Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/American Bird Grasshopper

American Bird Grasshopper

 * Reason:Large, well framed and clear image of an entire adult American Grasshopper. Highly encyclopedic, and very good quality (if very slightly grainy in full view).
 * Articles in which this image appears:Schistocerca
 * Creator:Tomfriedel


 * Support as nominator --Anxietycello (talk) 18:26, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. I've run noise reduction over the background (excluding the grasshopper itself to preserve detail) so it shouldn't be too grainy anymore. &#208;iliff    &#171;&#187;  (Talk)  19:02, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * You might want to add that it is laying eggs to the caption too. Noodle snacks (talk) 22:14, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I did wonder if it was doing that, but it kinda looks like it's sitting on tarmac... Could it lay eggs into that? Anxietycello (talk) 12:38, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Broccoli (talk) 22:53, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Durova  412 01:03, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Question: could we clarify the species? In Schistocerca it's captioned as a desert locust, but it doesn't look like one. Chick Bowen 16:26, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry, that was my fault. I swapped the pictures while forgetting to swap the captions. Anxietycello (talk) 12:38, 23 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Support Very unique photo that give rare view on its subject. Colors as well as contrast and luminance are all great, image quality is very good. The horizontal line is balanced and the photo itself is beautiful. The background is blured on purpose to create a good contrast which emphasize the foreground. The grasshopper look still as the photo was taken from distance and with very short time of exposure I guess (or that it stuffed?) --Gilisa (talk) 09:44, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Support--Mbz1 (talk) 16:05, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

-- Shoemaker's Holiday talk 06:29, 31 March 2010 (UTC)