long island dahlia society newsletter august 2011
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UPCOMING EVENTS AND MEETINGS
LIDS ANNUAL PICNIC
Sunday, August 14, 2011 3:00 p.m. by the William Wolkoff
Dahlia Garden Rain date Sunday, August 21st
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Membership Meeting August 18, 2011
Bayard Cutting Arboretum Carriage House (upper level)
7:00 p.m. Dahlia 101 7:30 p.m. Coffee and Cake 7:30 p.m. Meeting 8:15 p.m. Education Program ―Take it
to the Judge‖ Andrew Kurchey
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“A Walk Though the Garden‖
August 10th LIDS will host an evening walk
for members of the BCAHS ____________________________
LIDS Membership Meeting
September 15, 2011 Bayard Cutting Arboretum
Carriage House (Upper Level) ____________________________
1st LIDS DAHLIA SHOW September 3rd and 4th
Bayard Cutting Arboretum Carriage House
(lower levels)
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2nd LIDS DAHLIA SHOW
&
LIDS PHOTOGRAPHY
COMPETITION AND DISPLAY
October 1st and 2nd
Carriage House - Lower & Upper
levels
THIS YEAR’S BUNCH!
LONG ISLAND DAHLIA SOCIETY
NEWSLETTER
AUGUST 2011
These dahlias are in bloom and waiting for you to photograph. Capture the moment!
Photographs by Pat Murphy
Belle of Barmera 0105 AA ID DP
Sam Houston 0103 AA ID OR
Mingus Kyle D 3006 BB FD DR
Snoho Storm 1401 A IC W
Daisy Two 9610 S LB PK/DR
Hana Hitosuji 0310 AA C LB
2011 DAHLIA SHOW DATES
Long Island Dahlia Society September 3rd & 4th, Saturday and Sunday
October 1st & 2nd, Saturday & Sunday Bayard Cutting Arboretum
Carriage House
Mid Island Dahlia Society
September 17th & 18th & Sunday, October 9th & Monday, October 10th Planting Fields Arboretum Burns Conference Center, Oyster Bay, NY Rochester Dahlia Society September 17th Perinton Square Mall 6720 Pittsford Palmyaca Rd, Fairport, NY
South Tier Dahlia Society September 10th and 11th Chemung County Fairgrounds Horseheads, NY Steuben County Agricultural Fair August 16th and
17th Steuben County Fairgrounds 15 East Washington Street, Bath, NY Rhode Island Dahlia Society August 20th and 21st
Washington County Fairgrounds Route 112 Richmond, R.I. Rhode Island Dahlia Society September 10th and
11th Cold Spring Community Center 30 Beach Rd. Wickford, R.I. Greenwich Dahlia Society September 24th &
25thThe Garden Educational Center of Greenwich 130 Bible St. Cos Cob, CT
North New Jersey Dahlia Society August 20th
Freinghuysen Arboretum 53 Hanover Avenue, Morristown, NJ Connecticut Dahlia Society August 27th Pond
House at Elizabeth Park West Hartford, CT NYS Fair Flower Show August 29th and 30th Horticultural Bldg. 581 State Fair Road Syracuse, NY Look on the Colorado Dahlia Society webpage for more information and directions. http://dahlias.net/showsbystate.htm __________________________________________
LIDS MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
Editor-Patricia Murphy
Consultant-Lori Glatzer
Photographs-Pat Murphy, Dee Cunningham, and
Gene Murtha
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Volunteer to clerk for the judges at the show.
Greet visitors & answer any of their questions.
Help prepare vases with bouquets of dahlias for sale. Help sell plants, bouquets in vases, raffle tickets, & chances.
Donate blooms from your garden to sell at the dahlia show.
Help set up the tables for the show.
Help clean up on Sunday after the show.
Help exhibitors set up.
And the list goes on . . .
The show is an enormous effort and we
need volunteers to help.
Contact
Joe Laundrie, the Show Chairman at
LAUNDRYUS@aol.
Jim Micheels, Operations Manager, at
John Canzoneri, Fundraising Co Chair at
[email protected] or Lynn
Schiller, Fundraising Co Chair at
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GOOD AND WELFARE
Lorraine Maloney, we’re glad to hear that you are feeling better and back on your feet.. Our sympathy goes out to Joe Laundrie and his family with the passing of his mother, Harriet Laundrie last week. Ed Sambolin, we’re happy to hear that we will be seeing you back in the garden taking photographs of the dahlias.
DAHLIA SHOW SCHEDULE
Thursday, September 2nd 300 p.m. Move tables into the Carriage
House Friday, September 3rd 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Setting up the hall 4:00-10:00 p.m. staging of dahlias. Saturday. September 4th 7:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Staging dahlias 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Judging will take
place. 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The Dahlia Show will be open to the Public. 1:00 p.m. Winners will be announced. Sunday, September 5th 10:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Dahlia
Show will be open to the Public. 4:30 p.m. Dahlia Blooms will be sold to
the Public. . 5:00 p.m. Clean-up until finished
PUT YOUR NAME ON THE LIST
Please let Jim Micheels know if you will
be exhibiting or volunteering at the Dahlia
Show. He will put your name on a list for the
arboretum and you will not need to pay ad-
mission to the park during park hours. If you
fail to notify Jim and are not on the list then
you will need to pay admission to the park.
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FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE
Last year the fundraising committee sold
dahlia bouquets in vases. In addition, this
year the committee is planning to sell house
plants, dahlia arrangements, photo pictures,
and dahlia note cards.
Members are asked to bring in some
blooms from their home garden to help fill the
vases.
LIDS ANNUAL PICNIC
August 14th
We look forward to seeing everyone at
the picnic on Sunday (3 p.m.).
Don’t forget to bring a chair.
The park will not have any extra chairs for us
to use because there is a concert on the
same day. Drive in the service entrance and
park down near the garden.
Rain date August 21, 2011
Do not park on the road.
LIDS PHOTOGRAPHY DISPLAY On display the month of August
Dahlia photographs that were taken by
LIDS members are on display at the
Connetquot Library on 760 Ocean Avenue in
Bohemia. Information about our Dahlia
Shows along with a bouquet of dahlias are
part of the display.
A big thanks go out to Carol Jansch for
planning, assembling and putting up this
display. It includes photographs from Gene
Murtha, Dee Cunningham, and Pat Murphy.
In addition, Mike Bryant made up fresh dahlia
flower bouquets to accompany the display
throughout the month.
MEMBER GARDEN TOUR
I am glad to offer members a tour of my
garden this year. You will see my dahlia
beds and other garden areas around the
house, various sitting areas, the vegetable
patch, along with a tour of a root cellar and
smoke house. The tour is schedule for Sat-
urday, September 10th at 12:15 p.m. Light
refreshments will be served. Meet us at the
dahlia garden at 11:45 p.m. and we will fol-
low each other to my house in Sayville. If
you have any questions, please email me at
MEMBERSHIP MEETING, AUG. 18th
Carriage House (Upper level)
Photography Presentation by Andrew Kurchey
Our educational program will be pre-
sented by Andrew Kurchey. Andrew is a
LIDS member, the President of the Linden-
hurst Camera club and past President and
active member of the Photographic
Federation of Long Island. Judge and
Lecturer for the PFLI.
His presentation will highlight the three
major areas: impact, composition, and tech-
nique. that a judge looks at when judging a
photography competition. He will discuss
ways you can improve your photographs. He
focus on how to select the best photography
to submit in the Photography Competition.
THERE’S SOMETHING IN THE AIR!
While walking through the dahlia garden I saw something out of the corner of my eye. It
was a monarch butterfly with its orange and black tissue paper wings and soft black body. I
held up my camera to catch it in my lens but its flight pattern was erratic. It was escalating up
and down and then going into long glides. Its flight pattern varied and changed direction often.
Then suddenly it would alit on a dahlia bloom or hover over the bloom for a faction of a sec-
ond. I marvel at its ability to maintain a speed which can go up to 25 mph as it steadily beat its
wings. Then in blink of an eye it disappeared. Next time I will try to come back in the early
morning or late afternoon when they are slower and feeding on the dahlia’s nectar.
When you are down at the garden look for the many bees, butterflies and other insects
feeding on the dahlias. If your lucky you will be able to capture one in the camera’s lens. Enter
your photograph in the LIDS Photography Display and Competition (Kids and Critters
category) on October 1st and 2nd. Beginners and advanced photographers are welcomed to
submit their photographs.
Photograph by Gene Murtha Photograph by Pat Murphy Photograph by Pat Murphy
You are invited to the
The Long Island Dahlia Society
Photography Display and Competition
Dahlias through the Camera’s Lens
Open to all photographers
Beginner and Advanced Photographers are invited to enter their
dahlia photographs.
Saturday, October 1, 2011 – 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, octobER 2, 2011– 11:00 A.M. to 4:00 p.m.
The Bayard Cutting Arboretum
The upper level of the carriage house
For more information [email protected] or look in the mailbox
at the William Wolkoff Dahlia garden.
The Long Island Dahlia Society has the largest dahlia garden in the Northeast . There are over 1000 dahlias planted & the blooms are on display until November.
The Long Island Dahlia Society
Photography Display and Competition
October 1st & October 2nd, 2011
Photography Classes
1. Dahlia Portrait: A single dahlia should appear in the photograph 2. Two or More Dahlia Blooms– same or different varieties in a garden, bouquet,
vase, or other setting 3. Macro View: Close-up or part of a dahlia bloom or plant; may include any
interesting elements relating to dahlia culture 4. Artistic Impression (Enhanced or altered images.): Extensive use of Adobe Photoshop or other advanced software applications to change or manipulate images ( includes multiple images, distortions, filters, and other
alterations) 5. A Dahlia Society Garden, Event, or Activity 6. Kids & Critters: Dahlia(s) in photograph with kids, insects, pets, etc.
* Basic corrections such as cropping, brightness, contrast, and color adjustment can be used in any class. ** Any images where the photographer uses more advanced techniques with the help of Adobe Photoshop or other comparable software programs will be placed in the Advanced level. *** The photographs must have been taken since the last LIDS Photography
Display and Competition in October of 2010.
If you have any further questions, then please send an email to www.longislanddahlia.com or [email protected]
LIDS Photography Display and Competition
October 1 & 2, 2011 Photography Rules
Exhibitors must register their photographs on Thursday, September 29th (5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.) or Friday, September 30th (5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.) at the Carriage House (upper level).
Photographs must be representative of the entered class; dahlias must be predominating.
Each exhibitor can submit no more than 3 photographs in each class.
Each photograph must be displayed using a matte frame, or matte board or
foam board. The photograph can be displayed with or without a border but the
outer dimensions should be not smaller than 8‖ x 10‖ and not larger than 16‖ x
20‖. Please no glass. The LIDS photography committee may attach a hanger
to the back of the frame when placing it in exhibit.
The photographs will be grouped and displayed in 2 different experience levels:
Beginners (novices and amateur photographers) and Advanced (professional
& experienced photographers). The photo display committee will decide which
group the photographs belong.
Failure to follow the rules will result in disqualification.
Judges will rate the entries on the basis of composition, impact, and technique. Judging will begin on Saturday at 10 a.m.
Beginners and advanced photographers will be judged and awarded separate 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place ribbons.
If an entry doesn’t merit an award, it will not get one even if it is the only one submitted in its class.
*It is the responsibility of the exhibitors to arrange to pick up their entries.
Photographs will be ready to be picked up between 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Sunday
at the Carriage House (upper level).
LONG ISLAND DAHLIA SOCIETY
Photography Display & Competition
Saturday, October 1st-12 noon to 5:00 p.m. Sunday, October 2nd -11:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Bayard Cutting Arboretum Carriage House -Upper level
Registration Thursday, September 29th (5:00 p.m. to 7 p.m.) and
Friday, September 30th (5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.) in the Carriage House (upper level)
ENTRY FORM
NAME ______________________________________________________________________ HOME ADDRESS _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ TELEPHONE NUMBER ________________________EMAIL ADDRESS __________________ NUMBER OF PHOTOGRAPHS SUBMITTED _________________________________________ I WILL PICK UP MY PHOTOGRAPHS UP ____________________________________________________________________________________
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SIGNATURE
Please bring this entry form in when you register on September 29th or September 30th.
Contact us at
www.longislanddahlia.com or [email protected]
The LIDS Photography Display and Competition will be held in
conjunction with the LIDS October Dahlia Show
The Long
LONG Island Dahlia Society
LIDS
First LIDS Dahlia Show
Saturday, September 1st 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, September 2nd-11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Show Dahlias on Sale -Sunday at 4:30 p.m.
Bayard Cutting Arboretum
Carriage House-Lower level
Second LIDS Dahlia Show
Saturday, October 1st –1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, October 2nd-11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p. m.
Show Dahlias on Sale @ 4:30 p.m.
Bayard Cutting Arboretum
Carriage House—Lower level
LIDS Photography Display & Competition
Saturday, October 1st -12 noon to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, October 2nd -11:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Bayard Cutting Arboretum
Carriage House -Upper level
Contact [email protected]
with any questions. LIDS
P.O. Box 76 West Sayville, NY 11796