Group Description

What is commonly considered a weed or a "wild flower" defined as growing on its own without human intervention. Home cultivated certified wildflower mixes are also welcome but please post conventional flowers to Any Lovely Flower


Cartel Group List.

All Cartel groups are non invite and make no demands on the user beyond reading rules and complying with the specific venue. Feel free to explore and use them. Please paste logo found in admin message from group when you comment. Commenting is an honor system we trust you will interact within. Groups are well maintained and only your interest in them gives them meaning. These are your groups, the members. Avoid boring repeat posts. Self serving "colour dumpers" will be shot on sight...but first tortured a bit.

Dominant Colour

Similar to your basic "blue, green etc colour group". with a different approach. In these 5 groups the colour must "dominate" the picture, not simply CONTAIN it. These aid in identifying and composing via colour.

Green Dominates
Blue Dominates
Red Dominates
Yellow Dominates
Orange Dominates

Rarer Colours

In the same division structure these below groups are not strictly "dominate based" and may dominate or simply CONTAIN a noticable large dose of the group name colour. If in doubt check group first before posting to see if its fits the group properly.

Violet Purple Lavender Lilac
Things Pink
Teal Aqua Turquoise Jade Emerald
White Cream Pearl Ivory
Earthtones ( Blue is not allowed) The sky is blue not the earth, water is the sky reflected.

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Cartel main group and specialty groups- ....read rules carefully

The Villa Cartel Headquarters ....6 a day, any post to any Cartel group may be duplicated here. Catchy colours with a brain inside.

Any Lovely Flower ( No Manmade Objects)....pure flower photography with no reference to man in any way. Flower center macro is encouraged here.

Chicks With Cams Females only. Discussions are not public, photos are.

Photo Natural 50,000 BC Primordial Earth, nature... no reference to man or his creations in any way is allowed. We photograhers visited earth before man came along and built McSuberbia.

Weeds and Wildflowers Weeds and naturaly occuring flowers. No cultivars ( human bred) flowers are allowed. A weed is simply a wildflower in an unwanted place.

Pastel Cafe Soft Colours, Dreamy, Pastel and Fine Art...nothing "hard looking" or high contrast.

Photo Graphic Cartel . We returned to earth 50,000 years after our Photo Natural visit and discovered all biological life had somehow disappeared. Man had left but all his creations remained. Nothing biologic at all is allowed in here. One of our and Flickrs most inovative group venues.

Anything But Flowers Similar to Photo Graphic but trees etc are accepted, flowers are the only exclusion from this group...its a flower free zone. We strive to make this our portrait, fine art, abstract...but anything may go in here...except dam flowers.

Cartel Extreme Admin Faves You may not post to here you are chosen for outstanding work posted within the Cartel by one of our expert Admin staff. Nothing is asked of you just click the "ok add it" and savour the praise...it doesn't come lightly. Our admins will sometimes define why it was so dear to their heart. Enjoy this collection to see some of the best pics posted to the Cartel from a very wide range of members from all of our groups in one place.

The Omsel Collection ....... A sampler of our best images. Stuff i notice while checking Cartel operations in the various groups. A painting of the paintings. More a collection than an active group, art for art sake. We urge you to sit back and watch the slideshow. You will be invited, maybe. Nothing is expected of you but your smokin pic. My name is on the line here and if this group sucks i guess my taste sucks.

Trashy Colours ( Trashlicious ) ... you removed the lens cap and kinda aimed the cam. You spent hours pumping the saturation button trying to get it just right. After 4 weeks and 2 comments complaining of eye injury...this may be a home for that pic.

Yummy Licious Cartel Fruit & Veggie Art...... explains itself, really, if in doubt go take a look. We don't want "because it IS a tomatoe" here...we wanna munch on the thing.

Walls Doors Windows Cartel A popular colour shoot subject, this group combines the 3 elements to build one sided buildings.

Cartel Brain Hurtin Collection One of my first groups, merged into the Cartel empire because they needed protection. Not for trippy colour but pics that warp the mind through idea or comedy, should u wish your mind warped.

Cartel - Three!! Its all about 3....3 similar objects...3 distinct planes.....the number 3!!!....your pic must speak 3 in some obvious way, via content or comp but excludes 3 colours as a valid submission. We shoot in 3's more than you realize and its up to you to speak 3 in any manner of tricky methods. Group admin is Pongo.

Barnyard Animals ( Uncensored) Cows, horses, chickens, ducks, geese or even family pets....your pet donkey will do!....not a group for ducks at the lake or zoo shots...they must be captive and maintained as pets or farm animals.

Eggoramamega Using EGGS as an art form... a few chickens are allowed as we are not certain which came first.

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Finally a note from me the Cartel founder. Our group venues are based on one idea...the love of photography for the sake of photography. We do not give bogus awards or believe in forcing you to comment. If you love pictures you will comment as the best way to learn is tell someone else.

Thanks for postin

Omsel Adams

Aka Tony Montana