Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Sea lion on the beach in La Jolla (70367).jpg

File:Sea lion on the beach in La Jolla (70367).jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals/Carnivora#Family : Otariidae (Eared seals)
•  Info Created and uploaded by Rhododendrites - nominated by W.carter.
  Rhododendrites has brought back a marvelous series of photos of sea lions from a trip to San Diego, you may have seen some of them at QIC. This is not the usual animal photo to identify a species by counting every hair on the creature. Here the sea lion is part of a composition, leisurely rolling its beautiful curvy body in the clear waves. For me it brings to mind the iconic beach scene in From Here to Eternity only this is another kind of love; the love for nature. -- cart-Talk 22:03, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- cart-Talk 22:03, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 22:39, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose some way from FP for me. Charles (talk) 23:30, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Animal tends to get lost in all that crashing water. I did suggest a crop, but I'm not sure the resulting image would be large enough to qualify. Daniel Case (talk) 06:18, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

• Thanks for the suggestion, but that crop would eliminate the great pattern made by the waves. To me this pic is about both the sea and the animal as they interact. --cart-Talk 09:18, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, I thought of that. It's a great pattern ... the problem for me is that relative to the size of the image, the poor thing looks like a slug. Daniel Case (talk) 15:42, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

•  Oppose Joalpe (talk) 00:26, 5 December 2016 (UTC) Messy composition.
•  I withdraw my nomination Thanks all for your input, I sense the hesitation for this nom and will get back with a different one. :) cart-Talk 10:51, 5 December 2016 (UTC)