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Photography and Video Awards
MILDRED SCHLUMPF • A. D. ROQUEMORE MEMORIAL
SARAH SIKES SLIDE SEQUENCE • LAZARUS MEMORIAL
Submission Deadline is December 1st each year.
The AHS Awards and Honors Committee administers this program. The awards are presented each year at the AHS National Convention. Rules applying to all awards are as follows:
  • All entrants must be AHS members.
  • An entrant may submit only ten (10) digital images, photos or slides in each award category unless specially noted otherwise. Digital images are the preferred method.
  • All entries are to be sent to the AHS Awards and Honors Committee and become the property of the AHS Digital image or slide and Video Library.
  • The display of a time and/or date on the image is discouraged.
  • The deadline for submission is Dec 1, and it is determined by the date on the E-Mail or mailing container.
  • No entrant may win the award in any contest more than three times within a five-year period.
  • The winning entrant may keep all awards.
  • A panel of three judges evaluates all entries. Of these, at least two must be members of AHS. Any nonmember who serves as a judge shall have an extensive knowledge of photography or cinematography. Judges are selected by the AHS Awards and Honors Committee and may not be entrants in the competition.
  • All digital images must be in a tiff or jpg format. Full size images as photographed are preferred. Only reduce images if they exceeds the below E-Mail limits.
  • Individual image size must not exceed 8MB
  • E-Mail file size should not exceed 8MB. Submitting 10 images depending on file size may require multiple E-Mails.

  • All entries are submitted to:

    AHS Photo Contest Announcement

    Effective immediately, Curtis Montgomery is the new Special Chairman for AHS Photography and Video Awards. Members should send all entries for AHS Photography and Video Awards to:

    Curtis Montgomery, Special Chairman
    AHS Service & Other Individual Awards
    1711 Phantom Ave.
    San Jose CA 95125
    408-371-8572
    montg@pacbell.net

MILDRED SCHLUMPF AWARDS

These awards were established in 1969 by Mrs. Robert Way Schlumpf to honor the memory of her late husband, an excellent photographer and a daylily enthusiast. In establishing two awards, Mrs. Schlumpf wished to stimulate interest in good photography and to build up the AHS Digital Image or Slide Library. The awards, two silver trays, were first presented in 1970. The awards were renamed the Mildred Schlumpf Awards by action of the Board after Mrs. Schlumpf died, and they are contributed by the Houston Area Daylily Society. The following rules are specific to these awards.

  • One award will be given to the individual who submits the winning landscape digital image or slide. The other will go to the person who enters the winning digital image or slide of an individual daylily bloom.
  • In landscape digital images, photos or slides, no more than one person may be included in the scene. In digital images, photos or slides of equal value, in the opinion of the judges, those not including people will be given preference. The digital image or slide will feature predominantly daylilies.
  • In individual bloom digital images, photos or slides, the background will be natural if at all possible. (A digital image or slide made of a bloom at a show would be a necessary exception.) Subject daylilies shall have been registered during the past six years. Flower color and form must be true to cultivar. Preference will be give to images with only a single bloom.
  • From a technical viewpoint, all digital images, photos or slides must be in focus and must not give evidence of computer manipulation or unnatural or contrived devices such as excessive filtering, or physical props (coins, human hands, etc.)
  • Original digital images, photos or slides are preferred, but good copies will be accepted. Digital images, photos or slides shall be ineligible if they too closely resemble others that have been submitted previously by the entrant. Each digital image or slide will be submitted with the name of the daylily, its hybridizer, and date of registration.
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A. D. ROQUEMORE MEMORIAL AWARD

This award was established in 1974 by Mrs. A. L. Trott to honor the memory of A. D. Roquemore. The award, a pewter plate, was presented for the first time in Avon, Ohio. The following rules are specific to the award:

  • The award is presented for the best digital image or slide of a cultivar clump showing the foliage, the scapes, and the flowers to give a total picture. A clump is defined as having a minimum of three divisions and three blooms.
  • Subject daylilies shall have been registered during the past seven years. Flower color and form must be true to cultivar. Growth habit of the plant shall be typical for the particular cultivar.
  • From a technical viewpoint, all digital image or slides must be in focus and must not give evidence of computer manipulation or unnatural or contrived devices such as excessive filtering, or physical props. Where an established clump is growing in close proximity to other cultivars in a bed, a background screen will be permitted. However, it should be designed so as to look as natural as possible.
  • Original digital image or slides are preferred, but good copies will be accepted. Each digital image or slide will be submitted with the name of the daylily, its hybridizer, and date of registration.
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REGION 14 SEQUENCE AWARD

AHS Region 14 established this award in 1979. The award, a silver tray, is furnished each year by AHS Region 14. The following rules are specific to the award:

  • The award is presented for the best entry of digital images, photos or slides in a sequence of events that gives information relating to daylilies.
  • A sequence may be as few as two digital image or slides and a maximum of twenty digital images, photos or slides.
  • All digital images, photos or slides must be in focus. Original digital images, photos or slides are preferred, but good copies will be accepted.
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LAZARUS MEMORIAL AWARD

Brian and Judy Lazarus established this award in 1986 in memory of their son, Devin.

An award of artwork is given for the best video recording of a presentation relating to daylilies. Initially established for a period of three years, by mutual agreement it has been extended for an indefinite period. Mrs. Brian Lazarus donates the award each year. The following rules are specific to the award:

  • The subject must be predominantly daylily related. Educational, artistic, and entertainment values will be considered by the judges.
  • All entrants must have played a major role in the production of the video.
  • The medium may be any popularly used video recording medium. There is no running time limitation, but the intent is to produce a program running from fifteen minutes to an hour. A narrated soundtrack is preferred.

All of the material above can be found in Chapter A2 of the AHS Judge's Handbook, which can be ordered on the AHS Publications Page.

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