Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Trimethis aurora

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Original – Female Crimson Marsh Glider (Trithemis aurora) at Thirparappu waterfalls, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India.
Reason
All features of the dragonfly have been brought out well. Artistic image. Good lighting and color balance.
Articles in which this image appears
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_Marsh_Glider
FP category for this image
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Animals/Insects
Creator
Kallidaimaniac
Comment I'm also pretty sure this isn't a bird. -- Mason Doering talk 20:17, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Oops, sorry about that. Corrected the category. Kallidaimaniac
  • Oppose Although I can appreciated the difficulty of capturing an image of a dragonfly with a camera, since they're nearly impossible even to catch with a insect net, lol. It's just not sharp enough to warrant FP status IMO. It's also being used essentially in a gallery, which is against criteria. The article is over-illustrated for a stub, so adding this image isn't adding any value to the encyclopedia. An article that size would do fine with 2 images, one for male and one for female, and since the wings are not in focus, a VERY key diagnostic for ID in Odonata, then this is a worse EV than File:Trithemis_aurora_by_kadavoor.JPG which the wings are more in focus. — raekyt 11:14, 24 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Adam Cuerden (talk) 10:52, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]