Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Yellow striped hunter mating.jpg

Original - A pair of Yellow Striped Hunters, Austrogomphus guerini, mating. Male is grasping the female's head

Reason: A high quality image of an important part of the dragonfly's life cycle which also shows the similarity between the genders.
Articles this image appears in: Dragonfly, Gomphidae, Austrogomphus
Creator: Fir0002

Support as nominator --Fir0002 21:43, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - G'day, nice to see you still around! I can't really make my mind up on this pic - obviously an amazing, rare shot. But it's a bit confusing what's going on (took me a while to figure out which was which :p), and the narrow DOF is slightly distracting. This would be a fantastic image if we had Dragonfly reproduction - but we don't seem to have much more detailed than Sexual reproduction#Insects. Stevage 03:35, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support: Great quality picture, displays it's purpose (albeit somewhat confusing to tell which one is male/female) and is focused on the subject at hand. – Jerry^teps 10:14, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Pretty much per the above, it's a little but confusing but overall it's a great shot and there would be no real way to effectively mitigate that confusion that I can think of. Cat-five - talk 18:08, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Since everyone seems a little confused about the picture, perhaps a more detailed caption would be helpful. Remember (talk) 14:38, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

According to this the male is the one higher up in the image --Fir0002 10:09, 26 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - Not among the best of Fir's works, I would expect a slightly larger dof, to cover the head of the male. Also, the unfocused wings are a bit distracting. Finally (this is an old issue), why is the picture so small? But I like the composition and don't find it confusing. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 20:36, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Can't really see how Alvesgaspar expects the wings to be in focus. The male's head is somewhat in focus (although the eye is not), but I dont think that detracts hugely. I agree Fir's images could be larger, and deliberately uploading downscaled images is not exactly in the spirit of GFDL or the encyclopedia. —Pengo 09:08, 30 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't expect the wings to be in focus, I just say they are a bit distracting. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 14:38, 30 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Yellow striped hunter mating.jpg MER-C 05:44, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]