Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Kirinia roxelana

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 5 May 2014 at 08:37:30 (UTC)

Support as nominator -- — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:37, 25 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lovely picture! Like the difference in texture - butterfly-stone, and the grey colour keeping it together. Hafspajen (talk) 11:08, 25 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support (having stumbled here from my FPC discussion page). Beautiful and quite high quality. — Cirt (talk) 16:37, 26 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good catch. I was feeling annoyed by the orange blur up left, but I decided I liked the photo nevertheless. Pity that the article on the species is a stub though. --Ebertakis (talk) 20:59, 27 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Funny enough the orange blur is the thing that gives balace to the picture, it takes up the colour of the small patches on the butterfly, also gives the balance this picture needs, just cover it and look at the picture again. Hafspajen (talk) 19:19, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I even downloaded the image and used Gimp to eliminate the orange blur (I duplicated the layer and desaturated it *a lot*, then I painted the rest of the image back in). I also tried cropping it. I found that my eyes could concentrate more on the butterfly afterwards. Exactly because the blur has the same tone as the spots on the butterfly, my eyes keep jumping back and forth. I think that a "balance" effect would be the case if e.g. the out-of-focus orange spots were homogeneously distributed around the butterfly. Then again, nobody else is complaining, so I decided that this was just me, and I proceeded to support the image :-) --Ebertakis (talk) 23:04, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Kirinia roxelana male 1.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 08:40, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]