July 2024 was a particularly successful month for Edenvale Photo Club.
As a club we finished the Salon year off strongly, and managed to finish off the Impala Log in 12th position overall, and 1st within the CERPS region.
The Tafelburg and F-stop Salon results were particularly good, and as a club we received combined total of 83 Acceptances, 10 Certificates of Merit, 2 Category runner up medals for Laetitia Kenny and Sonja Olivier, as well as a Category Winners medal for Ettienne van Niekerk between those 2 salons. This bodes well for us going in to the next cycle of Salons, if build on these results and hopefully finish even higher on the log next year.
Laetitia Kenny also had one of her photos selected for the PSSA’s 70th birthday roadshow exhibition, which will be doing the rounds around South Africa over the next few months. Considering only 70 images in total were selected from all those sugmitted by the PSSA members, this is a huge honor
We also had 2 well deserved promotions, with Debra Russell, and our Chairman Brian Shaw both being promoted to 4 star level during the month and taking the step up to our Senior Photographer sections going forward. Both are exceptional photographers and will give the rest of the Seniors a good run for their money going forward.
a big thank you to our judges for the month, with Corine Ross and Cobus Eksteen attending our Live Meeting on 13 July, as well as Anneke Preto assisting us remotely on our Zoom Meeting on 24 July. They all gave us some great feedback which we can hopefully use to our benefit and become much better at our craft going forward.
Congratulations to the below images which were selected as the deserved winners for our club meetings during the month.

Impala Lilly – Johann Hofmann

Spotted hyena resting – John Hosking

White Bellied Sunbird – John Hosking

Little Grebe – Sonja Olivier

Cape Vulture – Ettienne van Niekerk

Female Kudu Portrait – Ruth Anne Smit

Hand of Wisdom – Gary Andrew Peck

Resting ballerina – Laetitia Kenny

Hanging upside down – Moira van Heerden