Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Rose Chafer

Rose Chafer

Original - Cetonia aurata, is a reasonably large beetle, 20 mm (¾ in) long, that has metallic green coloration (but can be bronze, copper, violet, blue/black or grey) with a distinct V shaped scutellum, the small triangular area between the wing cases just below the thorax, along with several other irregular small white lines and marks.

Reason: Great close up showing nice detail to the species.
Articles this image appears in: Cetonia aurata
Creator: Chrumps

Support as nominator CPacker (talk) 21:43, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support Some minor DOF problems with the rear half of the animal, but the detail and color otherwise are great. SingCal 02:47, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support I agree, for a large beetle there should be more DoF but then again, for f3.5 this is remarkable. Small chips have their advantages... great composition and angle from which minor artefacts and slight highlight clipping don't detract. --mikaul^talk 10:34, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Excellent color and detail. Only problem is the rather shallow depth of field that blurs part of the back of the beetle. scetoaux ^{(talk) (My contributions.)} 00:08, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support A good macro. crassic!^[talk] 05:26, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Narayanese (talk) 11:43, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support. No significant problems, adds value, meets criteria, nice photo. --jjron (talk) 14:07, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Cetonia-aurata.jpg MER-C 06:58, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]