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'A dogs life' (left) and 'The broken Road' (above) earned COMs for
Rudi Pothas in the MFCC salon.

Salon news (continued)

The winners are ... Rudi Pothas and Joyce Goldschmidt!

The MFCC salon is the first salon Rudi Pothas entered as ner's medal by three judges — including Martin Barber
a CTPS member — and he made his presence felt with —who are very strict taskmasters. She has a special af-
a bang! He was the top scorer and thus won this salon. finity for architectural images, Joyce confesses.
Rudi earned 17 points with 14 acceptances — of which It is indeed architectural images — many from overseas
three were Certificates of Merit (COMs). These were for — that earned both Goldschmidts such high scores in
the images Set Fire to the Rain (Scapes), The Broken Road club competitions and earned them salon acceptances
(Monochrome), and A Dogs Life (Animal Portraits). and COMs.
All four the Scapes that he entered were accepted (one In the Kroonstad salon, for example, they earned four
received a COM), three of the four Animal Portraits he awards: apart from the medal Joyce won, she also earned
entered were accepted, one also earning a COM, as well a COM for Planetarium at night in Scapes. Richard earned
as three of the images he entered in Open Colour. His two COMs for Spring High at Harmony Park (Scapes) and
other acceptances were two each in Nature-No Birds Under the Spiral Stair (Architecture). Richard earned an
and Open Monochrome (one of them a COM). additional two acceptances in Scapes and one in Mono-
chrome Open in this salon.
The Goldschmidt factor In the MFCC Salon Richard earned six acceptances in

Joyce Goldschmidt (and Richard) exploded on the sa- Scapes (3), Open Colour (2) and Open Monochrome (1).
lon scene during this past year by earning COMs by the Joyce was awarded three acceptances in this salon —
handful. Now Joyce topped their achievements by win- two in Scapes and one in Open Colour
ning the Architecture category of the Kroonstad mono- This is the first year that the Goldschmidts feature on the
chrome only salon. Impala PDI and print tables ... in other words, they did

Her stunning image 'Out of Space' was awarded the win- not enter (or receive acceptances) in previous years.
Now, Richard Goldschmidt has 67 PDI salon
points, which is the 81st highest in the country
and 14th in the Western Cape. Joyce, who was a
junior at CTPS until this year, earned 44 PDI points,
and is currently just outside the prestigious Top
100 on the Impala PDI table at #104. She is 23rd in
the Western Cape.

What's more, they are both among the Top10 per-
formers in prints — in the country as well as West-
ern Cape. Joyce in 7th with 18 print points, while
Richard is 10th with 12 print points.

Left: 'Out of Space' by Joyce Goldschmidt was awarded
the PSSA Silver winner's medal in the Architecture cat-
egory of the Kroonstad salon.

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