Dahlias 2015 – Part 1

 

I recently took a quick trip up to Longwood Gardens with the DC Flower Safari to photograph the dahlias. Our trip coincided with the  Greater Philadelphia Dahlia Society show in the Conservatory. Quite simply – I saw the most incredible dahlias I’ve ever seen in my life. Looking at my photos, I photographed at least 35 different varieties of dahlias – so I have the feeling that you’re going to be seeing a lot of dahlia photos here on my blog this fall.

The dahlias in the show were presented as cut flowers – most were a single blossom in a vase – lined up on tables – in a row of tables. This did make photographing the flowers a challenge – if I photographed the entire blossom, I usually ended up with strange parts of other flowers  or people or tables in the background. So for most of the photos – I went in as close as I could with my macro lens to capture the beauty of the flower without all sorts of distracting elements in the photos.

This is the first set of dahlia photos from the Greater Philadelphia Dahlia Society show at Longwood – I’ll be posting more photos in the weeks to come.

AC Abby Dahlia

AC Ben Dahlia

 

AC Inara Dahlia

 

April Dawn Dahlia

 

Ayer’s Glory Dahlia

Ben Huston Dahlia

Camille Noel Dahlia

 

I hope you enjoyed seeing this first set of dahlias from the 2015 Greater Philadelphia Dahlia Society Show. If you like dahlias – I do have several available for sale as matted prints including It’s a Girl Dahlias, Petals of a Purple & White Dahlia, Purple & White Dahlia  and Pink Dahlia.