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CAPE CAMERA WHAT’S INSIDE
CAPE CAMERA 03 News from the CTPS Council
September 2024 Information you need to know about.
04 In the news and dates to remember
Performances of members and important news
and dates to remember.
06 Diarise these events
Remember these dates for our AGM, year-end
function and the Kirkcaldy competition.
07 Three COMS in Durban salon
CTPS members did well in the recent Durban salon.
08 CTPS wins big at PSSA Congress
Official Newsletter We did very well in the PSSA Annual competitions
CAPE TOWN PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY and received three Impala awards at Congress.
Wonderful Tulbagh weekend • Winners at PSSA Congress
Honours collected at PSSA Congress
On The Cover 10 CTPS members attending congress received
Our cover image, Kubu Island by Simon Honours certificates.
Mouton, was the CTPS entry in the PSSA
monthly Senior Club competition. Lesley and Anna awarded DPSSA
"I experienced the amazing Kubu Island 11 Lesley Parolis and Anna Engelhardt recently re-
in Botswana for three nights and two ceived DPSSA Honours with salon acceptances.
days with Kyle and Jon of VentureKJ at
the beginning of August this year," Si- 13 Wonderful Tulbagh weekend!
mon says. "We travelled for a day and CTPS members show and tell how much they en-
an half with 4x4s from OR Tambo to the joyed the weekend away in the Tulbagh valley.
camping site. The remoteness of Kubu Bonus outing to the ballet
Island and the lack of facilities (there are 22
only a few long drops and no water or Several members joined Kim Stevens on an out-
showers), has fortunately kept it quite ing to photograph the SALT ballet dress rehearsal.
pristine. 25 E&D talk on bird photography
"The spectacular dry granite rock island is Get ready for our December set subject by learning
known locally as Lekhubu and is located from Johan Greyling, a top wildlife photographer.
in the Makgadikgadi Pan. The name Kubu
means either large rock in the Kalanga 26 Enjoyable image evaluation & social
language or hippopotamus in Tswana. During our September E&D evening members
The island is still considered a sacred site enthusiastically commented on images and en-
by locals." joyed the snacks and drinks that followed.
He captured the image at 1:42 in the Fun at the PSSA Congress
morning with a Canon EOS 5D mark iv 27 See what fun congresses are ... and plan to at-
and 16 mm lens. It is a blend of two im- tend the Struisbaai Congress hosted by CTPS.
ages in Photoshop: for the sky ISO 3200,
f2.8, 30 sec and for the foreground ISO Entries in PSSA monthly competition
800, f2.8, 240 sec. 29 Our Junior and Senior winners.
CTPS was founded in 1890. 30 Winning images entered in September
It was a founding member Images that won in the different categories.
of the Photographic Society
of South Africa in 1954
and has been affiliated to 35 High scoring images in September
PSSA ever since. Images that scored 25 and above.
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