I shoot most of the macro pictures here but on certain days I got pictures from readers who allowed them to be posted here. One such picture is this close-up picture of water droplets on a Bougainvillea flower by Kalvin Taka.

He also sent in two more pictures of water droplets. Thanks, Kalvin!

Photo submissions are welcomed. I can only thank you for your kindness; the most I could do to reciprocate is by linking the pictures to your gallery or blogs, or by having you display a watermark pointing to your sites. Keep the pictures coming

I recently did a blind test on macro pictures and pick the ones that please my eyes. The verdict, almost 90 per cent of them are shot with DSLR cameras, including higher end cameras such as the Nikon D700 and Canon 5D Mark II.

Nevertheless, some point and shoot cameras managed to fool my eyes and if not for the exif image displayed on those image, I would have though there were shot with DSLRs.

I had also randomly looked at images that I was not too please about checked their exif data and surprisingly, many of them taken by DSLRs. Hmm… food for thought there.

The truth is, compact cameras are a competent macro shooters. Here are 25 nice looking macro photographs taken with point and click cameras, in no particular order:

1. by Lincolnian Brian with a Canon PowerShot A540.

2. by The Couple Next Door with a Nikon Coolpix P60.

3. by aussiegall with a Sony DSC-H1

4. by Nganguyenwith a Canon PowerShot S80.

5. by DeusXFlorida with a Kodak DX6490 Zoom.

6. by Hamed Saber with a Sony DSC-H1.

7. by OliBac with an Olympus SP560UZ.

8. by marfis75 a Fujifilm FinePix F30.

9. by pizzodisevo with a Panasonic DMC-TZ3.

10. by audreyjm529 with a Canon PowerShot S5 IS.

11. by pau.artigas with an Olympus C5060WZ.

12. by psyberartist with a Kodak Z1285 Zoom.

13. by catlovers with a Canon PowerShot S5 IS.

14. by Kátia Goretti with a Canon PowerShot SX10 IS.

15. by Rego – twitter.com/w3bdesign with a Canon PowerShot SX1 IS.

16. by Katie Tegtmeyer with a Sony DSC-H5.

17. by audreyjm529 with a Canon PowerShot S5 IS.

18. by kylepheland with a Fujifilm FinePix S2000HD.

19. by OliBac with an Olympus SP560UZ.

20. by zayzayem with a Fujifilm FinePix S2000HD.

21. by kevindooley with a Canon PowerShot G7.

22. by Flowery *L*u*z*a* with a Canon PowerShot A430.

23. by zenera with a Nikon E2200.

24. by Modern Alchemy with a Panasonic DMC-LX3.

25. by blentley with a Canon PowerShot S3 IS.

This wild flower is just about 8mm in diametre but thanks to close-up photography, we can now see some of the details.

[Updated with write-up] This is one of the pictures I took on the spur of the moment. I was jaywalking across Orchard Road in Singapore the other day when I noticed red flowers were blooming by the road side. They looked so fresh that I just felt I need to take a quick shot.

People were looking, so I didn’t really get to shoot as much as I want. That is always the problem with doing photography other than the “normal” kind of picture takings. People would look!

When I see flowers that look something like this, I always know I have found a good subject for macro photography — it is soft but has the potential to be sharp when photographed.

So the next time you are in the backyard or among the bushes, keep an eye on this type of flowers. They can really make macro photography a joy to indulge in.