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Attendees at the opening of the CTPS Celebration of Photography at Groot Constantia. Photo: Joyce Goldschmidt

President’s report for the period October 2023 to September 2024

What a good year it was!

NICOL DU TOIT reviewed the activities, achievements and highlights of the past

year in his President's Report submitted for the CTPS AGM on October 16th.

CTPS remains one of the largest Groot Constantia from November to tions the next morning.
photographic societies, not only in January where we hosted our own A large number of people saw the
terms of membership which cur- exhibition the previous year. exhibition and we received many
rently stands at close to record highs Anna Engelhardt and her team con- compliments. Quite a few clubs also
of over 150, but also in terms of the sisting of Joyce and Richard Gold- reported an increase in membership
services it offers its members. This schmidt, Lesley Parolis, Kim Stevens, in the early part of 2024, which could
can only be achieved when many Marius Stockenström, and Jacoba have the exhibition as its origin.
members volunteer to help, and van Zyl, Mike de Villiers, Andre Mou- Year-end function
while writing this report I have again ton, Rudi Pothas, Trudi du Toit and
marvelled at how many volunteers myself worked hard to make it a huge We had a very successful function at
we have. success. Groot Constantia and a special word
Western Cape Exhibition We wanted to set a good standard of thanks must go to Anna, Joyce
and Richard who made the arrange-
We were requested at short notice for the clubs to follow and paid for ments and Lesley and Jacoba who
by the Western Cape clubs to host the exhibition ourselves without ask- prepared the annual awards.
a Celebration of Photography exhibi- ing any contribution from the other Member achievements
tion instead of the annual Interclub clubs. We asked Martin Barber to
competition. We decided to do it at open the exhibition and do presenta- Andre Mouton and Lesley Parolis won
the PSSA club website competition
for CTPS for the fourth year in a row.
Clive and Joan Rathband jointly won
the Impala AV trophy, both for the
second time in their careers. They
previously won individually. Ken
Woods came second in the Impala
AV trophy
Kim Stevens came second in the Im-
pala Print Trophy Competition.
Offshore by Kim Stevens To p7
The stylish year-end function was held
in the glamorous Simon's Restaurant.

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