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Cape Camera August 2023

Above left: Some of the CTPS members
responsible for the exhibition last year:
vice-president Lesley Parolis, Lambe
Parolis, Richard and Joyce Goldschmidt
and Anna Engelhardt.
Above: Renowned photographer and
gallery owner Martin Osner, accompa-
nied by his wife Anita and daughter Sa-
mantha, opened our 2022 exhibition
Left: Groot Constantia CEO Jean Naude
with Anna Engelhardt, CTPS exhibition
curator, CTPS president Jacoba van Zyl
and members Marius Stockenstrom and
Jenny Powis.

Celebration exhibition (continued) Reasons for the CTPS sponsorship

ple exhibiting. Although there will be no charge for the After much deliberation, the CTPS organizing com-
opening function, people will have to make a booking, mittee decided that the club will sponsor the cost of
because space will be limited. printing and mounting all the images and undertake
Please book asap to ensure that you secure a seat for the hanging of the prints. The reasons are:
Martin’s presentations! • One of the founding principles of the WCPF is to pro-
You’ll be familiar with the Groot Constantia wine cellar mote photography in the Western Cape. As the biggest
and tasting room as the venue where CTPS held our suc- and oldest amateur photographic club in the country,
cessful print exhibition last year. You might remember CTPS has always accepted the responsibility of sharing
that it is not only the oldest and one of the most visited our resources where needed, to help promote pho-
wine estates in the country, but the tours offered in their tography in the region;
wine tasting venue is also a major drawcard for busloads • The aim of this exhibition is to encourage as many
of visitors keen to learn more about the first wine made clubs as possible to participate so that visitors will get
in Africa (think 11 000 wine tour tickets sold in Novem- a representative overview of the high quality of work
ber last year!). by the region’s club photographers. Because it is free,
Anna Engelhardt has once again secured the use of the smaller clubs will therefore not be deterred by costs;
venue from 11 November until the end of December, • Clubs whose members do not usually enter prints
when the tourists will be visiting the estate. are not disadvantaged because they can enter their
Each club has been invited to select a maximum of 12 best digital images to be printed – provided they meet
PDI images (or less) that are big enough to be printed at the size requirements;
12” by 18” at 300 dpi by Orms. Because the aim is to give • Experience has shown that with such a large exhibi-
as many photographers as possible the opportunity to tion, it creates a more pleasing impression when the
sell their works, we requested that no more than one im- sizes, mountings and frames of the works are uniform.
age per photographer is entered. Besides, it would not be fair if one club enters massive
A selection committee will meet next month to choose images that takes up double the space of another club
the CTPS prints to be exhibited. The members whose with smaller works;
work has been selected will be notified. • Due to time and logistical constraints for clubs that
Please contact Nicol du Toit on 082 337 8285 or are far from town, it will save time for clubs to simply
nicol@sportstrader.co.za for bookings. send their images to CTPS to have them printed.

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