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The annual competition between CTPS and the Kirkcaldy Photographic Society (KPS)

The 4th Battle across the Oceans

Started four years ago, the competition between CTPS and the Scottish club Kirkcaldy,
has developed into an annual event.

The annual CTPS-Kirkcaldy competition was introduced several photographic clubs, who has been judging for
in 2021 when we were contacted by the President of many years.
Kirkcaldy Photographic Society (KPS) with the sugges- A scoresheet with all the names of the images and au-
tion that the two societies start a virtual collaboration in thors was shared with everybody who joined on zoom
the form of a competition (streamed via Zoom) so that so that they could follow the progress.
we could have a chance to see what photographers on Among the images that were awarded the highest
opposite sides of the globe like to photograph. scores were Table Mountain by Paramasivam Kumar
Kirkcaldy is a town in the east of Scotland in the county with 29 and Ghostly ballerina by Richard Goldschmidt
of Fyfe. KPS is an active photographic club, and you can with 28. A Kirkcaldy image was also awarded a score of
learn more about them from their website. 29 and two received 28 points.
Since then, each club had been selecting 25 images Halfway through, one point separated the two clubs
from 25 members each year for a judge, appointed by with CTPS' images scoring 325 points, versus the 324
the club hosting it, in alternate years. scored by KPS. The scores of our images in the second
This year the competition was hosted by CTPS and we half, however, edged us ahead to eventually win with
asked a local Scotsman, Dave Gordon, to score the im- 12 points difference. CTPS' final score was 628 and KPS'
ages out of 30 and to give a brief comment on each. 616. The CTPS entries and their scores can be seen on
Dave is an experienced photographer and member of the following pages..

Left: Table Mountain by Paramasi-
vam Kumar (29).

Below left: Ghostly ballerina by
Richard Goldschmidt (28).

Below: Dancing with a Rose by
Nicol du Toit.

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