Hello @dynamicgreentk,
first of all thanks for your kind words. Your question is a very good one!
Yes and No. Yes because of I used the "macro" possibility of the lens and cropped the image afterwards. No because of the reproduction ratio of the Tamron is only 1:3.3 for full frame size. A real macro uses a ratio of 1:1 at least. Hopefully I did not confused you too much. Simply spoken: The image is not big enough. We call this more a close-up.
Greetings