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Cape Camera April 2025

News from the Council

In this issue we feature many of award to that image.
the beautiful images entered We started by each judge
by our members in recent sa- taking a turn to select an
lons (see p16) that earned us image from the images
our current 6th place in the
annual PSSA Premier Club with the highest combined
competition, where 96 clubs scores in a specific catego-
compete, based on salon ry we didn’t want to win an
points earned by their mem- award. The other two judges
bers in the current Impala Year. had veto rights. This continued
You will also see on p14 that many until the number of images left
of our members did exceptionally matched the number of awards – in this case 27 awards
well in international salons. I had the interesting expe- per category. The judges then took turns to nominate
rience of being one of the judges in the International an image for a specific award, with the other two judges
Photo Circuit (IPC). again having veto rights.
South Africa joined Indonesia and Myanmar as the three Once all 27 awards were agreed upon for the category
countries that formed the circuit. FIAP prescribes that we started on, we moved to another category where
the three judges from one country must each be allo- another salon had already indicated their award choices
cated to a different salon. I was allocated to judge the In- which we could not select. The process was repeated for
donesia salon with judges from the two other countries. all four categories.
We were first required to score all the entries - approxi-
mately 6 500 - on our own. To give you an indication This zoom session lasted about 5 hours and I had sym-
of the many hours this involved, consider that in local pathy for the judge in Beijing – where it was around 3am
salons judges often only manage to judge 100 images when we finished – who had to be wakened from time
per hour. to time.
The judges had ten days to submit our scores, which Although time consuming. I found this an interesting
were added together to determine the highest scores experience, especially because so many unusual images
in each category and salon. The judges then met over were entered and the judges had such different prefer-
zoom, with the different salons meeting in different ences from what I am used to in local salons.
zoom rooms at the same time. This is because FIAP rules
prevent one image from earning more than one award Enjoy reading this month's magazine!
in a circuit. Each of the three salons start by selecting Nicol du Toit
the awards for different categories and once an award is CTPS President
agreed on the other two salons are alerted not to give an nicol@sportstrader.co.za
Please contact CTPS on info@ctps.co.za and visit the website www.ctps.co.za .
Contact CTPS Council

President Nicol du Toit 082 377 8285 Website Andre Mouton 071 892 1981
Vice-President Lesley Parolis 082 780 6925 Storage/Venue Rudi Pothas 082 516 9215
Secretary Brian Jones 084 219 4024 Cape Camera Trudi du Toit 082 572 6127
Treasurer Simon Mouton 082 444 4074 Snapshot Andre Mouton 071 892 1981
Competitions Lesley Parolis 082 780 6925 Public Relations Trudi du Toit 082 572 6127
E & D Sally-Ann Spooner 079 274 2073
Off-Council workers

Cape Camera Editorial team Weekend outings Richard Goldschmidt

Editor & layout Trudi du Toit Member promotions Jacoba van Zyl
Proofreader Lesley Parolis Member relations Joyce & Richard Goldschmidt
Competition images Lesley Parolis Body of Work Kim Stevens
Judges comments Anna Engelhardt Facebook (members) Kim Stevens & Steff Hughes
Joyce Goldschmidt & Lesley
Author comments Dave Gordon Facebook (public) Parolis
Snapshot Andre Mouton Investments Richard Goldschmidt
Travelogues Brian Jones AV Group Ken Woods
Events Photographer Joyce Goldschmidt Awards Marius Stockenström

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