Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Green carabidae-1.jpg

Image:Green carabidae-1.jpg

1st version (left), featured

Info Green beetle of the Oedemeridae family (Oedemera lurida) on a wild spike (thanks, Lycaon). Created and nominated by Alvesgaspar - Alvesgaspar 15:13, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Alvesgaspar 15:13, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Makro Freak 00:15, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support You'ld have to change the file name afterwards, though: it is an Oedemera lurida, fam. Oedemeridae, a common palaearctic species. -- Lycaon 05:40, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jina Lee 05:42, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Poor framing, unsharp, bad lighting. Sorry! --Fir0002 www 05:54, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Semi-Ack Fir, the size and quality of the main subject (it is the beetle per the caption, right?) is unsatisfactory for a featured picture. Composition is average (too much dead space on the bottom for my liking), but the soft lighting is actually a pro point, no blown-out highlights and harsh shadows. --Dschwen 12:52, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral Ack Dschwen, a crop would improve it. --Digon3 12:58, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support This is one of those cases that I would oppose this if it was a QI becaue the head of the beetle is unsharp. However, I disagree with Fir on this because of what I believe to be the "wow factor": The lighting is great, the contrast between the light and dark browns and the green is classical (except for the "distracting" top right light brown diagonal bar), and I think the framing is a strong feature because it emphasises the small size of the bug relative to the plant and the surroundings. (NOTE: There are FPs of similarly unsharp subjects that have more prominance than this one: this image for example)-- Ram-Man 13:06, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Luc Viatour 06:12, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Bergwolf 10:15, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support // tsca [re] 15:01, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support pfctdayelise (说什么?) 07:11, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

result: 9 support, 2 oppose, 1 neutral => featured Simonizer 06:31, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

2nd version (right), not featured

Info Green beetle of the Oedemeridae family (Oedemera lurida) on a wild Yellow chamomile - Alvesgaspar 13:45, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Alvesgaspar 13:45, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support It's not the same picture, so it could be a different nomination. I support both, although version 1 is better. -- Ram-Man 13:49, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Until the flower is identified (after that support of course!). It features more prominently than the Oedemera. Lycaon 14:00, 24 May 2007 (UTC) flower IDed Lycaon 05:38, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Info - To Ram-Man: I don't want to flood the FPC archive with various pictures of the same species, that's why I did it this way. To Lycaon: I think it is a Calendula arvensis, but it is hard to be sure, there are several species alike (And I'm not a botanist) - Alvesgaspar 15:05, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I'm not a botanist neither, but could it be Anthemis tinctoria? I can't se the leaves. Lycaon 15:32, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Right on target! The leaves I collected are exactely those of Yellow Chamomile (as well as the relative size and number of petals). Here it is a photo of the leaves. I'm changing the info, thanks a lot- Alvesgaspar 16:15, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It reminds me of this Senecio aureus, but the petals are shorter. It does have the same number of petals though. -- Ram-Man 15:50, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It's not Calendula arvensis, nor Senecio aureus and most likely not Anthemis tinctoria (and it's not in my book on mediterranean flora :-(). The jury is still out on this one... Can you provide us with a picture of the leaves? Lycaon 15:55, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support Jon Harald Søby 20:42, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support should be a separate nomination though. Lycaon 05:38, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Bergwolf 10:16, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Makro Freak 15:54, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I see no VALUE in the image. We have way too many similar images.--Mbz1 05:02, 3 June 2007(UTC)
Sorry, the voting period is over - Alvesgaspar 10:06, 3 June 2007 (UTC) [reply]

result: 6 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral => not featured. (other version has more support votes) Simonizer 21:37, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]