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Cape Camera March 2022

CTPS salon gives members a boost

CTPS members are on a roll, breaking records as far as salon

acceptances and award points are concerned. What’s more,
we seem to be picking up speed.

For the first time in many, many years CTPS is the front-runner After the Rustenburg salon, there are 18 CTPS members on the
among Western Cape clubs with salon awards and points. With Impala Trophy PDI points log shown below:
a total of 492 points from 459 awards (acceptances, COMs and
medals) for PDI and print entries, close to a quarter (23.4%) of all Member Points
the awards in the region had been awarded to CTPS members. Kim Stevens 97
We are more than 100 points ahead of the second Western Dieter Butow 71
Cape club on the log, Hermanus Photographic Society, which
bodes well for our chance to win the regional award for the best Theo Potgieter 36
performing club in the current Impala Trophy year, which ends Dave Gordon 35
30th June. Provided, of course, that members enter images in Jeanette du Toit 33
the eight remaining salons. Richard Goldschmidt 25
Nationally, CTPS is also doing very well in salons and is currently
ranked 9th on the log of 96 clubs competing for the Premier Anna Engelhardt 23
Club Trophy* awarded to the PSSA club with the best perfor- Nicol du Toit 23
mance in salons. Our 492 points are, however, a long way off Lesley Parolis 20
the 1071 points of the leading club, Southern Suburbs Camera
Club. The Western Cape region is currently 5th of all PSSA re- Paramasivam Saravanakumar 19
gions on the Impala log. Haralambos Parolis 15
Trudi du Toit 16
Club name Total Total % of Jacoba van Zyl 14
Awards Points WC
Peter Turnbull 10
Cape Town Photographic Society 459 492 23,4%
Steff Hughes 10
Hermanus Photographic Society 331 379 16,9%
Michael Pace 9
Tygerberg Photographic Society 311 312 15,8% Sonja Grunbauer 9
Tafelberg Fotografieklub 241 264 12,3% Eric Decloedt 8
Paarl Photographic Club 154 147 7,8%
CTPS PDI and Print Salon
Witzenberg Photographic Society 122 124 6,2%
Fish Hoek Photographic Society 114 123 5,8% The fact that CTPS hosted a salon during the Impala year there-
fore gave the number of awards and points gained by club
Swartland Fotografieklub 108 106 5,5%
members a big boost, because in each category a club bronze
Creative Camera Club 80 82 4,1% medal for the best performing CTPS member was awarded. In
this salon we gained the most points (45) of all 64 clubs with
Durbanville Fotografieklub 19 19 1,0%
members that participated. The 34 awards won by club mem-
Weskus Fotografie Klub 17 18 0,9% bers (30 PDI and 4 Print) gathered a total of 37 PDI and 8 print
points.
Gansbaai Photography Club 7 7 0,4%
Our members, who enjoy taking more creative images and
Helderberg Photographic Society 0 0 0,0%
making prints, further benefitted from this salon, which had no
Kleinmond Kiekieklub 1 2 0,1% dedicated wildlife, nature, or bird categories, which are often
dominated by members from up country. Anna Engelhardt did
Best clubs in Western Cape region the best with a total of 10 points from 4 acceptances – for two
of these she was awarded bronze medals for the best perform-
Kim Stevens is CTPS’ top performer in salons and has been ing CTPS member in the Panorama category. Jeanette du Toit
among the Top 30 on the PDI Impala Trophy log every time the got 9 points for 3 acceptances and bronze medals for the best
points have been recalculated after each completed salon. After performing CTPS member in PDI – Architecture and interiors as
the Rustenburg salon she is now ranked 29th with 97 points. well as in PDI – Visual art.

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