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•  Info created by Andrew C - uploaded by Natuur12/ cropped and reuploaded by [[Basvb- nominated by Basvb -- Basvb (talk) 21:46, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Support - The image gives me a wow-feeling, the two very static cranebirds, simply ignoring each other and watching in the distance, also not bothered by the busy background (enhanced by the vagueness of this background to the viewer). They really portray that they don't give a damn around what happens around them, and are just happily standing on their single legs. - Basvb (talk) 21:46, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Support--Bojars (talk) 07:30, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose JPG artefacts everywhere. Natuur12, can you save at a higher quality setting please (e.g. 90). Also, if you have any room to expand the crop vertically, that would help. It would be good if you could also update the version with Basvb's left-right crop as it is always best to save from the source image, than to re-crop a JPG (unless using lossless-crop tools). -- Colin (talk) 11:21, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

  Colin, the source image is from Flickr (Natuur is not the photographer), when I look at the source file on flickr it seems that he has downloaded the highest resolution. Has information been lost in this process? If I compare the image to the original one on Flickr I can't see any loss in quality. The file has been cropped using logless setting in CropTool. Mvg, Basvb (talk) 11:38, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

  Ok, I've sent him a mail on Flickr. -- Colin (talk) 12:20, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

  I wasn't very observant this morning as I see now you used CropTool. Andrew C has uploaded a new version to Flickr and I've uploaded it to Commons, and a lossless crop too. -- Colin (talk) 16:39, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

•  Support I like the colours and the pose of the birds. The background naturally has other birds in the flock and have just the right amount of blur. -- Colin (talk) 16:39, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose Not that well defined and not a QI yet. Background distracting and image may not be vertically aligned. --Charles (talk) 15:37, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
  • Charles, you may be right about a slight vertical tilt, but the vertical crop is too tight to fix this (unless one wants to start using Photoshop to replace missing mud/sky). -- Colin (talk) 16:39, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Jee 07:05, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Tremonist (talk) 13:38, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
•  Support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 10:42, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 6 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Yann (talk) 08:24, 6 April 2015 (UTC)