2018 Betty Miller Photo Contest
Our annual Betty Miller Photo Contest was started in 2006 in honor of CVIDS Past President and hybridizer Betty Miller. She had a passion for photographing daylilies and mentored several CVIDS members on how to take good photos. Her photos were featured in “Eureka” and daylily catalogs from 2001-2004. Thank you, Suzanne Moffit, for the exquisite photos shown below. For additional images taken by Betty, please click here.

This year, contest organizer Mary Jo Duffy called for entries to the following categories and was rewarded with packets of photos from over a dozen club members. Many thanks go to those who participated in the contest.

Categories:
(1) "Red” daylily, in honor of Verne Moore
(2) Iris category
(3) Large flowers
(4) Doubles
(5) Unusual forms and spiders
(6) Clumps
(7) Landscapes (photo must include daylilies or irises)
(8) Hybridizers’ 2017 seedlings
(9) Novelties (e.g. garden sculptures, birdhouses, animals, etc., but the photo must include daylilies or irises).

During the social hour before lunch, it was pretty much shoulder to shoulder as banquet attendees crowded around the photo tables to cast their votes.

Not long after Bob Selman had finished his presentation, Mary Jo and her team had already counted the votes, and the winners were announced in each category. It was Jackie Westhoff who, with a big smile on her face, set off home with the silver trophy. Her photo of 'Born To Run' was the Grand Prize winner. Thank you, Mary Jo, for organizing this year's contest.

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