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The Compact Group is for people who use a Compact Digital or Compact Film Point & Shoot Camera - Do you have your camera with you at all times? Does it fit in your handbag, pocket or elsewhere tucked away on your person, then we have the group for you!

Featured Work

Trio by George Swann

Beautiful, scented Daffodils, yippee spring is almost here. Olympus E-P1
Snowdrops - First Sign of Spring by Jokus

Camera: Fujifilm Finepix S8100 / Photo made on March 7-2010 in the garden of Johan, Bolsward, The Netherlands, Europe Often referred to as the common snowdrop, Galanthus nivalis is the best-known and most widespread representative of a small genus of about 20 species in the family Amaryllidaceae. Snowdrops are among the first bulbs to bloom in Spring and can form impressive carpets of white in areas where they are native or have been naturalised. / Source: Wikipedia Featured in Flowering Bulbs, Fuji Fine, The Compact Group
Spring Flower by Chloé-May Smith

I’m thinking this is a Crocus…I know my mum told me what it was, but all I know it really as is “the pretty little purple flower thats appeared in the garden” :) / I don’t normally take flower shots, as I’m not very good at all at them, but this one came out okay I think :) Taken with my Casio Exilim
St Chads Poulton-Le-Fylde by lilian marshall

Crocus carpets at St Chads Parish Church . Fantastic every year but this year better than ever . / Lumix DMC-TZ6
Spring embrace by Yool

Fuji finepix s 200exr crocus from my garden. / / / / / / / /
A field of colour by Howard Widdison

Panasonic Lumix TZ4
Pussywillows by Linda Bianic

We waited for soooo long,,,, and they finally popped!! / A sure sign of spring… taken at my acreage in the front yard. Edmonton, Alberta,Canada Pansonic DMC LZ7,,, sunlight setting,,,, macro..hand held Featured in The Compact Group, Mar 19/10
Flowers by Hannah Fenton-Williams

Not sure what kind… / Nikon coolpix p60
Fire flowers by Gili Orr

“Fire flowers” was featured in the groups / Nature’s Wonders / Tulips / Point and Shooters / and That’s Entertainment! (Fun & Recreation Photos) and was the winner in the That’s Entertainment group’s Flower Fun (22-April-2009) I just love the fire flames feeling I get from this sort tulip. The photo was taken in May 2008, in the yearly international flower exhibition held in Keukenhof, Holland. Canon PowerShot S5 IS, 1/125 s, f/4, ISO 80 / 741 views (17 March 2010) /
I feel pretty, oh so pretty... by Rachel Stickney

Glorious daffodils on a lovely spring day at Cox Arboretum in Dayton, Ohio. This was entered in a song challenge last year on another website and when I was considering what to enter, I saw this photo and the song from the musical “West Side Story” immediately came to mind. I liked it so much, I kept the title. This is one of my favorite images. Canon A720 IS / f/4 / 1/125 sec. / April 2008 / minor cropping and slight sharpening © Rachel Stickney 2010 / ~~ / Narcissus is the botanic name for a genus of mainly hardy, mostly spring-flowering, bulbs in the Amaryllis family native to Europe, North Africa, and Asia. There are also several Narcissus species that bloom in the autumn. Daffodil is a common English name, sometimes used now for all varieties, and is the chief common name of horticultural prevalence used by the American Daffodil Society. The range of forms in cultivation has been heavily modified and extended, with new variations available from specialists almost every year. All Narcissus species have a central trumpet-, bowl-, or disc-shaped corona surrounded by a ring of six floral leaves called the perianth which is united into a tube at the forward edge of the 3-locular ovary. The seeds are black, round and swollen with hard coat. The three outer segments are sepals, and the three inner segments are petals. Though the traditional daffodil of folklore, poetry, and field may have a yellow to golden-yellow color all over, both in the wild species and due to breeding, the perianth and corona may be variously colored. Breeders have developed some daffodils with double, triple, or ambiguously multiple rows and layers of segments, and several wild species also have known double variants. Featured Feb 2010 in The Woman Photographer and Ohio Photographers Group Top Ten placement in the My Garden Corner challenge in Happy Haven 6/6/09 Featured 5/20/09 in AMERICAS ~ Rural, Urban, Wild, Free Top Ten placement (4th) in the Flower Hunt challenge in The Scavenger Hunt 4/19/09 Featured in Alphabet Soup and placed in the Top Ten (2nd) in the Best of N challenge 4/13/09 Featured 3/31/09 in Ohio Photographers Top Ten placement in the Spring Petals challenge and featured in Point and Shooters 3/25/09 Top Ten placement in the Botany challenge and featured 3/23/09 in Postcard Style Featured 3/8/09 in The Scavenger Hunt Top Ten placement in March 2009 Avatar challenge in Happy Haven Featured 2/20/09 in Dimensions Featured 2/12/09 in Point and Shooters Featured 1/5/09 in Flower and Foliage Detail My first challenge win, in the Spring Bulb challenge in Spring Blooms on 11/07/08!
Tête-à-tête by Yool

as is fuji finepix S8100 little tête-à-tête daffodils a sign that spring is almost there. / / / / /
Deep in the Heart.... by Meg Hart

Looking deep into the heart of a tulip in my garden. Featured in Closeups in Nature and The Compact Group

Recent Work

Rejoice by Rick Todaro

Comments very welcome ! view larger for best viewing / / / This is my sea and firmament Image ~ my newest work , my photographs done here in NJ / and I quote from the scriptures / / / Let heaven and earth praise Him, The seas and everything that moves in them. Psalm 69:34 Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad; let the sea resound, and all that is in it ! New International Version / Let the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice! Let the sea and everything in it shout his praise! / / / New Living Translation / work done with my Kodak Z1285* /
Oyster shell V - Abyss by Richard George

Was intrigued by the light and colour… Olympus sp510uz
Morning After the Storm by clizzio

This is a view from the pool deck into the back yard after our first winter storm of the year. / Kresgeville, Pennsylvania USA / Taken with a Sony Cybershot on a snow setting / FEATURED in “Backyard Photography” Dec. 09 / FEATURED in “The Fence Group” Dec. 2009 /
Shoe Addict by *** The Creative Minds*

artwork & photography: / The Creative Minds * Bavaria * 2010 / camera: TCM super zoom this is a collage of some of my shoes for all the shoe addicts out there…Enjoy! /
STAINED GLASS 1 by mgtech

Taken in Xewkija parish church CAMERA FUJI S100fs / Exposure 1/125 s at f/5 / Exposure Bias Value -0.67 / Exposure Program APERTURE PRIORITY / Brightness Value 5.41 / ISO 200 / Focal Lenght 66.3mm
abandoned Aussie homestead by colindove

Captured on an out west Aussie road trip, The cottage stood alone , many klms from the nearest neighbour. Entering the old cottage, alone was a little scary, and time plus neglect had turned it into a shambles. Captured with compact camera Panasonic DMC CT-L11 wide angled Lumix
Winter's End by Bea Godbee

A recent photo I took of the snow melting this Spring off of one of the benches outside. The little seat looks like it’s happily peeking out at the sun’s warmth! Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ8 / Location: Medina, Ohio-USA
Banksia husk 2 by ChristinaR

This is another shot of the banksia flower after it’s stamens have fallen out leaving behind a dried husk. Taken at the property boundary where I live, bordering the bushland. / Panasonic Lumix FZ18
Day Is Done... by Visual Inspirations

BEST VIEWED LARGER / FEATURED FEB. 21ST 09 IN NIGHT / Lake Tahoe / PHOTOGRAPHY / This image was taken with my Canon Power Shot S3 IS up in Lake Tahoe… Where they have the most beautiful sunsets on earth!! / With the help of Anibal inhancing this image… / /
Flora Dominicana by Howard Widdison

Panasonic Lumix TZ4 / Was quite surprised with the amount of depth of field that can be achieved with this camera.
Tiger Wood... by naturelover

A shot from the bark of a tree I pass daily- noticed the subtle colours and lines running through and gave it a little HDR to enhance the features. Taken with a fuji A600 Compact Camera -HDR in the free download of Dynamic Photo HDR-cropped in the free download of Picasa 3 / / Before: /

Featured Members

About This Group

This group is for Photos that have been taken ONLY on a COMPACT digital or COMPACT film camera, this group is to share the wonderful work that can be captured using only our Compact point and shoot cameras. We would also like you to pass on tips of programmes used i.e. how to use Macro and exhibit clever captures that you could not perhaps get using a dslr, or maybe you just prefer to point and shoot, then this is the group for you.

The group motto is – If the camera fits in your pocket/handbag *small handbag then your photo fits in the group!

Each week we ask our Featured Members to nominate the Image of the Week.

This week is the choice of Trudi’s images she has chosen a fabulous image by Orla Cahill

Trudi has this to say of Orlas image *The colours in Orla’s image really draw the viewer in ,beautifully captured! Orla is a very talented lady not only with photography but also it seems with all sorts of art and design, what a wonderful portfolio she has to browse through

Congratulations to Orla for featuring on our Overview page for the next week and many thanks to Trudi for choosing this beautiful image!

This image was taken using an Camera: Kodak DC265 *

Orla is the groups latest FEATURED MEMBER

9th March 2010

If you are FEATURED as our IMAGE OF THE WEEK* then please start looking in the Gallery for your choice – you will be receiving a bmail from us at some point :) but you don’t have to wait for that, if you have something in mind – send me Pam the links etc…

To see all previous Image of the Week Features you can go HERE
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Winner of the Streetscapes Challenge is sstarlightss with 10 votes

You can see all TOP TEN WINNERS in the forum

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March 2010 is Yool her showcase is in the FORUM

All banners/images are now clickable images on our overview page and our forums!

REMEMBER TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE FORUMS AND CONGRATULATE ALL CHALLENGE WINNERS AND THOSE WITH FEATURED IMAGES

Challenges *Please upload your photo to the group before you enter the Challenge But please do go to the FORUM we will take on board the challenge ideas and work with you from there, this is your group after all!

The hosts would also like to point out that we may also participate in Challenges, and our work will also be uploaded into the group. We would like to also have fun!

Please come along to the FORUM and introduce yourself, this is hopefully going to be a big group for compact users we aim to post tips and interviews with other photographers on the site, also a place to chat and make those monumentous decisions : Challenges!

PLEASE take time to read the rules and the overview of this group, we can only say in so many words what is expected to be uploaded, whilst we do not wish to keep repeating ourselves and sending out BubbleMails to explain the groups rules we would ask that you accqaint yourselves with our very simple rules and motto!

Please when uploading your photos do give us as much info as you can about your Compact Camera – what MAKE/MODEL it is, what setting you may have used for the particular shot, have you tried something new and you want to share it, please upload only your best quality work, whilst we appreciate photographers are of different standards, we want our group to contain interesting, artistic, images, if they fall below a certain standard they will unfortunately be rejected don’t forget their are prospective buyers browsing this group so this is also a great place to showcase your fantastic works..

We also host Older Kids 8-16 year olds
Recipes(along with photo with Sheila Pasket

See the group rules and join this group here