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Philippine Frogmouth

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 8 Jan 2011 at 22:53:07 (UTC)

Nominated edit - The Philippine Frogmouth, Batrachostomus septimus, is a nocturnal bird that is found throughout the Philippine archipelago.
Alt edit 1 - Saturation closer to photographs of the species, creator's signature and fine feathers preserved. Good separation of subject and background.
Reason
High-res, high quality scan of renowned illustrator's work, perfectly suits taxobox use in two articles. Looks like it will pass on Commons, too.
Articles in which this image appears
Philippine Frogmouth, Batrachostomus
FP category for this image
Animals/Birds
Creator
Joseph Smit
  • Support alt edit 1 only --Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 22:53, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. J Milburn (talk) 22:56, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. Original looks over saturated. Border of the original "blob" background can clearly be seen in the alt edit (should be fixable though). Kaldari (talk) 21:19, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Can we talk about the background? The ungeometrically shaped background seems to be a trademark of sorts of the artist; compare
    Chick Bowen 01:30, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply
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    • But compare with [1] - I'd be surprised if that version had been cleaned up, but here's a restoration where the background is also absent: [2]. I couldn't find a separate copy of the monkey images - archive.org has back copies of PZS, but they are very poorly indexed, often omitting the year. And mostly scanned by Google fwtiw. If we can determine that the artist really did the background in that style, I would support such a version. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 12:45, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
      • You may well be right. I've been looking, but cannot find more evidence than what you have. Some of the images of Smit's work have the blob-like backgrounds and some don't, without evident reasons for which is which.
        Chick Bowen 01:23, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply
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  • Support I based myself on this one that seems more faithful to the work of Joseph Smit ; that is to say, beautiful colors.--Citron (talk) 21:49, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per Kaldari -- mcshadypl TC 05:12, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 22:19, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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