Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Common Kingfisher

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 13 Jan 2013 at 08:31:13 (UTC)

Reason: Good technical quality and excellent composition capturing the bird in natural habitat, and illustrating feeding behaviour.
Articles in which this image appears: Common Kingfisher
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator: Pierre Dalous

Support as nominator --ELEKHH^T 08:31, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support - It's a wonderfully sharp image. I added it to the Kingfisher article, too, and requested a move on commons. ceranthor 02:27, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

- JJ is right about the odd thing at the white ear coverts - don't know about the paint brush tool, but definitely something not quite right there. Which is a shame - even if that region was blown, it would be a minor defect in an otherwise great shot. Don't think there's anything significantly wrong with the chest coloration though, it seems within the range of natural variation (?) --Fir0002 02:40, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose It sure is, at thumbnail. But the full sized image has some weird problems. For example, the white ear coverts look really strange. Almost like an attempt to mask blown highlights with the paint brush tool or something. I think the shadow-highlights tool has been used a bit much too - the chest should be chestnut, not dirty brown. JJ Harrison (talk) 01:40, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]