Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Giraffe Ithala KZN South Africa Luca Galuzzi 2004.JPG

Image:Giraffe Ithala KZN South Africa Luca Galuzzi 2004.JPG - featured

•  Info created by Lucag - uploaded by Lucag - nominated by Digon3 --Digon3 14:25, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Perfect composition. --Digon3 14:25, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support I agree with Digon3 --norro 15:02, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --MichaelMaggs 15:56, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support great photo, excellent composition. --Winiar^✉ 20:38, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Vassil 19 Mai 2007
•  Neutral A very stereotypical composition - I feel I've seen it before even though I haven't. And could be larger. So I won't support it. But it's perfectly clear and sharp, and nothing wrong with the composition. And nothing quite like it is featured yet, as far as I can see at a glance. It is a very different shot to Image:Giraffe08 - melbourne zoo.jpg, and probably a better one. So lots of reasons not to oppose either. Regards, Ben Aveling 22:33, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Beautiful and well balanced. — Xavier, 23:52, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support the foreground grass is slightly distracting, but I didn't even notice it for a while, so that means it's not important. I don't know if this is an image crop or downsampled, but I'd like it larger (ack Ben Aveling). -- Ram-Man 04:43, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Thermos 04:54, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support another great one by Lucag! --Simonizer 10:35, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Guess it was great being there to take the photo. --Atoma 18:14, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Karelj 21:26, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Who won ? -- Lycaon 22:54, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
  •  Info The right one (head left) won! After 12 minutes (8:36 - 8:48 am) of vigorous neck blows, the left one abandoned apparently not wounded. During the match a female (I guess) was observing behind a tree. --LucaG 20:30, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Bergwolf 19:31, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Chmehl 21:05, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Question According to metadata, this was taken with a camera capable of 6.3megapixel and it's been photoshopped since. Was it downsampled or cropped? Regards, Ben Aveling 12:13, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
  •  Info It's a downsampled image not cropped. I know that you and Ram-Man would prefer a larger composition but when I was in the field with camera on tripod I took the necessary time to frame the shot as I like: as close as possible. Sometimes I prefer close-ups of animals like this Rhinoceros or even this Pelican. Less encyclopedic but more stirring shots IMHO --LucaG 15:06, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
    • That's the answer I was hoping for. Can you upload the undownsampled image for comparison? Regards, Ben Aveling 22:24, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
      • Ben, I don't know what are you looking for but here you can find the full res version. --LucaG 20:23, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
        • It looks good, still nice and sharp and it allows one to get just a little 'closer' to the animals. Why not upload that one instead of this one? Regards, Ben Aveling 22:45, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
          • Normally I prefer not to share full res pictures because of the impossibility to license on Commons as for non commercial use. Actually for this old picture I could do it but I really don't see the benefit for the project. --LucaG 20:41, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Jon Harald Søby 20:50, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

 15 support, 1 neutral, 0 oppose >> featured - Alvesgaspar 07:37, 30 May 2007 (UTC)