Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Long-branded blue crow (Euploea algea menetriesii) underside Phi Phi.jpg

File:Long-branded blue crow (Euploea algea menetriesii) underside Phi Phi.jpg, featured edit

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Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Arthropods/Lepidoptera#Family : Nymphalidae (Brush-footed Butterflies)
Info One FP of this genus. Here is the wing upperside. All by Charlesjsharp -- Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:34, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:34, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support I like this one. — Urban Versis 32^KB ⚡ ^{(talk | contribs)} 13:44, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 18:17, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --IamMM (talk) 11:21, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --XRay 💬 12:59, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral Nice but in the meanwhile we have over 100 images of this species and this one is not really standing out. We had a similar discussion about Llez shells a few days ago. Sharpness is good and aligned with most of those FPs but not superior like we have seen sometimes (I talk about works like this or this of people like Sven Damerow). I also have some FPs in that category but I've to agree that my works are not exceptional anymore in comparison to those. Nothing against you, Charles, I talk in general about this kind of motif Poco a poco (talk) 17:43, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Where are the 100 images @Poco a poco: ? I can find 7 images of ths species and three of this subspecies (two are mine). One of the examples you mention is a dragonfly! What is your point? It's a rare butterfly. How can it stand out more? And by the way, this photo is of an active butterfly. Sven Damerow's lovely images are of inactive butterflies in the early morning. Hard work to get up in the morning. Hard work to find them, for sure. But any inactive subject is inherently easier to photograph than an active subject. Charlesjsharp (talk) 23:06, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I meant that we have a lot of FPs of this family, we have 196 in total. That's more than what we have in many other orders or even classes. I'm confused now about your statements, you wrote in the nomination that we have only one FP of this genus and say now that it's a rare butterfly (if true I'd consider to strike my neutral and leave it as a comment, btw this kind of data is for me relevant to decide the vote, specially with so many similar images already) but you say now that there are 7 FPs of the species. Long story short what I meant above is that having so many FPs already in this area I just expect more (more detail, great compo, special lighting, rare subject). It's clear to me that Sven's shots are taken during cold mornings with insects being inactive but the level of detail is definitely a big wow factor and that's why I consider those shots at a higher level than all others in the category. Yes, I included a dragonfly but also a butterfly, and there are others among his portfolio, but that's not my point. Poco a poco (talk) 09:21, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
There are 7 images on Commons of this species, not 7 FPs. Nymphalidae are the largest butterfly family with 6000+ coloutful species, so I would expect many FPs. I don't know how voters judge each FP - some may value rarity, some will judge the image on its merits. A brown butterfly will not be as popular as a pretty one. With this species, I can't find a higher quality image on the Internet, but there will likely be one somewhere not indexed by Google. Is that worth something at FPC? If we compare this butterfly species with the clownfish Amphiprion bicinctus (your current FPC), on Google there are hundreds of photos and 88 on Commons. So a rather different photgraphic challenge as is the issue of Llez shells that you raised. Charlesjsharp (talk) 15:05, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral nice, but details lost on bright spots. --Ivar (talk) 17:57, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral Part of the flower is out of focus. The background of the butterfly is too dark for me.--Famberhorst (talk) 15:18, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support I don't like the out of focus flower either, but it's not too distracting --Lupe (talk) 10:03, 26 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support Daniel Case (talk) 02:18, 28 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 7 support, 0 oppose, 3 neutral → featured. /--Ivar (talk) 07:15, 2 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Arthropods/Lepidoptera#Family : Nymphalidae (Brush-footed Butterflies)