Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dragonfly macro.jpg

Four-spotted Chaser

Original - The Four-spotted Chaser, Libellula quadrimaculata is a dragonfly of the family Libellulidae found throughout Europe, Asia, and North America.

Edit 1 - cropped by Fir0002

Reason: A good picture, already an FPand QI at commons.
Articles this image appears in: Four-spotted Chaser
Creator: User:Dschwen

Support as nominator Muhammad(talk) 16:51, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support nice. —αἰτίας •discussion• 19:55, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Properly identified, well composed, and certainly large enough. Definitely an encyclopedic photograph. Durova^Charge! 01:14, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support - great picture and clearly encyclopediac. DOF (out of focus wings) is as good as you're going to get unless the creature is square on - Peripitus (Talk) 02:44, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support A quality picture. crassic!^[talk] 03:29, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support original -- Great composition, good quality -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 09:54, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Unfortunate angle makes it very hard to get a sense of its body plan (covered by wing). Not as enc as it could be because of that. Mangostar (talk) 12:03, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose Original - too much dead space + the sharpness/definition is lacking (check out the eyes) and the angle/composition isn't particularly good for EV. Weak Support Edit 1 Weak because of the reasons I just stated minus the dead space issue. --Fir0002 08:41, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Yay, Fir is back. Hm, I didn't think there is that much dead space. To adress the EV concerns: there are plenty of body plan pictures of dragon flies. I even provide a top down view of this very specimen untder other versions. So instead of having yet another one, my intention was to illustrate something else, the resting position between hunting runs (plus giving a slightly different more spatial perspective as most other pics are dead on top-to-bottom or straight from the side). The dragonfly rested there, with its abdomen pulsating heavily (presumably breathing) then took off to fly around for minute or so, then coming back, and repeat. The straw it is sitting on actually shows claw-marks, I found that quite remarkable. --Dschwen 12:27, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
sure, we only have ten FP dragonflies and all of them look kind of alike. Why do not have one more? ~~oppose~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.22.123.124 (talk • contribs)
- Please sign your comments. Generally, only registered users' votes are counted, but if you would like to make a constructive contribution to the discussion, please feel welcome. It's probably worth noting that dragonflies encompass a large range of creatures that certainly do not all look alike, and opposes should typically refer to a failure to meet one of the criteria for FP. Thegreenj 18:41, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support -Great Photo. Great Scene. Good Quality. I love that the fly is sitting on a broken stem or whatever that is. Much character in this photo. Rj1020 (talk) 04:15, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Dragonfly macro.jpg MER-C 06:30, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]