Shot in my backyard through my office window at 270mm using a Tamron 1.4 teleconverter and then still had to dod asevere crop. Still thought it held enough detail to go ahead and submit.
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I don't know what your options were re cropping, but I'm not sure you've got this quite right, really; square has a different dynamic, and the 'thirds' lines rae less comfortable in it, I think.