Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Head of Grey Heron with neck bent, January 2024 - 7630.jpg

File:Head of Grey Heron with neck bent, January 2024 - 7630.jpg, featured edit

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Info Head of Grey Heron with neck bent. c/u/n by Laitche -- Laitche (talk) 18:58, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Laitche (talk) 18:58, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Excellent catch with high FP potential. As far as I have seen, we do not yet have an FP of a heron with a bent neck. Charmingly captured with great bokeh; Technically, it is also of high quality. I only discovered a small, probably accidentally oversharpened area, which I have noted in the annotation above. Could you fix this before I support it? Thank you very much in advance :) -- Radomianin (talk) 21:49, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Radomianin: I did not apply partial sharp. Well, you're probably thinking too much... --Laitche (talk) 23:11, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies, I was just guessing and wanted to help. Probably the sharpened section was generated in a different way. Anyway, I personally try not to be a pixelpeeper, so I'm voting: Support as described above. With my very best regards :) -- Radomianin (talk) 23:20, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Do not worry about it, I believe you are not a pixelpeeper :-) --Laitche (talk) 23:29, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We should pixel-peep. Otherwise, what is the benefit of high resolution images? I prefer the existing FP that does not have the blown whites. Charlesjsharp (talk) 09:54, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting point, Charles. For high resolution, high-quality images, pixel peeping is certainly okay to some extent. Unless it's an image where the "wow" effect is more important than a lower technical quality by default. -- Radomianin (talk) 10:40, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. I still pixel-peeped JJ Harrison's rare ground-cuckoo and Giles Laurent's deer (current noms); saw the flaws; then quickly supported due to the Wow! But for common birds, like the grey heron or moorhen noms, I expect a lot more. Charlesjsharp (talk) 13:09, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support --Palauenc05 (talk) 22:27, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Radomianin. The bent neck is great. Would also make a nice internet meme, e.g. combined with the words of some politican who says today the opposite of what he said yesterday ;–). --Aristeas (talk) 08:39, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ha ha, Nice comment! --Laitche (talk) 08:49, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 11:30, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support Cmao20 (talk) 12:19, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Giles Laurent (talk) 12:57, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 13:04, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Ivar (talk) 16:08, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support --The Cosmonaut (talk) 17:16, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support --BigDom (talk) 01:22, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support ★ 20:07, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice light and corkscrew neck -- Basile Morin (talk) 10:24, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Famberhorst (talk) 18:05, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Tournasol7 (talk) 09:09, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 15 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 21:05, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Birds/Pelecaniformes#Genus : Ardea