Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Olive ridley turtles

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 3 Sep 2012 at 15:05:33 (UTC)

Olive ridley turtle

nesting on Escobilla Beach, Oaxaca, Mexico

Reason: Good EV for the species and the sanctuary article. I'm not highly familiar with technical issues such as composition and lighting, but this is already an FP at Commons (it was picture of the day last year), so presumably it's high quality in those areas as well.
Articles in which this image appears: Olive ridley sea turtle, Playa de Escobilla Sanctuary, a projectspace page, and a userpage
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Reptiles
Creator: Claudio Giovenzana www.longwalk.it

Support as nominator --Nyttend (talk) 15:05, 25 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Excellent picture. The background colors are amazing.
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Oppose. Sorry, I'm not seeing any great amount of EV here. A fantastic Commons FP, but not really suitable for enwp, where the focus has to be on what the image is adding to articles. J Milburn (talk) 11:22, 26 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose agree with J Milburn on EV. While a decent image, the lower parts of the turtle blend with the sand when viewed at low-res. Bright (and amazing) background is too distracting from the main subject. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 19:55, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Impressive perspective (and lighting of the subject turtle, considering the lens is facing the sun). Shows the species within the context of the wildlife sanctuary, which makes it perfectly viable for FP based on encyclopedic value. Not all there in terms of technical quality, but it's a pretty hard-to-replicate shot. Juliancolton (talk) 03:59, 2 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I think that the image I added as Alt 1 is a better illustration of the turtle's nesting behavior but its technical quality it too low for FP, so I oppose both. Pine^✉ 00:58, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose nice sunset, but hardly can see anything else. Subject blends with the background. SkywalkerPL (talk) 06:30, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 00:32, 4 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]