du Toit for Sossusvlei Dune Angles. 8 Paarl Photographic Club 1581 Pts.
Dave Gordon’s Squacco Fest narrowly missed out on an award
by coming 4th, with 78 points – the highest scoring image from 9 Swartland Fotografieklub 1566 Pts.
a CTPS member. Andre Mouton’s image, Daybreak, was close on 10 Witzenberg Photographic Society 1552 Pts.
his heels with 76 points. It was the 6th highest score.
In addition, CTPS vice-president Lesley Parolis was awarded a 11 Durbanville Fotografieklub 1524 Pts.
PSSA Certificate of Excellence for the service she provided to enced judges – all from outside the Western Cape – were asked
the photographic community as part of the Interclub Judging to score the 24 PDI images entered by each of the eleven par-
Coordinator team, her willingness to assist all clubs with Pho- ticipating clubs out of 30. The highest and lowest score of each
tovault problems and her decade-long role as competition con- image were discarded by the judging coordinators Lesley and
venor for CTPS, in particular. Bennie Vivier of TPS. The remaining three scores were added to-
CTPS was one of the clubs that nominated Lynne Kruger-Haye gether for a total out of 90.
as the recipient of the Golden Apple Award for service to the Like last year, COVID-19 determined that the awards ceremony
Western Cape photographic community for her work on the would again be a virtual event, broadcast via zoom from Piet
WCPF website, as part of the JAP team, as well as promoting Steyn’s Magic Live Stream Studio in Durbanville. At one stage
creativity through the Level Up programme. She was also nomi- Steyn announced that more than 100 people had registered to
nated by Durbanville Club and Elizma Fourie from Hermanus. log in to the link – some only later in the evening due to load-
Following the same format as the past few years, five experi- shedding.

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