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Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Arthropods/Arachnida#Family : Araneidae (Orb-weaver Spiders)
Info The golden orb-eaver spiders weave a golden web. The colour is more distinct under flash. The image is best seen on a large screen or in close-up so you can see that six of her seven legs are in use, with the seventh just about to help. All by Charlesjsharp -- Charlesjsharp (talk) 10:33, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Charlesjsharp (talk) 10:33, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Not seeing what is FP about this. The angle is awkward with the head hidden by a leg and facing away. The background distracting. The composition is just "subject in centre of frame". The lighting from the flash causes harsh reflections off the body that are especially troublesome as the sides have white markings and the white we mostly see here is reflected flash. There are other FP in this genus: File:Nephila inaurata dsc07682.jpg and File:Spider Nephila clavata 0911.jpg. -- Colin (talk) 16:38, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I see there are 2 FPs. The two images are located in the FP gallery under a spurious family Nephilidae which doesn't exist, which I why I missed them. To give a response as to what is FP about this in my view - most spider images (e.g. all our FPs) are of stationary animals. This one is at work weaving its web with a skill that very few spider species possess. To capture that is quite a challenge. Charlesjsharp (talk) 18:43, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

But you haven't "captured that": it is not at all apparent that this spider is "at work". They just seem to be hanging about and the photographer is at at an unfortunate angle wrt its head. So that's a negative, rather than positive. Perhaps a short movie clip would be better, along with more suitable lighting. -- Colin (talk) 07:56, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Support I find this interesting to move my eye around, and that's enough for me to consider it an FP, along with Charles' point above about what he captured. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:54, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose quite distracting background. --Ivar (talk) 07:19, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per above --RolfHill (talk) 08:38, 8 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support Considering the size --Llez (talk) 10:41, 8 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Ivar. Daniel Case (talk) 17:18, 9 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Ivar. Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 19:23, 9 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I withdraw my nomination Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:24, 9 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]