I really like the way you positioned your subject in the first picture. Like what @mr-quebec said, living things should be given more room or “breathing space,” which is what you have done in your pictures. It seems that you had two basic ways of taking pictures at the wheat field: (1) Close-up of the ears (which is what you did) and (2) Landscape of the entire wheat field. My suggestion, especially for close-up pictures, is to ensure that your subject is in sharp focus. This way your picture would have a clearly defined and appealing subject. Apart from wheat ears, this tip can be applied to any close-up subject of nature, whether it is a flower or an insect. I’m just wondering, did you use a macro focus for these pictures? I guess if your camera had a multi-spot focusing option, you could have used it so that you can get most of the wheat ears tack sharp, especially in the second picture.
Just a thought: you could have taken a landscape shot of the field (while applying the Rule of Thirds) and watermarked the upper third of the picture with the opening words from “America the Beautiful”: “O beautiful for spacious skies/ For amber waves of grain.” 🙂
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