PSSA School Photography Competition

Dear Principal / Head of Art / Photography Club


PSSA SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION


The National PSSA Schools Competition is about to take place and we would appreciate it if you could inform your learners about this competition. While not every school has a Photography Club, there are the individual learners who are keen on photography and could benefit from exhibiting their work. The Top 10 images will be printed and exhibited at the PSSA stand at the Annual Photo Expo at the Coca Cola Dome.

There will be PSSA Bronze Medals for the Junior and Senior category winners and Certificates for the school with the most entries as well as the school with the most successful entries. The competition will be administrated on  Photovaultonline.com and all entries must be submitted electronically.

The theme for the School Photography Competition is open and will be judged by a panel of judges within the following criteria:

• Mobile Compact Camera (Cellphone / Tablet / iPad) CATEGORY for images taken with Compact Camera / Cellphone /Tablet / iPad
• DSLR CATEGORY for advanced Photographers (Digital Single Lens Reflex Camera)

There are many excellent and creative young photographers in our country and we would appreciate your co-operation in giving them the opportunity to be acknowledged.


All winners will be notified via the PSSA Website and the Top 10 Images in each category will be on exhibition at:

PhotoExpo 2013 held from 31st October until the 3rd November 2013 at the Coca-Cola
Dome in Johannesburg

If  you  need  any  additional  information  please  contact  Sarel  Naude  on  071 895  7737  or  email  to upandcoming@pssa.co.za.

President PSSA

Johann van der Walt FPS

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PRIZES

1.   PSSA Bronze Medal for the winners of each category

2.   Certificate for the Overall winner for the Primary School category

3.   Certificate for the Overall winner for the High School Category.

4.   Certificate for the School with the most entries

5.   Certificate for the School with the most successful entries

6.   Certificates of Merit for outstanding images

7.   Certificates of participation for all entrants

COMPETITION RULES:

The competition will be open to all schools in South Africa.

The competition will be conducted in accordance with the recommended guidelines of PSSA (Photographic Society of South Africa).  Acceptances will be awarded to the top 20% of the authors will receive an acceptance card for qualifying within the 20% acceptance criteria.

In order to participate in the Schools Photographic competition it is required that the School registers as a club. If your school name does not appear on the Photovault Photographic club list please contact Sarel Naude to register.

The scholars then submit their entries under the school’s name.

Images must be uploaded onto the Internet using www.photovaultonline.com and no entry fee is required.

Winners will be notified via PSSA Website  www.pssa.co.za and by means of electronic notification via www.photovaultonline.com.

All entries must be resized to a maximum of 1024 pixels on the horizontal axis and a maximum of 768 pixels on the vertical axis. A maximum of 4 images will be allowed per entrant.

Files must be saved in the jpeg format and compressed to 500kb or less.

By submitting your photographs for this competition you:

- Declare that the photograph(s) are your own original work and were taken by you.

- Declare that you are not violating the rights of any third party (which include, but are not limited to copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or personal rights).

- Grant permission to the organizers and The Weekend Post to use and produce your Photos for publicity relating to this competition. Acknowledgement will be given to the photographer.

The judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

Prizes will be awarded to the successful participants at the PhotoExpo 2013 prize giving ceremony on the 3rd November 2013

Submissions of entries signifies acceptance of the conditions of entry and no late entries will be accepted, judged or exhibited.

i. Calendar: Closing Date: 28 September 2013

ii. Judging: 5 October 2013

iv. Results:    13 October 2013 

v.     PhotoExpo Exhibition: 30th October until 3 November 2013

If your school would like to start a photography club, please contact Sarel Naude 071 895 7737 or upandcoming@pssa.co.za.

Congratulations to our Members

MCC | August 2013 COM Awards

Here are all the COM awards for our August 2013 meeting.

"Morning Delivery"  by Francois Rousseau

"Zebra" by Morne Grobler

"Robin Hood Tree" by Ken van Wyk

"Who's Bigger?" by Pauline van der Spuy

"Old Man" by Stelios Michas

"Hey You" by Anton la Grange

"Was not Me" by Johann du Rand

"Facinated" by Stelios Michas

"Treble Trouble" by Pauline van der Spuy

"Face in the Crowd" by Nico Strydom

MCC | August 2013 Category and Overall Winners

Congratulations to Stelios Michas for winning our August 2013 meeting with his image "Old Man".

Here are all the category winners for August 2013:

"Old Man" by Stelios Michas | Overall Winner, Pictorial Winner

"Robin Hood Tree 1" by Ken van Wyk | Monchrome Winner

"Who Is Bigger" by Pauline van der Spuy | Nature Winner

"Greek Soldiers" by Bibi Andrews | Photojournalism Winner

"Hey You" by Anton la Grange | Photo Travel Winner

"Green Eye Warrior" by Nico Strydom | Sports Winner

"Treble Trouble" by Pauline Van Der Spuy | Set Subject (Dogs or Kids) Winner

Important Newsflash | Membership Details

We now are getting our Membership Portfolio up to date and I would like to ask you to email Elsie on elsienel@vodamail.co.za with your name, email address and a contact number.   Also when you pay your subs for the year, please can you email Elsie with proof of payment.   Eight members have now paid their subs, so there is no need for them to send proof of payment but we would still like you to mail your details so that Elsie can keep our members database up to date.   We would really appreciate this ASAP.

Please also remember that the closing date for the Open Section for our club is tomorrow night 14 August.

Thank you all once again for your co-operation.

PSSA Honours Update as at 1 August 2013

The PSSA anticipate that the Honours results will be available in the third week of August.

Please take note of the following changes:

Applications in all divisions must be made in one of the following three categories:

• Open
• Nature
• Photojournalism

No manipulated images may be entered in the Nature or Photojournalism categories. Raw files may be requested for verification purposes.

Manipulated nature and manipulated photojournalism must be marked as such and must be entered in the Open category. Panels entered in the Open category may include both manipulated and non manipulated images.

No image or part thereof may include anyone else's artwork.

In the case of documentary Audio Visuals a limited number of reference works may be included provided acknowledgement is given. The photographic aspect of Honours application in Audio Visual is an important one and therefor it is necessary that the vast majority of images used in a Documentary Audio Visual should be your own work. All images used in all other Audio Visuals must be your own work.

The Diamond rating requirements for Honours Applications have been changed as follows:

LPSSA - No diamond rating is necessary

APPSA - a three diamond rating in the medium in which you are applying (please note that this does not mean a total of three diamond ratings but a singe three diamond rating). Applications already holding either a LPSSA in the same medium or an APSSA in another medium may apply directly for an APSSA.

The Diamond Cluster and Mile awards will be acknowledged as EPSSA(Cls) and EPSSA(Mille) respectively. 

A panel of between 15 and 25 prints is now a prerequisite for a MPSSA application.

Barrie Wilkins.

MCC Newsletter for August 2013

Midrand Camera Club

Newsletter - August 2013

Hi Everyone

Hope you are all well and looking forward to our next Meeting on 21 August at our normal time and place (19:00 at Nikon in Midrand).

It has been quite hectic for me since my return from the Arctic, trying to reconnect with night and day instead of 24 hour daylight, plus ploughing through the 5000 images I took and not being very good at deleting.  An Expedition of a Lifetime for my husband and I, one we will remember and talk about for years to come.   Anyway we all need to get back to the realities in our life after these experiences.

Photovault is open for your entries – Open Entries to be in by Wednesday 14 August and the Set Subject Entries to be in by Saturday 17 August.    The Set Subject, as detailed in our programme was "Dogs and Children" but I have spoken to Ria, our presenter and judge for the even and she confirmed that it can be "Dogs and/or Children" – your choice.

MEMBERSHIP FEES

Our membership fees are due and need to be paid before our AGM on 18 September so that you are a fully paid up member and allowed to vote.   Amount due :

Single Annual Fee R300

Family Annual Fee R450   (Family fee is for up to 2 persons)

New Members need to add on an additional R50 joining fee.

Please pay into our account and put your name as reference :

Account : Midrand Camera Club

Bank/Branch: FNB – Branch Code 261550

Account No. 62369244274

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Our AGM will take place at the beginning of our September Meeting on 18 September, positions that we would like to include on our Committee are an Editor for an e-newsletter and also we would love to have a website so need a Webmaster on Board.  The present Committee are committed to continuing for another year to take Midrand forward.   It has been a good year for Midrand with very positiveness coming from many areas in the photographic fraternity.   Please contact me to let me know if you feel you could be of assistance in a particular area.   Elsie has taken on the position of the Membership Portfolio and is busy setting it up at present. Please come to the AGM with suggestions, queries, ideas for outings and workshops with the furtherance of the Club and its members in mind.

Nico, Francois and I chose from all the images that have been entered since Midrand started for the PSSA Interclub Competition, the winners of which will be announced at Congress.    This is the Competition for all the Clubs in South Africa.   If time prevails we will try and show our entry at our August Club Night.

We will be looking at going HD for our images but probably only from the start of our year in January, we need to see how Nikon’s new projector is functioning in this regard.

Thank you to Francois for running the Club in July and from all reports it was a lovely evening and Garth’s presentation was very well received and his judging was also applauded.

I look forward to seeing you all in August and get your entries in ASAP and as always I look forward to experiencing all your work.

Evelyn.

PSSA Club and Website Winners for July 2013

The PSSA received a record number of 80 images this month from the various clubs across the country.

The Junior Winner is "Ant" by Ann Sartor from Westville Camera Club.

"Ant" by Ann Sartor | Westville Camera Club

The Senior Winner in the club competition was "Bee Reflection" by Fanie Heymans from St Andrews Visual Arts.

"Bee Reflection" by Fanie Heymans | St Andrews Visual Arts

The judges this month were Franz Jesche from Camera Club Johannesburg, Geo Jooste from Bloemfontein Camera Club and Marin Barber from Alberton Camera Club.

The Website Picture of the Month was won by Valmai le Grange from Magalies Foto Fun Club with her image "Cheetah Glow". The judge this month was Amy Ansell.

"Cheetah Glow" by Valmai la Grange | Magalies Foto Fun Club

Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to the judges. You can see the stats as well as all the entries for the month here:

http://www.pssa.co.za/galleries1/club-winning-pictures-may-2013

IMPORTANT

There is a lot of additional information in the August Newsletter that is published on the PSSA Website. Please visit the site and read all the latest news regarding:

• The results of the Regional Directors Election
• Honours Results 
• Impala and Mono League Final Results for 2012/2013
• PSSA Club Newsletter Competition and PSSA Club Website competition 2013. The newsletter can be found here: http://www.pssa.co.za/component/content/article/141-from-the-pro/556-from-the-pro