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November/December 2022 Cape Camera

Annual Awards Function

The Annual Awards function was held on the 15th November at Set Subject
Simon’s Restaurant on the Groot Constantia Wine Estate. It was
a fitting venue as it was right next to the Wine Tasting Rooms, Ranking Position Name Points
which house our wonderful photographic exhibition of 2022. Beginner 1 Liesl Walden 223
This meant that members attending the function could visit 2 Gina Denny 43
the exhibition, some for the second and third time, and then
come across to the dinner venue. It was a lovely evening, full of 3 Andre Mouton 38
happiness and friendship, and it was a fitting celebration of all Intermediate 1 Lindsay Antonio 234
our members’ wonderful photographic work over the past year. 2 Gaetan Manuel 232
Thank you to Joyce Goldschmidt for being the main organizer 3 Sally-Ann Spooner 218
of the event from CTPS. Thanks must also go to Leigh-Ann from
Simon’s at Groot Constantia for all the arrangements on their Advanced 1 Eric Decloedt 242
side. The food and service were excellent. 1 Kishore Seegobin 242
Medals and certificates were handed out for the two main com- 2 Mireille Landman 231
petitions of the year, the Annual Competition and the Overall Salon/Master 1 Kim Stevens 279
Monthly Competition, as well as for the President’s award, a
Special Service award and for the Master Photographers for the 2 David Barnes 270
year. 3 Dieter Butow 254
The CTPS Council decided to award a Special Service award to
Anna Engelhardt for all her hard work in organizing the 2022 Open
CTPS Photographic Exhibition, which has been so success-
ful. Anna’s dedication and attention to detail has resulted in a Ranking Position Name Points
wonderful showcase of our members’ work and is something of Beginner 1 Liesl Walden 205
which CTPS can be very proud. The exhibition will have been 2 Ashley Smith 90
running for six week by the time it closes on the 31st December
and has had daily visitors who come through to Groot Constan- 3 Andre Mouton 62
tia to visit the estate and taste wine. It is also on the popular Red Intermediate 1 Joyce Goldschmidt 221
Bus route so our work has had lots of exposure. 2 Paul-Boer Putter 220
The President’s award this year went to Lesley Parolis. 3 Janice Ashby 210
The Annual Competition comprises eight categories and mem- Advanced 1 Jonathan Burchell 246
bers could enter two images in each. Medals were awarded to
the winners and certificates to the runners-up. We are grateful 2 Paramasivam Kumar 243
to the following judges who chose the winners and two runners 3 Walter Berndorfler 240
up in each category; Melanie Cornelius for Macro and Close Up Salon/Master 1 David Barnes 263
Photography, Jill Sneesby for the Open Colour and Open Mono-
chrome sections, Samantha Osner for Scapes and Art Photogra- 2 Jean Bradshaw 259
phy, Peter Hardcastle for Nature including Wildlife and Portrai- 3 Jeanette Du Toit 258
ture, and Eugene van der Merwe for Photojournalism including
Street and Sports Photography.
The winning images are shown below and can also be found in Master photographer awards:
the galleries on the CTPS website. Master photographer status is awarded to a Salon ranked mem-
Overall Points competition ber who achieves at least ten gold awards in monthly competi-
The winners in the Overall Points Competition for the monthly tions and at least ten unique Salon acceptances over the com-
competitions were calculated by adding the scores of the ten petition year. The following members achieved Master status
highest scoring images for a member over the competition for the year and were awarded certificates; Anna Engelhardt,
year. This was done for each ranking section, and for the Open David Barnes, Evelyn Gibson, Lambe Parolis, Jacoba van Zyl,
and Set subjects separately. Medals were awarded to the win- Jeanette du Toit, Kim Stevens, Lesley Parolis, Neels Beyers, Rich-
ners and certificates to the runners-up. The results are shown in ard Goldschmidt, Theo Potgieter and Trudi du Toit.
the table below. Congratulations to everyone who did so well Congratulations to them all.
over the past year.

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