Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Balkan fritillary (Boloria graeca balcanica) underside Bulgaria 2a on epilobium.jpg

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Arthropods/Lepidoptera#Family : Nymphalidae (Brush-footed Butterflies)
•  Info All by Charlesjsharp -- Charlesjsharp (talk) 13:59, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- Charlesjsharp (talk) 13:59, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Question - This really doesn't seem as sharp as your usual butterfly FP candidates, except on some of the flowers. Is this species especially hard to photograph? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:22, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

• The Balkan fritillary is not one of your everyday butterflies. You’ve got to make a real effort to find it and photograph it. It lives at the top of a few mountains in the Alps and the Balkans, typically from 1,800m to 2,400. So we headed to a ski resort in Bulgaria, to Borovets in the Rila Mountains. The highest skilift is Yastrebets and the butterfly lives close to the gondola top station at 2,369m. It only flies around lunchtime on sunny days in July and August when there’s not too much wind. Tricky conditions to find at the top of an exposed mountain top. As shown here, it's quite small. Charlesjsharp (talk)

• I see! The size of the butterfly would be good to add to the file description (and the Wikipedia article, if you're so inclined). -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:20, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

• That would be OR unless I can find an authoritative source. Charlesjsharp (talk) 13:14, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

• Not OR in the file description -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:09, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

•  Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 02:40, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 03:25, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 03:25, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Certainly the aperture F/4 shortens the DoF. But the head is in focus, like much of the wing. Composition okay -- Basile Morin (talk) 05:22, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 06:09, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support But note that there is a typo in the filename and description. -- B2Belgium (talk) 07:59, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

• Oops. Will change file name after nom. Charlesjsharp (talk) 08:52, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

•  Support --Aristeas (talk) 09:06, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Cayambe (talk) 12:33, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Samuele2002 (talk) 12:45, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Isiwal (talk) 13:17, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Good image for a small butterfly and one that's challenging to photograph. Cmao20 (talk) 15:27, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Fischer.H (talk) 16:55, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 21:40, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 07:11, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Poco a poco (talk) 10:31, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Tournasol7 (talk) 17:45, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support.--Vulphere 19:01, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 04:33, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 19 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:02, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Arthropods/Lepidoptera#Family : Nymphalidae (Brush-footed Butterflies)