This is Bill. My wife and I met him today at the Dahlia garden at Bayard Cutting Arboretum.  Bill is the man responsible for creating the William Wolkoff  Dahlia Garden at Bayard.

Bill will also celebrate his 101st birthday this year !

For those of you that might be interested in how Bill went about creating the Dahlia Garden please click – here

We saw Bill sitting on a bench admiring the Dahlia’s when we arrived. We thought he was just another gentleman enjoying the gorgeous weather we had this morning on Long Island. When my wife walked past Bill he said to her “why are you taking pictures today ? You should be taking pictures of these flowers on an overcast day.” When my wife told me what he said I just thought he was a person who know a thing or two about the gorgeous lighting effect an overcast day has on your subjects. Little did we know that Bill is the man responsible for this beautiful Dahlia garden.

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Meet Bill

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Taken with a Fujifilm X-T5 and XF 60mm f/2.4 R macro lens

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Red Spiral Ginger

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Taken with a Fujifilm X-T5 and XF 60mm f/2.4 R macro Lens

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Yellow Celosia

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Fujifilm X-T5 and XF 90mm f/2 R WR lens

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Black Eyed Susan

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Fujifilm X-T5 and XF 60mm f/2.4 Macro Lens

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Backlit Newborn II

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Fujifilm X-T5 and XF 60mm f/2.4 Macro Lens

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Backlit Newborn

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Fujifilm X-T5 and XF 60mm f/2.4 Macro Lens

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Starting To Bloom

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My wife Terry grows a variety of flowers in her garden every year but the carnations are new. With the amount of flower beds we have in our yard she  tries to stick with perennials because we are both getting too old to plant annuals every year. Our ol’ backs ain’t what they used to be. Image was taken with a Fujifilm X-T4 and XF 90mm R f/2 lens.

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Carnations

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Fujifilm X-T4 and XF 90mm R f/2 lens

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A Very Busy Bee

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2 Bee continued 😃 Fujifilm X-T4 and XF 90mm R f/2 lens

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Can He “Stick The Landing” ?

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