Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Featured picture candidates/File:Damselfly 05 (MK).jpg

Common Blue Damselfly
Voting period ends on 30 Aug 2012 at 11:00:58 (UTC)
 * Reason:High quality and being featured in commons
 * Articles in which this image appears:Common Blue Damselfly
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Animals/Insects
 * Creator:User:Mathias Krumbholz


 * Support as nominator --Alborzagros (talk) 11:00, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Support. But Alborzagros, you didn't complete the nomination properly, you left the FP categories unfilled. &#208;iliff    &#171;&#187;  (Talk)  12:39, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I filled the FP categories gap. thanks for reminding. Alborzagros (talk) 13:32, 21 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Support -- WingtipvorteX  PTT   ∅  16:59, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment - are you sure this is a blue damselfly? I can't help feeling something like File:Enallagma cyathigerum 14(loz).jpg would have better EV (the bug in its mouth is also a plus). Also the lighting in this photo (particularly the droplet shadows) strongly suggests this was rotated from its original vertical orientation? If so I would recommend rotating it back to vertical because whenever I look at it I start turning my head - something not quite natural about it... --Fir0002 03:15, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
 * This is a female and the one you suggested is a male. Updated the page to include both. Only the author can say about the rotations. -- Jkadavoor (talk) 09:22, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for nominating my picture. Yes this is pretty sure a female blue damselfly. It was IDed by our damselfly specialist in the german wp. But I'm not sure that this is a good picture for the taxobox because this one is a young one and the colouring isn't finished jet. So the colour will change a bit. @Fir: the pic isn't rotated. The shadows are this way because of the early morning sun. The pic was taken at ~6.30 in the morning and the sun wasn't that high. Regards Leviathan1983 (talk) 16:25, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 21:48, 1 September 2012 (UTC)