Timothy Grass Blossom

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Timothy Grass Bloom - sml.jpg
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Timothy Grass Blossom - crop

Critique Style Requested: Standard

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Description

Found this single blooming seedhead of timothy grass on a mountainside in Wyoming last year, where I suspect the timothy had been planted for erosion control. I was super pleased that I’d caught it just before it went to seed. I was actually trying to get photos of a nearby waterfall, but stopped to capture this, so it’s just my 24-70mm lens. There’s some focus falloff on the lower quarter of the seedhead, but I felt pretty good about the sharpness of those miniscule flowers considering it was an unexpected opportunity.

Specific Feedback

I think I prefer the cropped version to remove the dark are at the LL, and to position the seedhead a bit better in the frame.

Technical Details

Canon 7D Mark II, f 6.3, 1/400, handheld. Just less than 70mm (LR stats say 66 mm). A little increased exposure and One1 DeNoise.

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Denise, you did well finding this isolated “bloom”. While both views tell it’s lonely story well, the fully green background in the cropped version “feels” better to me, more like an isolated head in a sea of green.