Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dahlia at the Royal Botanical Gardens

Dahlia at the Royal Botanical Gardens

 * Reason:The meets all of the WP:FPC criteria. Additionally, it is an attractive eye-catching photo of a beautiful flower.
 * Articles this image appears in:Dahlia, Perennial plant, Royal Botanical Gardens, (Ontario)
 * Creator:Angel caboodle


 * Support as nominator -- — Kendra   Michele  — 17:05, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose Blown highlights, messy background. --Janke | Talk 19:20, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Blown highlights? The only blown highlight area is of the sky in the background. The subject of the photo (the dahlia) is not blown out. — Kendra   Michele  — 19:43, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Poor photographic quality: noise, artifacts, unsharpness, lighting, composition, background. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 19:53, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Support - a very good choice, very professional and beautiful. —— RyanLupin • (talk) 21:21, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose as per Alves (Giligone (talk) 21:33, 7 September 2008 (UTC))
 * Oppose as per the poor photographic quality described very well by Alvesgaspar above. —αἰτίας •'discussion'• 22:03, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose A nice picture of a dahlia, but far from the outstanding quality expected for a featured pic. Per Alvesgaspar. Hús  ö  nd  00:51, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Alvesgaspar -- Wadester16 (talk) 02:22, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose the image in question is really noisy and do have a background which I don't believe suits for a featured picture, it should show more of the subject. -- 'Kanonkas' : Talk  09:42, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

MER-C 04:27, 14 September 2008 (UTC)