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August 2023 Cape Camera

CTPS members are building

on our PDI salon tally

CTPS needs all the PDI salon acceptance points we can get from members

CTPS PDI salon points after 4 salons

Points Awards Image title
Anna Engelhardt 9
Nicol du Toit 9
Trudi du Toit 7 Highway COM Open Colour New day over Namib
Witzenberg COM Scapes Boats at Sunset
Lesley Parolis 6 Witzenberg COM PDI Colour The Leap
Neels Beyers 6 Witzenberg COM PDI Monochrome Simonsberg in mis BW
Jonathan Burchell 2
Brian Jones 1
Evelyn Gibson 1
Simon Mouton 1
PDI Total 42

Nine CTPS members have so far earned a total of 42 category Boats at Sunset were awarded COMs. She also
points with PDI entries in the first 4 salons during the earned an additional 3 acceptance points.
first two months of the new Impala PDI Trophy compe- Both Lesley Parolis and Neels Beyers can count a COM
tition year. This includes 4 Certificates of Merit (COMs).
each for their current 6 acceptance points. Lesley was
With the results of the Highway, SanParks, Witzenberg awarded a COM in the Witzenberg PDI Colour category
and Sandton salons published, Anna Engelhardt and for the image The Leap, and Neels’ image Simonsberg in
Nicol du Toit both have 9 PDI images accepted. Six of mis BW got a COM in the Witzenberg PDI Monochrome
Anna’s aceptances come from one salon, namely the category. Both also got 4 more acceptance points.
Highway Salon (these are in addition to the print points Jonathan Burchell got two acceptances in the SanParks
they earned, see previous page). Honorary Rangers salon – one in Nature-No Birds and
Trudi du Toit can count two COMs among her 7 PDI ac- the other in Nature-Landscapes. Acceptance points by
ceptance points. In the Highway salon Open Colour cat- Brian Jones, Evelyn Gibson and Simon Mouton fur-
egory New day over Namib and in the Witzenberg Scapes ther boosted the CTPS PDI total to 42.

Benefits of entering salons • Salons are an excellent way of getting more opin-

ions about your images in addition to that of the
The current CTPS PDI total of 42 points is unfortunate- club competition judge – even though you might
ly 130 points behind the Tafelberg Fotografieklub PDI find that while some judges award your image,
total of 172 points, and a mere one point ahead of others don’t like it at all and score it low.
Paarl. We therefore urge all club members to make a • Your acceptances earn you a place on the Impala
concerted effort to enter salons. Log — where you can measure your competence
Apart from contributing to our club points in the Pre- against the rest of the country.
mier Club competition, which we won in the WC dur- • Salons show you how your images compare to oth-
ing the past two years, there are many benefits for you ers entered in a specific salon category.
as a member. o The top 22-25% images in a category are “ac-
• All salon entrants (whether they are PSSA members cepted” – earning 1 point;
or not) can apply for 1, 2 and 3 Diamond Rating o The top 10% images in a category are awarded
badges with salon acceptances. Read more on the a Certificate of Merit (COM) – earning 2 points;
PSSA website under Salons – Diamond Ratings tab. o The runner-up in the category earns 3 points;
• Honours – e.g. DPSSA, EPSSA — are awarded to PSSA o The winning image earns 4 points.
members with the required number of acceptances. One image may not receive more than 3 acceptances.

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