Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Marian Dawkins

Marian Dawkins

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Original – Marian Dawkins is a British biologist who is professor of animal behaviour at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include vision in birds, animal signalling, behavioural synchrony, animal consciousness and animal welfare.

Alt – Headshot.

Reason: High quality image of a notable person. Good to have more featured content about women scientists.
Articles in which this image appears: Marian Dawkins +1
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering
Creator: Royal Society

Support as nominator – — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:40, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I'm a bit torn on this one. It's technically excellent as a basic portrait, but compositionally it's very average and she looks quite awkward. I really think the photographer should have gone for more of a head shot or gone a bit wider with a more characterful standing pose. I'm far from an expert portrait shooter but I'd never ask someone to stand arms by their side looking like a deer in headlights. ;-) Ðiliff «» (Talk) 01:27, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Overall I'm not too keen on most of the Royal Society portraits (same reason, basically... that and the blatant dust spots a lot have) but this one turned out okay. There's resolution to make a crop, so I'll try a standard headshot crop. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:24, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support cropped Hafspajen (talk) 15:11, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support cropped —Jobas (talk) 08:33, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Prefer alt as per my above comments about the composition of the original. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 08:49, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- (Don't think you've supported; is this a comment only, or ...?) — Chris Woodrich (talk) 05:29, 4 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - Oops, that was an implied support, but I'll make it official. Support with preference for alt. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 01:25, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support cropped Alborzagros (talk) 10:28, 4 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support cropped -- DreamSparrow ^Chat 13:52, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support with preference for original-- Arms add interest IMHO Ayesha23 (talk) 07:03, 7 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Professor Marian Dawkins CBE FRS headshot.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:51, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Only the alt has enough support for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:51, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]