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Cape Camera October 2022

Outings EPSSA (Mille-Platinum) – Evelyn Gibson
Richard Goldschmidt, assisted by Dave Gordon, arranged a AFIAP – Crighton Klassen
weekend outing to Paternoster in July. A memorable weekend EFIAP – Kim Stevens
that was very well planned and enjoyed by all. EFIAP/s – Neels Beyers
In November 2021 Robert Maginley arranged a 30-day chal- Honours group
lenge competition and in May Pat Scott arranged an outing to
Thelema Wine Estate to photograph the autumn colours. I want Kim Stevens, again this year, with the assistance of Evelyn Gib-
to express, on behalf of Council, our gratitude to the above son, also an Honours judge, headed a group to assist members
members for their assistance. who wanted to apply for Honours with the selection of images
Other outings included visits to Vergelegen, CTICC and sur- for their panels.
rounds, Lourensford with Melanie Cornelius, Sea Point Prome- Salon
nade, top of Table Mountain and Constantia Greenbelt (Alphen CTPS held a National PDI and Print Salon in February 2022. Kim
& Klassenbosch). Stevens was the Salon Director. We received a total of 3 096 PDI
Education and Development and 176 Print entries.
With one exception we had all our speakers on Zoom this year. Tygerberg Photographic Society, PE Camera Club, Sandton Pho-
Kim again managed to arrange an impressive line-up of speak- tographic Club and Tafelberg Foto Club assisted with the judg-
ers that included Kyle Goetsch, Julia Cumes, David Clapp, Eva ing of certain categories.
Polak, Tony Bramley, Rob Shea and Elize Labuschagne-Hull. We The following CTPS members assisted with the hosting of the
were inspired by these speakers. The highlight, however, was salon:
the September presentation by Kim Stevens on “Shooting for Lesley Parolis, Salon Administrator who also handled all the IT
Monochrome”. Not only did we have an excellent presentation, requirements; Nicol du Toit, Treasurer; Trudi and Nicol du Toit
but Kim also demonstrated how to process an image for Mono- collected all prints from collection points at ORMS Durbanville
chrome and thereafter we had a lively discussion of black and and ORMS Cape Town and also hosted the judging of prints at
white images submitted by members. The drinks and snacks their home; Andre Mouton for designing and sending out the
were served during the break when members had an opportu- certificates; Marius Stockenström for handling the engraving of
nity to socialise contributed to a very enjoyable and successful medals and Ken Woods for preparing AVs of the Medal winners
evening. and COMs and acceptances in each category for the online ex-
Membership hibition held on 27 April.
We currently have 143 members of which 25 joined during the CTPS also assisted other clubs by regularly judging sections of
year. They are: their salons. In these instances, Lesley Parolis runs the TOP sys-
tem and our members do the judging.
Tom Goshen, Brian Jones, Lorenzo Baartman, Johan Walden,
Liesl Walden, Aseyah Rosslind, Paul Nash, David Polovin, Paul- Audio Visual
Boer Putter, Rosie Burton, Hendrik Louw, Niel Roux, Heiko Denk- The AV group is being run by Ken Woods who is putting in a lot
er, Priscilla Plummer, Janet Tromp, Ruth Scholtz, Wayne Boshoff, of time and effort to grow the group.
Anne Muller, Antony Edmunds, Prior to Covid a small group of AV makers used to meet every
Jill Strelitz, Charles Booysen, John Alexander, Lea-Anne Alexan- second month for a live meeting at the hall, but when the pan-
der, Jenny Stricker-Greeff and Mike Stricker. demic arrived it was changed to using Zoom and this has now
Member achievements become the new format. About 13 CTPS members are part of
Lifetime Achievement Award the group and about 6 are actively involved in producing AV
sequences. However the group has now enlarged to 23 as other
Detlef Basel attended the PSSA annual congress in Greyton people from the Western Cape and up country have joined in,
as the PSSA’s guest of honour where he received a Lifetime so the interest is growing.
Achievement Award for his “extensive and continued service to
photography and PSSA”. One of the issues getting into Audio Visuals is learning the soft-
ware and Ken has taken it upon himself to help and attempt to
Kim Stevens was appointed PSSA Honours judge. teach this. They are using PTE AV studio 10 and Ken tries to do a
Lesley Parolis and Anna Engelhardt successfully completed the Zoom session on a monthly basis and explain different aspects
two-year WCPF Judging Appreciation Programme. of the program. At these sessions they also watch AV’s from the
Ken Woods won the PSSA Impala trophy for Best AV Maker. group.
David Barnes was winner and runner up in the Marike Bruwer Jeff Morris also runs a group called AV Makers South Africa
competition (he entered under Tygerberg). which anyone can join and has members from all over SA. They
LPSSA: meet once a month to showcase their work. He also organizes
international speakers from time to time.
Lesley Parolis – LPSSA (Colour), Mariana Visser – LPSSA (Mono),
Trudi du Toit – LPSSA (Colour), Theo Potgieter – LPSSA (Colour) Audio Visuals are a great way to show your photography and
it’s a satisfying creative hobby to combine music, and images to
APSSA: tell stories, create emotion and add an artistic flare to the mix.
Dieter Bütow – APSSA (Colour Communications
DPSSA: Facebook
Kim Stevens – DPSSA (Vers), Theo Potgieter DPSSA (Open), Da- Steff Hughes is managing the CTPS Facebook account. The
vid Barnes DPSSA (Open), Karyn Parisi DPSSA (Vers)
membership on Facebook has steadily grown to 91 members.

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