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Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 25 Jul 2010 at 19:28:19 (UTC)

Original - Portrait of an emu Dromaius novaehollandiae. Taken in Bangalore. Emu eyes are golden brown to black. The naked skin on the neck is bluish-black.
Reason
Good quality, EV. Already featured at commons and has been stable in the articles for quite some time.
Articles in which this image appears
Emu, Casuariidae
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim
  • Support as nominator --Muhammad(talk) 19:28, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Going to have to oppose here, on EV grounds. A full shot of the bird would be much better EV then a headshot, and as for angles of a headshot, something like is a bit more striking. — raeky (talk | edits) 02:30, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Good lighting and it’s nice and sharp. The background is (thankfully) out of focus and isn’t competing for attention. The Emu article already has full-body images. This photo is being used to discuss eye color. Ergo, it has EV to illustrate the intended issue. Greg L (talk) 02:58, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. Sorry, nice IQ, but I'm not liking the composition. I'm not against animal 'portraits' per se, but for mine, for an emu, this is cut-off too high up; I feel a portrait orientation would have worked a lot better. I'm also not a big fan of these direct side-on photos that give the subject a two-dimensional feel. --jjron (talk) 18:34, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support This strikes me as a quality example of a valuable profile-portrait shot of the animal. I'm not seeing valuable arguments as to how this is not a quality demonstration of the beast. Cowtowner (talk) 06:09, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment It has such ugly skin, shown off by very good photo capture quality. Also a bit blurry around the eye, you must have snapped this as it was blinking. I'm not sure though that this is dynamically feature-worthy though, I would expect to see this in Valued Pictures but it seems Commons disagrees with me... How is an image selected for Picture of the day a week in advance? --I′d※<3※Ɵɲɛ (talk) 22:28, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 22:16, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]