Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/African buffalos

African buffalos

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 9 Oct 2010 at 11:14:12 (UTC)

Original - Portrait of two African buffalos, eating dry grass in Serengeti, Tanzania. In the peak of the dry season African buffalos survive by eating those tall coarse grasses. The left is female, the right one a male.

Reason: high EV, nice lighting, face expression, high res
Articles in which this image appears: African buffalo, Horn
FP category for this image: Mammals
Creator: Ikiwaner (talk)

Support as nominator --Ikiwaner (talk) 11:14, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunate Oppose Should really be the whole animal to have enough EV for me... From this I can see what the animal looks like from the shoulder upwards (and how cute?!) but not the whole animal... And for that reason, I'm out... gazhiley.co.uk 20:43, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In the past it has not been a requirement for FPs to show the whole animal. See File:MC_Drei-Finger-Faultier.jpg, File:Giraffe_feeding,_Tanzania.jpg, File:Zebra_portrait.jpg or File:Hereford_Calf_Portrait,_SC,_Vic,_13.10.2007_edit.jpg. --Ikiwaner (talk) 10:46, 1 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The first two were promoted for showing a behaviour (feeding), and the last one is from 2007 and could plausibly be revisited. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 13:54, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That may well be the case for those noms, and thank you for the work you have done to find that... However my opinion is my opinion - I personally would like to see the whole animal if the image is representing the whole animal... How many noms are there that are rejected for not showing full animal though? Just curious... gazhiley.co.uk 13:03, 1 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose, sorry, not seeing the EV- could you explain? This is not suitable as a "this is what they look like" picture as above, and so, unless there's a pressing need for a portrait... In any case, the forground grass is rather distracting. J Milburn (talk) 21:27, 1 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose as the back half of the animal is not shown. Nergaal (talk) 02:29, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Added image to horn and expanded the section in the article to accommodate the image. --Muhammad(talk) 05:55, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Info Correct link is Horn (anatomy). Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 13:54, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good quality and IMO good Ev as well since it shows both the sexes possessing horns --Muhammad(talk) 05:55, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I can't identify the sexes in this image, maybe someone can tell me how, since the genitals are not visible. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 13:54, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The dried grass in front of the buffalos is distracting. --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 10:58, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: Per the above. Also, the fact that the subjects are staring into the camera is a bit disconcerting; in a picture of an animal in the wild the subject should be seen going about its normal business, not warily eying the photographer.--RDBury (talk) 03:15, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: Per Redtigerxyz. --Another Believer _(Talk) 03:23, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Jujutacular ^talk 16:30, 9 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]