Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Marbled rock crab

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Original - Marbled rock crab (Pachygrapsus marmoratus)

Reason: Good quality and resolution. EV: show running animal in wild. It is small and very fast crab.
Articles in which this image appears: Pachygrapsus marmoratus
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Others
Creator: George Chernilevsky

Support as nominator and creator --George Chernilevsky ^talk 06:19, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support I like the crab, but the algae in the picture makes it look kind of "icky". Haljackey (talk) 15:36, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It is natural background: a rock with algae in surf zone --George Chernilevsky ^talk 17:50, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Conditional Support Please identify the algae in the caption. upstate NYer 21:36, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- why do you need the alga? Abisharan (talk) 22:48, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Suspect doing so would actually be very difficult. Noodle snacks (talk) 22:54, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - Agreed, and I'm not really seeing why it is all that necessary. J Milburn (talk) 23:19, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - Sorry, I didn't mean ID genus species, I just meant mention it: "Icky green stuff in background is in fact just regular sea algae" or something of the sort. upstate NYer 22:30, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      - I have added the information about algae in the file description --George Chernilevsky ^talk 05:33, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Not very engaging at thumbnail but good EV --Muhammad(talk)
Support but a slightly oblique angle would have probably looked better and shown a bit more. Noodle snacks (talk) 09:20, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I'll be honest, I think I prefer this one- the lighting's a little better, the focus is a tad better and the background is a little more compelling. J Milburn (talk) 15:40, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

:) This one is my work too (My first FP on Commons). Taken with old 5Mp compact camera. Happy shot, but slightly overexplosed IMO. --George Chernilevsky ^talk 17:53, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that's the only thing I thought as a possible problem- I'm not sure it detracts from the image much. I'd be happy to full support that one, I'm neutral on this one. J Milburn (talk) 22:09, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support Good quality. Slightly out of focus on the very edge of some of the appendages, but too slight to really detract. I would consider the 'icky' moss a positive thing :) Jujutacular ^T · C 04:34, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Pachygrapsus_marmoratus_2009_G4.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 08:27, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]