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August 2023 Cape Camera

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‘Is there anybody out there’ by Simon Mouton. ‘Harmony’ by Kim Stevens.
CTPS junior image a winner in August PSSA club competition

Is there anybody out there by Simon Mouton, the junior ny by Kim Stevens, also got a score of 38, which was the
winner in the CTPS August club competition, came third second highest of the Western Cape clubs, and fourth
in the PSSA monthly club competition. Three independ- countrywide.
ent judges gave it the third highest score (38 out of 45) In the July competition our senior entry, Favourite Food
of all the junior member images entered by PSSA clubs by Joan Ward was third in the Western Cape, but 23rd
from across the country. It was also the highest-scoring countrywide, with a score of 35. The CTPS junior entry in
image from a Western Cape club. July, Shadow train by Charles Booysen, came 6th in the
In the August senior club competition our entry, Harmo- Western Cape.
Invitations to all AV enthusiasts

Anyone who has ever contemplated applying for AV terms of colour or tone and graphic design.
Honours is invited to a zoom presentation of the work You may submit any number of AVs in any category, but
done by the AV Honours judges on Saturday, 30th Sep- you are limited to a total duration of 15 minutes and a
tember, at 10am. The programme is hosted by AV Mak- single entry may not be longer than 12 minutes. There
ers South Africa. is no minimum time limit. The results will be emailed by
A small panel of 4 to 8 highly qualified judges evaluate 21 April and there will be a public show on 29 April 2024.
at judging sessions if the submitted panels are worthy
of PSSA Honours. The judges in the panel will be intro-
duced via a selection of their own work. You’ll be able to
log in via this link.
The Port Elizabeth Camera Club (PECC) is inviting all AV
enthusiasts to enter their work in their PECC Interna-
tional Audio Visual Festival 2024. The closing date is 21
March, 2024.
There are two categories, which the Festival Director,
Roel van Oudheusden, describes as follows in the bro-
chure on the PSSA website: Nicol’s print ‘Wolwedans sunset’ was a category winner.
• In the Open category the choice of subject is at the au-
thor’s discretion and spoken commentary and text are Nicol awarded DPSSA Honours in print
permissible. Images must predominantly be the work Last month, Nicol du Toit was awarded DPSSA Honours
of the photographer, but third-party images can be in prints for getting 80 acceptances with a minimum of
used where appropriate, for example in an historical 26 print images.
documentary. A campaigner for more print entries in salon, Nicol came
• In Photo Harmony skill must be displayed in the pro- 5th on the Impala Print log for the year that ended in
duction and visual progression of still photographs June 2023. He started the new Impala year with 5 ac-
linked to sound. The images must flow well in a pleas- ceptances in the Witzenberg salon.
ing progression and the sequence should be con- Nicol was also awarded DPSSA Open digital in Septem-
structed so that images progress harmoniously in ber 2020 for getting 125 acceptances in salons.

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