Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:BlueWhaleWithCalf.jpg

Image:BlueWhaleWithCalf.jpg -> not featured

Blue Whale with Calf, Ólafsvík, Iceland

• Nominate Andreas Tille 06:58, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose - probably a great experience seeing those two, but the photo is not at all impressive--Lc95 11:01, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

besides the great experience - it is just what Blue Whales normally do: It is quite seldom that they show their imporessive fluke like for instance as Humpback Whales. Thus the image is not kind of beautiful but realistic - yes the ocean was this blue. The shot is very close up, you can see the calf breathing - the only problem is that there is no sign of size comparison. Andreas Tille 14:54, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Support. James F. (talk) 13:33, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose I think this photo is documenting the experience of spotting whales very well, so it might do fine in, say, an article on eco-tourism. A photo documenting whales should show the shape, size, behavior, etc of the animal, and this photo fails to do so. Besides the subject partly falls outside of the frame, so it's not technically brilliant either. I like the photo, but it's not of featured quality. Sorry / Mats Halldin 08:49, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose -- Ravn 09:14, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Support. villy 17:09, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose --norro 18:40, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)