Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Rose chafers (Cetonia aurata) on thistle (Carduus sp.).jpg

File:Rose chafers (Cetonia aurata) on thistle (Carduus sp.).jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Arthropods#Family : Scarabaeidae (Scarab Beetles)
•  Info This is intended to be a busy composition! One of the chafers is finding nourishment from what looks like a dead flower head. Focus-stacked from 16 images. We have one FP of a single beetle. All by Charlesjsharp -- Charles (talk) 08:49, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- Charles (talk) 08:49, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Overall very good despite some small unsharp areas. Cmao20 (talk) 15:53, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Cayambe (talk) 20:47, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Weak support Interesting. The left part is more successful than the right one. Did you try to crop it, cutting the stem out, to grant more importance to the 2 beautiful specimens in focus? The composition also appears less cluttered in my view. More of the flower at the left could work also -- Basile Morin (talk) 00:31, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

• Nothing more on left, I cropped the right for balance. Charles (talk) 09:25, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 03:42, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 06:54, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose The composition is good but despite the stacking unfortunately not a good sharpness result. Too bad.--Ermell (talk) 20:32, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
•  Comment I have the impression that the whole picture is too blue including the beetles, compare with this --Llez (talk) 11:50, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

•  Done Yes, I think you are right, though the one you reference is oversaturated. Llez. New version uploaded. Charles (talk) 12:14, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

•  Oppose per Ermell. --Ivar (talk) 15:11, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Very hard to focus stack something like this. On a pixel level, the photo is not perfect but IMO still without problems above the FP bar. --Podzemnik (talk) 10:27, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
•  Neutral Per Ermell --Boothsift 07:23, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 14:36, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
•  Support.--Vulphere 09:34, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Ermell. --Hockei (talk) 06:41, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 9 support, 3 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /--Cart (talk) 10:00, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Arthropods#Family : Scarabaeidae (Scarab Beetles)