Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Black bear in yellowstone 3.jpg

Info created, uploaded and nominated by Mbz1 -- Mbz1 (talk) 18:38, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Info There were two bears in a meadow. I asked them many times to look at me and to smile for Wikipedia. They did not. Eventually a ranger came and "smiled" at me. He said that I endanger not only my life, but his life too by approaching the bears so close. It was silly. Who is going to be afraid to meet a bear in a forest after meeting reviewers of FP candidates at Commons? Besides one should get very, very unlucky to get attacked by a black bear, but I had no choice, but to leave without taking an image of a smiling bear. I know the composition of the image is not very good, but IMO it is interesting to show that a black bear is not always black. Besides I had strong mitigating circumstances (two bears and a ranger) :-)
Support -- Mbz1 (talk) 18:38, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice shot. I admire your courage, I came within about twenty feet of a Black bear in the Great Smokey Mountains National park a few years ago and I didn't hang around to take it's picture.--Paloma Walker (talk) 04:02, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I'm sure you expected opposes, Mila. The focus is on the bear's rear end, leaving the head out of focus. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 08:17, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Don't you find that the rear end of the bear is so wet and so cute?--Mbz1 (talk) 14:15, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

result: withdrawn => not featured. Simonizer (talk) 22:31, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Info May I please ask you to notice the focal length of the lens for taking this image (19 mm). The idea was not to show the bear close up (it could be shown in a Zoo image too), but rather the bear in his natural habitat.--17:03, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Support--Mbz1 (talk) 14:15, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

result: withdrawn => not featured. Simonizer (talk) 22:31, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]