Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:NZ Red Admiral Butterfly (Vanessa gonerilla).jpg

Image:NZ Red Admiral Butterfly (Vanessa gonerilla).jpg - not featured

•  Info created by Tony Wills - uploaded by Tony Wills - nominated by Tony Wills --Tony Wills 21:56, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Tony Wills 21:56, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose I would support a Quality Picture nomination, but as featured picture you need a better background and non-distracting surrounding. --startaq 00:25, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Karelj 21:47, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support -- Lycaon 21:48, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose Agree with Startaq --MichaelMaggs 07:54, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose because of the ground around --che 14:23, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

 Comment I am surprised at the comments about the background. The whole point of interest about the photo, is the contrast between the beauty of the butterfly against the harsh clay ground covered with plant debris - not just another butterfly on flower cliché. --Tony Wills 08:28, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

hence the support ;-) Lycaon 22:39, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

•  Support The butterfly is very sharp and I agree with Tony Wills that the background is part of the alure of this image. I don't know that butterflies on flowers are cliché though, because they spend so much of their lives on flowers. Still, many butterflies, like this Red Admiral, like to rest on the ground. I have an photo of an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail that has a similar type of background. I do understand opposing because of the blurred green piece of grass on the left side. -- Ram-Man 15:42, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support - Agree. Alvesgaspar 16:15, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose Yes to Quality Picture. Metoc 21:33, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose background could be better (and by this I do not mean it should be a flower) Tbc 11:36, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

 Question Is it the blurred green & brown piece of grass coming in from the left side that annoys people most, or the short green piece on the ground beyond, or the whole stem of grass growing on the left? --Tony Wills 12:03, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

For me it is the very blurred green and brown piece of grass coming in from the left side and the whole stem of grass that "touches" the butterfly on the left. Tbc 07:57, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

•  Oppose technically yes but i dont like the scenario --Bergwolf 19:22, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

 5 support, 6 oppose >> not featured - Alvesgaspar 10:33, 19 May 2007 (UTC)