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Cape Camera April 2024

PSSA's birthday gift for members

PSSA is celebrating its 70th birthday this year with a country-

wide exhibition of the work by top photographers — you'll re-
ceive more news about that soon. In the meantime, members

and prospective members can celebrate with at least a 20% dis-

count on membership fees, more if you're early or a pensioner.

It pays to be early, whether you’re a for example, be for individual services
bird, PSSA member or pensioner. If like Honours judging, metal badges
you join PSSA as a new member, or or receiving a printed e-Image.
renew your membership, before the From next year, the printed Hon-
30th of June 2024 you will receive ours Image will only be sent to the
a discount of 10% - 20% if you’re a successful Honours applicants. Any
pensioner (65 years or older) – on member wishing to receive a print-
the new membership fees that have ed magazine will be charged at the
already been reduced by 20%! cost of the magazine and courier
In other words, a pensioner who re- fees. The honours magazine will be
news membership before the Early made available on the website in the
Bird deadline can save R96 and pay same way the e-Image is currently
R384 instead of R480 ..that is R32 published.
per month!. A couple renewing joint To further compensate for the lower
membership can save R112 and pay overall fees, clubs that receive PSSA
R448 instead of R560 – that is R224 patronage to host a salon will have to
per member, or R18.50 per month. the board has been discussing mem- pay PSSA a small portion of the salon
New members pay an additional bership fees for quite some time and entry fee paid by non-members – this
once-off entrance fee of R180 (indi- decided that costs should be shared should have always been paid to PSSA
vidual) or R300 (joint) to cover ad- more equitably, based on the princi- but this practice had fallen away. When
min costs. See all the different mem- ple of a lower general membership the new Impala year starts in July this
bership options here. fee, but paying more for the services year, entry costs for PSSA members
Why this unexpected pasella? Well, rendered by the PSSA. These would, will be R9 per image and for non-PSSA

members R14 per image.
Several respondents to the PSSA Sur-
PSSA congress continued from p16 vey mentioned that they are proud
composites need no introduction to photography (especially when trav- to belong to a club that is affiliated
those who follow the salon medal elling) and after retiring, he has been to PSSA, because they consider it as
winners. She was, after all, an Impala running photographic courses. a badge of approval that the club
Top 10 contestant for several years • Fujifilm and Godox SA ambassador is well run. Yet, club affiliation fees
and Photographer of the Year at sev- Andre Badenhorst has won many have not been increased for nearly
eral clubs. She offers training under awards with the fascinating con- 10 years.
the Pia Lux name. cepts he creates and photographs. When considering club fees, the
• Vereeniging Photographic Soci- Therefore: have you booked your board decided to apply the same
ety member Francois Oosthuizen place at the PSSA 2024 Congress in principle of paying for usage. For
was awarded APSSA for his special- Parys (Free State) yet? example, clubs with many members
ist portraiture panel, a genre he has The Early bird discount closes at the who use PhotoVault Online for sa-
been focusing on over the past few end of July – thereafter you’ll pay lon or club competition entries, will
years by offering workshops and do- 15% more. Please have a look at all pay more than a club with only a few
ing professional model shoots. the different registration options members. The club affiliation fees for
next year will be:
• Former Helderberg Photographic here – from full registration for PSSA • Up to 19 members: R300
chairperson Roger Lee APSSA devel- and non-PSSA members, non-pho- • 20 to 49 members: R500
oped a fascination with smartphone tographers and day visitors, etc. • 50 plus members: R750.

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