Since its inception in 2007, the Knysna Photographic Society (KPS) has grown from 15 members to a healthy 53 members in 2012/2013.
Monthly meetings take place at Belvidere Manor Conference Centre on the third Wednesday of each month, where members are encouraged to showcase their work in return for constructive feed-back and promotion by club judges through a Photographic Society of South Africa (PSSA) recognised grading system. Members have received numerous honours awards, both nationally and internationally.
Photographers who received awards were:
- Senior Photographer of the Year: Jacqui Johnston.
- Senior category overall prize winners:
- Pictorial: 1: Jacqui Johnston, 2: Sonia Elliott, 3: Pam Brighton.
- Nature: 1: Pieter Mare, 2: Jan Mare, 3: Mary Hunter.
- Junior Photographer of the Year: Willie Dalgleish
- Junior category overall prize winners:
- Pictorial: 1: Jenny Santoro, 2: Dawid Malan, 3: Margaret Richards.
- Nature: 1: Willie Dalgleish, 2: Christine Munro, 3 (tie): Basil Michaelides and Sjoerd Schaaff.
- Senior top scoring images:
- Pictorial (tie): Eileen Covaar - Venetian Vase and Pam Brighton - River Mist.
- Nature: Pieter Mare - Kubu Dusk.
- Visual art: Stan Brighton - Iconic Baobab.
- Photo journalism: Anne Hrabar - Crappy Life.
- Monochrome: Rob Wood - Early morning mist.
- Junior top scoring images:
- Pictorial: Sjoerd Schaaff - In the Mist.
- Nature: Willie Dalgleish - Dancing Caddisfly.
- Visual art: Derek Rushton - Oasis.
- Monochrome (tie): Halszka Covaar - Cool Off and Derek Rushton - The game is over.
- Brian Mullin Award: Rob Wood.
(Article supplied by Jacqui Johnston.)
The Knysna Photographic Society's annual award winners were (front from left):Sonia Elliott, Anne Hrabar, Margaret Richards, Mary Hunter, Jacqui Johnston, Jenny Santoro, Eileen Covaar and Willie Dalgleish. Back: Jan Maré, Stan Brighton, Pieter Maré, Dawid Malan, Rob Wood, Basil Michaelides, Sjoerd Schaaff and Derek Rushton. Absent: Pam Brighton, Halszka Covaar and Christine Munro.(Photo: Luana Laubscher.)
