Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Orchid at USBG (18160).jpg

File:Orchid at USBG (18160).jpg, featured edit

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Info A Cattlianthe Gold Digger ‘Orglade's Mandarin’ orchid at the United States Botanic Garden. It's not the typical isolated flower with smooth background, but I think it works. The main subject is sharp, but I primarily like the segements of green leaves, reddish aerial roots, and bright sunlit yellow flower (it was the only flower to catch a beam of light in an otherwise dim room). Created/uploaded/nominated by — Rhododendrites ^talk | 14:42, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Rhododendrites ^talk | 14:42, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice light. Cmao20 (talk) 15:21, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment the flowers are quite nice, but I don't like the straggly bits on the left. 60mm lens has kept them in focus - too much DoF. Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:04, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Com:FVC --Killarnee (T•1•2) 11:07, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose it's without a doubt of high quality and somewhat nice to look at, but it lacks this wow factor of a FP to me. --MB-one (talk) 13:22, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support I like the lighting and the composition, the 'straggly bits on the left' included :-). --Cayambe (talk) 19:17, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Cayambe. --Aristeas (talk) 06:51, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support I consider the aerial roots a feature in this composition. They form a vertical bar of red on the left, which, together with another vertical bar of green on the right, nicely frames the flowers in the center. The whole lighting situation is somewhat unconventional with lots of shadows and highlights all across the main subject (the petals). It's a bit on the busy side, but over-all this creates a really nice jungle vibe. I find this very refreshing among all those mugshot-type pictures of centered single flowers on plain backgrounds we usually have here. --El Grafo (talk) 09:49, 29 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --The Cosmonaut (talk) 21:28, 29 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support per others, especially El Grafo. And the orchids are beautifully lit and photographed. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:23, 29 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Quick story: I had noticed a couple other people with cameras in the room, off to the side, acting strangely. I wondered if they were waiting for people to clear out or something. ...No, in fact just as I was taking this picture there was a wedding proposal just behind me, and the photographers jumped out and started taking pictures. Somewhere there is a lovely wedding proposal picture with me in the background, leaning awkwardly, trying to get a good shot of this orchid. :) — Rhododendrites ^talk | 22:36, 29 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Works better at full size. Daniel Case (talk) 06:11, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Cvmontuy (talk) 17:55, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Llez (talk) 05:19, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 11 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--MZaplotnik^(talk) 21:05, 4 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Plants/Asparagales#Family_:_Orchidaceae