Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Die Wildkatze in der Wildnis.jpg

File:Die Wildkatze in der Wildnis.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals
•  Info created by Michael Gäbler - uploaded by Michael Gäbler - nominated by Michael Gäbler -- Michael Gäbler (talk) 23:27, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
•  Support -- Michael Gäbler (talk) 23:27, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
•  Support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 01:42, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose A bit too much environment to really focus right away on the animal. Daniel Case (talk) 05:32, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
•  weak support --LivioAndronico ^(talk) 11:44, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
•  Info The wildcat protects itself with two strategies: camouflage her body and defending their territory. The camouflage is done by brown color and vertical stripes on their fur and her face and by hiding behind plants and shrubs. To defend their territory, the wildcat is guarding the lowest access to their territory. In their area there is a big tree. The fur of the wildcat has the same color and the same pattern as the bark of the tree. The wildcat lives on that tree, there it is protected through the camouflage of the coat. Daniel and Livio, do you understand now why the camouflage of the wildcat must be shown by their hiding behind plants in the picture? --Michael Gäbler (talk) 13:40, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

• What's the problem Michael? I had no oppose...I leave weak beacuse it need a crop...--LivioAndronico ^(talk) 19:57, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

First, there's a lot more green than brown in the image. And as a result I can still see the cat very easily. If the point of the image is to depict how the cat's coloring helps it conceal itself, it's not communicating that very well. And second, if that's the point of the image, then you're arguing more for it as a valued image, not an FP, since depicting its ability to camouflage itself and taking a picture with a level of "wow" adequate to FP standards here seem to be mutually exclusive if this is the best way of doing the former. Daniel Case (talk) 02:07, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

•  Comment Lacks overall sharpness a bit. --Tremonist (talk) 12:17, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
•  Info I had chosen a narrow depth of focus to make the wildcat as the subject of the image visible at first glance. This is allowed in the Guidelines for nominators. See top of page under "Guidelines for nominators" and "Depth of field (DOF)": "Low depth of field can be used to bring attention to the main subject, separating it from the general environment." --Michael Gäbler (talk) 13:58, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
•  Support DoF is indeed very good IMO, at left the big leaf is a bit predominant (a crop maybe?). In the finest of our images of animals in natural habitat. -- Christian Ferrer 18:21, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Good work. --Yann (talk) 07:53, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
•  Support. I really like it actually. It's not absolutely perfect but for a photo of a shy animal in its natural environment, it's excellent. Diliff (talk) 09:59, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
•  Support per Diliff -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 10:58, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Jee 12:15, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Not easy to take. --Code (talk) 12:48, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Σπάρτακος (talk) 22:29, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Very good! -- Lothar Spurzem (talk) 19:12, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 11 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Laitche (talk) 06:44, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Mammals