Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Anthidium September 2007-2.jpg

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I hereby award you, my highly respected Alvesgaspar this Photographer's Barnstar for too many outstanding macro pictures and the first one where I doesnt find any fault on it. If you get one you always should spend one. Now its Alvesgaspar time! Yours, --Richard Bartz 23:59, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

•  Info A handsome solitary bee of the Megachilidae family (Anthidium florentinum). Flies all summer and nests in holes in the ground, trees or walls. When looked from close it has a fierce looking with its dense hair and strong jaws, like this male (please see also "other versions"). Created and nominated by Alvesgaspar--Alvesgaspar 19:34, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Alvesgaspar 19:34, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Delightful colours! Sharp enough for FP. Lycaon 19:50, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Great picture, congrats --Richard Bartz 20:02, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support -- MJJR 20:05, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Impresionant, boy. --Archivaldo 20:08, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --MichaelMaggs 20:20, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support technically ok, but why choosing such strange crop-format? Fabelfroh 20:52, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

This is the new hot aspect ratio :) --Richard Bartz 21:07, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

•  Support Strong and colorful --LucaG 21:39, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose Seems oversharpened, out of focus wings (YABP). Dori | Talk 21:56, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
  • That's not a very friendly remark, I'd like to see you do better :-(( Lycaon 22:09, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
  • OK, maybe that was over the top, I appologize to Alvesgaspar. Dori | Talk 02:48, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Comment - Thank you for the barnstar, Richard. It feels good to see our pictures appreciated specially when the compliment comes from our very best macro photographer. And now I really have to concentrate on my work, before I am fired ;-) Alvesgaspar 09:12, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support The first one that convinces me --Simonizer 16:26, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose Sharpness, detail, flash. More to FP. --Beyond silence 18:39, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Böhringer 11:15, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Fantastic pic, good job :) --Ben^hello! 11:31, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Beautiful colors ! Benh 11:53, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support--Mbz1 18:48, 15 September 2007 (UTC)Mbz1

result: 13 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral => featured. Simonizer 12:01, 23 September 2007 (UTC)