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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Bones and fossils#Family : Bovidae
•  Info Weathered skull of an African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) in the open savannah of the Upper Lupande Game Management Area, Zambia. Created by Tagooty - uploaded by Tagooty - nominated by Tagooty -- Tagooty (talk) 05:59, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
•  Support Appear to be no FPs of skulls in the wild. -- Tagooty (talk) 05:59, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
•  Comment Good, but I'd like there to be a more generous crop on the right, and the twig on the upper right is very distracting to me, so probably not an FP to me, though I'll give it some more time. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:36, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
•  Oppose Unexceptional light, thus not one of the best pictures of the site in my opinion -- Basile Morin (talk) 00:48, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

   Done Thanks for the reviews. Harsh lighting is evocative of life and death in the sub-tropical savannah. I've increased the right crop, cloned out the twig and tweaked the exposure. --Tagooty (talk) 02:51, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

• Thanks. Unfortunately, I'm now noticing 3 dust spots near the upper margin and a whole bunch of posterization lines in the sky. This still needs more improvement for me to support it. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:52, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

•  Done @Ikan Kekek: Thanks for the careful review. Fixed the dust spots and the posterization lines in the sky. --Tagooty (talk) 08:42, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

• Clear improvement, but there's further to go in regard to the posterization lines, and there's a circle above the skull that might or might not be a dust spot. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:54, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
•  Done @Ikan Kekek: Reduced posterisation further. This is the most I can do as I was shooting into the sun. --Tagooty (talk) 15:11, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

•  Comment I appreciate your edits. The photo is much better. I feel doubtful about voting for it, but I probably will not oppose. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 15:51, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

• Exposure unchanged in my view, but that's not really the matter. This subject is shot against the light -- Basile Morin (talk) 00:33, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

•  Support For me a fascinating and realistic subject in the great outdoors. The light is now significantly improved.--Famberhorst (talk) 04:46, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
•  Support  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:05, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 12:13, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
•  Oppose It has definitely FP potential, but per Basile, not like this. The shot should have been taken from the other side (preferably during the golden hour) or from this side (looking at the sun) during sunset. You have then also a nice shadow, an example of what I mean here. Poco a poco (talk) 12:38, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

  @Poco a poco: Thanks for the review. I'll remember your suggestions for the future. Incidentally, we found the skull after driving 2 hours into a protected area that is open only in the daytime. --Tagooty (talk) 15:11, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

• How did it look from the other side? you captured the side in shadow Poco a poco (talk) 15:17, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

  The safari vehicle was in the background from the other side. I could have rearranged the scene, but my family was waiting for me to finish -- I'm only an amateur photographer! :-) Tagooty (talk) 16:30, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

•  Weak support - ABAL1412 🇻🇳🇷🇺 (talk) 17:42, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 09:54, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
•  Support.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 08:39, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
•  Support Huh, I'm all too familiar with the life and death struggle of the African savanna; this African buffalo skull should definitely be Featured 20 upper 05:03, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
•  Support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 00:43, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Princess 🍵 Rosalina 30697 15:38, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 10 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 13:38, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Bones and fossils#Family : Bovidae