Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Tortoise on grass

Tortoise on Grass

Reason: I feel it meets the requirements
Proposed caption: One of the many of its kind, this young twenty year old tortoise, will probably witness the inauguration of the 100th President of the US
Articles this image appears in: Tortoise, Animal shell
Creator: Me
Extra Info: The tortoise is presumably a Leopard Tortoise. The photograph was taken in its natural habitat. The age of the animal can be obtained by counting the number of rings on its shell. It can live up to a life span of more than 100 years. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Muhammad Mahdi Karim (talk • contribs) 13:08, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support as nominator Muhammad Mahdi Karim 05:43, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
~~The picture is not used in any articles. Please fix this before we consider this image~~. MER-C 06:43, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Concern fixed. MER-C 09:52, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, please familarise yourself with the Featured picture criteria, and once you do, feel free to upload and nominate your pictures. This looks a good contribution, and I don't think we've got many photographers based in Tanzania, so it can only be a good thing. --jjron 08:19, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Question. Welcome to FPC Muhammad (I think you're new here). I like this photo - actually I think it belongs in a better spot in the tortoise article than just the gallery. However, one of the key criteria for an FP is the encyclopaedic value of an image. Your image description simply says this is "A picture of a tortoise crawling and eating in a grassy area.". I wonder do you have a bit more information to help with the encyclopaedic value. In particular a species identification would be good, given that there's so many different sorts of tortoises. If you took this in a zoo or some other wildlife park in order to find out that it was 20yo, then they should also have the species ID which would save you finding out yourself. Some other information on where the photo was taken may also be good, especially if it was in fact taken in the wild. Thanks. --jjron 12:10, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support I've seen better, but there isn't really anything wrong with it. The caption and such will need to be fixed up, of course, but the image itself is acceptable.--Here T oHelp 12:22, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Composition is fairly weak. The creature is not centered, and while the photographer can't really help the clump of grass in front, it's highly distracting from the subject matter. Fully 1/3 of the bottom of the picture is sand. Cropping and color-manipulating (reducing value, increasing saturation, for example) might help to bring out the subject, but I'm not sure it would elevate it to FP-quality. -Harmil 17:20, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The clump of grass was being eaten by the tortoise just before the picture was taken and the sand is part of the picture to show the tortoise's habitat. -Muhammad Mahdi Karim 17:58, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Composition and lighting. -Fcb981^{(talk:contribs)} 22:03, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
support - Very nice frontal shot. I strongly disagree that the grass and sand detract from the picture's value, although I do agree that the photo could be a bit better centered and perhaps otherwise color-manipulated to better effect. Mcrawford620 22:39, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose great shot form a camera phone! but i msut oppose per other users comments, it could msut definately be taken better --Childzy ¤ Talk 22:53, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Doesn't strike me as the best shot we could get of this creature. I mean, a flying insect shot you take when you can get it, but I think another shot of this subject, with more depth of field, perhaps a better angle, could have afforded itself to a patient photographer. It's a good picture, but I don't see it as a FP. Unschool 01:06, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 02:56, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]