Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dactylorhiza

Dactylorhiza

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 16 Nov 2014 at 06:00:39 (UTC)

Original – Common spotted orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii), found near Mariazell, Styria (Austria)

Reason: We don't get enough plants.
Articles in which this image appears: Dactylorhiza, Dactylorhiza fuchsii
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Plants/Flowers
Creator: Uoaei1

Support as nominator – — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:00, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Very useful, good image. Yakikaki (talk) 11:06, 8 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment it's lovely, but could the focus be improved? Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 03:01, 12 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Do you mean DOF? If the individual had focus stacked, perhaps, but that would require reshooting. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:44, 12 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - That, and trying to decide if I should expect a better focus plane. I'm leaning support, but I don't work with modern photography much, so I need to ask questions, and it's a slightly odd part of the flower that's sharpest (looks to be a flower about two-thirds to three quarters down the inflorescence, on the right), although much of the parts I'd expect to be sharpest (top and front flowers are pretty sharp. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 06:25, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support – DYK that Orchids are the symbol of beauty, love, luxury and strength; the ancient Greeks believed that if a pregnant woman ate orchid tubers, the baby would be a girl or it would be a boy if the father ate orchid tubers? The gift of an orchid delivers a message of pure affection ... and that is a lovely photo ... SagaciousPhil - Chat 10:08, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support: Agree, orchids are lovely and this is a fine image of a native Austrian flower. Fylbecatulous talk 15:21, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support per above. Hafspajen (talk) 15:32, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Even though the top of the flower is out of focus, the image overall still delivers. i.e.Beautiful flower, accentuated by the dark nebulous background. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 04:26, 14 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Dactylorhiza fuchsii Mariazell 01.JPG --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 06:01, 16 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]