Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cerastes cerastes

Cerastes cerastes

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Original – Cerastes cerastes is a venomous viper species native to the deserts of Northern Africa and parts of the Middle East. This ambush predator is easily recognised by the presence of a pair of supraocular "horns".

Reason: High quality image. Featured on Commons. Shows trademark behavior.
Articles in which this image appears: Cerastes cerastes +1
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Reptiles
Creator: H. Krisp

Support as nominator – — Chris Woodrich (talk) 06:03, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support It's a shame so much of the Viper is out of focus, but the important parts are well captured, and the EV pushes this into the realm of a support... gazhiley 08:32, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support pretty much per Gaz. Cat-five t c ---- 09:07, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Not the perfect crop, but I do like the position and context of the snake. Mattximus (talk) 13:21, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support - the eyes, the horns, the scales!! Atsme^📞📧 14:58, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Jobas (talk) 18:42, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Over-exposed and not very sharp. Charlesjsharp (talk) 10:38, 8 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - have to agree with above, basically, only the head is sharp, so the rest of the area in the photo is almost superfluous. And cutting off the tip of the tail is just too much... ;) --Janke | Talk 09:22, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – The in-focus area has lots of white spots, both on the animal's skin and on the sand (visible at 100%, but easier to see at 200%). Also, for a zoo photograph it can be better (stack focus and better lighting). Bammesk (talk) 01:11, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Hornviper Cerastes cerastes.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:47, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There is a 2/3 majority for support, which is enough for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:47, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]