Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Quiscalus major eating nictitating membrane.jpg

File:Quiscalus major eating nictitating membrane.jpg

•  Info Quiscalus major eating, showing the nictitating membrane. All by --ianaré (talk) 05:49, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --ianaré (talk) 05:49, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
•  Support I know how difficult it is to phonograph black birds --Muhammad (talk) 07:10, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
  •  Comment Yes, I hear fitting them on the spindle can be very hard :P. Jokes aside, I'm curious; why are black birds hard to photograph? Sarcastic ShockwaveLover (talk) 12:37, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
    • Opposite problem to blown whites. You need to get enough range of colours to get the shades of black in, while not making the sky behind them blown. Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:35, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose Rendering of the black is OK, but sharpness of the head is sub-optimal. Lycaon (talk) 17:08, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

•  Info The bird was moving his head very rapidly while swallowing chunks of food. Normally I would not nominate this image but the fact that the nictitating membrane is showing makes it unique and informative IMO (it's very rare to capture this) --ianaré (talk) 23:11, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

•  Support--Mbz1 (talk) 04:05, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose Value, maybe - but hasn't the quality, sorry --Richard Bartz (talk) 12:43, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
•  I wasn't sure it was good enough myself ... --ianaré (talk) 01:02, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

 Comment Pity that you withdraw it. This bird looks so cool. --Lošmi (talk) 12:41, 28 April 2009 (UTC)