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Cape Camera                                                                                                                                          November/December 2023









































             Winner PDI – Open (Intermediate) Mother Nature over our Mother City by Simon Frank Mouton (24).
             This is a typical example of luck being often a major part of an extraordinary photograph – like here where
             the photographer was at the right place, at the right time and pressed the shutter button in that split sec-
             ond. The star bursts in the other light sources indicates that no long exposure was used, which reiterates
             the above.












                                                                           Winner PDI – Open (Inter-
                                                                           mediate): Drawing on Nature
                                                                           by  Joyce  Goldschmidt (24).  A
                                                                           well seen and well executed
                                                                           image of a perfect architectural
                                                                           structure which doesn’t appear
                                                                           to be a staircase but more like
                                                                           a cylindrical tower. The conver-
                                                                           sion  into  black  &  white  works
                                                                           very well as it adds a strong
                                                                           graphic feel to it. Perhaps in-
                                                                           creasing the contrast even fur-
                                                                           ther could give additional im-
                                                                           pact to the image.












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