The SeriousCompacts.com Flickr Group is off to a great start. The pool now includes photographs by more than 70 photographers representing six continents. In order to encourage the continued growth of our Flickr community, I'm pleased to announce the first Serious Compacts Photo Contest. The assigment for this contest is "Natural Textures". All are welcome to compete and/or vote in the contest, and entry is free.

To compete, simply add your photo to the SeriousCompacts.com Flickr group and tag the entry with "seriouscompacts1".

You can get to the Flickr group by clicking the banner below:



Contest Rules:
- Participants must be members of the SeriousCompacts.com Flickr group.
- Only one photo submission per person.
- You must own the copyright to the image to enter it in the contest.
- Post-processing (with Photoshop, etc) is permitted.
- The camera/lens combination used to take the photo must be compact by your standards.
- Both film and digital camera submissions are welcome.
- Photos entered in the contest must have been taken in April 2008.
- Either the description or tags of each entry should specify the camera (and lens if separate) used to take the photo.

Contest Prizes (in US dollars):
1st Place: $100
2nd Place: $50
3rd Place: $25

The Flickr group is open to submissions at this time, and we will continue to accept entries through 11PM GMT on April 30, 2008. At that time, those of us who author here will post a subset of our favorite entries, and a vote will be held on the blog to determine the winners from those selected photos.*

*For the purposes of the vote, selected entries will be displayed on the blog. Winning entries will also be displayed here. By entering the contest, you agree to have your photo displayed here for these purposes.

Special thanks to Guy Mancuso for letting us announce this contest in the excellent Small Sensor Cameras Forum at GetDPI.com