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File:Galápagos sea lions, Santa Fe Island 03.jpg, featured[edit]
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 19 Aug 2016 at 17:10:47 (UTC)
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- Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals
Info created and uploaded by Bernard Gagnon (Bgag) - nominated by User:Ikan Kekek -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 17:10, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
Support - I like the composition, and I also find the subject really cute, and also touching because you can imagine the exhaustion of the mother, who has just given birth and is now suckling her baby. One thing I deduce, but which is not specifically mentioned in the description is that the bloody thing behind the newborn sea lion is presumably the placenta. If I'm right, that would be good to spell out in the file description. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 17:10, 10 August 2016 (UTC)- Support -- Spurzem (talk) 20:30, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
- Support Ikan's nomination rationale is spot on. The placenta's not the most welcome guest in this composition for me, but it's a natural part of a very well composed photograph. High educational value is a plus. INeverCry 02:02, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
- Qualified support Viewed at thumb, it seems a little busy; but at full-res I can see what Ikan is talking about. Daniel Case (talk) 03:25, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
- Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 05:49, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
- Support Good pic and also very educational. Nice job! --w.carter-Talk 12:00, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
- Support --XRay talk 13:03, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
- Support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 15:43, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
- Support Very very good composition... --LivioAndronico (talk) 17:35, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
Oppose I don’t like to see nothing of the mother’s face. Just her backside … Not a feature-worthy composition for me, sorry. Quality and/or pixel size are not overwhelming enough to make up for that. In short: No wow. --Kreuzschnabel 11:22, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
Comment - We see the newborn's face. But "no wow" is not something to argue with. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:50, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
- Comment In a zoo, you have not much choice about your angle of view of course. Seen from this angle, the image just does not strike me extraordinarily. I could imagine zooming on the newborn from about 40 degrees to the left, with the exhausted mother out of focus in the background. Would be more impressive. Maybe not possible in the circumstances, but then, as I keep saying, it takes a bit of luck as well to get a situation where a featurable picture can be taken. --Kreuzschnabel 17:15, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
- Comment - The thing is, I find this composition good to move my eye around, and I don't care about not seeing the mother's face, nor do I imagine I'd prefer for her to be blurred, with the other elements currently in the photo invisible. So it's not just that we react differently to this photo; our criteria themselves are dissimilar, in this case. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:59, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
- Support --Michael Gäbler (talk) 23:56, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
Confirmed results:
Result: 10 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /INeverCry 21:21, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Mammals
