Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Octopus cyaneain Kona.jpg

File:Octopus cyaneain Kona.jpg, not featured edit

Voting period ends on 12 Oct 2009 at 02:07:06 (UTC)
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Info everything by Mbz1
Info Now bear with me on this one please. Imagine a very shallow reef few hundreds feet from shore. It was so shallow that I cut my hand, and the cut was bleeding. There was a mean looking barracuda File:Sphyraena barracuda and caustic in Kona.jpg close by (not a good combination with blood in the shallow water, and shiny camera in my hand). I was getting back to shore, and then I saw an octopus. Of course I could not have missed on him. It was only second time I saw an octopus in a wild. Octopus did not want his pictures taken. He got under corals, and even after I explained to him that I am going to upload his images to Commons, he refused to get out . So now you know the story. Oppose, if you have to, but please be gentle - he was a very difficult subject.
Support -- Mbz1 (talk) 02:07, 3 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The subject is not easily identified in the photo. If it wouldn't have an explanation about the photo, I wouldn't get message it conveys. I am also concerned about technical quality, such as sharpness. The subject seems to be out of focus. --Tiago Fioreze (talk) 11:25, 3 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Of course "the subject is not easily identified in the photo". It also calls w:Camouflage, and because it is so hard to see the image should be even more appreciated :)--Mbz1 (talk) 13:49, 3 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Notning special.Good standard quality. Why for FP? --Karel (talk) 19:01, 4 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Not FP-material. I understand that the picture is special for its creator, so congratulations on the photo, Mbz1! And the story was good, too. -- Petritap (talk) 11:06, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well, IMO it is FP material. It is special to see an octopus in a wild, and not only for me as for the image creator. FP does not have nearly enough underwater images taken in a wild. I am glad you liked the story :)--Mbz1 (talk) 13:17, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support An octopus taken in "the wild", that is featurable to me. --Herby ^{talk thyme} 16:05, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 2 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Yann (talk) 10:07, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]