Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cassowary head frontal

Cassowary head frontal

Original

Reason: I am nominating this picture because cassowarys melt faces.
Proposed caption: The head of an unidentified species of cassowary.
Articles this image appears in: Cassowary
Creator: IJsendoorn Note: via Flickr; uploaded to Wikipedia by Sandstein

Support as nominator Also, octopuses 01:14, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Moderate support; umm, it looks a little blurred and off-focus to me...not sure why, though. -- Altiris Helios Exeunt 01:37, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. This is nice and sharp around the eyes and beak with quite good colours, but given that one of the most distinguishing features of the cassowary is the crest (casque) on top of their head - and it's cut off in this photo - then one can but oppose. The neck is also cut off. If this had have been taken vertically instead of horizontally then it may have avoided these problems. --jjron 07:06, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Support. Beautiful composition, hi-resolution image, i think the off center framing is very attractive and well done. This animal has very striking features, and furthermore, it is very obscure; I mean, how many people have heard of or seen pictures of a cassowary? It could do well for some exposure. sea sponges 07:36, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Too many features have been chopped also I believe these photo's should be more illustrative and show the entire bird --Childzy ¤ Talk 10:12, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. To become featured an image has to be extremely encyclopedic or stunning. The cropping kills a lot of the encyclopedicity and while solid and interesting, I'm afraid the image isn't stunning in my opinion. - Mgm|^(talk) 17:11, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose While the composition is exquisite, the cut-off features mean that the image loses the vast majority of its encyclopedic value in addition to detracting from the quality of the picture in general; the image is of high quality, but not featured quality. -- Mike (Kicking222) 05:35, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Amazing image, but weak oppose, as is does not properly illustrate all the animal's features, which seems unsuitable for an article. — Jeremy 12:46, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Clear oppose. Nice but not in frame. Separa 13:24, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 08:43, 28 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]