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                                        In the News




          CTPS senior entries in the PSSA January competitions are top scorers!

                                                                            Congratulations Lesley & Kim!
                                                                            The image on the left, Valencia Science
                                                                            Museum and Hemispheric  by Lesley
                                                                            Parolis was the first runner-up in the
                                                                            January PSSA Senior Club competition
                                                                            — even though it was our senior winner
                                                                            in the December competition.
                                                                            Lesley's  image  received  a  high  score
                                                                            of 39 in the January competition, in
                                                                            which images from clubs who had
                                                                            competitions in December were judged
                                                                            with the January entries.
                                                                            Kim Stevens' image Spokes, our January
                                                                            senior winner, received the highest
                                                                            score of all the January entries, namely
                                                                            37. Because the two months were
                                                                            judged  together,  this  was  the  fourth
                                                                            highest overall score.  The three top
                                                                            December images received scores of 40,
                                                                            39 and 38.
                                                                            Interestingly, both these superb images
                                                                            were captured at the Science Museum
                                                                            in Valencia, Spain. Kim's image was en-
                                                                            tered in the Monochrome Street Pho-
                                                                            tography category in January (see the
                                                                            judge's comments on p20).
                                                                            Lesley's image was the December print
                                                                            winner. See p41 of the November/De-
                                                                            cember  Cape Camera  for  judge  Phillip
                                                                            de Lange's comments about the image,
                                                                            which he awarded a score of 28.
          Two junior entries in the PSSA December/January junior club competitions

























          Bug munching Squirrel by Tom Gosh (above) was the De-  Our junior entries were unfortunately not as successful
          cember CTPS junior entry in the PSSA monthly compe-  as our senior entries. Both were awarded a score of 31 by
          tition. Flying High by our new member Gavin Klevansky  judges Charmaine Joubert of PE Camera Club, Nicol du
          (above right) was our junior winner in January.     Toit of CTPS and Mart-Mari Duvenhage of Bloemfontein.

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