Outing to Paternoster -- Sat 18 Feb 09:00

Please join us for an outing to Paternoster next Saturday. Nothing as formal as a workshop, but just a fun get-together to pick up some tips from the more experienced photographers perhaps, and to hopefully go home with a few cool photos.

We'll meet at the Paternoster Hotel at 09:00, but you're welcome to arrive earlier if you'd like to get some shots while the light is still perfect. The sun come up at about 06:20, and the hotel serves breakfast from 07:30.  


Anyone who wants to join later on in the day is also more than welcome. Just look for a bunch of people walking around shooting everything in sight. If they're all Japanese though, you probably have the wrong group.

Don't know what the weather is going to do, but make sure to bring some sun protection at least. 


If you'd like to stay the whole day and end the day with supper in one of the restaurants, I'd advise booking in advance as some of the restaurants get very busy on the weekends.

Looking forward to seeing you all here in "My Town".

Salon: First Pretoria Super Circuit -- closes 18 Feb

Salon Calendar

Event 

Title:

First Pretoria Super Circuit

When:

18.February.2012

Category:

Salon

Description

 All individual members of PSSA and all photographers resident in South Africa are invited to participate in the 1st Pretoria Super Circuit 3-in-1 Digital, Print and AV Salon 2012.

Digital Categories

Open Red

Nature General

Avant Garde

Birds

Street Photography

Sport and Aerial

Print Categories

Animal Portraits

Mono Human Portrait

Open Blue

Avant Garde

Photo Journalism

Nature General

  

Audio Visual Categories

A Story

A Comic

Circuit Director

Sarel Naude

email:  sareljnaude@gmail.com

 

Salon Calendar

Entries close 18 February 2012

Reminder about AGM

Ons herinner jou graag dat ons Algemene jaarvergadering beplan word vir Dinsdag 24 Januarie 2012 om 18:30 by die Ou Waenhuis in die NG Kerk kompleks in Vredenburg. Hierdie is jou geleentheid om deel te wees van die jaar se beplanning en jou stem uit te bring vir die bestuur van die klub. Jou teenwoordigheid is belangrik en ons sien jou graag daar. Laat weet asb. teen 15 Januarie of jy dit sal bywoon aangesien ons ligte verversings wil voorsit.

A reminder that or Annual General meeting is planned for 18:30 on 24 January 2012 at Die Ou Waenhuis at the NG Kerk complex in Vredenburg. This your opportunity to help plan the events for this year and to cast your vote for the committee. Your presence is important and we’d love to see you there. Kindly indicate by 15 January whether you wil attend as we plan to arrange some light refreshments.

Themes / Set Subjects for 2012

Feb:              Wet / Nat

Mar:              My Town / My Dorp

Apr:              Doors / Deure

May:             Shadows / Skaduwees

Jun:              Broken / Stukkend

Jul:               Lines / Lyne

Aug:             Street / Straat

Sep:             Curves / Kurwes

Oct:              Black & White / Swart & Wit

Nov:             Abstract / Abstrak

Seënwense - 2011

- Seënwense - 2011-

Terwyl die jaar ten einde snel, dink ek onwillekeurig aan elkeen wat in 2011 by die Weskus Fotografiese Vereniging ingeskakel was, hetsy as Komiteelid of lid. Dit is vir my ‘n trotse voorreg om te mag verwys na ‘n Vereniging waarby soveel begaafde én ontluikende meesterfotograwe betrokke is. Baie dankie vir elkeen se aandeel by die ontwikkeling van ons Klub.  U mag dalk dink dat dit ongesiens verbygegaan het, maar omdat ‘n fotograaf dinge om hom of haar waarneem, is daar wel deeglik kennis geneem van u insette. Vir elke koppie wat gewas is, elke tafel reggeskuif voor en na ons byeenkoms en elke artikel wat gedra is, sê ek vir u dankie!

Mag hierdie Feestyd vir u en u gesin ‘n tyd wees van vrede, liefde en rus. Mag so ook 2012 vir u voorspoed inhou en dit u stoutste verwagtinge oortref!

Vriendelike groete

Emil 

As the year draws to a close, I involuntarily reflect on the input of each and everyone, both as Committee member or as member. It is with no little pride that I may refer to a Society in which so many talented and emerging master photographers are involved. My thanks to each and every one for your contribution to the growing of our Club. You may believe your input to have gone unnoticed, but because a photographer observes that which takes place around him or her,you may rest assured that your contribution to the Club has been duly noted. For each cup washed, every table moved before and after our meeting and for each item carried, my sincerest thanks! 

May the Festive Season be a time of peace, love and rest for both you and your family. May you prosper in 2012 and it also be the year in which your wildest dreams come true!

Kind regards

Emil

Year-end Function - Fri 9 Dec 2011 - The Farmhouse Hotel, Langebaan

Die Jaareindfunksie sal by The Farmhouse op Langebaan gehou gaan word en wel op 9 Desember 2011. Die tyd: 18h30 vir 19h00.

Die formaat van die aand sal gelukkige trekkings insluit en ook die beste tien foto’s van die jaar sal aangekondig word. ‘n Onafhanklike, ervare beoordelaar van Paarl Fotografieklub sal al die goud - wenners deur die jaar se foto’s evalueer en die beste tien dan aanwys.

NB! Laat weet my asseblief so spoedig moontlik wie die aand saam met ons sal geniet ten einde die korrekte getal aan The Farmhouse te kan deurgee.

Vegatariese disse is ook beskikbaar. Ek verwag die spyskaart daarvoor teen eerskomende Vrydag en sal dit aan die lede ter sprake deurstuur.

Groete

Emil

www.thefarmhousehotel.com

PSSA Audio Visual Convention in Victoria West, 17th to 21st March 2012

PSSA  Audio  Visual  Convention  in Victoria West, 17^th to 21^st March 2012

The Audio Visual Convention 2012 in Victoria West will run from Saturday 17. March starting at midday with some official matters, possibly a club reps. meeting, the official opening and shows in the afternoon and evening. We will have lectures and workshops by qualified AV makers until Tuesday evening, leaving Wednesday the 21. to travel back home, filled with ideas and enthusiasm to make better / new AV shows. 

Our lecturers and workshop leaders are all actively involved in Audio Visual, either as media professionals or as dedicated amateurs.

Whilst the mornings are for lectures, we will have some more presentation in the form of short demos and longer practical workshops in the afternoons. You can read about that on the PSSA Website, AV Division.  HYPERLINK "http://www.pssa.co.za" www.pssa.co.za 

The evenings we set aside mostly for you to show your work, which is a very important aspect of this AV Convention.  We are encouraging all the AV makers - novice to experts - to show AVs, even if some of them are "works in construction".  If you like, you can get advise, or you can tell the other delegates your ideas of making AVs.

As the AV Conventions are fairly short events, we do not cater specifically for “free time”. If you want to explore the area a bit more, you could combine the Convention with a short holiday. 

Please register as soon as possible for this Convention.  For catering we have space for 80 delegates, but the Apollo Theatre can cope with many more. 

For accommodation: victoria west south africa accommodation  will take you to various sites.

More detailed information as regards to lecturers and their themes, pictures and the registration form will be on the PSSA Website in the next few days.

Please direct enquiries to: Paul Rixom, Chairman of the AV Convention

e-mail:  HYPERLINK "mailto:prixom@webmail.co.za" prixom@webmail.co.za  phone:   044 – 877 0994   mobile:  072 – 525 0016 

We are looking forward to see you there. Thomas Niemeyer, Chairman AV Division, 4. Nov. 2011 

Find.TheModel Photography Competition

Good evening,

Please find attached a press release from Find.Themodel about the photographers competition we launched yesterday.

The Photographers competition runs over the next 6 months and photographers can win their share of R27,000.

We would appreciate if you would please be so kind as to inform your club members of this opportunity.

Regards

Sean Nel

models@shoots.co.za

http://find.themodel.co.za

Wild Magazine photographic competition

Here's a message from the Wild Magazine:
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Based on the success of our photographic competition over the past year Wild magazine would again like to invite your society to take part in our 2012 competition. There’s fame and fortune (R60 000) to be won, plus the chance to see your image featured in Wild magazine.

This year’s competition is titled "Capture the Spirit of Africa". With our sponsor Amarula, we invite you to take pictures that capture the wild heart of Africa. Show us what makes our continent such a special place to live and stand the chance to win great prizes from Amarula and Cape Union Mart.

Go to www.wildcard.co.za for full rules and to upload your photograph.

Entries for the first round close on 25 October 2011. However, the competition runs through to 23 April 2012 so there's plenty of time to submit additional images - and you can submit more than once.

We look forward to seeing your entry. Good luck!

The Wild Team


TiP Publishing 
021 448 5425  •  021 447 0312 (f)
www.tipafrica.co.za

Winners October 2011

Congratulations to all the month's winners:

Winner Overall & Set Subject "Space": Piet van Heerde with "Sterre in die boom & Skerpioen in die ruimte:

Winner 3 Star: Cassi Goodman with "Lovebirds":

Winner 2 star & Jnr: Sarah Goodman with "Flower Buds":