Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dactylorhiza

Dactylorhiza
Voting period ends on 16 Nov 2014  at 06:00:39 (UTC)
 * Reason:We don't get enough plants.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Dactylorhiza, Dactylorhiza fuchsii
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Plants/Flowers
 * Creator:Uoaei1


 * Support as nominator – — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:00, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support Very useful, good image. Yakikaki (talk) 11:06, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment it's lovely, but could the focus be improved? Adam Cuerden (talk) 03:01, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Do you mean DOF? If the individual had focus stacked, perhaps, but that would require reshooting. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:44, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
 * That, and trying to decide if I should expect a better focus plane. I'm leaning support, but I don't work with modern photography much, so I need to ask questions, and it's a slightly odd part of the flower that's sharpest (looks to be a flower about two-thirds to three quarters down the inflorescence, on the right), although much of the parts I'd expect to be sharpest (top and front flowers are pretty sharp. Adam Cuerden (talk) 06:25, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support – DYK that Orchids are the symbol of beauty, love, luxury and strength; the ancient Greeks believed that if a pregnant woman ate orchid tubers, the baby would be a girl or it would be a boy if the father ate orchid tubers? The gift of an orchid delivers a message of pure affection ... and that is a lovely photo ...  SagaciousPhil  - Chat 10:08, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support: Agree, orchids are lovely and this is a fine image of a native Austrian flower. Fylbecatulous talk 15:21, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support per above. Hafspajen (talk) 15:32, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support -- Even though the top of the flower is out of focus, the image overall still delivers. i.e.Beautiful flower, accentuated by the dark nebulous background. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 04:26, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 06:01, 16 November 2014 (UTC)