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Cape Camera January 2024

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CTPS catching up in the Impala Club competition

Total Impala WC CTPS is slowly, but surely, moving up year in July.
CLUB
Points POS POS in the Impala club salon point rank- Luckily, participation has picked up
Tafelberg 392 9 1 ings — also known as the Premier since then and there are now twelve
CTPS 228 20 2 Club Competition. members earning acceptance points
Tygerberg 106 35 3 After winning the Western Cape for CTPS (see the table on the previ-
Swartland 98 36 4 (WC) region award last year, we are ous page).
Hermanus 61 44 5 still 164 points behind Tafelberg, Seven CTPS members are among
Paarl 56 45 6 who is just surging ahead in the WC. the Top 30 in the WC on the current
Charlie Hofmeyr 34 54 7 They earned 34 points in the SHPC Impala competition log, and none in
salon, compared to our 26 points.
Witzenberg 20 61 8 the Top 10, while six Tafelberg mem-
Kleinmond 16 65 9 CTPS is the club with currently the bers are in the WC Top 10 and nine in
20th highest number of acceptance the WC Top 30.
Creative CC 15 66 10 points in the country. PDI as well as
Aristea 11 70 11 print points count towards the club The points of the CTPS members
Fish Hoek 8 71 12 rankings. who enter for another club would
obviously be allocated to that club.
Ignite 6 74 13 The reason why CTPS lags behind The club name you select for your
Gansbaai 5 76 14 Tafelberg is because salon partici- first salon entry will be considered to
Durbanville 2 83 15 pation amongst CTPS members ta- be your club for that year — unless
Hermies HS 2 86 15 pered off for the first few months af- you inform Simon Fletcher that you
WC Youth 1 89 17 ter the start of the new competition changed your primary club.

Watch these scholars! Salons hosted until end of the Impala year
Do yourself a favour and have a 2024-02-10 – 12th AFO National 2024-06-01 – 8th MFCC DPI Salon
look at the Youth e-Image cur- Digital Salon (Brochure) (Brochure)
rently available on the PSSA web- 2024-02-24 – 7th Boksburg National 2024-06-08 – PSSA 25th Up and Com-
site Home Page — you might just Digital Salon – PDI (Brochure) ing
be inspired by the achievements of 2024-03-09 – 6de Brandpunt Fo- 2024-06-15 – TAF 13th Print and PDI
scholars in international and local toklub Salon (Brochure) Salon
salons and competitions, many of 2024-03-16 – 2nd Swartland Interna- 2024-06-29 – 1st F-STOP Kempton
them from WC schools. tional Salon (Brochure) Park PDI Salon.
The publication is available for 2024-03-21 – PECC International Au-
download by everyone, members dio Visual Festival 2024 (Brochure) Honours
as well as non-members of PSSA. 2024-04-13 – 7th PSSA International Congratulations to
Salon of Photography (Brochure)
On the table above you can see that 2024-04-20 – 1st Cape Photographers Nicol du Toit for earn-
scholars from four school clubs in National Print Circuit Salon (Brochure) ing DPSSA (Cls) Open PDI and
the WC have received acceptances 2024-04-20 – 1st IPC PDI Salon (Bro- DPSSA Prints.
in salons so far this year: Charlie chure) DPSSA cluster (Cls) is awarded for
Hofmeyr High (7th in the WC), Ari- 2024-05-04 – 7th Edenvale National 250 acceptances with a minimum
stea Primary School, Hermies High Digital Salon – PDI (Brochure) of 84 images in PSSA approved sa-
and WC Youth Photographers. 2024-05-18 – Kroonstad Fotoklub Life lons. DPSSA Prints is awarded
All these school clubs are affiliated in Monochrome PDI Salon (Brochure) for 80 acceptances with at
to senior clubs ... this is perhaps 2024-05-31 – 2nd Amber AV Interna- least 26 images.
something for CTPS to consider? tional Salon

Diarise the CTPS salon group meeting we should achieve those goals, and what we should do
If you are interested in entering, or want to find out more in the group," says Nicol du Toit, who emphasises that he
about salons, please join the launch meeting of our on- will be acting as a facilitator, not a teacher, in the group.
line salon discussion group on February 22nd at 7pm. Contact him on nicol@sportstrader.co.za if you'd like to
"For the first meeting I would like to suggest that all of receive a zoom link to join this meeting, open to all CTPS
us come up with ideas about what we personally want members. Nicol hopes that the group will contribute to
to get out of this group and make suggestions of how assisting all members to improve as photographers.

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