Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Yellow Admiral (Vanessa itea).jpg

Image:Yellow Admiral (Vanessa itea).jpg, not featured

•  Info created by Tony Wills - uploaded by Tony Wills - nominated by Tony Wills --Tony Wills 10:58, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Tony Wills 10:58, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

 Info Beauty and the beast - This rather small butterfly is perched on the base of my little finger, so that hairy bit is the back of my left hand :-) --Tony Wills 11:16, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

•  Support;  Question which is the beauty, and which is the beast?? ;-) - MPF 14:13, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Karelj 14:29, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
•  Support--Benjamint444 03:42, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose Sorry, but I feel the hand detracts from what otherwise would be a good nature shot --MichaelMaggs 14:51, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

•  Comment I am part of nature too ;-) --Tony Wills 22:54, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

•  Oppose Distracting background, the hand/arm more hurts than helps. --Siebengang 15:27, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose Sorry, but the hand distracts too much for me. Anrie 20:11, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

 Neutral, I actually prefer the first to the second, but I still just can't bring myself to support it as a feautured picture. Sorry. Anrie 18:08, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

•  Oppose distracting hands --Leafnode 06:35, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

result: 4 support, 3 oppose, 1 neutral => not featured. Simonizer 16:00, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Alternative

•  Info Ok, new rotated and closer cropped version --Tony Wills 08:34, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Tony Wills 12:42, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
• Weak  Oppose This would easily be considered a quality image, but I don't think it is quite a FP. It doesn't look great blown up to large print size magnifications, but that's probably not a reasonable thing to do considering the subject. At normal sizes it looks pretty good, but I think the composition with the finger is a little distracting. Its a close call though. -- Ram-Man 19:21, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

• Yes it already made QI :). It's a macro shot, taken as close as possible to the butterfly, the camera lens is balanced on the other end of my little finger to minimise movement during the 1/15sec exposure. Without the hand I'd never have gotten a shot this close and this detailed (about 10x actual size when viewed on 17" screen at 100% mag.). --Tony Wills 23:20, 23 April 2007 (UTC)