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'Tis the IRIS Season !

(and 3 New 2009 calendars to boot!)

We've just finished our 2009 Schreiner’s Iris Gardens Calendar, thanks to our ongoing collaboration with Salem, Oregon’s renown growers, hybridizers and iris originators. Check out this special calendar as well as our recently posted 2009 Daffodil calendar, plus the makings of our 2009 Dahlia Calendar in our Products section.

2009 NEW Iris, Daffodil and Dahlia Calendars

Complete Galleries

Franck Avril / FtA Photos / EverydayJourney Galleries


Just Announced this March !

Following our 7 Awards in 2006 and 10 Awards in 2005, we received another 7 Awards this month as a result of the 2007 American Dahlia Society (ADS) Photography Contest, (kudos to Sandy Boley for her Best 2007 Photograph of the Year! ), including our First and Third prizes in the Macro View category, and three awards in the fun Digital Darkroom category.

See our Awards Section for actual photographs from this year and all from previous years.

2008 Dahlia Introduction – RaeAnn's Peach

 

Welcome to our newly re-designed website: EverydayJourney.net (warm thanks to CL Design: see link at bottom of page).

We are continually uploading new photos, so visit us often !

If you are visiting us for the first time, or have merely browsed in the past, we invite you to sign-up for your own Personal Account by ing here or using the link to the left ("My Account"). In just a very few seconds, you can create your own Username and Personal Password and have acess to all of the site's Lightbox features. Merely click on the box "Lightbox" beneath any photo(s) on this site, and voilà ! You have them in a personal folder for your future review as well as for your sharing and ordering needs.

Moreover, we have now added a NEW feature: registered users can have multiple lightboxes, and can rename them to suit their personal needs for ease of future access. We therefore encourage you to become a registered user of this site (please rest assured that we never share, exchange, sell, nor even reveal the contents of our customer's registration information).

While there is a default of 30 images displayed per page (see box at lowermost RH side of each Gallery), you can define your own custom view by typing-in your preferred amount of images per page to make your viewing experience fit more to your needs.

Click the thumbnails to get larger versions of the photograph, as well as matching key-words and similar photo category searches; products available and corresponding pricelists.

You can also e-mail me directly, or send the thumbnails to friends directly from your "My Lightbox" feature.

At the top of this form and all other pages are Basic Search and Advanced Search features within our site; as well as log-in for any Private Galleries which we have arranged for you.

If you wish to go directly to thumbnails of all galleries rather than use the navigation tools on the Left, we have also added a Galleries link at the bottom of each page.

Our FAQ's give you further details on how to best use this site, or you can use the Contact form to send us any requests or specific inquiries.

Thank you for your interest and support, and welcome back!

Franck (Avril)


Happy New Year from FtA Photos / www.EverydayJourney.net

Additional Services:


Real Estate Photography

Franck Avril / FtA Photos / EverydayJourney Real Estate Photography


We bring our same standards and eye for detail to our Real Estate Photography as we do towards our Nature Photography.

Our prices are competitive, and we schedule our photoshoots according to your priorities.

We offer quick turnaround, and provide you with private galleries on this website for your review as well as flyer-ready / MLS-ready photos, delivered to you.

With satisfied clients in the San Francisco Bay and Phoenix-Scottsdale locations, we look forward to meeting your needs.

Our Fees:

Franck Avril Real Estate Fees


See our Real Estate Section (under Architecture) for actual photographs.


NEW !! Tables of Dahlia Forms & Dahlia Photo Selections, below

Tables or Site Last Updated May 3, 2008

CLICK HERE FOR RECENT / UPCOMING EVENTS or go directly to our TOP 80 DAHLIA PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS

Goldie Gull (Dahlia: Anemone-flowering Form)

or here for our TOP 50 DAHLIA MACRO PHOTOGRAPHS


Camano Rascal (Dahlia: Incurved Cactus Form)

2009 Dahlia Calendar – Can Also Be Customized


First, our Ready-Made

2009 Dahlia Calendar

We now offer our ready-made 2009 Dahlia Wall Calendar, if you don't wish to order a customized one. Check out all 13 pages, or select 14 photos of your own choice from our site, and let us make you your own! Virtually our entire collection is available for your needs (not just dahlias), and we'll even insert for you up to 15 customized personal dates, in addition to basic Holidays. Use as Gifts, or as Fund-Raising projects for your organization (see our multiple quantity discount pricelist). Just send us an e-mail with your ideas and requests, and we can get your order started.

(Note: only landscape-oriented (horizontal) photos allow for day-grid format; Portrait-oriented (vertical) photos, such as most macros on this site, require a format without an actual day-grid to write in – see samples in our Products section

2009 Dahlia Wall Calendar

Calendar Ordering Instructions

Customized Calendar Ordering Instructions

We support non-profit groups

If you are a non-profit group using our calendars
as a fund-raising activity, else for special announcements, or for a function for your group’s needs and group mission, kindly contact us for further discounts that we may be able to offer you. Our aim is to enhance and enrich the world around us, and we are eager to collaborate with you on such projects.

(see all calendar pages);
else our Dahlia Galleries

Our Standard Dahlia

Portrait Calendar

2009 Dahlia Calendar – Can Also Be Customized

Large photos include the following varieties:
Windhaven Blush (inside front cover); Verrone's Michelle (Jan.), Hollyhill Electra (Feb.), Brian's Dream (March), Figurine (Apr.), Citron de Cap (May), Verrone's Sophie (June), Vassio Meggos (July), Cornel (Aug.), Alpen Diamond (Sept.), Hollyhill Spiderwoman (Oct.), Parkland Fire (Nov.), and Ms Kennedy (Dec.). ... plus thumbnails of additional varieties throughout each month !


Or Customize and

Personalize Your Own


(see samples in our Products section)


Start any month or any year,
Can contain any number of months;
Several formats available !

Now Available, in 2 Sizes
(11" x 17" for $19.95 or
8½" x 11" for $11.95) **

No Minimum Order Required
(see our Products section)

** Multiple Quantity Discounts Available
see Pricelist in Products Section


or if you prefer, you can choose our
Ready-Made Dahlia Calendar --
(above)

Dahlia Forms and Photos:


Anemone Forms;
Ball Forms;
Collarette Forms;
Formal Decorative Forms;
Incurved Cactus Forms;
Informal Decorative Forms;
Laciniated Forms;
Mignon Single Forms;
Miniature Ball Forms;
Novelty Double Center Forms;
Novelty Open Disc Center Forms;
Orchid Forms;
Peony Forms;
Pompon;
Semi-Cactus Forms;
Single Forms;
Stellar Forms;
Straight Cactus Forms;
Waterlily Forms

Additional Dahlias: Unknown, else photos from the field or Shows

NEW !! Our interactive Dahlia Puzzle page -- crossword puzzle portion only and our intersecting Sudoku puzzle portion only (see PDF for colors)


Interactive Dahlia Puzzle


See the complete puzzle (Sudoku-Crossword blend) in its .PDF form (non-interactive) by clicking here.


Sudoku-Crossword blend


Featured Product

Our Dahlia Galleries Our project with Dan Pearson of Dan's Dahlias is now doubled, with photographs of 400+ varieties currently displayed. All of our 2005 - 2007 Dahlia prints and photocards are available for purchase online.

See our photographs of Dan's truly exquisite flowers, with additional varieties as well, featuring both full dahlia portraits and macro photography, in stunning display, all newly organized by form for easier viewing, and just updated to the 2007 ADS Classifications!

We hope that you will be as excited as we are after viewing this collection. Each photograph is available in a variety of sizes as full prints, as well as in boxed set or customized photo-notecards (see our products line).

We also encourage you to visit Dan's own newly-designed website, using many of our photos.

Dan’s Dahlias


Visit our 2007 Anna's

Hummingbird Nest !!

With Comparisons to

Last Year's nesting cycle


Miraculously, last year's Anna's hummingbird (we think, actually, one of last year's offsprings) returned to the same nest, patched it up, and laid 2 eggs a whole 2 months earlier than last year (Feb. 3rd first egg, compared to April 10th last year !?! )

Follow each year, as we intend to post photos from both years during this entire process (the chicks hatch about 3 weeks after the first egg is laid, and remain in the nest nearly another 4 weeks before flying off).

Hummingbird Nest

Check out the two healthy and growing chicks!




Recent & Upcoming

Events

May 9 – June 5, 2008
Calendar, Photos and Photocards on Display
Schreiner's Iris Gardens, Salem, OR

Chinese Treasure – Iris

Our Iris Galleries

Schreiner's Iris Gardens


April 9 - 13, 2008
Come see our notecards and 2009 Daffodil calendars on sale at the Boutique of
The AmericanDaffodil Society 2008 National Convention and Show, as well as some of our photo entries!
Richmond, VA


March 12 - 16, 2008
Dan's Dahlias and our Photographs at the
San Francisco Flower and Garden Show
San Francisco, CA


Feb. 20 - 24, 2008
Dan's Dahlias and our Photographs at the
Northwest Flower and Garden Show
Seattle, WA


Sept. 29 - 30, 2007
Our 2008 Dahlia Calendar available
at the National Capital Dahlia Society
71st Annual Show, Brookshire Gardens,
1800 Glenallan Avenue, Wheaton, MD


Feb. 13, 2007
Digital Slide Show: selections of Dahlia Gold,
Dahlia Society of California
County Fair Building
San Francisco, CA