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Cape Camera April 2024

News from the Council

It is abundantly clear from this PSSA has an annual competition
issue that our members are for salon entrants, the Im-
entering and earning awards pala Log, where more than
in salons at a furious pace. 800 PDI salon entrants
During the past month the are ranked in terms of the
results of the PSSA Inter- points they earned during
national PDI, Ignite PDI and the Impala Year (1 July to
Edenvale PDI as well as the 30 June the next year). An
Cape Congress Print Circuit acceptance counts 1 point,
were published – and they tell a a COM 2 points, a runner-up
beautiful story. medal 3 points and winner medal 4
Until fairly recently, the published im- points. There is also an Impala competi-
ages of the salon awards earned by CTPS members re- tion for prints, which our Kim Stevens has won the past
quired a page or two in Cape Camera ... in this issue the three years.
award winning images and member acceptances require Clubs also compete against each with salon points in
six pages! the Premier Club Competition. Apart from the national
In the above three PDI salons CTPS members earned competition, there are also regional competitions, which
133 acceptances — of which one image was awarded a CTPS regularly won — but we might lose to Tafelberg Fo-
tografieklub this year.
winning medal and eleven received Certificates of Merit
(COMs). What's more, in the Cape Photographers Print Despite these exemplary salon results, the number I
circuit our members received 86 acceptances, of which cherish most is "21" — signifying the number of CTPS
three earned medals and 18 were awarded COMs. members who are currently actively entering salons.
As we explained in the April Cape Camera, each print en- That is almost double the number of CTPS members who
were entering salons earlier in the year.
tered in the Cape Photographers Circuit was effectively
judged in three salons, namely the Eastern Cape, Garden I always believed that your photography can only benefit
Route and Western Cape. when you receive additional input from experienced sa-
To put the salon results in perspective: the top 22-25% lon judges, who may differ from the club judge — or the
judges in the next salon!
of images entered in a salon category must be accept-
ed for exhibition, which nowadays mainly consists of a I would also like to invite all club members to join our
virtual catalogue. From them, the top 10% are selected Salon Group, where we discuss images members would
to receive a Certificate of Merit (COM) and the top two like advice about in a non-judgemental online forum. We
images receive medals as the runner-up and the winner. meet every third Wednesday on Zoom.
These could effectively be the Best of the Best of a thou- Nicol du Toit
sand images entered in a category. President
Please contact CTPS on info@ctps.co.za and visit the website www.ctps.co.za .
Contact CTPS Council

President Nicol du Toit 082 377 8285 Outings Andre Mouton 071 892 1981
Vice-President Lesley Parolis 082 780 6925 Archives/Storage Rudi Pothas 082 516 9215
Secretary Sally-Ann Spooner 079 274 2073 Cape Camera Trudi du Toit 082 572 6127
Treasurer Andre Mouton 071 892 1981 Website/Snapshot Andre Mouton 071 892 1981
Competitions Lesley Parolis 082 780 6925 Venue Mike de Villiers 074 113 1415
E & D Steff Hughes 082 356 3979 Public Relations Trudi du Toit 082 572 6127
Members & events Anna Engelhardt 082 413 2112

Off-Council workers Editorial team
Weekend outings Richard Goldschmidt Cape Camera Editor Trudi du Toit
Member promotions Jacoba van Zyl Proofreader Lesley Parolis
Members & Events Joyce Goldschmidt (assist) Competition images Lesley Parolis
Body of Work Kim Stevens Judges comments Anna Engelhardt
Facebook Kim Stevens & Steff Hughes Member profiles Dave Gordon
Investments Richard Goldschmidt Snapshot Andre Mouton
AV Group Ken Woods Travelogues Brian Jones
Salon Group Nicol du Toit Events Photographer Joyce Goldschmidt

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