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Black-capped Kingfisher[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 13 Mar 2011 at 04:16:17 (UTC)

Original - Black-capped Kingfisher (Halcyon pileata), Phra Non, Nakhon Sawan, Thailand
Reason
Despite the fact I had to crop it a ton (25 meters and a small bird, just about a 100% crop), I think this is one of my favourites. It was a shy bird and decided to disappear quickly, even at this distance.
Articles in which this image appears
Black-capped Kingfisher
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator
JJ Harrison
  • Support as nominator --JJ Harrison (talk) 04:16, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support very nice shot with very high EV. I'd go as far as to say say that this and the two other bird shots nominated at the same time are reminiscent of shots by Fir which hopefully will be taken as high praise. Cat-five - talk 20:17, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. The quality is not perfect (a bit of noise), but the beautiful background and composition make up for that. J Milburn (talk) 00:05, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per J Milburn --Benjamint 22:28, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Passable quality and given the crop percentage, I'd say pretty good. Some minor artifacts(?) on the tail- could you fix those? --Muhammad(talk) 14:57, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Suspended while JJ works on an edit. Makeemlighter (talk) 07:25, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    • Photoshop has stopped working for some reason. I'm getting a new computer within the week, so will fix it then. JJ Harrison (talk) 08:29, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Halcyon pileata - Phra Non.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 19:05, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]