Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Canopy

Forest canopy
Voting period ends on 6 Feb 2012 at 00:56:19 (UTC)
 * Reason:An image of a forest canopy which illustrates how the treetops pack closely together to capitalise on sunlight.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Canopy (biology)
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Plants
 * Creator:God_Emperor


 * Support as nominator -- God Emperor Talk  00:56, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment This photo had been in the article canopy for 11 minutes before its nomination here. It's best to wait to see if it's stable in the article before nomination... Aaadddaaammm (talk) 08:19, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I would put this on hold for 5 days. That is often enough time to see if the article writers support or reject the image --Guerillero &#124; My Talk  17:18, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Not counting edits related to the current FP candidate being added, the article has had 2 edits since the beginning of November. It's not an actively written article, so anything you put up will stay for an indefinite amount of time. Clegs (talk) 10:09, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I'd suggest just waiting until the image has been in for a week before nominating - that is what the rules proclaim. JJ Harrison (talk) 03:29, 30 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Oppose. I'm not really a fan of the image regardless of how secure it is in the article. It doesn't really show the canopy very well and is underexposed. &#208;iliff    &#171;&#187;  (Talk)  09:10, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The image fails to show what the nominator stated in his intro, that it " illustrates how the treetops pack closely together to capitalise on sunlight". The different tree canopies are quite widely spaced. I know the effect he is alluding to, but this isn't it. Sabine's Sunbird  talk  18:26, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose' I'd want an illustration of canopy to be a little denser than this. This is almost half blue sky.Clegs (talk) 09:11, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose Good picture as it is but no real wow. How do we know this is a forest, for one thing? I know people who could go out and take this sort of image in their back yards. I sort of expect a picture of a forest canopy to look like, well, an actual canopy. Or to show us big, tapering tree trunks. Or needle-like crepuscular rays or slightly occulted sun peeking through. You get the idea. Daniel Case (talk) 06:47, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose agree with Daniel Case. Pinetalk 10:36, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 00:30, 6 February 2012 (UTC)