Submit 24 - 48 Digital Images
Each year Eureka Reference Guide publishes contributing photographers who, like you, love their subject matter. Whether you've taken photographs of plants from your own garden, at botanical gardens or on garden tours, submit your work to Eureka for possible publication.
Submission Deadline: September 15
1. Take or save your digital images in the .JPG format at your camera's highest resolution (six megapixal, or greater, cameras set on .JPG and at highest quality possible) keeping good records of cultivar names and the gardens in which the images were taken. Selected images may be used throughout Eureka Reference Guides and other Eureka Gardening Collection publications and/or marketing. Also note that Eureka Garden Collection can take no responsibility for lost or damaged property.
2. Select your best 24 to 48 images naming each image file with the official AHS registered name, place on a CD. Be sure to then open your CD to make sure that you successfully placed the files on the CD and are not submitting a blank CD. We do NOT return digital submissions, CD's nor proof sheets. We do NOT accept digital prints other than as your proof sheet. Your submission enters your work in the cover competition.
3. Complete the Photo Release Form below and submit it along with your $25 submission fee by the deadline PLUS the following:
+ Include a Color Contact Proof Sheet showing small, low-resolution images of each photo placed on the CD. Be sure that the images are good quality because your inclusion in Eureka will be based on an image evaluation from your proof sheet. Each proof sheet should contain from 6 to 12 images per 8.5 by 11 page. Be sure that each image is named on the CD AND ON THE PROOF SHEET with the cultivar names.
+ Include a Photo Log Sheet with four fields of information: (1) Image number for each photo which matches those numbers on the CD and proof sheet(s), (2) Official AHS cultivar name, (3) Garden owner in which the image was taken and (4) City, State in which the garden is located. Include this photo log on your CD and/or email this photo log to me at bloom@GardenEureka.com.
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 where one photo can show off the plant from different angles.
Remember to note the registered name of the daylily and garden for photo identification upon submission. Eureka strongly supports cultivar registration and we feature ONLY those plants that are part of the society's registration process - American Hemerocallis Society.
Link to our Photo Design article and see how your photos will be better composed and more likely selected for publication by Eureka. Here, you will 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.
Important: Don't Eliminate Your Images from Consideration
Don't submit too few photos but be sure and submit 24 to 48 images. Too often we reject a photographer's submissions 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 various reasons mentioned below.
Don't send only horizontal images. Different layout needs require horizontal or vertical selections so take and submit both.
Don't submit the most common daylilies. Selections of a given cultivar from another photographer or advertiser already chosen can eliminate one or more of your images from consideration so try to not submit images of cultivars that everyone else is seeing. Eureka prefers 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.
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. Also, we want the flowers' true colors so do NOT push the color saturation or intensity.
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 taken at highest image quality on a six megapixal minimum camera. When we open your .JPG file an decompress it, it should be at least six megabytes in size.
Eureka Reference Guide
*** 2012 Photo Release and Indemnification ***
Selected photographers 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 free, complementary copy of the Guide.
Once printed, sign, date and confirm 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 been 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 on the CD 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 from the CD, cultivar name, and garden owner and location in which the image was taken.
I agree that I have obtained written permission from any individual photographed 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.
Number of images submitted: ______
Proof Sheets showing EACH image on your CD with names matching your electronic files as well as garden owners and locations in which each photo was taken.
Photo Log of all submitted images with the image numbers matching those on the CD, cultivar name, garden owner and location in which the image was taken. Include the hard-copy print of this in your application materials as well as the information on the CD or emailed to us at bloom@GardenEureka.com.
$25 Daylily Photo Submission Fee for photographers submitting images to the Eureka Daylily Reference Guide. You may send a check or send your Visa, MasterCard or Discover number and expiration date.
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, proof sheets and fee to
Eureka Gardening Collection
416 Webb Cove Rd
Asheville, NC 28804
Photo submission must be postmarked by deadline, September 15.