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Shy Albatross portrait[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 12 Oct 2011 at 06:22:58 (UTC)

Original – Shy Albatross (Thalassarche cauta) portrait, East of the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia
Reason
Works well with the article prose discussing the morphology of the beak, and nasal tubes.
Articles in which this image appears
Albatross
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator
JJ Harrison
  • Support as nominator --JJ Harrison (talk) 06:22, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak oppose Wing edge comes too close to foreground. Samsara (FA • FP) 08:15, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose -- As a person with no special interest in birds, I had to study this image for a few moments to understand exactly what I was looking at. At first glance it seemed like some sort of bird species with a big horn on it's head. This may a useful and valuable image for what it shows, but it doesn't strike me as Featured Picture worthy.
  • Oppose as well. The wing looks like some seal is eating him (my first impression, at least). Understandably a hard shot, but it could have higher EV without the wing. Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:35, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question Could the wing be edited out? Pinetalk 19:19, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • I would say absolutely not. (FP candidate or not). Editing out bystanders or other extraneous subject is one thing. Editing out the wing of a bird in a clumsy attempt to make it a more preferrable shot of the bird? No. At least that's my thought on the matter. JBarta (talk) 19:45, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
      • I would have to agree, image manipulation like that is not only not needed, but probably shouldn't be done in order to keep things accurate. JFitch (talk) 23:02, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
        • I don't think it'd be appropriate. The problem largely goes away if you click on the thumbnail anyway. JJ Harrison (talk) 08:40, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
          • I might also add, the albatrosses hold their wings like this for a bit after landing, presumably to keep them dry, before folding them up if they don't decide to take off again (a clumsy affair!).

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 19:46, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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