Love Wildlife

I shot this seedling July last Summer whith my D3400 with a Sigma 150-600mm Sigma Contemorary lense at 600mm at 9.2 feet minimum focusing distance backing off just a tadd. The original is the bottom pic and the top one I cropped a little from the right to center and added a Zeke filter. I will be shooting with the D5600 this upcoming season and am so amazed at the difference in the view finder of the 5600. This will be my second DSLR shooting with the same 150-600mm and my 3rd season. I have always been an outdoors person and am amazed at what I have been able to capture so close up and faraway with the DSLR. I thank the UHH for the ability to share.

Pleasantries to all

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Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

My preference is the second shot.

RowdyRay Loc: MN

I'm an outdoors person as well. Have the Tamron 150-600mm G1 on a Canon 80D. Love to challenge myself on walks and see what I can do with it. It's possible to get some nice close-ups if used right.

Great shots. Congrats on the new camera and look forward to your future results.

Love Wildlife

Thaks Longshadow for your view.

Love Wildlife

Thanks RowdyRay for your view and comment.

mizzee Loc: Boston,Ma

I’d prefer the crop without the filter. Love the delicacy.

Love Wildlife

Thank you mizzee for your view and comment, greatly appreciated.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Nice shots of these seed heads, I like to play with macro and focus stacking for these things - good supply of subjects in my yard if the lawn guy hasn't been around in a while. If done carefully you can cut them off with a bit of stem and dry them for use on a table top macro set up - I have a couple two years old in my container of dried macro subjects.



Oh, a seedling is a young plant just starting to grow beyond the sprout level - name is usually applied to trees although my Grandfather used to raise tobacco seedlings in a covered "tobacco bed"* then transplant the "seedlings" to the main field in evenly space rows for cultivation when they were about 6" or so tall. Some other crops are handled the same way. Seed in a protected "bed" and transplant to fields for growth to maturity.

*His was a log framed rectangle in a sunny sheltered spot with thin white cloth stretched over for protection. The soil would be worked, seeds cast over the whole surface and then covered. When big enough to transplant and survive in the open the cloth was removed and the seedlings removed and transplanted into spaced rows that could be cultivated with ease and each plant had enough space for optimum growth.

Swamp-Cork Loc: Lanexa, Virginia