Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Eastern Water Dragon

Eastern Water Dragon in Sydney, Australia

Original - An image of the resident of my backyard in Sydney Australia, taken on boxing day 2007 - this Eastern Water Dragon has taken up permanent residence here.

Another backyard resident of mine (lucky me, truly), in a drain pipe: Blue Tongue Lizard

Reason

A few examples of how creatures going back some 20 million years adapt to human environment.

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Water_dragon

Creator: Esa

oppose - nice pic good focus on the head, but the background is too distracting and the animal is only partially shown. Also this may not be its typical habitat. de Bivort 07:07, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per above. No "wow", messy bg. --Janke | Talk 09:14, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weack Oppose per Janke. But just weak oppose, because I think the parts in which the picture are sharp are very well done. —αἰτίας •discussion• (Happy new year!) 00:02, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Thanks for all the happy snaps, but FPC is not a personal photo sharing site. You can nominate an "alternative" image to give voters the choice, but clearly that is not what's being done here; this is just a collection of basically unrelated photos. I have reduced the size of the extras so they don't chunk up the FPC page so much, but I recommend they be removed. --jjron (talk) 11:43, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Please upload the images at Wikimedia Commons (see your talk page).--Svetovid (talk) 16:07, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 14:02, 1 January 2008 (UTC) (Note: this nom had been removed from the FPC page by the original nominator without any formal closing, withdrawal, etc (see here) - I found it and have now closed it). [reply]