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Cape Camera November/December 2023

Expect to see some of the bling and gold objects from the Mike de Villiers and Rudi Pothas. Photo: Joyce Goldschmidt.
venue in Martin Barber's future work. Miracle workers (continued)

mountings and frames would have looked like a patch-
work, instead of a professionally curated exhibition.
Kim Stevens and Lesley Parolis assisted Anna with select-
ing the CTPS images for the exhibition. Some members
from other clubs who are not familiar with print work
had submitted images with too low resolution, or had
some problems that Kim could correct.
Anna negotiated with the clubs to send new images, if
required, and obtained the information about the pho-
tographers to go on the labels. Once all images were
ready, Anna and Lesley worked with Marlon Abrahams
CTPS members Mariette Muller, Steff Hughes, Mireille Land- from Orms to get the best print quality.
man (standing) Friso Woudstra from Kleinmond and Ken
Woods at Martin's presentation. In the meantime, Anna and Andre Mouton designed
the leaflets with contact details of the clubs to be dis-
tributed to visitors. Trudi du Toit also obtained further
information from the clubs for the online booklet she
designed that is hosted on the CTPS website, which can
be assessed with a QR code.
The main headache was the hanging of the prints, be-
cause experience from last year taught us that the un-
even walls and wind can easily dislodge the prints. Lots
of discussion went into finding the best tape to affix the
prints in a manner that they can be taken down again
without damaging the walls. Eventually it was decided
to use double sided tape ... and regularly return to in-
Dieter Bütow talking to Theo Potgieter (CTPS and Tafelberg), spect and re-attach the prints threatening to fall down.
Chris Kinross (Creative Camera Club), Andrew Denny (CTPS) An unenviable task Lesley and Marius Stockenstrom
Wendy Taylor (Creative) and Andre Mouton (CTPS). took upon themselves.

Two days before the opening the hanging team was
called into action. Veterans Anna, Lesley, Kim, Marius,
Joyce and Richard Goldschmidt, Nicol, Andre and Mike
de Villiers knew the drill and followed Anna's carefully
plotted plan of what goes where. New club member
Rudi Pothas soon got into the hang of things: cutting
and applying tape, lining up all images in a straight row
equidistant from each other and then carefully pressing
down on the taped edges to make sure that they are at-
tached to the walls.
And then, all that remained was to stand back and ac-
CTPS members Jonathan Burchell, Andre Mouton, Mike de cept all the compliments from visitors.
Villiers and Robert Maginley enjoying the refreshments. Miracle accomplished!

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