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In the News

International acclaim for Lesley Parolis The image Serpent in Rough
Seas by Lesley Parolis was
awarded Honourable Mention
in the Monochrome category
of the annual Four Nations
Competition.
This international team com-
petition between CAPA (Cana-
da), PSNZ (New Zealand), APA
(Australia) and PSSA (South
Africa) is organized by a dif-
ferent country each year on a
rotational basis.
Eighty images from 80 authors
are entered in the four catego-
ries: Colour, Mono, Nature and
Our Country. The highest scor-
ing image in each category
receives a Gold Award and the
next three highest scoring im-
Lesley's Serpent in Rough Seas received an Honourable Mention as part of the PSSA entry in the ages in the category receive
Four Nations Competition. Honourable Mention.
Our September Senior entry top in WC

Our cover image this month, Kubu Island by Simon Mouton (right,
came 4th in the PSSA Senior Monthly competition in September and
received a high score of 39.
This was the highest score to be awarded to a Western Cape club en-
try by the judges Derek de Beer of Krugersdorp Camera Club, Ursula
Baumann of Randburg Camera Club and Mariana Visser of Tafelberg
Fotografieklub.
Read more about where, when, why and how Simon took this image
on p2.
Our Junior club entry, Passing Quickly, by Charlene Naude, came 13th
overall and 3rd in the Western Cape. But, her image Cat's eyes, en-
tered by her primary club, SAVAS, was the second runner-up with a
score of 40.
See all our winning and high scoring images in the September com-
petition from p29.
Meet our new member
A hearty welcome to Olivia Pitt (left),
who was encouraged to join CTPS
by Sally-Ann Spooner. This is the first been hooked ever since.
club she has joined. "I am 43 years old with two boys and cat,"
"I moved to Cape Town in December she concludes the introduction.
2023 from Pretoria where I did studio Welcome back, Bob!
and wedding photography on week- Bob Flowerday had joined CTPS in 2013 af-
ends," says Olivia. "But, my actual joy ter he moved to Cape Town from Vereenig-
is in landscape and wildlife." ing. He resigned in 2017 because he was
She did a year long practical course about to leave Cape Town ... that did not
with the National College of Pho- transpire and luckily he rejoined our club
tography in Pretoria in 2009 and has this month.

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