Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:177 White-crowned Pigeon crop.jpg

White-crowned Pigeon
Voting period ends on 22 Nov 2010 at 18:01:00 (UTC)
 * Reason:100 megapixel image by notable artist, illustrating an article where no good photo is currently available. The plant is also identified, as Cordia sebestena, the Geiger Tree.
 * Articles in which this image appears:White-crowned Pigeon
 * FP category for this image:Animals/Birds
 * Creator:John James Audubon


 * Support as nominator --Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 18:01, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Support anything by Audobon - especially at this quality. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 15:00, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Support: Enormous resolution and detail from Audobon, illustrates bird and plant well.  Would prefer to see this cropped slightly tighter, but not fussed enough to create another version.   Mae din\ talk 13:12, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose In such articles about species, a photograph like File:White Crowned Pigeon 002.jpg (A better photograph is not impossible to create) has much more encyclopaedic value than an artist's impression painting. IMO, the colours in the painting and photo look very different.-- Redtigerxyz Talk 05:28, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
 * The photograph you refer to is of a juvenile (described in the article), which explains why its colours are different from the adults in the print. I've updated the article to reflect that.  The watercolour has enormous EV: male and female, superbly detailed, identified tree, notable artist.  We only have poor photos of juveniles from Louisville Zoo, and as the birds are skittish and near threatened, there's little hope we'll ever have anything that even approaches the print in terms of EV.   Mae din\ talk 09:45, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Despite the explanation, my vote remains unchanged. It is not impossible to photograph an adult white pigeon . There are quite a few on flickr . A flickr photographer may be conceived to release a photo in a selectable license. An artist impression is no ever close to a photograph in EV. -- Redtigerxyz Talk 17:31, 21 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Weak support great quality, but I am not that keen on artist impressions. Nergaal (talk) 16:36, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak support impressive resolution, and good EV IMO, but could do with some cleaning up. The hair (?) on the neck of the female is one example. --Avenue (talk) 12:32, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

-- Jujutacular  talk 19:56, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
 * 4 of 5 necessary supports.  Jujutacular  talk 19:56, 22 November 2010 (UTC)