Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Western tent caterpillars Malacosoma californicum in Joshua Tree NP new.jpg

File:Western tent caterpillars Malacosoma californicum in Joshua Tree NP.jpg, featured

Voting period ends on 13 Jul 2009 at 15:55:35

•  Info created, uploaded and nominated by Mbz1 -- Mbz1 (talk) 15:55, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Info The image was nominated here and did not get promoted. After that the quality of the image was improved.--Mbz1 (talk) 15:55, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support -- Mbz1 (talk) 15:55, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support Interesting --Muhammad (talk) 21:17, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support Intriguing theme, good quality -- H005 (talk) 21:56, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support very good photo --George Chernilevsky (talk) 08:51, 5 July 2009 (UTC) - I now move my vote to the Original version --George Chernilevsky (talk) 16:07, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose I needs new crop and the quality isn't FP-material IMHO. —kallerna™ 14:56, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose as kallerna. It is oversharpened to the point that everything glitters. Lycaon (talk) 17:05, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Question to Kallerna: What exactly do you mean by "quality isn't FP-material"? Sharpness and lighting is excellent, I think. And the crop, ok, it could be centered better, but not really an issue IMHO. -- H005 (talk) 19:59, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

And besides it is already FP material on English Wikipedia. --Mbz1 (talk) 20:06, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

•  Info Thank you for asking a question, H005. At least now I know that the image is opposed because "It is oversharpened to the point that everything glitters." Well here is the original image not post processed at all. As you could see it still "glitters". It is simply the quality of the net and not oversharpening.One more sample :File:Western tent caterpillars Malacosoma californicum in Joshua Tree NP at sunset.jpg That original not postprocessed at all image was taken at sunset. Please see the glitter.--Mbz1 (talk) 20:26, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose I agree that this has been oversharpened. The original that Mbz linked to is better. I'd support that one, :-) Maedin\^talk 22:37, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your comment, Maedin. The original image was added to the nomination.--Mbz1 (talk) 00:08, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Original

•  Support--Mbz1 (talk) 23:57, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --Muhammad (talk) 07:02, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support I like the sharpened version better, but if others prefer the original, so be it. -- H005 (talk) 10:17, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support Yep, definitely prefer this one. Maedin\^talk 13:47, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support very good --George Chernilevsky (talk) 16:04, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --Böhringer (talk) 21:43, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support my whole class has traumas from these little things from a trip we took once. --SuperJew (talk) 11:24, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support I like the colors. --Snek01 (talk) 11:46, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Result: 
Top image: 3  Support, 3  Oppose, 0  Neutral => not featured. 
Original: 7  Support, 0  Oppose, 0  Neutral => featured. ☩Damërung ☩. -- 00:48, 20 July 2009 (UTC)