Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Letharia vulpina

Letharia vulpina

Original - The lichen Letharia vulpina photographed on Pseudotsuga macrocarpa at Mt. Gleason, San Gabriel Mountains, California, USA.

Reason: High quality, with fantastic contrast and colours. Looks great at high resolution, and is highly encyclopedic as a great illustration of a specific species.
Articles this image appears in: Letharia vulpina
Creator: Jason Hollinger

Support as nominator --J Milburn (talk) 17:17, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose The big blurry object in the lower middle is quite distracting. Spencer^T♦^C 21:10, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- What do you mean? The trunk? The branch? J Milburn (talk) 21:55, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Right below the lichen in the center. There's some blurry object that's quite destracting. Spencer^T♦^C 01:44, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - The gap between the branch and the tree? Or the inside of the trunk below the branch? Sorry if I'm being dense, but I really can't see what you are talking about. J Milburn (talk) 10:00, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      - I see what he is referring to - its the background between the branch and the tree but the halation around the out of focus area per my comments below is making that area look like a blurry object in front of the tree rather than just an oof area behind. Mfield (talk) 16:01, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        Right, I can kind of see what you are getting at. Oddly, that doesn't bother me at all. J Milburn (talk) 17:49, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        Oh, that's the background? Still a weak oppose per Mfield's comments. Spencer^T♦^C 22:12, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose suffering from some pretty unpleasant halation and chromatic abberation, especially on the branch and the bits of the fungus/lichen itself that are on the edge of the DoF. Either way it is distracting. At F8 on a Casio EX-Z1080 I am not sure whether it is purely the lens or if it is compounded by diffraction on a sensor that small. It is obviously not well suited to plant photography at this distance/magnification though. Mfield (talk) 22:25, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose - No idea what is going on with that blurry object bottom-center. The 2nd lichen is very aesthetically distracting, as well. — neuro^(talk) 01:57, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- As was noted above, the "blurry object" is part of the background! The branch-trunk forms an arch that you can see through. Fletcher (talk) 03:08, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Mfield. Fletcher (talk) 03:08, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Conditional support A crop will take care of both objections. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 14:22, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 07:38, 24 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]