Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Camas pocket gopher (3).JPG

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 1 Dec 2014 at 12:29:46 (UTC)

Original – Camas pocket gopher, described as ""morose and savage" and "one of the most vicious animals known for its size"

Reason: high resolution, high quality, photo taken by a regional rodent expert, exciting and representative pose
Articles in which this image appears: Camas pocket gopher, could be used in Aggression
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals
Creator: Ian Silvernail, Institute for Applied Ecology

Support as nominator – Blue Rasberry (talk) 12:29, 21 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Disclaimer: I uploaded this image. It is a dynamic photo, well composed, high resolution and highlights soe This image and the associated image of mounds built by the gopher would be useful on the Gopher page as well. Perhaps also Incisor and rodent —Gaff ^ταλκ 15:18, 21 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Poor lighting, IMO. 109.156.52.192 (talk) 14:00, 23 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Regretful oppose I like the animal and the pose, but the light and the background just kill it. --Ebertakis (talk) 22:11, 23 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Ebertakis. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:38, 23 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Very good, but too much shade in the animal's face for a Featured picture. Hafspajen (talk) 03:47, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comments There are two other shots from the same series https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Thomomys_bulbivorus up at commons. All suffer from lighting issues to some degree. As far as the complaints about the background, this is an accurate depiction of the animals natural setting: dug up disturbed grassland. —Gaff ^ταλκ 04:50, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Yes, you are right, Gaff, all suffer from lighting issues to some degree. Great pity. Hafspajen (talk) 18:40, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:29, 1 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]