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Cape Camera November/December 2024

Above: Kim Stevens was joint over- Below: Kim's images 'Dancing display' was the
all winner of the Annual Competition Nature & Wildlife category winner and 'Smooth
with two wins and a second place in Saxophony' won the Photojournalism category
the competition. in the Annual Competition.
In the monthly competitions she earned
the highest score with her Set Subject
images in the Salon/Masters rank.
Kim also received several PSSA awards
from Nicol du Toit in his capacity as
PSSA Western Cape Regional Director,
namely as the runner-up in the Impa-
la Print competition; as the Top Club
Achiever in salons for CTPS; and her
image, 'Offshore', entered in a monthly
Senior Club competition was the run-
ner-up Senior Club image for the year.

Award winners continued from p6 Monthly Competitions

Jacoba van Zyl diligently calculated
The members who earned the most Twelve salon workers were awarded the points awarded to members over
points for their top ten images en- Master Status for obtaining 10 Gold the past 12 months to determine the
tered in the monthly competitions Awards in CTPS competitions and top performers in each ranking. All
in Set Subject and Open per ranking 10 new PSSA salon acceptances the winners can be seen on p11.
were also rewarded. during the previous competition During the past competition year
PSSA certificates for earning Hon- year. This status lasts for a year. we received 1 129 images from 78
ours or performing well in PSSA In the forthcoming year Anna Engel- members, reports Jacoba. In the pre-
competitions were also presented to hardt, David Barnes, Dieter Bütow, vious competition year we received
members, as well as to CTPS. Lambe Parolis, Jacoba van Zyl, Kim 1 074 images from 67 members.
Special awards Stevens, Lesley Parolis, Neels Beyers, "First, second and third place awards

In addition, there were special Nicol du Toit, Richard Goldschmidt, are given for each member ranking
awards. The President's Award Theo Potgieter (absent) and Trudi du in the Open and Set categories," she
medal presented to the member(s) Toit will be classified Master. explains. "Only the 10 highest scor-
who delivered special service to the Lesley Parolis was thanked for the ing images per member in the Open
club was this year shared between seamlessly smooth running of the and Set categories were taken into
husband-and-wife team Richard competition part of the evening, account."
and Joyce Goldschmidt, who both which included organising the An- "Where members were promoted
go out of their way to work hard to nual Competition, calculating win- during the competition year, they
deliver on much-needed tasks, and ners, designing and printing all CTPS were placed in the member ranking
volunteer to assist in many ways. certificates, planning and compiling where they were the longest during
Honorary Life membership was be- an AV loop of members' images, etc. the competition year." For example:
stowed on Trudi du Toit, based on her Marius Stockenström organised • Marianna Meyer was promoted
cumulative years of membership and the medals and ensured they were to Salon, where she spent eight
service. engraved with the winning details. months of the year. To p8

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