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File:Australian Magpie Digging Grub.jpg, not featured[edit]

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An Australian Magpie digging for food, shown at the instant it ejects a grub.
  •  Neutral - Good moment, good composition, but sorry, I find the colors a little boring: the grass should be greener. (I even tried tweaking it a little (offline), but didn't manage to get both the bird and grass nice at the same time with small effort.) --MattiPaavola (talk) 09:17, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment "The grass should be greener" sounds like something my forefather European settlers must have said when they originally came to Australia and all their crops failed :-P. If you see green grass in my photos it's an anomaly - we're still in a bad drought. Perhaps the manicured lawns around buildings are green, but out on the headland it is certainly not. --99of9 (talk) 09:55, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment - :-) Actually, in your first version the grass looks fine to me (but then the bird becomes too dark :-/ ). (Says a person who has never visited the southern hemisphere! :) ) --MattiPaavola (talk) 10:26, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Alternative[edit]

An Australian Magpie digging for food, shown at the instant it ejects a grub.

 Info In light of the comments above, Nikopol has produced a nice alternative version for consideration. --99of9 (talk) 20:32, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Support --99of9 (talk) 20:32, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Weak oppose It is a good action shot of the magpie, and this edit is an improvement as compared to the original. I would have been glad if I had taken it myself. Notwithstanding, the light is unfortunate - a bit too harsh and the part of the bird facing the observer is too much in shadow for my taste - too many details are missing due to that IMO. Sorry. --Slaunger (talk) 22:46, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Weak support I also had to think about the light, but in the end for me the "capture of the capture" is just enough (I have never myself accomplished a shot like this). Wow makes up for flaws for me... BTW, with my firefox colors and lighting look very different (harsher contrast and more warm tones) when viewed at this page than when I click on the picture. Any idea why? Is firefox capable of color management in "full quality view"? Nikopol (talk) 00:13, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Lošmi (talk) 14:01, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 3 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 07:54, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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