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Cape Camera June 2023

CTPS members on Honours Judging Panel Mariana receives Honours title of DPSSA

Best of luck to the CTPS members who entered panels for this Congratulations to Marianna Visser for
year’s second round of Honours Judging in July. Three CTPS being awarded the new Honours title of
members serve on the Honours Judging Panel who will decide DPSSA (Cls). She achieved this with 250
if a panel is worthy of earning the applicant a Licentiateship salon acceptances with a minimum of 84
(LPSSA), Associateship (APSSA) or Fellowship (FPSSA). images in salons with PSSA patronage or
Francois Roux, one of the longest serving honours judges, is a recognition. The latter could be interna-
member of the four-person Honours Committee that controls tional salons with patronage of one of
the awards made to members by the Honours Division. Evelyn the photographic bodies that PSSA has
Gibson has been a long-standing member of this Honours Pan- links with, but no more than half your
el and Kim Stevens was invited to join the panel after she was acceptance points may come from in-
awarded a FPSSA Distinction in prints. ternational salons. Marianna received an
According to the PSSA website the members of the Honours AFIAP Distinction in 2021 for getting 40
Judging Panel of twelve “judges are selected for their overall acceptances in FIAP salons from 15 different salons hosted in
knowledge and experience and for their ability to assess, re- 8 countries.
gardless of their own personal taste.” It is therefore an honour in
itself to be invited to become a member of the panel.
JAP

We’ll be opening applications for the JAP 24 (accreditation
program) in March next year with the programme starting in
July. Applications will be available on the PSSA website or you
can contact your regional director for more information on the
program if you are interested. The JAP program is open to PSSA
members and non-members alike and we encourage not only
new judges to start their

Sad farewell to Elmara Willis

Just as we were finalising this issue of Cape Camera Lionel Willis
shared the extremely sad news that his wife of nearly 50 years
and Honorary Life member of CTPS, Elmara Willis, passed away.
As everybody who knew her can testify, she was a truly special
person - full of life, adventure, determination and grit, despite
fighting a battle with cancer for the past four years. Earlier this
year she completed and self-published an autobiography, Boer
en Brit Seil Saam, about the first of many sailing trips under-
taken by Lionel and herself. You can read about it in the April
edition of Cape Camera. Shortly before her death Elmara was
interviewed about the book by Fine Music Radio Boekkeuse
presenter Amanda Botha and this podcast (Boekkeuse 6 June)
is available on the FMR website at https://iono.fm/e/1318326.
Our thoughts are with Lionel and their two daughters Lin and
Cindy. We shall publish a full tribute to Elmara in the next issue
of Cape Camera.

You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of pho-
tography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you

have heard, the people you have loved.

- Ansel Adams

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