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Cape Camera September 2025

News from the Council

This year's AGM will be conducted via Zoom on Octo- (Trudi du Toit).
ber 15 and will be followed by a zoom talk by Brendan The 2-year terms of the vice-president and competition
O'Shea on cell phone photography from 8pm onwards. convenor (Lesley Parolis), as well as the venue, storage
• Please email any motion(s) for the AGM to the secre- and archives convenor (Rudi Pothas), expire this year,
tary, Brian Jones, at brianthesloper@gmail.com before but the incumbents are available for nomination.
19h00 on Wednesday 8 October 2025. These will be The secretary, Brian Jones, was co-opted after the 2024
circulated to members. AGM and he is available for nomination as secretary.
Proxy forms will be issued with the agenda. Andre Mouton (webmaster & snapshot) is in the mid-
• Please nominate new council members on the nomi- dle of his 2-year term and is prepared to continue with
nation form sent via Snapshot (or request a form from this portfolio.
Brian). Return to him by 8 October. To ensure continu- The constitution stipulates that all nominated candi-
ity, the two-year council terms are voted for every sec- dates must indicate in writing that they have reviewed the
ond year. Council Guidelines and agree in general terms to abide by
The following positions will become vacant, with the it, and specifically agree to perform the functions relating
incumbents not available for re-election: president to the portfolio they will manage. The secretary must make
Nicol du Toit), treasurer (Simon Mouton), E&D Conven- the Council Guidelines and nomination form available to
or (Sally-Ann Spooner, Cape Camera editor and PRO members upon request. To p4

Please contact CTPS on info@ctps.co.za and visit the website www.ctps.co.za .
Available for Re-election

Lesley Parolis has been the backbone Brian Jones has proven him- Rudi Pothas is a collector and therefore
of CTPS since she was elected in 2013, self very capable of making ideally suited to be the CTPS archives
because without her, much of the soci- sense of all the chatter around and storage custodian, cataloguing and
ety will collapse. Although her job title items for discussion during managing all our cameras, equipment
council meetings and produc- and books. He has already organised
is Competition Convenor, Lesley does ing sensible minutes. the donation of most of the unwanted
so much more than smoothly running He also adeptly handles all cor- books that members previously agreed
the monthly and annual competitions: respondence directed to coun- to. At Pretoria Photographic Society, his
she selects CTPS entries for external cil. Fortunately, Brian agreed previous club, Rudi was the competi-
competitions, proofreads Cape Cam- to be nominated as secretary tion convenor and he is well qualified
era, introduces new members to CTPS again. to assist Lesley in this role.
competitions, assists whenever help is Thank you to the dedicated Cape Camera contributors
needed with audio-visuals (she worked
every day, and many nights, at the Stru- Anna Engelhardt: supplying judges' comments on winning images.
isbaai Congress) and kindly offers help Dave Gordon: supplying author's comments on winning images.
and advice whenever it is required. As Brian Jones: sourcing and editing Travelogues.
vice-president she is regularly consult- Lesley Parolis: Proofreading all the pages and correcting errors.
ed by Nicol du Toit about decisions af- Kim Stevens: Photoshop tips. André Mouton: website publishing.
fecting members and the club.

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