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CTPS entries in the PSSA February club competitions faced stiff competition

PSSA-affiliated clubs may enter the winning senior and Our Junior entry, Look at me Now by Gavin Klevansky
junior images in their monthly competitions in the PSSA (above) was awarded 31 points by the judges Kobus Ys-
monthly competition for clubs. Three different judges sel from Southern Suburbs Camera Club, Lesley Parolis
then rescore the 50-odd images in each section to se- from CTPS and Johan Joubert of Vanderbijlpark Foto-
lect the junior and senior winners, who are awarded a grafiese Vereniging.
voucher from Printwild. Individual PSSA members may also enter an image in
Our Senior entry, A misty morning in Tuscany by Francois the monthly website competition. The image below,
Retief (above), received a score of 36, which was the sec- Family on Guard by Michele-Ann Nel, was awarded the
ond highest of the entries from Western Cape clubs, and 4th highest score in the February competition, namely
15th overall. 38 out of a possible 45.

Happy Birthday in March!
Jenny Stricker-Greeff 4th
Julie Anne Dyer 9th
Giselle Botha 10th
Vic Els 10th
Barbara Gordon 11th
Rudi Pothas 13th
Vanessa Gebers 15th
Johan Van Wyk 23rd
Roger Trythall 24th
Melanie Neethling 31st

Welcome to our new members! Sagren Padayachee was also attracted to join CTPS

We are so happy to announce that we again gained three by our website — but he wisely attended a couple of
new members in February, bringing our membership to- meetings before making the commitment to join. Sa-
tal to 140. Please wish them a hearty welcome and may gren is not a member of any other photographic club
they find all our activities rewarding and fun. and has not entered salons and we are looking forward
to enjoying his growth as photographer.
Hannelie Webster is a highly accomplished photog-
rapher, who was awarded LPSSA Honours in 2022 (un- Raoul Scholtz is married to our very committed mem-
der her maiden name Labuschagne). She was a 5-star ber Ruth Scholtz and is a friend and former colleague of
worker at National Photographic Club and has earned Ken Woods — it was therefore a natural step for him to
90 salon acceptances, but she says she hasn't been ac- join CTPS as soon as his work pressure allowed. Raoul
tive in photography during the past two years. It is our has the distinction of being the only ophthalmologist
gain that our website encouraged her to make her pho- in the world to perform an appendicectomy under lo-
tographic comeback by joining CTPS! She already joined cal anaesthetic in Antarctica! We hope that he'll soon be
our Blue Hour outing. astonishing us with his photographs.

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