Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Hoverfly September 2007-7.jpg

Hovering hoverfly

Original - An hoverfly (Xanthogramma pedissequum) in flight. Hoverflies form a large family of about 5000 species with hovering and darting flight. Most are nectar or pollen feeders and many mimic the color patterns of wasps and bees.

Reason

An uncommon and enc view of an hoverfly in flight, hovering above the ground. Though not technically excellent, I believe it illustrates the subject better than existing FP's, including Fir's marvellous airborne sex photo.

Articles this image appears in

Insect flight

Creator

Alvesgaspar (talk)

• Support as nominator --Alvesgaspar (talk) 13:55, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose. You're right, it certainly does illustrate insect flight better than Fir's shot (although I think we would ideally need a sharp, super slow-mo animation), but given the image quality and the fact that the subject takes up such a small proportion of the frame, I think it is probably more of a VPC than FPC. I'm not saying it isn't a wonderful shot though. I know it is, because I've tried and never managed to lock focus on one of those hoverflies in time to capture it before it flew away. :-) Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 14:16, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
• Reluctant oppose per Diliff. Too bad it doesn't have enough resolution to crop and remain a candidate. Good capture. Durova^Charge! 21:18, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose I have many of these which are much better, eg this. --Fir0002 22:00, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose though it difficult capturing an image like Fir's, it isn't impossible. ZooFari 00:08, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
  • To be fair though, it isn't really about what is possible or impossible, but rather what is realistic. Fir managed to get extremely lucky with that mating fly photo, and I do wonder how many hours he spent shooting before he got that one. Not to say that skill wasn't involved either though! Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 07:52, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
    • I have better flight pictures, like this one. But neither of them was taken from below. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 08:48, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Not promoted ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 03:59, 9 April 2009 (UTC)