Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Harbor Seal

Original - A young Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina) relaxes off the coast of La Jolla, San Diego.

Reason: High technical standard, high resolution, used in infobox of Harbor Seal, avoids significant digital manipulation.
Articles in which this image appears: Harbor Seal
Creator: FASTILY ^(TALK)

Support as nominator --FASTILY ^(TALK) 23:44, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose the subject is out of focus. franklin 00:19, 30 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose. Sorry, it's a nice shot, but I just feel the quality isn't quite there- doubled with the fact the subject only takes up a small part of the picture... J Milburn (talk) 19:56, 30 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Cute animal, but the subject is not perfectly in focus. This would be even more visible if the image would be croped. The nomination statement that it is "used in infobox" was correct for less than 1h. It was placed there by nominator 5 minutes before this nomination, and replaced 48 minutes later. Elekhh (talk) 04:04, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think I was too mean. It was me who replaced it. Let me say to the nominator that if the image were of good quality, not being in the infobox is not a problem. franklin 21:19, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 12:05, 5 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]