Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Piquero patiazul (Sula nebouxii), isla Lobos, islas Galápagos, Ecuador, 2015-07-25, DD 35.JPG

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
•  Info Couple of Blue-footed boobies (Sula nebouxii) during a mating ritual, Lobos Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. The blue-footed booby is a long-winged seabird with a wingspan of up to 1.5 m (4.9 ft). The species is 90 cm (35 in) high and is easily recognizable by its distinctive bright blue feet, which is a sexually selected trait, as the males display their feet in an elaborate mating ritual by lifting their feet up and down while strutting before the female. Although the blue-footed boobies are usually associated to the Galápagos Islands (where half of all breedinmg pairs nest), they can be found from the Gulf of California down along the western coasts of Central and South America down to Peru. All by me, Poco² 21:34, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Poco² 21:34, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Very nice! --Johann Jaritz (talk) 03:52, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Tomascastelazo (talk) 03:57, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Hubertl 07:14, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - I don't love that part of this photo, including part of the birds' tail feathers, is blurred, but most of the birds' bodies are clear, the photo looks very good at full-page size, and it's a sweet picture. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:47, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Very nice. Nevertheless, I would crop a thin line on the left side. It's just a feeling when I view the picture. --Hockei (talk) 07:54, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
•  Neutral I'd like this more if the rocks weren't right between the birds, but that's not enough to oppose. INeverCry 08:52, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Charming couple. 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 09:56, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Medium⁶₉ ^{You wanted talk to me?} 11:32, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Alchemist-hp (talk) 13:27, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose the lack of contrast bothers me a lot, looking the histogram it's easy to see the lack of blacks and whites, speaking about whites, the white balance seem to be a little bit wrong, I was expecting something like:

The rock made this photo a little bit confusing also. -- RTA 16:15, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi RTA, thanks for your feedback and uploaded Version. There is always room for improvement, and I've darkened the shadows a bit, and have retouched the WB slightly, that helped IMHO. The version that you presented goes though further than what I would dare, especially regarding contrast. I hope still that you like the new version, which is somewhere inbetween. Poco² 18:08, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

:), I was not there, I can better judge than me. -- RTA 18:37, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

•  Oppose The background (rock, twigs and shrub) gives this the feel of an average and hastily taken travel snap.--Fotoriety (talk) 21:56, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

  Of course, and you find scenes like this everyday anywhere. Poco² 22:56, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

•  Support Nice. -- Pierre André (talk) 22:48, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per RTA. The similar tones of the beaks and the rocks behind don't make it easy on first glance to distinguish the birds from their background, and the earth tones of the birds and the sand behind them don't help this either—on first glance, I got confused as to which end of the bird was which for a second or two. Daniel Case (talk) 23:35, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 10 support, 2 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky ^talk 15:11, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

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

The chosen alternative is: File:Piquero patiazul (Sula nebouxii), isla Lobos, islas Galápagos, Ecuador, 2015-07-25, DD 35.JPG