Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/A large swarm of honey bees

[[Media:Bee swarm.jpg|A large swarm of honey bees]]
My father is a bee keeper, and bees swarm in spring (Australia) so naturally I took a shot. There is an incredible number of bees in this swarm.
 * Support. Self Nom. --Fir0002 08:53, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. Nice and big chunk of bees -- Chris 73 Talk 09:01, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Not clean or crisp enough to be feature-worthy. Nice photo, though. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 01:21, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. Since when is a swarm clear? --Alphax (talk) 02:54, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. You're a brave man/woman, Fir! &mdash; David Remahl 04:46, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment. Thanks - my camera has no zoom currently (for some reason anything beyond maximum zoom out comes out very blue - I'm saving up for the 20D!)--Fir0002 05:51, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Agree with Neutrality. --ScottyBoy900Q &#8734; 05:29, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment. The top of the image is blurry because the bees were very active, and their wings move very quickly. --Fir0002 05:51, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Support, although the purple hue is a bit of a put-off. ugen64 02:36, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose, as it's not truly representative of a prime swarm. It's either an afterswarm (with virgin queen), or a swarm cast by sick bees (varroa or acarine infested), or bees that have absconded due to some kind of stress (such as hive beetles). Though a non-beekeeper might be impressed by the number of bees, it is really a tiny swarm with perhaps three or four thousand bees, as opposed to a true reproductive swarm which normally would run to twenty or thirty thousand bees. Nothing against the photographer. Sorry. Pollinator 02:51, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)
 * On second look, I doubt that there are a thousand bees. No drones are seen either. Their presence is characteristic of a prime swarm. Pollinator 02:54, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)
 * On a third look, you may notice that its is not an entire swarm. The edges of the image are characteristic of a crop of the whole image. The bee swarm is doing fine after a week in its new hive. I'm not sure how big the swarms in America are, but here in Australia they are generally slightly smaller than the one pictured. I chose this crop because the bees where in close detail. For the full image see [[Media:Beekeper_collecting_swarm.jpg|Collection of the swarm]]--Fir0002 09:20, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Support: Nice photo, I like the blurred moving bees, the colour of the green is a little sickly, but other than that good. Pdefer 00:24, 2004 Oct 28 (UTC)
 * Support. Color is somewhat off, but its not distracting. -- [[User:Solitude|Solitude\talk]] 09:11, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Image quality is not good enough for to be featured. Janderk 13:06, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Nice picture, but colors seem a bit off, and detail could be better. Jpo 16:20, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)
 * NOT Promoted, +7/-5 -- [[User:Bevo|Bevo]] 03:46, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

