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Cape Camera October 2024

CTPS' past year DPSSA Mono: Nicol du Toit dition to his website and treasury
functions. We have been a bit disap-
AFIAP: Trudi du Toit, Karyn Parisi
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Photographic competitions
came second in the annual judging Monthly competitions: This is a mas- supporting outings, as they have
of the monthly winners of the PSSA sive portfolio which Lesley has run for done in the past.
senior club competitions. many years. Rudi Pothas assisted her Education and development
Dreaming of a White Wedding by Da- with running the meetings during the Steff Hughes took over this activity
vid Barnes came third in the annual last two years, running some of the from Kim at the end of last year and
judging of the monthly PSSA web- meetings on his own. produced a very good programme,
site competition winners. Lesley also maintains the advance- including two special weekend ses-
Lesley Parolis was awarded Honour- ment statistics for our member ad- sions for beginners. The latter were
able Mention for the image Serpent vancement system, where Jacoba firsts for us and proved to be very
in Rough Seas in the International helps her with monitoring the salon popular. She also continued arrang-
Four Nations Competition, in which achievements of members. ing the popular image discussion
PSSA is one of the four competing PSSA annual Interclub competition evenings where Anna and Joyce ar-
societies. The 2024 results compared to previ- ranged the refreshments.
Trudi du Toit was elected as direc- ous years (positions in brackets) Communications
tor of the PSSA. I was re-elected 2nd Overall – 10th (10th and 11th) Facebook: Steff is also managing
Vice-President of PSSA, Evelyn Gib- Junior – 6th (3rd and 21st) our Facebook group (private) and
son as PRO and Francois Roux con- Senior – 14th (23rd and 5th) we have started a Facebook page
tinues to serve as financial director We have done well compared to pre- (public), managed by Joyce, Lesley
and company secretary. vious years, but I believe we should and Trudi, to make it more accessible
Honours do better as we are by far the largest to non-members.
I am very proud of our members club in South Africa. Website: Our website is our face
who have achieved honours this Kirkcaldy club competition to the public and we have received
year. We received no less than 18 We held our third competition with many compliments. Many new
individual honours awards this year Kirkcaldy Photographic Society, a members also mention it when they
and it is many more than we have Club in Fyfe, Scotland, via Zoom. apply for membership. Andre and
ever achieved in the past. Each club again entered 25 images Lesley deserve a big compliment
Honorary PSSA: Evelyn Gibson by 25 members. We won the compe- and, as we mentioned before, have
LPSSA Colour: Lea-Anne Alexander, tition for the third consecutive year won the PSSA website competition
Simon Mouton and remain unbeaten. for the fourth time in a row.
LPSSA AV: John Arsenio, Ken Woods Outings Cape Camera: During the past year
APSSA Colour: Nicol du Toit, Jacoba Cape Camera was produced by a
van Zyl Richard Goldschmidt again organ- dedicated editorial team who vol-
APSSA Mono: David Barnes ized a superb weekend outing to unteered to take responsibility for
DPSSA Colour (Cls) & DPSSA Vers: Tulbagh. His meticulous scouting, the following: proofreading (Lesley
Nicol du Toit planning and leadership is becom- Parolis), judges’ comments about
DPSSA Colour: Nicol & Trudi du Toit, ing legendary in CTPS. winning images (Anna Engelhardt),
Anna Engelhardt, Lesley Parolis & Andre Mouton continued coordi- travelogues (Brian Jones), member
Jacoba van Zyl nating our monthly outings in ad- profiles (Dave Gordon), To p8

Thank you to all our members!
I would like to thank the council and off-council workers who self-
lessly devoted themselves to making CTPS the best photographic
society in the world. Thank you also to all our members who par-
ticipate in all our activities and make everything happen.
No other club or society I have encountered comes close to us and
I am very proud of being a CTPS member.
I would like to extend a special thank you to Lesley Parolis (right),
our vice- president, who has always been very supportive and had
to stand in for me on quite a few occasions this year. She handles
a very large portfolio extremely well, but is always willing to help
with all aspects of our society.
Photo: Kim Stevens.

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