Senior Club Competition Winners Apr 2025

Shirley Gillitt from Westville Camera Club is our April winner!

Shirley, congratulations on your winning image – Snack for the Hamerkop

Shirley says:

Early one cloudy morning at Zimanga Lagoon hide, a Hamerkop flew in with a frog. The bird washed the frog multiple times before swallowing it, giving me ample opportunity to take hundreds of photos.

Camera OM1 MARK 11
Shutter speed 1/2000
F6.3
600 mm
ISO 5000
Processing software Camera Raw and Adobe Photoshop

Our 1st runner-up is Lorraine Blackwell from George Camera Club with “Greedy Pigeons”

Our 2nd runner-up is Rodney Cory from Southern Suburbs Camera Club with “Vulture Dispute”

Thank you to the judges:

Koot Marais – Bloemfontein Kameraklub
Kim Stevens – Cape Town Photographic Society
Anette Reimers – Port Elizabeth Camera Club

Click here for the April 2025 scoresheet for Seniors

APRIL 2025 SENIOR CLUB WINNER FINALISTS (You can click on the images to enlarge them and use the arrows on the image to go back and forth.

AFO - Johann Mader - Watergirl

Amber Camera Club - Chris Swingler - Stationary Fly

Ballito Photo Club - Caro Smith - Out of Africa

Benoni Camera Club - Leigh Reighnolds - Safe With Mom

Bethal Fotografie Klub - SP Smith - Grysbok

Bloemfontein Kameraklub - Efraim van der Walt - Grand Canal Venesie

Bluff Camera Club - Wendy Freer - At Speed

Boksburg Camera Club - Theo van der Merwe - Memories Lost along the Way

Bosveld Fotografie Klub - Hennie Louw - Thanks Mom

Brandpuntfotoklub - Jan Roos - Resting Vulture

Cape Town Photographic Society - Richard Goldschmidt - Venice Opera House

Creative Camera Club - Michele-Ann Nel - The Look

Durban Camera Club - Rory Baker - Huddle

Eden Photographic Society - Johan Enslin - Blue duck

Edenvale Photographic Club - Hanli Smit - The Day Dreamer

Ermelo Fotoklub - Hardus Pieters - Giraffe blending into sunrise

Fish Hoek Photographic Society - Derek Goldman - SplishSplash

George Camera Club - Lorraine Blackwell - Greedy pigeons

Harties Fotografie Studiegroep - Andries Roesch - Darter In the sun

Hermanus Photographic Society - Phil Sturgess - Not so fast

Hibiscus Coast Photographic Society - Michelle Pearson - I bite you

Highway Camera Club - Tammy Harding - Wild Thing

IPIP Photographic Club - Mark Geldenhuys - Smokey Light

Klerksdorp Fotografie Klub - Monique Van Rooyen - Black Beauty

Knysna Photographic Society - Pieter Mare - Inspecting every angle

Kriel Foto Club - Spokie vd Merwe - Leopard Island

Kroonstad Fotoklub - Chris Van den Heever - Yawning

Krugersdorp Camera Club - Heepko van Kaam - Brad in front of BW

Magalies Foto Fun Club - Letmari Dreeckmeier - Cresting the hill in a dust cloud

Maritzburg Camera Club - Des van Tonder - Concentration

Midlens Fotoklub - Dewald Tromp - Between the Flowers

Mosselbaai Kameraklub - Amanda Whiteman - Bedrywige Bye

National Photographic Club - Francois Venter - Table Mountain Colour explosion

Paarl Photographic Club - Arnold van Dyk - My catfish

Port Elizabeth Camera Club - Blayne Scholtz - Spring Loaded

Pretoria Photographic Society - John Tapuch - Kept behind

Princes Grant Camera Club - Sharlene Cathro - Sisters

Randburg Foto Klub-Randburg Photo Club - Chris Joubert - Hot Coffee and a drop of Chocolate

Sandton Photographic Society - Ana Kaplan - De Kelders Finger

Sapphire Coast Camera Club - Helena Du Plessis - Sandgrouse

Sasol Highveld Photography Club - Peter Winnan - Lions Playing

Scottburgh Camera Club - John Hatton - Morning at Rocky Bay

Southern Suburbs Camera Club - Rodney Cory - Vulture dispute

Springs Photographic Club - Cheryl Brooks - Cattle Egret

Tafelberg Fotografieklub - Adriaan van Zyl - Waterkruising

Tygerberg Photographic Society - Bennie Vivier - PLAYING IN THE DUST AT SUNSET

Vanderbijlpark Fotografiese Vereniging - Francois Roux - water dans

Vereeniging Photographic Society - Francois Roux - lepellaar skep

Westville Camera Club - Shirley Gillitt - A snack for the Hammerkop

HOW DOES THIS COMPETITION WORK?

This is a PSSA monthly competition where clubs enter their monthly Senior winner onto Photovault. Appointed judges select the winning image. The monthly winner gets displayed on the home page of our Web site for the duration of the month.

For the Senior Club Competition Winner of the Month, a club representative (ideally the Chairperson) submits the Senior club winner via Photovault at www.photovaultonline.com.

Click here to download instructions on how to upload your entry onto Photovault

All images must be original and must not incorporate elements produced by anyone else. By virtue of submitting an entry, the clubs must certify all the work in the entered image as their club member’s own. The PSSA Director of Competitions has the right to ask for the RAW files.

Frequently we do require high resolutions of these images as PSSA use them for Print Exhibitions to promote PSSA as well as showcasing the work being done around the country.

At the end of the PSSA calendar year (30 June of each year) the Senior Club Competition Winning Image of the Year is selected.