Daylily Cultivar Portraits

During the peak garden display, grab your camera and capture the most stunning clump or individual daylily portraits. Look at the plant with your unique eye. Think beyond the single bloom that looks flat-faced into the camera. Look for a couple or more blooms or hosta leaves where one photo can show off the plant from different angles.

Remember to note the registered name of the daylily for photo identification upon submission. Eureka strongly supports cultivar registration and we feature those plants that are part of the societies' registration process - American Hemerocallis Society.

Improve Your Photography with Good Graphic Design

Link to our Photo Design article and see how your photos will be better composed and more likely selected for publication by Eureka.

Learn about designing effective and beautiful photos. Start with the basic elements of design and move through to achieving a good sense of compositional unity as you plan your photos.

Finally, understand good composition and photographic technique and why some photos "work" and some don't.

Floral Landscapes

With your photography, showcase a daylily garden in Eureka Reference Guides. We'll choose the most beautiful landscapes for publication.

As you are walking through the tour gardens, feature the plantings but don't leave out the landscape designs or the other people. The other folks on the tour not only add interest to your photographs, they also add scale to the scene and provide that most important element, human interest.

This is probably the most difficult area for effective plant photography. Too often, we receive garden shots that are just snapshots, no compositional unity nor drama. Or, the photo is just too busy to be selected. This composition to the left simplifies the image by concentrating on one cultivar. If you are submitting an image of a tour garden, be sure a show some of the people in attendance.

Label each photo file submitted with cultivar name, and lable the CD with your name. On the Log Sheet, also indicatre which garden each image was taken in. Sorry, no seedlings will be featured -- only registered plants.

Submit .JPG images with the highest resolution possible (at least eight megapixal cameras with each image at 8 to 15 megabytes minimum for our use.

• You must submit a photo log sheet indicating the images by the registered cultivar name and the garden in which it was taken. Each of the images on your log sheet must also be on your CD and Contact-Proof sheet.
• You must submit contact-proof sheets (12 to 20 images per sheet) of your images with the names of the images below each of images. Do not submit proof sheets which are not labeled with cultivar names.
• You must submit your images, the digital file(s), on a CD. Be sure that your image files are named on that CD with the cultivar name and NOT your camera's default name such as CZyy34. We do NOT return digital images nor the CDs.

Don't submit too few photos but be sure and submit 24 to 48 images. Too often we reject a photographer's submission because he or she sends in one or two images. We try to feature a photographer over two to four pages. We need several of your photos to choose from because we may have to reject many of your images for the following reasons:

• Different layout needs require horizontal or vertical selections
• Selections of a given cultivar from another photographer or advertiser already chosen can eliminate one or more of your image from consideration
• Eureka likes to print images of cultivars not previously published by us. Past publishing frequency of popular but over-published cultivars may mean that your outstanding image of these cultivars will not be considered.
• Also, narrow down your selection to no more than 48 submissions unless you have contacted us by email, bloom@GardenEureka.com and we have approved a larger number of submissions.

Don't "Photoshop" or crop your photos too tightly as you take the image with your camera. This prevents us from using the photo for a variety of layout options. We can't bleed the photo off the page if your framing has placed the flower petals on the edge of the photo. And do NOT crop your image further than the camera image in a photo editing program.

Don't set your digital camera to frame the image with a rounded or squared border. We would have to take it out and that takes too much time.

Don't date stamp or title your digital images with numbers or lettering overlaying the photograph. Again, for us to remove the lettering takes too much time.

Don't submit low-resolution images. Each .JPG image should be 8 to 15 megabytes.

Pack your CD carefully and send along with your Photo Release Form (below) to
Eureka Gardening Collection
416 Webb Cove Rd
Asheville, NC 28804
by the deadline, September 15, 2010.

Nursery Owners

If you own a daylily nursery and want to see your photograph on one of the covers of the next Eureka Reference Guide, click here and get the details on placing your cultivars in an upcoming Eureka.

Eureka Reference Guide
*** 2011 Photo Release and Indemnification ***

Selected photograpers and their images will be featured in an upcoming Eureka. Those photographers featured as Contributing Photographers with four or more images published in one edition will be provided with a complementary copy of the Guide.

Print, complete and submit the following statement for each photographer submitting digital photos:

"I agree that, if selected, my photos may be published by Eureka Gardening Collection and editor/publisher Ken Gregory (Eureka), and I release all publication rights of these photographs to Eureka.

I agree that I am submitting new photography that has not previously been submitted to Eureka for possible publication and that these images have not be submitted to other publications or online sources for publication.

I also understand that all submissions are accepted for possible publication in Eureka Reference Guides and may also be used in associated marketing by Eureka.

With Eureka's acceptance of such submissions for publication, I indemnify and save Eureka harmless from and against any and all losses for expense, including without limitation, those resulting from claims or suits involving copyright, intellectual property, trademark, plagiarism, libel, violations of rights of privacy and from loss of actual submitted material.

I agree that I have accurately identified each cultivar image with its complete and official registered name and I have provided named contact-proof sheets for ALL digital images as well as a photo log of all submitted images with the image number, cultivar name, and garden in which the image was taken.

I agree that I have obtained written permission from any individual photographed and interviewed except those persons randomly taking part in a public event."

Photographer's Printed Name: _______________________________________ Date: ______________

Photographer's Signature: _________________________________

Photographer's Address: __________________________________________________

City: _____________________________________ State: _________ Zip:_____________

Photographer's Daytime or Cell Phone: _______________________ Email: _________________________

Submitted by (If different): ___________________________________ Date: ______________

Submitter's Signature: _______________________________

Submitter's Address: ___________________________________________________

City: _____________________________________ State: _________ Zip:_____________

Submitter's Daytime or Cell Phone:.________________________ Email: _______________________

Prepare, check off and then submit ALL of the following:

Digital Images on CD (be certain that your files are named with official AHS registered names and that these names match the names on your log sheet below.) Number of images submitted: ______

Proof Sheets showing EACH image on your CD with names matching your electronic files.

Photo Log list of digital images with the same cultivar names as on your CD and Proof sheets as well as garden names in which each photo was taken

$25 Daylily Photo Submission Fee for photographers submitting images to the Eureka Daylily Reference Guide. (Note, daylily nurseries submitting a paid advertisement for the Daylily Guide pay ONLY the advertising fee submitted with the nursery application and NOT an additional photo fee.)

Complete, date and sign this Photo Release which attests to the accuracy and truthfulness of all of the above.

Send this photo release/contract along with your CD(s), log sheet and proof sheet to Eureka Gardening Collection, 416 Webb Cove Rd, Asheville, NC 28804 prior to the deadline.