Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Gastrimargus Musicus Barbed Wire.jpg

File:Gastrimargus Musicus Barbed Wire.jpg, featured edit

The grasshopper looks quite boring while stationary, and usually only displays its colours while in flight.

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 5 Feb 2010 at 03:26:22 (UTC)
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Info all by 99of9. I hope you will be slightly lenient on the limited DOF in this image. I think this is another case in which capturing a fleeting moment of action makes up for the technical issue. I'd been trying to capture these things in flight because that is the only time they show their yellow back wings, but had given up and was shooting landscapes when one of them was unfortunate enough to get his head stuck in a barbed-wire fence for a few seconds. I've never seen this happen to an insect, so dashed to get a few shots in before it got itself free. -- 99of9 (talk) 03:26, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support as nom. -- 99of9 (talk) 03:26, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support --ComputerHotline (talk) 17:06, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support - excellent composition, excellent light, excellent combination of foreground and background colors, an interesting moment and poor DOF. Everything else except the DOF are so great here so I think they overweight the compromised DOF in this case. --MattiPaavola (talk) 10:03, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support I've looked at this a number of times now. I don't think I can put it better than Matti :) --Herby ^{talk thyme} 11:50, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support I would normally have opposed due to focus problems, but given the given the transient and quite unusual nature of the event, and that it is a really brilliant and clean composition (comparable to one of our best athropod FPs concerning composition), I think mitigating normal rules is warranted here. --Slaunger (talk) 13:40, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Problems with DOF ja overall sharpness. IMO the colours are bit dull. —kallerna™ 16:34, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support as per Matti - largely fine except for one issue. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 05:44, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Slaunger for this unique shot! --Leviathan (talk) 10:35, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support Shallow DOF vs WOW. Latter one wins in this case. Nikopol (talk) 14:08, 30 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Böhringer (talk) 22:23, 30 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Bidgee (talk) 05:10, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 10 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky ^talk 05:58, 5 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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