Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Michelle Obama 2013 official portrait.jpg

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Reason: She Has An Lady of The Political Activities
Articles in which this image appears: Michelle Obama, List of First Ladies of the United States, +1
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political
Creator: White House (Chuck Kennedy)

Support as nominator – National Names 2000 (talk) 12:01, 20 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:31, 21 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hafspajen (talk) 06:05, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose — Nothing whatever against Michelle Obama — It's just my inveterate opposition to official photos of political figures as FPs (and she is by extension a political figure). I know others disagree with me on this issue. Sca (talk) 15:21, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment -High EV for one thing - she is the first black First lady in the White house... kinda exciting, still. Even if her strictly personal merits might not be that outstanding. Hafspajen (talk) 07:24, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is a much more relaxed and candid portrait than we usually see (compare it, for example, with her first official portrait). I think it has EV as a result; there's certain subjects which we might not have quality images of otherwise. One could also argue that there is often a fine line between official images and non-official ones. At what point does a sitting with the express purpose of taking an photograph become official or staged? I think we have to judge the outcome, more than the circumstance. 70.72.190.205 (talk) 06:32, 25 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support as others. Yann (talk) 19:20, 26 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. My only tiny criticism is that the crop seems fractionally too close to her right elbow. If there is more in an original somewhere then it would be good to redo that. 31.51.2.9 (talk) 21:24, 27 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jim Carter 12:26, 28 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Bellus Delphina ^talk 05:17, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Sca --DUCK404 a (talk) 01:54, 31 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Sca -- mcshadypl ^T ^C 20:59, 31 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support. ^BE _CK ^Y _SA ^{Y L}E _S 00:14, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Michelle Obama 2013 official portrait.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:02, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]