Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Wasp August 2007-23.jpg

Image:Wasp August 2007-23.jpg, not featured

•  Info Digger wasp of the Sphecidae family (Bembix oculata) chasing a fly. It all happened in front of my eyes and I had very little time to point and shoot. I know that the picture falls short of technical perfection (sharpness, lighting, DOF) but I couldn't do better under the circunstances. Hope that the value of the catch mitigates the technical flaws. Created and and nominated by Alvesgaspar
•  Info - After paralysing the fly with the sting the wasp is sucking its internal fluids using a beak-like extension of the mouth-parts. The dyptera won't survive the experience... - Alvesgaspar 06:38, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Alvesgaspar 15:46, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Very interesting picture!--Mbz1 16:42, 31 August 2007 (UTC)Mbz1
•  Oppose Nice catch :) If you ask for extenuating circumstances i would say: This is a regular part of the Wasp's life. This happens every day, and is not very special. You just have to wait patiently, observe and calculate the daytime. So why not going back tomorrow on the same place and make a sharp one with f12-16? I believe she is waiting for you ;) As you have well foreseen, the technical perfection is on the borderline (DOF, noise, oe, sharpness, size!) and I think it doesn't satisfy a Featured Pictures need. But a interesting picture, indeeed. --Richard Bartz 18:44, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose ack Richard Bartz Freedom to share 21:53, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose Sharpness. --Beyond silence 09:21, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Very beautiful and interesting image. --Carioca 01:27, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Jhowcs 02:10, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Böhringer 22:18, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose I have to agree with Richard, it doesn't reach FP quality. Lycaon 22:40, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support--Seeder 01:05, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support This sort of shot is always one of being in the right place at the right time, not easily repeated! The focus on the wasp is good, the fly slightly out of focus. The wow factor certainly pushes it into being FP material :-) --Tony Wills 11:33, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Comment Now i ask myself why i spent 3 days behind a hedge until i had a good shot of a similar subject. --Richard Bartz 19:45, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

 Comment Because you were not at the right place at the right time I expect ;-). I can not see your shot in your gallery, was it worth the wait? :-) --Tony Wills 20:16, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Sure it was, it became FP status. --Richard Bartz 12:52, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Ah that one, very good :-) (but doesn't show the prey as well ;-) --Tony Wills 20:58, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

result: 7 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral => not featured. -- Lycaon 05:36, 11 September 2007 (UTC)