Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Pine siskin

Pine siskin

Original - Carduelis pinus is a finch found across Alaska, Canada, and the western mountains of the United States.

Reason: well...where could I start? Ticks all the boxes for me.
Articles in which this image appears: Pine siskin
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator: Cephas

Support as nominator: —Maedin\^talk 07:14, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Nice photo with EV --George Chernilevsky ^talk 08:31, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support, wonderful shot. J Milburn (talk) 12:37, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support There is something nevertheless that I find unfortunate. The patterns of the leaves of the background look similar to those of some parts of the feathers. Is it allowed to add more blur to the background to break that down? Abisharan (talk) 13:13, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's "allowed"; after all, we've featured an image of a pomegranate with a washing basket (amongst other things) removed from the bg (here). Frankly, I don't think any alteration to the pine siskin image is necessary in the slightest, and I think the pine branches are informative, not confusing or distracting. But you're welcome to produce an edit if you wish. Maedin\^talk 11:26, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Sharp, detailed, and encyclopedic. NauticaShad es 16:49, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I think this picture could benefit from a little cropping. Its right-hand one third contains nothing but blurry background, and this makes the picture rather 'unbalanced'. --Desiderius82 (talk) 20:47, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, no, no, :) It's not "nothing but blurry background", it's compositional space! Free birds don't like cages; it doesn't suit them in 2-D, either. I see this as perfectly balanced because the bird has looking room on the right. Having said that, anyone is welcome to produce alternatives and add them here for consideration. Maedin\^talk 11:26, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I think ~10% of the image could be cropped to the right (I'm too busy to do it myself right now), but I wouldn't mind the original either.--Desiderius82 (talk) 15:05, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I also disagree with cropping, for what it's worth. The current composition looks great to me. J Milburn (talk) 15:10, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support --Alchemist-hp (talk) 20:59, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hive001 contact 08:09, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Carduelis pinus CT7.jpg --Jujutacular ^T · C 08:26, 20 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]