Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:SeaDSC01286.JPG

Image:SeaDSC01286.JPG, not featured

•  Info Banded sea urchin, Echinothrix calamaris taking at Hawaii created ,uploaded and nominated by Mbz1 --Mbz1 00:46, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Mbz1 00:46, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Comment I know this picture will get opposed like almost all my other underwater pictures,but one, did. After all it was taken while I was snorkeling in shaky ocean with no tripod and with my point and shot 2 mega pixels digital camera.I only like to ask you while opposing the image please tell me what is this ball inside sea urchin. Marin biologists, please oppose without telling what this ball is. I know that you know, please do not help other voters. Thanks.--Mbz1 00:46, 31 August 2007 (UTC)Mbz1
  • Mbz1, your sarcastic comments aren't encouraging positive votes, you know. --MichaelMaggs 06:18, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Comment - They don't encourage any type of vote either. Alvesgaspar 09:10, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Sarcastic comments? I just tried to be funny. I really meant no harm. Sorry, if the comment seemed sarcastic . I simly remember how long it took for me to learn what this ball was and how funny it was, when I found out.Please, feel free to vote, as Beyond silence did. That's OK.--Mbz1 12:57, 31 August 2007 (UTC)Mbz1

OK, I'm sorry I mistook your meaning. --MichaelMaggs 14:18, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

That's OK. Everybody here came from different culture. For example, in country, where I am from one could notopen his birthday gifts in front of the guests. It considered very rude and even kids were told to wait until guests are gone. So, when I was given my first birthday gifts here in USA, I politely put them aside and could not understand why everybody looking at me so funny. At last somebody said:"Open them." ;)--Mbz1 16:49, 31 August 2007 (UTC)Mbz1

•  Oppose Sharpness, sorry. --Beyond silence 11:34, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Comment For me it seems like a ballus blurry-alis, just to be funny, too :) --Richard Bartz 13:07, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Support I'm actually going to support this one. I don't see a sharpness problem, though it is smaller than I would have liked. I am also pretty sure what the ball thing is. Just to clarify, this is taken underwater? --Digon3 ^talk 14:16, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
  • It is an underwater picture, taken while I was snorkeling at Hawaii. As a matter of fact I should have dive down to get closser, which of course was not a good position to take a picture.--Mbz1 16:41, 31 August 2007 (UTC)Mbz1
•  Question OK, I give up. What is it? --MichaelMaggs 18:51, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Looks like the "skeleton" of another sea urchin - Alvesgaspar 20:54, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
    • It is a sea urchin's anus. First time I saw them at Madagascar. My husband told me: :"Sea urchins looked at me with their eyes and shot me with their niddles." I knew as much that sea urchins do not have eyes, but I myself was not sure what were the bright balls that did look as eyes. Then I found out what they were. I have not asked a question about this particular sea urchin, which is nominated here, but I believe it is the same part of the body that I saw at Madagascar. Now you see why it was funny for me.--Mbz1 21:45, 1 September 2007 (UTC)Mbz1
•  Oppose The edges have a real warped effect making it look like it's taken through glasses or something. Also subject is cut off --Fir0002 www 04:19, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose Jhowcs 02:12, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Please add a rationale for opposition as per guidelines, as a courtesy to the nominator. Lycaon 07:02, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

result: 2 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral => not featured. Lycaon 19:54, 10 September 2007 (UTC)