Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Tringa brevipes.jpg

Grey-tailed Tattler
Voting period ends on 6 Mar 2011 at 05:00:53 (UTC)
 * Reason:An uncommon resident down here. I believe this image meets the criteria. Probably the last Tasmanian bird from me for quite a while. Fear not though - I've probably got over 75 birds from Thailand to nominate over the next while. Whilst the JAFBP "problem" will get worse, they will counter systemic bias in some sense since we don't have much coverage from South East Asia.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Grey-tailed Tattler
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
 * Creator:JJ Harrison


 * Support as nominator --JJ Harrison (talk) 05:00, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Support interesting composition. Nergaal (talk) 20:10, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Support Smaller in res than your other birds tho--Muhammad (talk) 01:19, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah - had to crop it quite a lot. JJ Harrison (talk) 04:06, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
 * you were quite far away then, considering you have an effective 1100mm. And sorry to bring up the downsampling issue _again_, but Cephas shows pretty well on Commons that one can upload large quality pics of birds. Why not you ? Sad to see the most skilled wiki photographers downsampling most of the time. - Blieusong (talk) 09:43, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
 * 17.5 meters according to exif - but there was still a great deal of empty frame. I was informed about this bird by text message. I managed to gradually close my distance crawling in the mud and rain over about 30 minutes as it was feeding along the edge Lauderdale canal outlet. Since it was starting to get dark the bird decided to rest for the night. I managed to close another five meters or so before it showed signs of agitation - if I'd gone any closer it would have just flown away. Getting closer would really require waiting for the bird behind cover at high tide and getting lucky. Cephas does show that it is possible, and the more that do so the better. Downsampling isn't about quality - ultimately I don't quite feel comfortable with giving everything away. I think you'd be hard pressed to argue that my upload behaviour is ignominious though. On the bright side I don't downsample as much as I used to - usually it is about 75% size now instead of 50%. JJ Harrison (talk) 23:24, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
 * (never noticed EXIF had distance..) I can understand your think twice when it comes to give high resolutions pictures to Wiki, and I've already come across several abusive use of my own pics (and they're not as near as good as yours...). There are pros and cons. On the cons side, what about if contributions to the articles were crippled the same way ? But don't get me wrong, I'm happy you keep contributing. - Blieusong (talk) 22:10, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Support Benjamint 06:00, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Support --Avenue (talk) 11:05, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Support. Interplay of neutral tones with just a little splash of bright reminds me of the Yes album cover Relayer. Daniel Case (talk) 04:52, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 08:05, 6 March 2011 (UTC)