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Cape Camera April 2023

‘Sea Lion tenderness’ by Dieter Butow was the runner-up in the Evelyn Gibson’s image ‘Everything will be OK’ is the winner of
PSSA March Senior Club competition. the PSSA March website competition.

CTPS members are winners in the PSSA March competition

The CTPS entry in the PSSA March Senior Club competition, Sea doesn’t enter the same image that month. When this happens,
Lion tenderness by Dieter Butow, was the second runner-up for the club entry will take precedence over the individual entry in
the month. This endearing image has already earned Dieter sev- the website competition.
eral medals, locally and international. In the Junior and Senior monthly club competitions, all PSSA
Evelyn Gibson won the March website competition with the - affiliated clubs (like CTPS) are invited to enter the images that
lovely image Everything will be OK. She explains that she used won their club competitions that month in the Junior and Sen-
seven different layers to compose her beautiful ballet image. ior competitions. These images are then sent to three experi-
“The main subject was taken at one of the Joburg Ballet per- enced judges who score all of them again out of 45 to select
formances. It created for me a very strong emotional feeling. To that month’s winner and two runners-up.
add more value to this feeling and give it some mystic, I added As a club’s entries compete against the best entries from
the sky taken out of one of my recent images taken in Scotland. around the country, it is indeed an honour for CTPS’ entry to be
“The reflection is the image added again in an upside down among the top three of all clubs in March.
perspective. Lots of dodging and burning and some vignetting The winners of each category (Junior and Senior club and
added the feel for me that I wanted and felt about the image. Website) of these monthly competitions are published on the
My title of Everything will be OK shouted at me loudly. Thank PSSA Home page – www.pssa.co.za. Click on the images to view
you to my mentor who walked the road with me in this image.” all the club winning images in each category entered for that
Individual PSSA members are invited to enter their own im- month and download the excel sheets with the scores of all the
ages in the website competition - provided that his/her club entries.

Annual PSSA Competitions

Annual club and website competition Clubs may enter 15 Junior and 15 Senior images from club
At the end of the PSSA competition year (end of June) all competitions between July the previous year and June of
the monthly winners of the junior and senior club and web- the current year. No image entered in a previous PSSA Inter-
site competitions are judged again by a panel of three to club may be entered again.
select the Annual Senior and Junior Club and Website com- One photographer may not have more than a total of
petition winners and runners-up. three images in the competition, even if they are entered by
The annual category winners each receive a PSSA Silver different clubs. If an image by the same author is entered by
medal and the runners-up are awarded a certificate. more than one club, both images will be disqualified. The
rules stipulate “it is the responsibility of the clubs to check
PSSA Interclub competition with each other regarding their submissions to avoid dis-
CTPS will soon be selecting the images that will be entered qualification.”
in this year’s PSSA Interclub competition. Clubs that are Salon Images of the Year
paid-up members of PSSA compete against each other in
this annual competition. All images that received PSSA silver medals as category win-
There are two sections — Junior and Senior — and the ners in PSSA-approved salons during the year are judged
overall winner is the club with the highest combined again in four categories: Nature, Mono, Open and Open
score. The winning clubs in each category are awarded Print.
certificates, while the photographers of the winning im- The photographers whose image are selected as the an-
ages in the Junior and Senior categories receive a PSSA nual winner in each of these categories are awarded a PSSA
Silver medal each. Gold medal.

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