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  •  InfoA great white shark at Isla Guadalupe, Mexico. Please note, we did not try to catch a shark. We did try to bring sharks closer to the cages. No shark was hurt. The picture is a digital copy of my old film picture.
  •  Info created, uploaded and nominated by Mbz1 --Mbz1 04:11, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Mbz1 04:11, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I know that one will be very hard for you to support. After all it is a digigat copy of my old film picture. I know that community will rather support a sharp and common flower, than that rare image. Still I'd like to remind everybody one criteria of Guidelines for nominators, which states: "A bad picture of a very difficult subject is a better picture than a good picture of an ordinary subject. A good picture of a difficult subject is an extraordinary photograph." The nominated picture is not a bad picture, yet it is a digital copy of an old film picture. --Mbz1 04:11, 4 August 2007 (UTC)Mbz1[reply]
  •  Oppose Ok, it's a hard and extraordinary photo. But it worse that hard - not FP.--Beyond silence 04:36, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • No surprise here. Oh well,I guess you're right. It is not fp picture. Anyway it would have been out of place between sharp flowers and bugs, but I still believe that this image is much more encyclopedic, has much more value(which in my opinion is the most important thing) than many FP pictures both on Wikipedia and Commons do.--Mbz1 04:46, 4 August 2007 (UTC)Mbz1[reply]
  •  Comment I'd like to explain what I meant under digital copy. That image is a digital picture of my old film picture, in other words it is a picture of a picture (I have no scanner)--Mbz1 12:37, 4 August 2007 (UTC)Mbz1[reply]
  •  Question Can you try to make a new scan of the neg, with a new lab or with the same but asking them to make no correction on it, in particular the contrast ? Because I'm sure that with a good lab, the photograph will be much, much better, the problem coming from the digitalization. Sting 13:35, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Remember it is not a scan at all. It is a picture of a picture. I'm not sure where to look for the lab that does neg scans and besides I'm too laizy to bother, but maybe I will for that picture. Thanks--Mbz1 16:25, 4 August 2007 (UTC)Mbz1[reply]
  •  Oppose both. Low quality image, and doesn't strike me as being very good compositionally either. It looks to me a pretty standard shot [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] from one of these diving trips. Would have liked to see one with a bit more action [7] [8] or at least minus the obviously unnatural rope line [9] --Fir0002 www 01:30, 5 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • #3 is not bad, only too small. #7 and 8 are great.I like #9 too. I wonder, if the guy will agree to upload it to Wikipedia with a free licence and without a water mark. #1,2,4,5 and 6 also nice images, but in my opinion my image is much more interesing. Anyway you did your homework. Thanks and have a nice day.--Mbz1 02:10, 5 August 2007 (UTC)Mbz1[reply]
  •  not because it is not passing. I knew from the beginning it will not pass, not even because it gets opposed(you know I do like opposes almost as much as I like supports), but rather because the way it gets opposed especially by fir0002. Of course user made some progress and instead of commenting on my spelling, like he's done on other occasion, he tries to comment on the image. Well for some reason, his comments do not feel right. I would not mind any comments from one, who was in cage with sharks. I would not mind valid comments from everybody else.I do mind sarcastic and unfair comments from the one, whos very best wild life image is a supper quality and a supper no value (in my opinion) image of a head of giraffe taken in a nearby zoo.What was also rather surprising that all very nice samples, which fir0002 shared with us were taken not from Wikipedia. It is really strange to me because just few days ago fir0002 wrote to me: "Wikipedia doesn't want people to get the info from another site, it wants to give the people the information." Thanks to all, who wanted to oppose the image, but never did.
result: Nomination withdrawn  => not featured. Simonizer 09:42, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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 Info I think it's a very interesting picture.I propose an edit; I reduced it,I smoothed the sea and I sharpened the shark (some parts more than others).It isn't really sharp yet, but it's absolutely shark! Vassil 14:02, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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