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File:A pigeon near Sphinxes in Saint Petersburg.jpg, not featured[edit]
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- Category: Columbidae
Info created by Chan-Fan on May 19, 2017 - uploaded by Chan-Fan - nominated by Chan-Fan
This photo was taken in Saint Petersburg on May 19, 2017 during a walk along the Universitetskaya Embankment. A pigeon is sitting near the Egyptian Sphinx, which is about 3500 years old and was brought to St. Petersburg from Luxor (Thebes). Inscriptions at the stone (see photo) were never decrypted. -- Chan-Fan 22:19, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
Support -- Chan-Fan 22:10, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
Oppose - I fixed the category: It's Columba livia, the Latin name for the rock dove; the family Columbidae is too wide a category. And I oppose because although you have a good motif, I find this picture inferior to FP pigeon portraits such as File:Pigeon portrait 4861.jpg, which is a head-and-neck shot, File:Rock Pigeon Columba livia.jpg and File:Fonte Gaia - she wolf detail.jpg, which focuses on the Lupa Senese on the Fonte Gaia as much as on the pigeon. In this photo, the Sphinx is a nice background element but not the subject; it's merely what the pigeon is sitting on. The pigeon is pretty, but the parts of him (?) we see are mostly in shadow and come out as noisy/unsharp at full size. Granted, full size is a lot bigger in your photo than in the other ones I'm comparing it to. But in general, we like our bird portraits very clear at FPC. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:59, 24 May 2017 (UTC)- Oppose per Ikan. Daniel Case (talk) 14:36, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
- Oppose per Ikan. --Cayambe (talk) 19:12, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
Confirmed results:
Result: 1 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Daphne Lantier 06:33, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
