Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/A butterfly feeding on the tears of a turtle in Ecuador

A butterfly feeding on the tears of a turtle in Ecuador

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 23 Oct 2015 at 18:04:20 (UTC)

Reason: High Quality, Educational, Encyclopedic, High Resolution. Featured Picture on Commons, Spanish, Persian, Indonesian and Vietnamese language Wikipedia. This file was awarded first place in Picture of the Year 2014.
Articles in which this image appears: Red-headed Amazon River turtle, Dryas iulia, External morphology of Lepidoptera, Mud-puddling, Wikimedia Commons
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Reptiles
Creator: amalavida.tv (Dirección de Información Turística del Ministerio de Turismo del Ecuador)

Support as nominator – — Cirt (talk) 18:04, 13 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
To me, it looks like the turtle is just about to eat the butterfly for breakfast... A closeup showing the BF actually drinking would be better, but probably much harder to shoot... --Janke | Talk 08:38, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- @Janke: The file is very high resolution, perhaps you can see better what you are looking for specifically, if you zoom in yourself on the actual image, or here at File:A butterfly feeding on the tears of a turtle in Ecuador (cropped to butterfly).jpg. — Cirt (talk) 11:09, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - Unfortunately, there's no evidence of drinking there, and the BF is also out-of-focus, and ponting it's rear end to the camera. So, Oppose, sorry. --Janke | Talk 16:06, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support truly a beautiful image satisfying FP criteria. --Tom (LT) (talk) 08:47, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not convinced this is near to FP quality. This image is arguably more interesting, but isn't FP either. Charlesjsharp (talk) 15:59, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- But this image actually already is FP — On Commons, and Spanish, Persian, Indonesian and Vietnamese Wikipedia. And also This file was awarded first place in Picture of the Year 2014. — Cirt (talk) 16:39, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- The image you gave as an example is not a FP because it's awful from technical side (zoom in to 1:1 - post processing is terrible). SkywalkerPL (talk) 17:34, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support I think it is a stunning image, the turtle by the way is Podocnemis erythrocephala, an endangered species. Faendalimas ^talk 17:58, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I've added the image to Red-headed Amazon River turtle. The fact that it's a photo of an endangered species certainly adds even more encyclopedic value. — Cirt (talk) 18:03, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support --Tremonist (talk) 14:18, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Yann (talk) 22:05, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Jobas (talk) 11:31, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --SkywalkerPL (talk) 17:32, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - SchroCat (talk) 13:21, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral – First of all, I love this photo. I certainly wish more of the other turtles and butterflies were in focus, but that can't be changed. I think the primary EV comes from this being an endangered species interacting with another species in the wild. I do agree with Janke and Charlesjsharp. It may be our only photo of lachryphagy, but I'm not sure any of the associated articles gain that much value from this photo. Fredlyfish4 (talk) 03:06, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – DreamSparrow ^Chat 18:55, 22 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:A butterfly feeding on the tears of a turtle in Ecuador.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:14, 23 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]