Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Royal Spoonbill

Royal Spoonbill

**Original** - The Royal or Black-billed Spoonbill (*Platalea regia*), a wading wetland bird of the western Pacific. This individual is approx. 0.7m tall and is displaying breeding plumage

Reason: High quality image of the species in a natural and attractive setting.
Articles this image appears in: Royal Spoonbill
Creator: jjron

Support as nominator jjron (talk) 14:41, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Too harsh contrast, messy BG. Looks oversharpened, too - note dark contour around head ("hair") feathers. --Janke | Talk 15:48, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Cool name! Natural background isn't appealing, light angle hides belly. Royalbroil 16:41, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice!--Mbz1 (talk) 01:57, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support It doesn't matter if the background is "messy" or "unappealing", it is the natural habitat of the bird. Personally, I would much rather this background than some ridiculous (and often artificial) amout of blur that we get with other photos. Great illustration of a beautiful subject. These guys are my favourite water bird, glad to have a good photo of them. --liquidGhoul (talk) 08:44, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support per LiquidGhoul Muhammad(talk)
Oppose I think the bird is really cool but I agree with Royalbroil the the background is not appealing and really distracts from the bird its self Support, After my first vote I couldnt stop thinking about this photo, I still think that the background is not as good as it could be, but the bird is great--CPacker (talk) 09:09, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support DoF properly puts subject matter in context. Information (context) should take precedence over artistic aesthetics--this is wikiPEDIA not wikiARTGALLERY --Mike Spenard (talk) 17:54, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose The line of circular orbs that follow the bottom of the rock is kind of distracting. Could they be processed out a bit? Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 15:35, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm not quite sure I follow this. There's no rocks in the picture (the bird's standing on a log, if you think that's a rock), and I don't see what orbs you're talking about in relation to it. I can only guess you're talking about the ripples in the water radiating out from where the bird had put it's beak in the water to feed, and I have no idea why you would want to edit that out, and how that's a reason to oppose. --jjron (talk) 05:40, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - Look just to the left of the fringe atop his head - a line of small white blobs arc out roughly along the base of the grey object (rock?) in the background. Once you notice them, they're very distracting. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 14:10, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Royal-(or-Black-Billed)-Spoonbill-2,-Vic,-3.1.2008.jpg MER-C 02:33, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]