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Cape Camera January 2024

In the News Take note, please!
Have you visited an interesting
Meet Sally-Ann, our new secretary town, country, holiday destination
that lends itself to great scenic
Sally-Ann Spoon- ages. She and her shots? Why not tell your fellow-
er has been co- husband, Andrew, CTPS members about your experi-
opted to join the are also regular at- ence and share some examples of
CTPS Council as tendees of CTPS what you can photograph there.
secretary for 2024 outings. Please contact Brian Jones (bri-
and she’ll attend Sally-Ann told anthesloper@gmail.com), who is
her first meeting Cape Camera in keen to receive your Travelogues.
in February. The 2020 that she has
position became been interested in One of the benefits of a club
vacant when Rudi photography for as over a Facebook group is that
Pothas, who as- long as she could members become friends be-
sists Lesley Parolis recall. cause they share experiences.
with competitions, “I travelled around That is why the introductions via
agreed to take on the position of the UK and Europe when I was about Member Profiles are so popular.
Archives/Storage to find better so- eleven and remember taking photos Please assist Dave Gordon (js-
lutions for the preservation of the of the places we visited, so perhaps photo@axxess.co.za) by agree-
CTPS memorabilia in our storage fa- this sparked my original interest. ing to introduce yourself to fellow
cility in Ottery (see below). Also, my late Dad was a keen ama- club members.
Sally-Ann joined CTPS in August teur photographer, and this was an If you'd like to know more about
2020 with the aim of finding in- interest we shared.” CTPS' 134 year history and the
spiration and generally improving Apart from photographing the memorable members who made
her photography. She has certainly places she visits during travels, she the club great, please visit the
achieved this, as she is now ranked enjoys capturing nature, wildlife, Western Cape Club News page
as an Intermediate photographer beautiful scenery, flowers and occa- on the PSSA website.
and mostly earns gold for her im- sionally bird images.

Rudi to look after our heritage and memorabilia
Rudi Pothas, who describes him- For safety sake, the room where they to the late 1890's.
self as a collector, has volunteered are displayed — with interesting in- Trudi du Toit has catalogued all the
to take responsibility for the CTPS formation attached — can be visited books and documents and indicated
treasure trove of memorabilia. by prior arrangement only. It is well which ones should be transferred to
This includes sorting out and relo- worth including this stop when you a safe storage place because they are
cating the books, cameras and other next visit the Science Centre! rare or have historical value.
items currently stored in the Ottery The storage facility in Ottery also con- Last year CTPS members voted at
storage facility (above right). tains old cameras that were donated a special general meeting that the
Thanks to Detlef Basel, some of our to CTPS after Detlef created the Sci- other books could be donated to a
oldest and most valuable cameras ence Centre display. worthy cause, after the University of
are kept safely in attractive informa- It also houses the collection of more Johannesburg contacted us about
tion boxes at the Cape Town Science than 850 books and CTPS official their planned interactive analogue
Centre in Observatory (above). publications and documents dating photography centre.

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