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October 2025 Results
Our October club event focused on the beautiful world of “Close-up Photography“ by capturing a picture of a subject by focussing on the smaller detail, rather than the subject itself. It is to show only a part of a subject and not the whole subject. For example, it is not a macro shot, where the whole subject is shown, but only small detail of the subject that you bring to the attention of the viewer. Congratulations to our winning photographers whose work stood out:
🥇 Senior Winner: A bird is the heart of the orchid | Alta Oosthuizen
🥈 Junior Winner: Kom ons draf lanks die strand | Marozane van Heerden
Well done to all participants for embracing the challenge and producing such inspiring work!

Set_subject: Category winner
Senior Evening Winner
A bird is the heart of the orchid
Alta Oosthuizen

Kom ons draf lanks die strand
Marozane van Heerden

Open: Category Winner
Rietvlei Reflections
Linda Fullard

Nature: Category Winner
Kalahari Lion Majestic
Quinton Boshoff

Scapes: Category Winner
Turi at its best
Derick Jordaan

Socumentary: Category Winner
Missed it
Hannes Rossouw

Portraiture: Category Winner
Searching for the light in the dark
Alta Oosthuizen
A Word from our October 2025 Winners
A bird is the heart of the orchid | Alta Oosthuizen

The set subject for our club competition was “close-up”. I recently had to photograph flowers for a company and I was given an orchid. I never knew that there is a little flying bird in the middle of an orchid, until I was looking though my lens to take a picture. It was a wonderful discovery! I will, from that day, never see an orchid, without looking at the bird in the middle!!
Canon 1DX Mk II
Canon 100mm Macro lens
1/200 sec
ISO 400
F 7.1
Kom ons draf lanks die strand | Marozane van Heerden
Marozane sê: “Ons was gedurende April 2025 in Tergniet (naby Groot Brakrivier) en tydens die sonopkoms het ek op die strand geloop en my Oppo A40m selfoon by my gehad waarmee ek die foto geneem het”.


