Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Rutile in quarz

Original - Rutile is a mineral in high-temperature and high-pressure metamorphic rocks and in igneous rocks. In groups of acicular crystals it is frequently seen penetrating quartz as in the "fléches d'amour" from Grisons, Switzerland.

Support as nominator --Mbz1 (talk) 23:30, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I like it. Would you clone stamp out the specks at lower right? Durova^Charge! 00:33, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Done! Thank you.--Mbz1 (talk) 00:57, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Durova^Charge! 23:59, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I would have liked to see a more uniformly lit image. The left third is simply too dark to distinguish any detail, and the left side of the stone is too blurry. A black background is not ideal for this type of image, IMO. -- mcshadypl ^T ^C 18:50, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per mcshadypl. Makeemlighter (talk) 04:32, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Jake Wartenberg 14:17, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 02:48, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]