Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Common jassid nymph.jpg

Pushing the envelope again in regards to extreme macro. This time the specimen clocks in at around 10mm - absolutely tiny! Before focus brackets get mentioned I just want to remind people that this was taken in the wild on a breezy day so this was a moving target! Taken in Swifts Creek, Vic, in January 2007

The alternative, though not as close up, better shows the symbiotic relationship between this species and Meat Ants.

Appears in: Leafhopper and Membracoidea

• Support Self Nom. --Fir0002 06:46, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: I like the alternative (not the original) a lot, but cannot fully support it because the ant is cut off, and there is a cut-off leg (of this, or another nymph?) on the left. A great shot of a difficult subject, for sure! --Janke | Talk 07:18, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough, I've uploaded a version with less cropping, but due to the congested way these insects live it's pretty much impossible to isolate one. I can provide an even less cropped image with more of the LHS nymph if you want - or I can have a shot at cloning it out :-) --Fir0002 08:02, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support version 2 of alternative. --Janke | Talk 06:01, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Support: Looks good to me.  
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• Support Original or Alternative Edit (First vote :)Ishaana 16:02, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment Why not invert the image so that the bug is depicted in a more human-intuitive fashion? Spikebrennan 17:36, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • For one, that would mess with the human-intuitive natural lighting. I won't go on with why that'd be a bad idea beyond the purely technical level. —Pengo 22:41, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• support alternative or alternative v2 weak oppose original - I'll switch to strong support if the images are included in
  myrmecophile. Actually I'd prefer the rotated and cropped version I just added. Debivort 04:51, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply
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• Support Alternative 2 - Another great one from Fir0002; keep it up! :-) - just a bit of info, in case you didn't already know - I think the ant is 'milking' the nymph, or rather collecting its honeydew secretions. Is it possible to include that in the caption? Mrug² 21:57, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Support A.V2 (and no others) The other ants nicely frame the photo. —Pengo 22:41, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Alternative v2. Looks great, this is a fine example of what I meant by context enhancing enc.
  Pstuart84 Talk 10:42, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply
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• Support Alt v2 Per above.--HereToHelp 23:46, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Alternative version 2, oppose rotated and cropped version, since the effect of gravity and lighting make it very confusing. Mak (talk) 20:16, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Support alternative version 2 and oppose rotated version per above. Mgiganteus1 10:53, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose. — Although this is a really impressive (pair of) photo(s), the angle and positioning of the front leg makes it really hard to see the head. — The Storm Surfer 01:26, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Common jassid nymph and ant02.jpg --KFP (talk | contribs) 15:19, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]