Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Colony of aptenodytes patagonicus.jpg

Colony of King Penguins

A Commons Featured Picture of approximately 60,000 breeding pairs of

• Nominate and support.
  chat} 23:07, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply
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• Weak support. Very impressive upon first glance, but the more I look at it I see little quality issues such as blurriness and blown whites that prevent it from gaining my full support. --Pharaoh Hound (talk) 23:21, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose This picture doesn't look like penguins and its pretty boring. --Midnight Rider 01:34, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well, if the goal is to show what a penguin of this species looks like, then you're correct in that this image fails to do so. But this image shows what a huge colony of penguins looks like and you wouldn't be able to accomplish that with one or two penguins filling up most of the frame.
    chat} 06:24, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply
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• Support Awww, penguins! (Nice pic.) --Billpg 03:18, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose Poor image quality at full res. I think a pic with snow in it would be more iconic. --Fir0002 11:01, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Iconic? King Penguins are found in temperate islands including the Falklands and Tierra del Fuego. True, the stereo-typical image of penguins is that with snow, but that doesn't decrease the encyclopedicness in any way. Is that part of your oppose based on that it's somehow less visually apealing without snow? --Pharaoh Hound (talk) 12:10, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak Support and agree with Pharaoh Hound that different penguins are found in different climates and therefore don't NEED to be featured on snow. Then again, I disagree that a photo needs to be iconic to be featured anyway. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 15:42, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak Support. As per Pharaoh Hound and Diliff. Nauticashades 17:12, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Support That's a whole lot of penguins. PPGMD 22:10, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose: I don't think the lack of snow is a problem - and these obviously look like penguins. However, the picture overall just doesn't seem to be quite up to FP status. The little quality issues such as blurriness and blown whites mentioned above, along with the fact that it just isn't that eye-catching, ruin it for me. --Hetar 04:39, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak Support --As per Pharaoh Hound about the minor details --ZeWrestler ^Talk 05:29, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose. Fantastic subject, but I agree with Pharaoh Hound about the blur and blown highlights. More of the colony should be in focus --Tewy 00:03, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Support per Pharaoh Hound. I don't think FP had to be iconic anyways. —Jared Hunt September 14, 2006, 08:37 (UTC)
• Support The huge mass of penguins is eye-appealing and almost unbelievable. Definitively not something one sees every day.
  AndonicO 17:38, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply
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• Oppose A lot of penguins, but unfortunately not a lot of image quality. Pity it's so expensive to get to South Georgia :( --Yummifruitbat 01:08, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Support I've got to vote Support. The image is high enough resolution, the penguins on the bottom are clear enough, and this subject matter would simply be impossible to properly capture with "high quality" on all those penguins. You can't identify faces in a crowd shot. Staxringold _talk^contribs 01:13, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]