Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Batrachostomus septimus 01.jpg

Philippine Frogmouth
Voting period ends on 8 Jan 2011 at 22:53:07 (UTC)
 * Reason:High-res, high quality scan of renowned illustrator's work, perfectly suits taxobox use in two articles. Looks like it will pass on Commons, too.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Philippine Frogmouth, Batrachostomus
 * FP category for this image:Animals/Birds
 * Creator:Joseph Smit


 * Support alt edit 1 only --Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 22:53, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Support. J Milburn (talk) 22:56, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Original looks over saturated. Border of the original "blob" background can clearly be seen in the alt edit (should be fixable though). Kaldari (talk) 21:19, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Can we talk about the background? The ungeometrically shaped background seems to be a trademark of sorts of the artist; compare File:Smit.cercopithecus.denti.jpg. I'm not sure I wouldn't prefer the original. Chick Bowen 01:30, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
 * But compare with - I'd be surprised if that version had been cleaned up, but here's a restoration where the background is also absent: . I couldn't find a separate copy of the monkey images - archive.org has back copies of PZS, but they are very poorly indexed, often omitting the year. And mostly scanned by Google fwtiw. If we can determine that the artist really did the background in that style, I would support such a version. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 12:45, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
 * You may well be right. I've been looking, but cannot find more evidence than what you have.  Some of the images of Smit's work have the blob-like backgrounds and some don't, without evident reasons for which is which. Chick Bowen 01:23, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Support I based myself on this one that seems more faithful to the work of Joseph Smit ; that is to say, beautiful colors.--Citron (talk) 21:49, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Kaldari -- mcshadypl T C  05:12, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 22:19, 8 January 2011 (UTC)