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Ÿ TOP 10 winners are featured alphabetically with a small bio of photographer together with his her winning images of 2018. TOP 10 1st, 2nd and 3rd winners of month images are displayed larger than others.VSS Creative Virtual Camera Club is an official club of VSS Creative College Ÿ VSS Creative is a proud member and affiliated with the Photographic Society of South Africa (PSSA) Ÿ VSS Creative Virtual Camera Club is therefore directly associated with PSSA Ÿ Editor, Layout, artwork, and pre-press done by Hein Waschefort Ÿ Sub Editor: Christine Waschefort Ÿ The editors and publisher do not accept liability for errors or omissions contained in this publication. Ÿ Information contained in this publication is often of a general nature and may be subjective. Ÿ No part of this publication nor any of its contents may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form without prior written consent of the editor and or relevant photographer or artist. Published in South Africa by Hein Waschefort, P O Box 17863, Pretoria North, South Africa. © Hein Waschefort 2019. All rights reserved by publisher and author. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing from Hein Waschefort, or as expressly permitted by law. You may not circulate this book in any other binding or cover. ©2019 h e i n @ h e i n w a s c h e f o r t . c o m EDITORIAL 1 Hein Waschefort 4 Martin Dudley Baber 254 TOP 10 winners log 255 Ranking of TOP 10 winners 256 Formulation and indemnities TOP 10 WINNERS 5 Ado du Toit 7 Alan Mason 7 Alex Cummings 8 Albert Smuts 10 Alet Visagie 11 Alireza Naseri 12 Alison Duncan 12 Ankie Coetzer 13 Andrew Harvard 13 Annaline Werth 14 Anton la Grange 18 Arlene Colby Mullins 22 Anne Kruyer 22 Basil Gordon 23 Barbara Dannenhauer 25 Bazil Raubach 26 Bernyce Hollingworth 27 Brenda Bronkhorst 27 Bob Hobbes 28 Bessie Vermeulen 30 Candice Brophy 32 Charlaine Gerber 56 Chris Mulder 57 Clint Ralph 57 Daniela Gisi 58 Craigen Bester 59 Dave Barnes 62 Dawid Fourie 62 Dereck Atkins 63 Debbie Boettcher 67 Dricky Gouws 68 Dereck Green 69 Don Brotherston 72 Dudley Watson 73 Ed Raubenheimer 76 Elaine Lamb 77 Elize Labuschagne 77 Elsje Vermeulen 78 Elize Eveleigh 80 Elsa van Dyk 83 Evelyn Gibson 89 Fanie Schoeman 89 Francois Loubser 90 Gaby Grohovaz 92 Geraldine Enslin 92 Gerbus Vermaak 93 Gonnie Myburgh 94 Gideon Malherbe 96 Haig Fourie 97 Hanli Smit 100 Heide-Marie Smallwood 100 Hennie Karsten 101 Hercu du Plessis 102 Hermon Kruger 102 Ilana Vrey 103 Jaco Kloppers 105 Jacques de Klerk 109 Janelia Mould 110 Janita van Niekerk 110 Jean Goldstone 111 Joggie van Staden 111 Johan Kloppers 112 Johan Greyling 113 Johan Scott 114 John Costello 114 Joy Mullin 115 John Read 116 John Vosloo 120 Ken Lovell 121 Kevin Mullins 121 Kim Stevens 122 Kim Roberts 124 Laetitia Kenny 126 Leon Heyes 127 Leon Jacobs 127 Leticia Cox 128 Lezzet Abbott 129 Liam Fagan 129 Lindi Eksteen 130 Louis Pretorius 134 Lourens Botha 138 Lood Goosen 138 Marissa Enslin 139 Malie van der Vyver 140 Manie Ward 141 Marleen la Grange 142 Martin Dudley Baber 171 Mauricio Schuller 172 Melanie Cornelius 173 Michael John Daniel 175 Michelle van Niekerk 178 Michele-Ann Nel 178 Morne Prinsloo 179 Munro Nel 180 Neille Vorster 181 Nicolene Theunissen 182 Pauline van der Spuy 194 Peet van den Berg 201 Pam Brighton 201 Reabetswe Letshwiti 202 Robbie Aspeling 207 Ronald Leong 207 Roelf Malan 208 Ronel Broderick 208 Ronel Cronje 209 Roxanne Wentzel 210 Rudi Kurt 211 Ronnie Belcher 211 Samantha Pienaar 212 Sandra Muller 213 Sherlock Holmes 217 Shirley Gillett 217 Štefan Stieven 218 Sonia Elliott 218 Steff Hughes 219 Sue Basler 220 Tabor Kruger 221 Tania Cholwich 221 Terry Meyer 222 Terry Stephens Horn 223 Thabo Mampa 223 Tim 'n Sue Gould 224 Valmai le Grang 224 Veronica Coetzer 225 Verinda Bosch 226 Vicki Street 231 Wendy van Zyl 231 Wolf Avni JUDGES CORNER 232 Gus Waschefort 238 Christine Waschefort 242 Hein Waschefort

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Page 1: EDITORIAL TOP 10 WINNERS VSS/Book... · 97 Hanli Smit 100 Heide-Marie Smallwood 100 Hennie Karsten 101 Hercu du Plessis 102 Hermon Kruger 102 Ilana Vrey 103 Jaco Kloppers 105 Jacques

Ÿ TOP 10 winners are featured alphabetically with a small bio of photographer together with his her winning images of 2018. TOP 10 1st, 2nd and 3rd winners of month images are displayed larger than others.VSS Creative Virtual Camera Club is an official club of VSS Creative College

Ÿ VSS Creative is a proud member and affiliated with the Photographic Society of South Africa (PSSA)

Ÿ VSS Creative Virtual Camera Club is therefore directly associated with PSSA

Ÿ Editor, Layout, artwork, and pre-press done by Hein Waschefort

Ÿ Sub Editor: Christine WaschefortŸ The editors and publisher do not accept liability for

errors or omissions contained in this publication. Ÿ Information contained in this publication is often of a

general nature and may be subjective.Ÿ No part of this publication nor any of its contents

may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form without prior written consent of the editor and or relevant photographer or artist.

Published in South Africa by Hein Waschefort, P O Box 17863, Pretoria North,South Africa.© Hein Waschefort 2019.All rights reserved by publisher and author.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing from Hein Waschefort, or as expressly permitted by law. You may not circulate this book in any other binding or cover. ©2019

h e i n @ h e i n w a s c h e f o r t . c o m

EDITORIAL

1 Hein Waschefort

4 Martin Dudley Baber

254 TOP 10 winners log

255 Ranking of TOP 10 winners

256 Formulation and

indemnities

TOP 10 WINNERS

5 Ado du Toit

7 Alan Mason

7 Alex Cummings

8 Albert Smuts

10 Alet Visagie

11 Alireza Naseri

12 Alison Duncan

12 Ankie Coetzer

13 Andrew Harvard

13 Annaline Werth

14 Anton la Grange

18 Arlene Colby Mullins

22 Anne Kruyer

22 Basil Gordon

23 Barbara Dannenhauer

25 Bazil Raubach

26 Bernyce Hollingworth

27 Brenda Bronkhorst

27 Bob Hobbes

28 Bessie Vermeulen

30 Candice Brophy

32 Charlaine Gerber

56 Chris Mulder

57 Clint Ralph

57 Daniela Gisi

58 Craigen Bester

5 9 Dave Barnes

62 Dawid Fourie

62 Dereck Atkins

63 Debbie Boettcher

67 Dricky Gouws

68 Dereck Green

69 Don Brotherston

72 Dudley Watson

73 Ed Raubenheimer

76 Elaine Lamb

77 Elize Labuschagne

77 Elsje Vermeulen

78 Elize Eveleigh

80 Elsa van Dyk

83 Evelyn Gibson

89 Fanie Schoeman

89 Francois Loubser

90 Gaby Grohovaz

92 Geraldine Enslin

92 Gerbus Vermaak

93 Gonnie Myburgh

94 Gideon Malherbe

96 Haig Fourie

97 Hanli Smit

100 Heide-Marie Smallwood

100 Hennie Karsten

101 Hercu du Plessis

102 Hermon Kruger

102 Ilana Vrey

103 Jaco Kloppers

105 Jacques de Klerk

109 Janelia Mould

110 Janita van Niekerk

110 Jean Goldstone

111 Joggie van Staden

111 Johan Kloppers

112 Johan Greyling

113 Johan Scott

114 John Costello

11 4 Joy Mullin

115 John Read

116 John Vosloo

120 Ken Lovell

121 Kevin Mullins

121 Kim Stevens

122 Kim Roberts

124 Laetitia Kenny

126 Leon Heyes

127 Leon Jacobs

127 Leticia Cox

128 Lezzet Abbott

129 Liam Fagan

129 Lindi Eksteen

130 Louis Pretorius

134 Lourens Botha

138 Lood Goosen

13 8 Marissa Enslin

139 Malie van der Vyver

140 Manie Ward

141 Marleen la Grange

142 Martin Dudley Baber

171 Mauricio Schuller

172 Melanie Cornelius

173 Michael John Daniel

17 5 Michelle van Niekerk

178 Michele-Ann Nel

178 Morne Prinsloo

179 Munro Nel

180 Neille Vorster

181 Nicolene Theunissen

182 Pauline van der Spuy

194 Peet van den Berg

201 Pam Brighton

201 Reabetswe Letshwiti

202 Robbie Aspeling

207 Ronald Leong

207 Roelf Malan

208 Ronel Broderick

208 Ronel Cronje

209 Roxanne Wentzel

210 Rudi Kurt

211 Ronnie Belcher

211 Samantha Pienaar

212 Sandra Muller

213 Sherlock Holmes

217 Shirley Gillett

217 Štefan Stieven

218 Sonia Elliott

218 Steff Hughes

219 Sue Basler

220 Tabor Kruger

221 Tania Cholwich

221 Terry Meyer

222 Terry Stephens Horn

223 Thabo Mampa

223 Tim 'n Sue Gould

224 Valmai le Grang

224 Veronica Coetzer

225 Verinda Bosch

226 Vicki Street

231 Wendy van Zyl

231 Wolf Avni

JUDGES CORNER

232 Gus Waschefort

238 Christine Waschefort

242 Hein Waschefort

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Chris Mulder

Chris Mulder The Crows are Flying Again

Chris Mulder There is something about Dali Chris Mulder My basecamp before I move on to visit Santa

Chris is a South African photographer with an interest in contemporary photography. His contemporary compulations are often reminiscent of that of earlier surrealism.

Clint Ralph

Daniela Gisi

Clint Ralph Lazying around

Daniela Gisi Dizzy

I am a passionate nature lover and wildlife photographer. My love for wildlife began as a child when my father took us kids to the Kruger National Park. From there my enthusiasm grew from just viewing the animals to photographing them. In the last 5 years my photography transformed from a happy snapper to a more professional and sometimes artistic approach. As a photographer my focus has always been on mammals and birds in flight but recently, I am doing some landscape work. I spend many weeks and months in the African bush from Kenya to Cape Town, Namibia to South Africa and Botswana always looking for that unique moment that will get a viewer to look twice. The aim of my work is to highlight the beauty of nature and in so doing hopefully slow down the decline in most species. The more people we can touch with the beauty of nature the less the better the chance of survival of these beautiful creatures for our children to appreciate them in their natural world. Over and above this I frequently take people on private tailored safaris into Africa where we take the time to sharpen the photographer's skills both photographically and in teaching the ways of the animal life in order that we can achieve better photographs without disturbing the subject.Pretoriaclint@smartwaste.co.zawww.clintralphphotography.co.za

I love stolen moments...

Those images that freeze real life, raw, un-posed, un-directed… Images that years later will leave you with a little bite of your past. I am a child and family photographer.

I purchased my first camera so I could freeze these memories, my cell phone could not keep up with my toddler. Soon after I received my first requests to document for others. The joy that pulses through me when I manage to capture the essence of a moment is addictive. Through trial and error I'm learning how to document these glimpses into the everyday.

[email protected]

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Craigen Bester‎

Craigen Bester Just kids having fun

Craigen Bester Struggle of life

Dave Barnes

Dave Barnes Egret launch

Born in 1953, Dave grew up in Pretoria, South Africa. His passion for the arts as well as nature and animals was discovered at a young age. He received his first camera as a gift from his parents while still in primary school. Dave was soon developing photographs at home in a spare room converted into a dark room.Dave Barnes studied architecture as a young adult and currently resides in Pretoria, South Africa working as a Professional architect; however his fascination with photography has never left him and now spends his free time in nature behind his camera capturing wildlife.“Photography is an art and artists are often best understood through their work, so we hope that the images on this page will speak for themselves and tell you the rest of Dave Barnes' story…”

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Dave Barnes

Flamingo runway

Dave Barnes

The squad of one

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Dave Barnes Bush baby jumping

Dave Barnes

Long-tailed Widowbird

Dave Barnes Egret launch

Dave Barnes Bird brain

Dave Barnes

Impetuous youngster

Dave Barnes Framed grouse

Dave Barnes Open wide Dave Barnes Dinner

Dave Barnes Splash in evening wear

Dave Barnes hitting the waves

Dave Barnes A time to rest

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Dawid Fourie

Derick Atkins

Derick Atkins

The proverbial photographic BUG bit amateur photographer Dawid Fourie during 2008 while browsing through some Macro Photos. A whole new world opened right in front of him.Having been a nature lover all his life, he decided to concentrate on wildlife photography. With the help of friends and through self-education.

Dawid soon lifted himself up from a person who would capture an animal just for the sake of taking a photo, to a person who would sit hours on end and then capture the perfect photo.Other genres were soon discovered, which fuelled him to produce creative photo art photography.

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Dawid Fourie Into the Unknown

Debbie Boettcher‎

Debbie Boettcher Creative nature

Debbie Boettcher Winter is coming

Debbie's love of all things “arty” is something she inherited from both her parents. Mom was a cake designer and won many medals for her skills in baking and cake decorating.Dad was a sign writer by trade. Debbie has a Graphic Design background and designed her first magazine at the tender age of eleven.

Although photography is only a hobby, it has become her passion.Debbie's main genre is flower photography but discovering her Photoshop skills has taken her creativity to a new level of photographic manipulation and altered reality.Her biggest inspiration in this regard has been her friend and mentor, Martin Dudley, who selflessly shares his talent in order for others to learn and grow.

[email protected]

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Debbie Boettcher Vase of Sunflowers

Debbie Boettcher The King

Debbie Boettcher Blue Dandy

Debbie Boettcher Through the eyes of a child

Debbie Boettcher The Rose

Debbie Boettcher Tree of Life

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Debbie Boettcher

Sunrise

Debbie Boettcher Houtbay

Debbie Boettcher The Quiet Storm

Debbie Boettcher The Beach

Dricky Gouws

Part time photographer Dricky Gouws always admired the beauty of art. She tried out a few mediums like jewellery making and painting on wooden canvas. She is a versatile photographer with a passion for people and portrait photography. Between landscapes and portrait s her mind wonders, a story born in her imagination, takes shape. To create the story as it features in her mind, she started applying it to her photography, and there her love for altered reality photos started, giving free reins to her imagination.

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Dricky Gouws Wondered Dricky Gouws Sunset in the bushveld

Dricky Gouws Moving cosmos

Dricky Gouws Grassy wedding sillhoutte

Dricky Gouws Waiting for my love Dricky Gouws Music is my life

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Dereck Green

Dereck Green Miles Mosley -USA

Cape Town International Jazz Festival 2018

I have spent some 45 years as a professional photographer.My photograph journey started at age ten with a Kodak 620Fold-out camera and has been a life long adventure.I am completely self taught and have worked with all formatsof film cameras from 35mm to medium and large format.Initially I shot Rock 'n Roll and photographed many famousSouth African bands including Rabbitt, Ballyhoo, The Rockets,Clout and singers like Margaret Singana and PJ Powers.I then got involved with commercial and advertisingphotography mostly in studio for local and international brands.Today I have changed tack once more. I like natural light,so shoot mostly outdoors and once again Rock 'n Roll,sport and major events and people are my main interests.Digital has changed the way I create my images butdefinitely don't take a shotgun approach.I can't resist picking up a camera and creating something of value.

Cape Town - [email protected]

Dricky Gouws

And your point is

Dricky Gouws Blacklisted

Donald Brotherston APSSA (Vers), EPSSA . AFIAP

Don Brotherston Michael February

Don Brotherston Rellief at last

Retired, I am an amateur photographer, started photography in 1967 and joined Southern Suburbs Camera Club in 1973.I went through the home darkroom process in b/w and colour up to the introduction of the digital age in the late 1990's.In my photographic journey I have always tried to diversify and take all subjects matters. My main interests are in Sport,PJ/Street/Urban and Landscapes.

Mulbarton, Johannesburg. [email protected]

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Don Brotherston Shadow spectators

Don Brotherston Sprint finish Don Brotherston Desperate dive

Don Brotherston Canyon abstract

Don Brotherston Last gate

Don Brotherston Hooked

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Dudley Watson

Dudley Watson Who is there Dudley Watson Holding the Pose

Dudley Watson Please sir

Dudley Watson Romeo and Juliet

Dudley Watson I could have danced all night

Dudley Watson's passion for photography ignited when he realised the ability of the photographic image to convey mood, movement and feeling to an image. He enjoys studying the techniques and artistic poses of other art forms and incorporating these into his work, in particular impressionistic painting and the movement agility of the human body in ballet. He works both in Colour and Black and White and experiments with in camera techniques such as Intentional Camera Movement.His photographic dictum is

“May I capture a Small Window of God's Creation”

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Ed Raubenheimer‎

Ed Raubenheimer Please scratch my back

Ed Raubenheimer Captured in Midair

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Ed Raubenheimer Zebra eye Ed Raubenheimer Darter and fish Autin Roberts

Ed Raubenheimer Humming Bird Hawk Moth 2

Ed Raubenheimer Springbuck in the mist

Ed Raubenheimer Humming Bird Hawk Moth

Ed Raubenheimer Cover Page Water Buck

Ed Raubenheimer Bateleur Kgalagadi

Ed Raubenheimer Serval with DOF

Ed Raubenheimer Kgalagadi Bateleur female

Ed Raubenheimer Koek sister Pilanesberg

Ed Raubenheimer Deadly Cover Page

Ed Raubenheimer Kgalagadi Bateleur

Ed Raubenheimer Waterbuck Rietvlei

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Elaine Lamb

Amateur/hobby photographer, Elaine Lamb's interest in photography began in her teens when she discovered her mother's Brownie box camera and later her father's Retina IA. Before going to University, a friend introduced her to a dark room and film processing. Her first year at Architecture School included a semester in photography and graphics. Later, in her own make shift dark room, she explored pushing recording film to achieve grainy effects. Photography helped her out of a depression in 2012 when she became fascinated by the world of 'small things' as seen through the macro lens. Her interest is still in creating artistic effects, either in camera or in post processing.

Great Brak River, Western [email protected]

Elaine Lamb Dandyfly Elaine Lamb Breaking thru the water wall

Elaine Lamb She turned and danced away

Elize Labuschagne

Elsje Vermeulen

Over a span of 35 years, Elize successfully applied the visual arts in her business career, drawing on our cultural, historical and natural heritage: first as an interior designer and later a product designer. After her retirement in 2017, she allowed herself the luxury of indulging in her lifelong, but underdeveloped, passion of photography. As an amateur, she photographs what tickles her fancy, spending lots of time at local and exotic wildlife destinations – she has a love affair with Africa, the east and South America. “I live in Brooklyn, Pretoria, in an old house, surrounded by lots of old stuff.”

[email protected]

Elsje is the News Editor of Vaalweekblad and Ster newspapers in Vaal Triangle, Gauteng. She started her career in printed media as a junior sports jounalist in 1989 and was asked to take her own photos for articles. Right from the word go she was a keen photographer. Her career and passion for photography flourished which lead to several Community Newspaper Photography Awards throughout the years.In 2018 she received the award for Best Hard News Photo at the Caxton Excellence Awards and was also crowned as 2018 FCJ (Forum for Community Journalism) Photographer of the Year.

In July 2018 she joined VSS Creative Camera Club. "Breaking away from the strict rules of photo journalism

and having fun with altered reality multi imaging, creates a wonderful balance for me. I can let my imagination run free".

[email protected]

Elize Labuschagne Strolling Silhouettes

Elsje Vermeulen Rise above the stormElsje Vermeulen Notice the little wonders

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Elize Eveleigh, born a creative person and an ardent lover of nature followed a scientific career for 25 years. She started photography about 9 years ago as a hobby doing mostly wildlife and macro. Being a self-acclaimed restless soul with loads of artistic sensitivity she challenges herself all the time. Lately, she captures images that speak to her heart and soul whilst her scientific background fuels her hunger for experimenting with different subjects, styles, and techniques. She passionately believes there is beauty in everything on earth and endeavours to convey through her work that the seemingly ordinary around us as being amazingly extraordinary.

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Elize Eveleigh Oh to be a child again

Elize Eveleigh

Elize Eveleigh For the beauty of a rose

Elize Vega Eveleigh Dream for it is you yourself

that create your world

Elize Vega Eveleigh Crabby looking crab spider on blue hydrangea

Elize Vega Eveleigh Her secret garden

Elize Vega Eveleigh Solitude at sunset

Elize Vega Eveleigh Follow your soul

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" I am just a trigger happy lady that got hooked the day I first saw a digital camera. My husband had to buy me one the same day and I never lost that feeling of awe for photography. I'd like to think that I have grown since then and love to do macro and close ups, especially plants, flowers and insects. I see a weed through a different eye that the average person (I think) and want to show that they are beautiful too. I have a really big fascination with Dandelions and look alike seeds. To me they are artworks themselves, and I want to reflect that in my work, for now. Who knows what I will do next? As long as I can keep on growing and snapping I'm happy!"

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Elsa van Dyk

Elsa van Dyk Dandillion

Elsa van Dyk Cubist decor

Elsa van Dyk Feeling blue

Elsa van Dyk Mono droplet

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Elsa van Dyk Fluff balls

Elsa van Dyk Droplets

Elsa van Dyk I just can't help loving these seeds

Elsa van Dyk Natures own jewels

Elsa van Dyk Single drop

Evelyn Gibson FPSSA, APSSA(Vers), EPSSA(Mille), EFIAP, SPSA

Evelyn Gibson is a South African based photographer with over 20 years of experience. She has a passion for a wide range of photographic genres, and, having travelled widely both internationally and around Southern Africa, she has collected a range of images.Evelyn currently serves on the Board of PSSA as Director - Public Relations and is also a member of its National Honours Judging Panel.Being heavily involved in Club Photography, she regularly judges at different clubs around the country or assists through remote judging. She also instigated and started a new Club in her local area some years ago.Her approach to photography comes from a photographer once saying to her that the light is the river on which technique sinks or floats. Emotion, spirit, conveying mood, atmosphere and meaning needs to be there when the image is captured. One must feel they could walk into the image and feel part of it.

[email protected] Evelyn Gibson Good Morning how are you

Evelyn Gibson Rhymn Silhouettes

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Evelyn Gibson Fish Eagle Catch

Evelyn Gibson I am in my own world at the moment - please let me go

Evelyn Gibson Vintage Look

Evelyn Gibson Gossip

Evelyn Gibson Cheetah chase

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Evelyn Gibson High key leopardEvelyn Gibson Landscape

Evelyn Gibson My painting of Knysna Lagoon

Evelyn Gibson Wifi Hotspot Evelyn Gibson

Fanie Schoeman

Francois Loubser

I grew up in White River, South Africa where I started a company and later developed a passion for photography. Photography is one of my favorite hobbies and got me to open my own studio. Wildlife photography is one of my favorite genres. I enjoy collaborating with other talented photographers who share my interests. This is the best place where you can learn more from other photographers. I am also a freelance photographer doing what ever comes to mind. When time allows I travel to certain parts of the country capturing images of landscapes. I also often travel to Kruger National Park for the best wildlife photography.

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Francois Loubser took on photography in 2006 for the first time. Falling in love with creating images I photographed anything and everything. After a few years and with some encouragement from people like Hein Waschefort I started with experimenting with especially in camera manipulation.

Fanie Schoeman Maansverduistering

Fanie Schoeman Focused

I am not one that can sit in front of a computer and do complex manipulation. I have also moved away from “forensic “ photography to the more surreal.

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Francois Loubser BirdingFrancois Loubser Movement

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Gaby Grohovaz

Fine art photographer who believes images are made not taken. Gaby Grohovaz enjoys experimenting with different subject matter, with a tendency towards portrait. Her passion lies in the conceptual and creative creation of fine art images and the time spent in post production is at least as important to her as capturing images in camera. Her work is often dark and moody, aiming to elicit a reaction from the viewer. She uses any camera available and several of her awarded pictures were captured with a mobile device, some fully edited on the phone.

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Gaby Grohovaz Not Man nor Beast

Gaby Grohovaz Shinrin-Yoku Gaby Grohovaz Futuristic Mona Lisa

Gaby Grohovaz African Monster

Gaby Grohovaz Skittish Impala

Gaby Grohovaz My lips are sealed Gaby Grohovaz Head in the clouds

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Gonnie Myburgh

Photography, especially Nature Photography, became an important part of my very being when I used it as a healing process after a traumatic period in my life.

When we engage in photography, we are usually focusing on the beauty of a situation. That is why the creative process of this art form is so satisfying and uplifting.

The art of photography will always be a learning experience for me. As photographer, you not only try to improve your technical skills while recording images, but also learns much more about the details and beauty of nature when you are able to contemplate the enlarge results of your work on the screen of the computer.

Gonnie Myburgh Two-way Traffic

Gonnie Myburgh Die einde is in sig

Gonnie Myburgh Hunting Doves

Gonnie Myburgh Catch me if you can

Gonnie Myburgh Juvenile Bateleur having a Sunbath Gonnie Myburgh Bateleur landing

Gonnie Myburgh Sharing a Bee Gonnie Myburgh As dit reen in die Kgalagadi

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Gideon Malherbe When Doves Pray

Gideon Malherbe Arniston Fishermen

Gideon Malherbe

Hi, I am Gideon Malherbe, a South African farmer who loves travelling in Southern Africa with its diverse landscapes, cultures and wildlife. Showing people the real Africa through the lens of my camera is a passion that was always in my veins and photography is the perfect way to do it. I specialize in bird, wildlife and landscape photography.

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Geraldine Enslin

Gerbus Vermaak

Gerbus Vermaak's interest in photography evolved from the need to identify the birds he passionately seeks. His dream is to photograph all the birds found in Southern Africa, hopefully spending his retirement in this fulfilling way. With the assistance and guidance from knowledgeable photographer friends, photography has become his biggest passion regularly taking him to new and exciting places.

Photographing birds especially birds in flight is his first love but he will photograph any wildlife and even a grandchild will do.

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Geraldine Enslin, a Fine art specialist who focuses predominantly on animals and children and marrying the two in what one could call a whimsical dream world. She wholeheartedly believes in capturing life's magical moments and translating them into captivating portraits. Geraldine knows what truly drives warmth, emotion, and a sense of fantasy—and it's not just her flavour of the week, she has been refining this style for over half a decade. It's how well you connect with the heart-beating people and animals you're trying to portray and communicate your understanding back to them.

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Geraldine Enslin

Gerbus VermaakEn kyk hoe mooi is my oog

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Haig Fourie Life

Haig Fourie out with the dogs

Haig Fourie

Haig Fourie The guard

Haig Fourie

Amateur photographer and a bit on the obsessive side of photography. Haig Fourie started photography in 2013 when he joined Vanderbijlpark Photographic club, before that he loved taking pictures on holidays but after joining the club it became a passion.As a photographer I try and be as versatile as possible and love photographing almost anything possible but love macro, monochrome and sport. Macro photography is probably at the top as the insect world just fascinates me in how small and beautiful detail they have that we can't see with our eyes.

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Hanli Smit

Hanli Smit, an accomplished fine art photographer, has carved a professional niche for herself in the field of Jewellery Photography. With her Graphic and Fashion Design background, and her love of painting and drawing, Hanli has always interwoven creativity in all that she does, which is why Hanli herself refers to her photography as making - rather than taking a picture. Thus, Hanli is often found not just behind the camera, but actively involved in the actual design of the entire costume, make-up, props, accessories, etc. that goes into one of her photographic portraits or creations. She has an eye for detail, loves post-processing and is a perfectionist when producing a photograph. Hanli's only regret is that she did not embrace photography as her preferred medium sooner in life.

Savoy Estates, Johannesburg,

Savoy Estates, Johannesburg,[email protected]

Hanli Smit Ikebana

Hanli Smit Lights and White Satin

Hanli Smit A-symetric Hanli Smit Chess Mate Hanli Smit Dream Catcher

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Hanli Smit Let us spice things up a bit

Hanli Smit The sights and sounds of an African Tapestry

Hanli Smit Partly Cloudy

Hanli Smit Pretty Ghostly at Kolmaskop

Hanli Smit And the paint is running

Hanli Smit Sun Kissed mono

Hanli Smit Call her Phoenix

Hanli Smit 800 Seasons of a Gentle Giant

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Heide-Marie Smallwood

Hennie Karsten

As a child Heide-Marie Smallwood was exposed to an artistic environment. She studied ceramics, sculpture and vitreous enamelling, and explored martial arts and music. As a photographer and artist she knows that inspiration never stops growing. Her passion focuses on compositing, combining several images to create a narrative, using visual effects instead of words to form and articulate ideas. Celebrating the human form, expressed through portrait and altered reality, she uses creative energies to communicate life’s great themes, with the greatest possible freedom of expression, proving that the vital spark of creativity, combined with passion, enables talent to flourish without restraint.

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Heide-Marie Smallwood Rosemaries baby abandoned

Heide-Marie Smallwood Waiting for the midnight train

Hennie Karsten Missed tackle

Hercu du Plessis

hallo Hein . dankie ek kan nie glo n lazy ass photographer soos ek maak die boek . ! kan jy nie vir my n kort bio skryf . wat se my passie le in photo journalism , en fokus gewoonlik op die arme mense om die rykes te laat onthou hoe baie hulle het om voor dankbaar te wees.

Roughly translated: Hercu aims to capture the poor in order to create social awareness, and also, to portray to the affluent the other side of the coin.

Hercu has travelled the world with Gus Waschefort doing almost exclusively photojournalism and street photography.

Hercu du Plessis Dublin 2018

Hercu du Plessis

Poverty peeking back

Hercu du Plessis Mamma is working