Fish Hoek member Peter Franklin is this month carrying the Western Cape flag in the monthly PSSA competitions for August. His image Ambushed was the second runner-up in the Junior Club competition with a score of 40 out of a possible 45.
This ensured that Fish Hoek was the top Western Cape club in the Junior competition for August, and #3 in the country. When the points for July and August (the first two months of the current competition year) junior competitions are added together, Fish Hoek remains the leader of the pack and #4 in the country, followed by Tafelberg and Paarl.
In August juniors from ten Western Cape clubs performed as follows:
August Club junior | Aug score | Aug PSSA Pos | Aug WC Pos |
Fish Hoek Photographic Society | 40 | 3 | 1 |
Tafelberg Fotografieklub | 37 | 9 | 2 |
Swartland Fotografieklub | 35 | 18 | 3 |
Hermanus Photographic Society | 34 | 20 | 4 |
Paarl Photographic Club | 33 | 26 | 5 |
Schools – Charlie Hofmeyr Hoerskool | 33 | 26 | 5 |
Cape Town Photographic Society | 31 | 37 | 7 |
Tygerberg Photographic Society | 30 | 39 | 8 |
Witzenberg Photographic Society | 30 | 39 | 8 |
Creative Camera Club | 28 | 46 | 10 |

In the Senior Club competition Dave Gordon’s Squacco Feast (above) entered by CTPS was the highest scorer in the Western Cape and #4 in the country. With the points from July and August added together, CTPS is still the frontrunner in the Senior Club competition, followed by Tygerberg and Tafelberg. In August Tygerberg and Hermanus are joint second, followed by Tafelberg and Paarl.
August Senior Club | Aug score | PSSA # Aug | WC # Aug |
Cape Town Photographic Society | 39 | 4 | 1 |
Tygerberg Photographic Society | 37 | 15 | 2 |
Hermanus Photographic Society | 37 | 15 | 2 |
Tafelberg Fotografieklub | 36 | 22 | 4 |
Paarl Photographic Club | 36 | 22 | 4 |
Fish Hoek Photographic Society | 35 | 30 | 6 |
Helderberg Photographic Society | 35 | 30 | 6 |
Creative Camera Club | 35 | 30 | 6 |
Swartland Fotografieklub | 35 | 30 | 6 |
Witzenberg Photographic Society | 34 | 41 | 10 |

‘Sunset over Table Mountain’ by Crighton Klassen was the highest scoring Western Cape website image in August.
Twelve Western Cape members out of a national total of 61 entered the August website competition, with Crighton Klassen’s Sunset over Table Mountain the highest scorer in the region and #4 in the country.
August website competition | Aug score | PSSA # Aug | WC # Aug |
Crighton Klassen | 38 | 4 | 1 |
Elizma Fourie, Carina de Klerk, Bennie Vivier, Phillip de Lange | 36 | 11 | 2 |
Michele-Ann Nel, Dave Barnes | 35 | 20 | 6 |
Charles Naude, David Wilson | 34 | 28 | 8 |
Theo Potgieter, Mariana Visser | 33 | 33 | 10 |
Louise De Lange | 31 | 43 | 12 |