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Cape Camera June 2024

Enter your images for PSSA exhibition Salon Calendar

If you are a PSSA member, you are invited to submit up to four of your best The first salon of the new Impala
images to be selected for the prestigious PSSA travelling exhibition to cel- Trophy year (July 2024 to June
ebrate its 70th birthday on 24 July (see more on p12). Sixty prints will be 2025) closes in a few days. Below
selected for the exhibition to illustrate the high quality of work produced by are the closing dates of the first sa-
PSSA members in a wide variety of photographic genres. lons with brochures available you
You are therefore invited to submit up to four of your best images via a spe- can enter this year. See more de-
cial PSSA 70th Birthday Exhibition portal on PhotoVaultOnline (PVO). You tails on the PSSA website here.
can find it under My entries – PSSA Specific. Deadline: July 15th 2024-07-06 – Nelspruit Salon
(Brochure available).
The dimensions for entries on PVO will be the same as for salon entries,
namely either 1920px wide or 1080px high and in colour and mono. But 2024-07-15 – 8th Danube Summer
there is a difference: you must please have a high resolution copy available Circuit 2024 (Brochure availa-
that can be enlarged to A3 print size (maximum 18x12 inches), portrait or ble). This 4-country circuit (South
landscape format, if your image is selected for the exhibition. Entry is free. Africa, Serbia, Bulgaria and Mon-
tenegro) offers you the chance
The 60 images to be exhibited will be selected before July 24th to be includ- to earn multiple acceptances per
ed in the exhibition. Apart from the quality of the work, selection criteria will image that will count for Diamond
also be to show diverse genres and work from a variety of photographers.
Ratings, including DPSSA, as well
The exhibition will be launched by the Eden Photographic Society in the as FIAP Honours.
Garden Route as part of the Music and Arts Festival in Mossel Bay from 23 2024-07-20 – 3rd Benoni Camera
to 27 September this year. The exhibition will next be hosted by the Central Club Digital Salon (Brochure
Societies at the PSSA National Congress in Parys from 30th September to Oc- available).
tober 4th, then travel to Potchefstroom, where the Southern Gauteng region
will host it in the Snowflake Gallery from 7-18 October. Plans for hosting the 2024-08-03 – 4th Witzenberg Pho-
exhibition in KwaZulu Natal and Port Elizabeth are underway. CTPS plans to tographic Society National Salon
host the exhibition at the PSSA 2025 Struisbaai National Congress, which we (Brochure available). There are
are organising in August next year. six PDI categories as well as two
print categories.
2024-08-17 – 2nd Durban Cam-
era Club Digital Salon (Brochure
available). The salon includes a
Sport category.
2024-08-24 – 5th PSSA YOUTH
National Salon (Brochure avail-
able). Junior members please
take note: all junior members may
enter this salon free.
2024-08-31 – 8th Centurion Cam-
era Club Digital Salon (Brochure
Delegates at the Durban congress where PSSA was founded on 24 July 1954. available). Includes a Photo
Travel and Street Photography
Join the PSSA salon group category.

Please join our salon group if you are planning on entering salons — espe- 2024-09-08 – AV Makers National
cially in the new Impala Year, which starts in July. The aim of the group is to AV Salon (Brochure available).
assist all members who enter salons with CTPS as their primary club — and 2024-09-14 – 6th Randburg
there is no further qualification needed to join, whether you are a salon National Digital Salon (Brochure
veteran or newbie. available).
All members are invited to submit images they wish to enter in salons to re- 2024-09-28 – 6th HCPS National
ceive feedback and suggestions for improvement from the group. Achieve- Digital Salon (Brochure avail-
ments in the most recent salons, interesting forthcoming salons and other able). Of interest is Human and
news of interest are discussed. For example, a caution to avoid entering an Animal Portraits with manipula-
image that could have received three acceptances in salons where the re- tion allowed.
sults are still outstanding, because you will then forfeit the points. 2024-10-12 – 9th Tygerberg Digital
The group meets every fourth Wednesday via zoom. Contact Nicol du Toit on Salon (Brochure available).
nicol@sportstrader.co.za to join or submit images for discussion. There is a Macro category.

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