Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Thalassarche salvini - SE Tasmania.jpg

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 5 Mar 2012 at 00:59:48 (UTC)

Reason: Prior to this cooperative bird I've only had one or two brief flybys on previous trips. It was once considered a subspecies of the Shy Albatross. Most of this species breed on the Bounty Islands, 670 km south east of New Zealand.
Articles in which this image appears: Salvin's Albatross
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator: JJ Harrison

Support as nominator --JJ Harrison (talk) 00:59, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support tail seems a little OOF, but otherwise I like this. Pine^talk 09:28, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Well done. Clegs (talk) 10:14, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support with a question. Is that the original saturation? Interesting colour for the water... Of course, last time I was on the open(-ish) sea it was in the Sunda Strait which was more light teal in colour. Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:55, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Quite natural, and mostly a reflection of the sky. Air pollution would most likely mean that Indonesia's sky is a different colour. I think the significant water depth difference (several kilometers vs tens of meters) could help a colour change too - it is easy to stir up sediment in shallow water. JJ Harrison (talk) 07:01, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  - Ah. As I was between southern Kalianda and Sebuku, it was much shallower. Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:18, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support very good, has this been nominated before? --TehGrauniad (talk) 13:03, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- No, but I have nominated one or two other images of different species with a similar composition before. JJ Harrison (talk) 21:21, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Thalassarche salvini - SE Tasmania.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 04:20, 5 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]