Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Male Bufflehead taking off.jpg
- Reason
- Highly encyclopedic shot of a waterbird during takeoff, showing him literally running on top of the water.
- Articles this image appears in
- Bufflehead, Bird flight
- Creator
- User:Kevinlcole
- Support as nominator howcheng {chat} 22:48, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
- Weak Oppose Picture looks kind of strange at full res. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 22:54, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
- Weak Oppose It's kind of blurry when fully zoomed in. Ilikefood (talk) 22:57, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
- It could be downsampled a bit. Muhammad(talk) 13:15, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
- Oppose unsharp - inexplicably so for 1/2000s - and inadequate DOF. Mfield (talk) 16:43, 17 April 2008 (UTC) Downsampling is not going to fix any of the issues this image has. Mfield (talk) 19:52, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
- Oppose Too much noise and motion blur. And I'm not sure if it accurately displays the subject. crassic![talk] 23:46, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
- What do you mean the second part of your remark? howcheng {chat} 18:39, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
- Weak Oppose. Grainy at full res. Spinach Dip 08:25, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
- NOTE Image has been downsampled and sharpened. Hopefully this alleviates some of the concerns raised above. Please clear your cache to view again. howcheng {chat} 18:39, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
- Oppose Still somewhat grainy. and the left wing seems blurry. SpencerT♦C 19:04, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Not promoted . --John254 01:25, 23 April 2008 (UTC)