Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Basking Red-eared sliders

Basking Red-eared sliders
Voting period ends on 24 Aug 2011 at 20:03:46 (UTC)
 * Reason:Encyclopedic, interesting composition, taken in a wild
 * Articles in which this image appears:Red-eared slider
 * FP category for this image:Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Animals/Reptiles
 * Creator:mbz1


 * Support as nominator --Broccolo (talk) 20:03, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Weak Support Good technical size, clear photo, and displays turtles with heads in and out of their shells which adds to EV, but the caption in the article mentions the interaction of the different species. Maybe with a stronger caption I could be convinced of higher EV and give it full support. Pinetalk 04:36, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Extremely charismatic shot, but I am by no means convinced that there is high EV here. What's it showing? Would the article really be all that lacking without it? What does a reader learn from seeing this? I also don't like the way a very large thumbnail is used in the article. J Milburn (talk) 08:40, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Support I believe that what we see here, is typical behaviour for those reptiles. If it is really so, there is EV in this shot. (air)Wolf (talk) 11:53, 16 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment It is the only image in the article that shows turtles basking in the wild in a close proximity to one another, a very typical behaviour for those reptiles. Also as Pine mentioned above it is the only image in the article that shows turtles with the heads in and out. It also shows that turtle could hide its head under its shell when it feels danger. Broccolo (talk) 14:16, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Strong support Interesting moment, taken in wild. Funny animals. Nice quality -- George Chernilevsky  talk 09:56, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 20:43, 24 August 2011 (UTC)