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June 2024 Cape Camera Cape Camera June 2024

'Set fire to the
rain' earned a
COM for Rudi
Pothas in the
MFCC salon.

Excellent salon month

June was a good month for CTPS members participating in salons!

A member won a salon — Rudi Pothas — another won a category
in a salon — Joyce Goldschmidt — and together the CTPS salon
participants entered the Top 10 of all PSSA clubs competing for
the Premier Club award. This is awarded for the most salon points

earned by club members in an Impala year.

For the first time, CTPS stands a very good chance of fin- Judging by the excellent results achieved by our mem-
ishing the 2024 salon year in the Top10 of the Premier bers in the salons whose results were published this
Club Award (see below). This is awarded to the club that month (see next page), that is not unachievable. These
gained the most points for salon participation during were the unique Kroonstad 'Life in Monochrome' salon,
the year. This year CTPS is placed ninth of the 93 PSSA whose categories were all monochrome, and the 8th
clubs with members who enter salons. Previously, the Magalies Foto Fun Club (MFFC) PDI salon.
highest position we achieved in the country was #15. The results for individuals and clubs published on the
We will, however, have to relinquish the Western Cape PSSA website include all salons for the year up to MFCC.
winner title that we claimed for the past few years to The results of the last salons of the current Impala com-
Tafelberg Fotografieklub, which earned 83 points more petition year still need to be added, namely: the Up &
than us. Incidentally, the winning club, Southern Sub- Coming competition, in which none of our juniors com-
urbs Camera Club, is 1 150 points ahead of us — we peted, the Tafelberg Print and PDI salon, where CTPS
therefore have some work to do if we want to win this members can expect to do well in prints again and the
competition! F-Stop salon that closed on June 29th. To p9

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