Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Common Kingfisher

Common Kingfisher

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 13 Jan 2013 at 08:31:13 (UTC)

Original – Common Kingfisher, in France, capturing a tadpole. It's habitat extends over Europe, Asia, and North Africa, mainly south of 60°N.

Reason

Good technical quality and excellent composition capturing the bird in natural habitat, and illustrating feeding behaviour.

Articles in which this image appears

Common Kingfisher

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds

Creator

Pierre Dalous

• Support as nominator --ELEKHH^T 08:31, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
• Support - It's a wonderfully sharp image. I added it to the Kingfisher article, too, and requested a move on commons. ceranthor 02:27, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
• Support Excellent shot --Fir0002 10:39, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
  • JJ is right about the odd thing at the white ear coverts - don't know about the paint brush tool, but definitely something not quite right there. Which is a shame - even if that region was blown, it would be a minor defect in an otherwise great shot. Don't think there's anything significantly wrong with the chest coloration though, it seems within the range of natural variation (?) --Fir0002 02:40, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
    • Yeah, I do get a different subspecies here, so that is possible. JJ Harrison (talk) 02:44, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose It sure is, at thumbnail. But the full sized image has some weird problems. For example, the white ear coverts look really strange. Almost like an attempt to mask blown highlights with the paint brush tool or something. I think the shadow-highlights tool has been used a bit much too - the chest should be chestnut, not dirty brown. JJ Harrison (talk) 01:40, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
• Weak support Not entirely sharp, and it can be centralised more. Hop n hop (on the arctic ice) 09:16, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose. I disagree with Arctic Kangaroo about the composition- I think it's fantastic. However, I do agree with JJ about the weird editing. J Milburn (talk) 21:58, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose Wow, that is weird editing, or something. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 00:13, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
• Withdraw nomination, given the digital manipulation. Please feel free to speedy close. --ELEKHH^T 02:59, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:22, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

• Nomination was withdrawn Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:22, 11 January 2013 (UTC)