Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Upland Sandpiper
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 12 Jul 2010 at 12:32:22 (UTC)
- Reason
- All the obvious checkmarks are there - high resolution, not overly manipulated shot in sharp focus under a free license. I think it's encyclopedic, and adds significantly to its article since the only other shot was a very low res pic where the bird was crowded out by grass. I also think he's rather an attractive little bird, and well captured.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Upland sandpiper
- FP category for this image
- Animals
- Creator
- johnath
- Support as nominator --Johnath (talk) 12:32, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
- Support, nicely done. It may benefit from a crop (I'll leave that to people better at that sort of thing than me) but the focus is good, the pose/composition is nice, and this adds well to the article. At first I thought this may be a young one, but after looking at some other pictures, they all seem to have that petite look. J Milburn (talk) 13:13, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
- Support Nice work. Noodle snacks (talk) 00:18, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
- Support I like it, but I think some cropping around the sides and top wouldn't hurt, the background is blurred and not very important to the image other than just being nice green colors. --I′d※<3※Ɵɲɛ (talk) 00:32, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
- I see J Milburn already beat me to that thought. --I′d※<3※Ɵɲɛ (talk) 00:34, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
- Yep, cropping makes sense - I've added a cropped version and replaced the version in the article since, to my eye, this is unambiguously better. --Johnath (talk) 01:36, 4 July 2010 (UTC)