Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Hoverfly September 2007-7.jpg

Hovering hoverfly

Reason

An uncommon and enc view of an hoverfly in flight, hovering above the ground. Though not technically excellent, I believe it illustrates the subject better than existing FP's, including Fir's marvellous airborne sex photo.

Articles this image appears in

Insect flight

Creator

Alvesgaspar (talk)

• Support as nominator --Alvesgaspar (talk) 13:55, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose. You're right, it certainly does illustrate insect flight better than Fir's shot (although I think we would ideally need a sharp, super slow-mo animation), but given the image quality and the fact that the subject takes up such a small proportion of the frame, I think it is probably more of a VPC than FPC. I'm not saying it isn't a wonderful shot though. I know it is, because I've tried and never managed to lock focus on one of those hoverflies in time to capture it before it flew away. :-) Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 14:16, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Reluctant oppose per Diliff. Too bad it doesn't have enough resolution to crop and remain a candidate. Good capture. Durova^Charge! 21:18, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose I have many of these which are much better, eg this. --Fir0002 22:00, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose though it difficult capturing an image like Fir's, it isn't impossible.
  Fari 00:08, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply
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  • To be fair though, it isn't really about what is possible or impossible, but rather what is realistic. Fir managed to get extremely lucky with that mating fly photo, and I do wonder how many hours he spent shooting before he got that one. Not to say that skill wasn't involved either though! Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 07:52, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • I have better flight pictures, like this one. But neither of them was taken from below. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 08:48, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 03:59, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]