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Cape Camera January 2024

Have camera, will travel

Lambe and my travels have taken us to
many beautiful places where we have
indulged our love of landscape pho-
tography, explains Lesley Parolis.
Our trip to Iceland in 2018 was a
special highlight and somewhere we
would love to return to. Several trips
to Canada, both East and West Coast,
yielded many wonderful images of
mountains, lakes, rivers, and forest.
We love mountain scenery and over
the years have enjoyed Switzerland
in the summer and the winter. It is al-
ways photogenic.
We have also travelled in our own
country and love nothing more than
taking a road trip in our beautiful land
stopping to take photos along the way.
Our trip to Namibia in 2022 and our
recent trip to Botswana have shown
us that we have so much incredible
beauty in Southern Africa that photo-
graphic opportunities are just a road
trip away.

See more of Lesley's images on pp5, 12 and 13.

Top right: 'Dying moments' earned Lesley an acceptance in
the Paarl salon.
Above right: "Beach racing' also earned salon acceptances.
Right: 'The serpent in rough seas' is one of Lesley's images
that was a monthly senior competition winner.

Lesley Parolis continued from p8
decided that we needed to continue our learning and
sharing of photographic skills and ideas and formed the
Full Spectrum Photographic Club. The composition of
our group changed a bit over the first three years but
has been steady for the past eight years and all of us are kie Smit was no longer available. The rest, as they say,
CTPS members. is history because after nearly 12 years on Council I still
The Full Spectrum members are Anna Engelhardt, Kim have the same role!
Stevens, Pat Scott, Kathy Priday, Sue Docherty, Joan The way we run the competition has of course changed
Ward, Jean Bradshaw, and me. It has been an absolute from my early days on Council and introducing Photo
joy to be a part of this group of ladies. We stimulate each Vault Online was a big step forward that made life a lot
other with new ideas and new visions; sharing skills and simpler for the convener and for the members. Due to the
helping each other to be better photographers and Covid-19 pandemic, we changed again and are now us-
processors of our images. We go on outings and trips ing video conferencing software and conducting virtual
away and have experts come to talk to us and attending and hybrid meetings quite successfully.
courses together. I was elected Vice-President in 2021 and again in 2023.
Joining CTPS Being a member of CTPS has allowed me to develop

I joined CTPS in 2011 and, after being a member for only new skills and ideas in photography by offering me ex-
a year, was cajoled by a very persuasive Nellian Bekker posure of my photos to judges’ critiques and to fellow
into taking on the role as Competitions Convener as Sak- photographer’s comments on my Continued p10

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