Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Standing meerkat looking behind.jpg

File:Standing meerkat looking behind.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals/Carnivora#Family_:_Herpestidae_(Mongooses)
•  Info created by - uploaded - nominated by Basile Morin -- Basile Morin (talk) 04:56, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Basile Morin (talk) 04:56, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
•  Weak support - Not exactly the best composition but still beautiful and sharp. ― Gerifalte _Del Sabana 05:24, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
•  Support great pose --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 05:25, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 06:15, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
•  Support - Nice face. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:46, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Llez (talk) 11:04, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 12:00, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Podzemnik (talk) 14:13, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
•  Comment If you could warm up the shadows a bit and make them less blue, that would be great. (LR has a slider for this) --Cart (talk) 14:18, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

•  Done I've increased a bit the temperature. Thanks, Cart, for the suggestion -- Basile Morin (talk) 23:17, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

•  Support That's more like it. --Cart (talk) 23:37, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

•  Support Looks better after Cart's suggestion. Daniel Case (talk) 23:20, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Laitche (talk) 00:27, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 09:07, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose I would support it if it had been wildlife, lighting is also so-so Poco² 11:53, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

• So what about your snake from a zoo, or your duck from a zoo, too ? -- Basile Morin (talk) 14:50, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
• Looking at the other FPs of mongooses we already have, the majority of them were shot in captivity too (1, 2, 3, 4). This is a 24 Mpx photograph shot vertically with a tripod and the sharpness is certainly one of the best at this size. I love wildlife and several of my wildlife pictures were promoted here. But living in a place were captive animals are still very wild, sometimes I enjoy visiting parks and zoos to observe the behavior of rare species. Very similar in nature -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:58, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

• We're discussing your picture, not those FPs of mine taken 5 or 6 years ago. Those 2 of mine are kind of macro images to a distance the animals run away or (in the case of rhe snake head) where you don't want to be so close. Meerkats are not shy and are not an endangered species. Will upload soon one with great sharpness, nice evening lighting and of a wild animal. Poco² 04:06, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

• Of course you're discussing your pictures too. Now even saying you're going to upload a super shot of a wild animal with great sharpness and nice lighting. Also suggesting your snake and your duck had good reasons to be photographed in zoos, but not this meerkat ? Nonsense -- Basile Morin (talk) 04:54, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

• I didn't visit a zoo for 5 years now and will not do that again, at least not withe the purpose to search for FP-worthy material. Those shots compared to those of Charles (or yours of wildlife) are of little value IMHO. That's my point. Poco² 14:20, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

• Well, honestly I don't see where would be the difference with wildlife here, if it had been. There's nothing on this picture apart from an animal and a stone. And I don't think the depicted behavior is corrupted by the environment. So your motive looks more like a matter of principle. Kind of "I would have supported this pizza if it had been vegetarian" -- Basile Morin (talk) 15:44, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

• That's almost true (probably not for the lighting), but my point is rather the effort to take one picture and the othe4. Poco² 19:40, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

• And we should all have to "live in a shoe box in the middle of a road" to be able to take good photos... --Cart (talk) 16:33, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

•  Oppose Per Poc, and regardless of the fact that it is very sharp, the pose does not do it for me. --Tomascastelazo (talk) 04:30, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Tournasol7 (talk) 19:44, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 19:57, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 14 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--A.Savin 09:55, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

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