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•  Info everything by Mbz1
•  Support -- Mbz1 (talk) 12:40, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
•  Support nice and rare -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 14:39, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
•  Support Very good image indeed, relatively rare & interesting. --Herby ^{talk thyme} 16:00, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
•  Support Good - Darius Baužys ^{→ talk} 16:21, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose Unsharp, odd blue background. —kallerna™ 19:31, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Odd blue background is the sky and I hope you will agree that an ant in amber cannot be as sharp as a normal ant. I mean one cannot expect to see the same level of details on 40 millions years old guy as on a live animal:)--Mbz1 (talk) 23:35, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

•  Oppose Unsharp and crop seem a bit far from the subject. /Daniel78 (talk) 21:11, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
•  Question If the blue background is the sky, how is this specimen held in the air? Flying Freddy (talk) 01:25, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

If I am to say that I took the picture of the specimen while it was flying, would you support the image then . Okay, in the image description's I added template retouched picture|focus stacked manually, which means that I first held the specimen on one side, then on the other and combined two shots in PS. I believe that the natural light that the Sun provides is the best to show the colors and transparency of an amber.--Mbz1 (talk) 01:39, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

This is probably why the picture is unsharp. You couldn't have possible held the amber at perfectly the same angle to the camera after changing sides. Focus stacking is a great idea with such an image, but the object shouldn't move between shots. How about placing the stone on a glass table and shooting it through the glass, looking into the sky? -- JovanCormac 10:15, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Ah, Jovan, please do tell me that you did not mean it, I mean you possibly could not mean to ask me an elderly and sick lady to get myself with my camera under a glass table :). Anyway Tony answered your question below "Amber is not an optically perfect medium". I would add the amber is not flat either. IMO the image is sharp enough. You could even see some details on antennas, you could see that one antenna is stucked inside an amber cloud (how I call it). You also could see every tiny bubble.--Mbz1 (talk) 12:48, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

•  Oppose Per Daniel78. -- JovanCormac 06:17, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
•  Support Diti the penguin — 06:50, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
•  Comment Nice image with great EV, but I'd like to see it photographed with the ant fully sharp and in focus. -- Petritap (talk) 11:30, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

 Comment  Support I think by the nature of amber, you could only have that if you extracted the ant first :-). Amber is not an optically perfect medium. --Tony Wills (talk) 12:02, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Tony, it seems to me that you are ready to support the image :)--Mbz1 (talk) 12:48, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Now I am ready :-). --Tony Wills (talk) 08:28, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

• I definitely am ready to  Support. Airwolf (talk) 13:53, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
•  Support Yann (talk) 17:50, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose As Daniel78. --Karel (talk) 18:44, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
•  Support Jacopo Werther (talk) 20:27, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --ComputerHotline (talk) 17:44, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose The blue may be natural but looks artificial here. It doesn't fit with the color of the amber. --Estrilda (talk) 22:06, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 10 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Daniel78 (talk) 09:25, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Objects