Let’s see your best daylily photography!
I was looking through my daylily photos from this season and discovered I had few photos that were really good. I picked out my top three Here and I’m hoping to see some of your favorite photos. Not necessarily your favorite plants, good photography.
This is my favorite photo, Cat Dancer.
My second favorite, Getting Airborn.
My third favorite, Jolyene with a six legged visitor.
Sherry
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Brad KY 6b
3 years agoThis is a really good idea, Sherry.
Wow to Cat Dancer! That is an outstanding photo for sure. I already like it and want it, but a photo like that makes it more desirable.
Jolyene is my second favorite. Very beautiful.
Looking through my pictures, I find that many are taken solely for the idea of having the daylily picture. Not artistic. I need to change my goals. Second problem, good photo of the daylily, horrible background. Sometimes unavoidable, sometimes it is. Third, hard to decide on a good picture vs. a favorite flower. I think I found some that fit the bill.Brave World is one of my favorite photos.
Spider Miracle this is second.
Chance Encounter is my third choice. The flower looks great, not thrilled about the background.
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hoosier_nan (IN z5b/6a)
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoAll the photos are lovely (and the daylilies too). Wow to the photos of Cat Dancer and Spider Miracle.
I know what you mean, Brad. I take photos for a record of what it looks like and I rarely worry over spent blooms, name tags, hybridizing tags, and trash cans in the background. I take so many photos during the season and we are so busy right now (clearing the select seedlings from the seedling bed and lining out new intros and ones to sell) that I don't have much time to look through them all. So I looked through the seedling pictures and found my favorite photos.
This is a photo of Wolverine X Fruitful Discovery.
This is Sonoran Desert Rose X Crimson Stories.
This is Gus Townsend X Desire of Nations.
That was really hard to narrow it down to three.Nancy
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoHere are 3 of my favourite images . Not all are of daylilies as no one said if they have to be images of daylilies only
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoHeather and Hoosier Nan - Those are some pretty pictures!
I agree that picking only three is very hard. I had about 25 that I thought were equally good. So I picked the ones that had something unusual going on.
Awaken the Dawn - I loved how this one came out with the flower int he sun and the very dark backgrounsd.
Backyard Colors - I took this one to show how one of my UF beds looked backed by the Rudbecki
Porterhouse reflecting the sunlight and glowing so beautifuly.
Runnerup: Midnight Castle backed by Pow Wow Wild Berry coneflowers.
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lilykate7a
3 years agoReally nice photos, everyone-showcasing some beautiful flowers.
I must say good photography is not my forte (my professional photography brother is cringing as I type that!) and not really a goal as I am racing around to get photos (more cringing). As I have mentioned, mine are all done by phone so any really good noteworthy photos are
a) by accident and b) because the planets were aligned with some really good flower placement.
I am even cheating and posting last year’s favorites since I have nothing this year to beat out these!
I love this Thomas Tew photo-it shows why this is a top favorite flower for me
Mountain Orchid-the flowers just bouqueted (is that a word?!!) on this day
Every single bloom on EITV was perfect on this shot
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoThese photos are beautiful! But, Sherry, selecting three photos out of the hundreds I have taken this season this so long season is a very hard task. I will be including one extra in comments because Houzz will not take my camera shots except a single one in comments I include it because it is the desktop shot on my PC and it puts me in a happy mood every time I see it. Lets see
Holiday Ribbons
Lemon shard
Heart of Glass
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I have a new bird house for that post next year,,,,I always enjoy this bed so much
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