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Francois' salon feat details

Francois Retief's 18 acceptances in the Hibiscus salon is
truly remarkable when you take into account that the max-
imum number of images one may enter in one category is
four and that the six categories in the salon means that the
maximum number of acceptances you can earn is 24.
In the Nature - Birds Only as well as the Scapes categories
all four his images earned acceptances. In the Open Colour
and Portraits - Human and Animal categories three of his
images were accepted. In the Monochrome and Nature -
No Birds categories he earned two acceptances each.
When Francois joined CTPS in February this year, he was in the Scapes category, two in Monochrome, two in Na-
already a member of Ignite and Helderberg clubs and had ture and one acceptance in Open Colour in this salon.
been a member at Sandton and Randburg clubs when he In the Centurion Camera Club salon he was awarded
lived in Gauteng. He already had 470 salon acceptances, four acceptances, one each in Scapes, Monochrome,
had earned DPSSA for salon acceptances and APSSA with Open Colour and Nature - No Birds.
a panel submission. We were therefore very
grateful that he decided that CTPS would now
be his designated club for salon acceptances.
Earlier in this competition year he earned
three acceptances in the Nelspruit salon, four
in Benoni and two in the Durban salon.
In the Randburg salon Francois earned ten
points, which included two COMs for the
Scapes on the right: A misty morning in Tus-
cany (top) and Sky on fire sunset at Kogelbay
(right). He was awarded another acceptance

CTPS salon successes in the Randburg salon from p13

In the Randburg salon, CTPS points, which included a COM for Simon Mouton also received five
members earned 42 points, which Sagrada Familia Ceiling in Open Col- acceptances in the Randburg salon:
included the ten points earned by our. He also received two accept- two in the Monochrome category,
Francois Retief (see article above). ances in Monochrome and another one each in Scapes, Open Colour
Richard Goldschmidt earned 5 in Human Portraits. and in Photo Journalism and Sport.
Lesley Parolis was awarded four
points for acceptances: one each in
Human Portraits, Scapes, Open Col-
our and Monochrome.

Anna Engelhardt received three ac-
ceptances in the Human Portraits
category.
Joyce Goldschmidt received two
acceptances in Human Portraits plus
one in Open Colour to earn three
points. To p14

The images on the left, taken at the John
Alexander CTPS workshop, both earned a
COM in the Portraits - Human and Animal
category in the Hibiscus salon.
Far left is 'Abdul' by Joyce Goldschmidt
and left is 'Meditative Mood' by Lambe
Parolis.

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