Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Basking shark

Basking shark
Voting period ends on 16 May 2014  at 13:25:35 (UTC)
 * Reason:Pretty good quality considering it's an underwater photograph. Rather hard to reproduce.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Basking shark +7 or so
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Animals/Fish
 * Creator:Greg Skomal / NOAA Fisheries Service


 * Support as nominator – — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:25, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Support, a very suggestive picture, big favourite. Even the Animal project wanted to use it as a possible header. Hafspajen (talk) 13:29, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
 * strong support a very good underwater image. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 00:04, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Support - Recent Commons FP which has some good EV. ///Euro Car  GT  02:48, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Support -  SagaciousPhil   -  Chat  15:54, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Sorry to go against the flow, but I'm really not feeling this one. I don't think there'd be any support for this were it not such an impressive creature, as the quality just isn't what we've come to expect at FPC. I'm also unconvinced that it's all that hard to replace- we've got at least three separate underwater shots of the species on Commons. They are not uncommon in a lot of waters, and the interest in the species leads me to suggest that we'll get more images in years to come. J Milburn (talk) 10:09, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose I agree with J.  S ven M anguard   Wha?  01:01, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose Per J: There's a bright purple "dead pixel" right in his mouth, amongst other issues. Looks a bit blurry and unsharp. Resolution is okay, but resolution + problems means that the effective resolution is likely a lot less. Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:56, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 13:25, 16 May 2014 (UTC)