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May-June 2025 Cape Camera
CAPE CAMERA May-June WHAT’S INSIDE
03 News from the CTPS Council
New advancement rules
04 How members were allocated to new rankings.
Five members earn Honours
07 Richard Goldschmidt, Simon Mouton, Dave Gordon,
Ana Kaplan and Karyn Parisi received Honours.
Medals and COMs galore!
12 CTPS members performed exceptionally well in re-
cent salons.
Salon news and member achievements
17 There are currently 29 members who contributed
to CTPS' good salon performances.
A bucket-list trip to New Zealand
On The Cover 18 Brian Jones describes the trip with his son, during
which he captured breathtaking images.
This month's cover image is Early morning at
the Lighthouse by Anna Engelhardt. It was Outing to Harmony Park
one of our high-scoring images in the PDI
Open category of the June competition. 22 During the June outing members captured a stun-
Anna explains as follows: "Ever since my very ning sunset and some strong silhouette images to
first visit to the Shelley Point Estate near St use in the July competition's Set Subject.
Helena on the West Coast, I have been fasci-
nated by this beautiful building, which looks 24 Panning images at Killarney race track
very attractive and very authentic. A day at the races in May provided an opportunity to
Like countless of my photographic friends, I capture panning images for the June competition.
must have taken hundreds of images of this
iconic lighthouse in all sorts of light and weath- Image discussion evening in May
er conditions. It has never lost its appeal. 27 Members enjoyed voicing their opinions about im-
It is interesting to note that this is actually ages during the May E&D meeting.
not a lighthouse. It was built some 20 years
ago as a unique feature by an extravagant Charlotte Bellamy inspires with ICM
developer, who believed in the success of 28
an exclusive housing and golf estate on the The renowned multiple exposure and ICM expert in-
West Coast. spired members to unleash their creativity.
This particular image was taken late one af-
ternoon in October 2024, when a few friends Manipulation in Nature explained
from the Hermanus Photographic Society 30 What post-processing techniques are legal when
visited to do some bird photography on the
West Coast. They inspired me to find a differ- you want to enter images in Nature categories?
ent angle for this particular lighthouse shot
for which I am very grateful. 32 Enter the CTPS Annual Competition
I used f/8 at 1/640 sec with ISO 200. The end of year competition is now open for en-
tries on PhotovaultOnline.
CTPS was founded in
1890. It was a founding Winning images in May
member of the 33 Admire the category winners in our May competition
Photographic Society with the judges' and authors comments.
of South Africa (PSSA)
in 1954 and has been Winning images in June
affiliated to PSSA ever 40 Read the comments from judges and authors
since. about the winners in our June competition.
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