Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Black Lemurs

Black Lemurs

Reason: High quality image taken in the natural habitat and showing male and female together. The colors is so different that for many years people believed these were different kind of lemurs.
Proposed caption: Male and female Black Lemurs,Eulemur macaco. The black lemur is one of 28 species of lemurs, which are relatives to monkeys and apes and is so called True lemur. The black lemur got its name from a male coloration, which is black, while female is brown. The difference in the colors between male and female black lemurs is unique for lemurs.

The image was taken at Madagascar

Articles this image appears in: Lemurs
Creator: Mbz1

Support as nominator Mbz1 18:40, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The center may be somewhat clear, but the rest of the picture is way too blurry. NyyDave 22:57, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose subjects are cut off, too small in frame, and there is wicked (Go Sox!) chromatic aberration in the foliage in front of the sky. de Bivort 23:59, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- comment I added another image, which shows female black lemur only. I added link to the first image to the caption of the second one. Of course the subject is cut off too. Well, I just counted at least six cut off subjects on FP mamals. Thank you.--Mbz1 00:43, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose both In the first, the subject is too small (composition), in the second detail sharpness is not very good. --Janke | Talk 10:12, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose both, very poor technical quality, poor composition, too far away from the subjects. --Aqwis 14:50, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – although both have really high encyclopedic value, they both suffer from too many technical problems to mitigate a FP pass. I guess the crux is that these are easily replicable shots. --mikaul^talk 15:06, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Getting both a male and a female of the species in the same shot, in the wild, is remarkable but there are regrettable technical problems (blown highlights in the sky, and the tails of the animals are hard to see (when the subject is a lemur, getting the tail is part of what makes the photograph encyclopedia-worthy). The first image could probably benefit from a crop. (On an only partly-related note-- wow, Mila, you sure do travel a lot. I'm jealous.) Spikebrennan 15:53, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I did travel a lot mostly with my old film camera.
In my opinion I've made some progress with this nomination:so far nobody has complained on the caption or/and encyclopedic value of the image. Thank you for the votes, everybody. Please keep them coming. (I really mean it. I much prefer to have oppose votes than no votes at all. When there's no votes, then it is getting really boring)--Mbz1 16:09, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree with you there, you wrote a perfectly good caption for this image, with no noticeable flaw - well done. --84.90.46.116 18:38, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I really like original 2, the expression is striking. But has there been too much post-processing? It seems just a little blurry and doesn't quite look right. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 02:20, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank you, Jeff. It is great somebody liked the image!--Mbz1 03:06, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 05:40, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]