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Cape Camera January 2025

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Wanted! Your help for Cape Camera Please remember!

We can offer you so many articles, work with them to produce a pro- Consult the website
covering all the diverse activities file that will introduce the featured The CTPS website is a wonderful
of CTPS, in each monthly edition member to the readers. source of information about every-
of Cape Camera, because we have The same applies to Travelogues. In thing related to CTPS — from our
a committed, talented and reliable addition, Brian Jones is prepared to colourful past to exciting future
team of contributors. interview members who've been on events and activities. Make sure
Cape Camera is, however, a record interesting trips, as long as they pro- you consult it to stay up to date with
of the activities and achievements vide the travelogue images. competition set subjects, results,
of CTPS and our members — and Assist with Cape Camera layout outings, etc. You can also read past
we therefore need your help. For ex- issues of Cape Camera on the
ample, two of our regular features, We urgently need people willing to be website that won the PSSA annual
Member Profiles and Travelogues trained to do the layout of Cape Cam- competition four years in a row.
depend on member participation. era. Trudi du Toit is currently respon-
sible for this, and we need a back-up
We need you to tell us about interest- (or two) in case she lands under a bus Images for selection
ing members about whom other club or decides she's had enough. We are constantly looking for mem-
members would want to learn more bers' images to use on the website
in a Member Profile. Or perhaps, you She does the layout with the Adobe banner, Facebook header and Cape
would be prepared to tell fellow club InDesign software, which is licensed Camera cover. Images selected for
members about yourself? to one specific computer and user. It the website and Facebook ban-
is also expensive.
Please contact Dave Gordon, who is ners must be in a landscape, and
responsible for our Member Profiles, There is, however, a free alterna- preferably panorama, format. Cape
with tips about people he could tive for nonprofit organisations, like Camera cover images must be in
approach. He will then send them CTPS. By registering on CANVA, we portrait format. Please keep these
questions about themselves and can get access to their multi-license in mind when submitting images.
layout software (amongst many
Happy Birthday in February! other design options) for free. This Please use name cards
also gives us free access to Affinity
Francois Retief 3rd software for, among others, photo Name cards have been redesigned
Louise Tarr 3rd editing, design and layout software, by Joyce Goldschmidt and reintro-
Brian Jones 6th which have been compared favour- duced for members to wear dur-
Nicholas Moschides 10th ably to their Adobe equivalents. ing meetings. Please wear them
Howard Wolff 16th Please contact Trudi if you want to to meetings as a courtesy to your
Andre Mouton 25th learn to use these new programs fellow members who would dearly
Chris Coetzer 26th with her, and are willing to assist like to get to know you, or match a
Rosie Burton 26th with layouts. face to a familiar name.
Welcome to our new members! Christine Lundy is another member we've gained
from a recommendation by a VentureKJ partner — in
We are fortunate to have gained three new members this instance Kyle's partner Jon Kerrin. We cannot wait
during January and we would like to extend a hearty to meet Christine and enjoy her images, because she
welcome to them! May their membership bring them is a multi-talented creative person who has an impres-
much pleasure. sive track record in marketing, advertising, writing ... and
Ana Kaplan attended our January competition even- in the wine industry! Although CTPS is the first photo-
ing a few hours after she became a member. She was graphic club she has joined, Christine has just exhibited
accompanied by her friend, Ann Baret, who had joined some of her prints at the Hout Bay & Llandudno Art Fair,
us in 2020. Apart from Ann, photographer Kyle Goetsch which ended on Sunday.
recommended that she joins CTPS. Heidi Russell, our newest member, was inspired by
Ana recently relocated to Stellenbosch from Gauteng. our prize-winning website to join CTPS, her first photo-
We are looking forward to seeing her entries, as she is graphic club. We hope she'll enjoy all the outings, E&D,
a very accomplished 6-Star photographer at Sandton competition and AV meetings and other activities we've
Photographic Society, her primary club. She also has 380 got planned for the year, which will soon be posted on
salon acceptances. the website.

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