Alan King - chairperson - Alan's role is to preside over club nights, committee meetings, AGMs and SGMs, co-chair competitions, approve expenditure, sign all official docs, and issue an annual report ahead of each AGM. Alan has also taken on the role of membership officer, and as such, liaises with prospective members, informs the induction officer of new members and maintains the membership list. Don't worry, your info is safe in Alan's hands as he is also our club information officer responsible for our compliance with the POPI Act.  Alan also assists with scoring, our website, and is our keeper of statistics. As our resident Energizer Bunny he has lots more initiatives up his sleeve, so watch this space...

Doug Emanuel - vice chair. As vice chair, Doug assists / stands in for the chairperson, arranges certificates and medals for annual prizegiving, and co-ordinates the AGM. He also our minister of finance, and together with Peter, keeps a beady eye on all expenses paid for the benefit of members and ensures that our monetary affairs are in order. Doug manages and sets up all of our club equipment and assists Eileen with scoring. He is also responsible for new member induction and training sessions.

Laura Campbell - secretary. Laura is the one who keeps the committee in check, sending agendas and keeping minutes of all our committee meetings, AGMs and SGMs. Laura's is the name you're most likely to see in your inbox as she also handles member communication, and the WhatsApps reminding us all about entries and deadlines. If you have any queries or comments for any of the committee members, please email them to Laura at laura@hss.co.za and she'll make sure the right person gets it.

Peter Oosthuizen - newsletter, interactive club nights and judges' training. How we all love Pete's thoughtfully curated monthly newsletter offerings! They are such a font of information - club news, the stories behind images, member bios, guest columns, and so much more. Peter is also our treasurer and pulls out his fine tooth comb to ensure that every cent of our budget is approved and accounted for. A new initiative is our monthly interactive Zoom meeting, which affords us the time and ability to dig a little deeper into many photography-related topics, and which Peter also uses for judges' training.

Eileen Covarr - scorer.  Eileen manages all our club entries and Photovault admin. This is a vast job and includes managing the TOP system on club nights, emailing member's scores, keeping a record of entries and scores, managing member promotions and recording salon achievements, managing and updating award criteria and analysing member performance to determine prizewinners. As if that's not enough, Eileen is also our PSSA representative and submits our POMs and interclub competition entries.

Thorsten Siwitza - outings and programme organizer. Thorsten has undertaken to collate the various club activities including outings and shoots into a coherent  calendar of events.