Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Flounder camo md.jpg

Camouflaged flounder
This is a double nomination: (1) nomination of Image:Flounder Camo md.jpg for Featured Picture status and (2) nomination of Image:Camouflage.jpg, a current Featured Picture, for delisting. Both are of the essentially the same topic (a sea creature camouflaged among rocks), but the upper one is of far better quality (photo by User:Moondigger). The lower one has a center composition, a distracting reflection above the cuttlefish, and some shadow in the lower left corner.
 * Nominate and support flounder pic. Delist cuttlefish pic.  howch e  ng   {chat} 17:40, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Replace the current FP by the edit made by Arad. Support I wanted to nominate the same image by Moondigger as soon as I could and now I see Howard beat me to it. does it make a difference anyway? Good photo. Arad 21:54, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment I hadn't spent any time working on this image before today -- I uploaded it because it seemed encyclopedic and useful to a couple of articles, but didn't pay much attention to sharpness, contrast, etc. When I discovered it had been nominated, I fixed it up a bit.  Apparently while I was working on it, Fir0002 submitted an improved edit as well, addressing some of the same problems that I fixed.  If Fir's doesn't look much different than mine now, that's only because we've both made edits.  They're both improvements over the original version. -- Moondigger 02:49, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Support either version, with a preference for mine. Suggest nominating the cuttlefish image for delisting separately in the regular Delist section.  If not, I'm neutral on the delisting.  -- Moondigger 02:49, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Support my version - the purpose of the picture is to illustrate camoflauge, and the cuttlefish is clearly better camoflauged into the sand. Raul654 02:56, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment - your image is already a featured picture. It's being nominated for delisting (i.e., to lose featured status), so a "Keep" vote is more appropriate than a "Support."  People are being asked to decide on two separate questions here: 1. Do you support or oppose promotion of the flounder image to featured status?  And 2. Do you want to delist or keep the cuttlefish image in featured status?  Personally I'm neutral on the idea of delisting yours, and think it unlikely a consensus to delist it will be reached, whatever the outcome of my nomination is. -- Moondigger 04:00, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 * After having gone through the lengthy "discussion" on Featured picture candidates/Muybridgehorse, I suggest that the delisting of the cuttlefish picture be seperate from the nomination of the flounder picture. Therefore, I oppose the delisting on this nomination page. That should be left for individual consideration on a delisting page. However, I think the flounder image is FP material, so I will support Moondigger's edit (the original nomination) on its sharpness, saturation, and encyclopedic value. -- Tewy  04:21, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, this was kind of a test case. Since we decided not to ban replacement nominations, I thought I'd test it with a similiar-themed replacement. Guess this was stretching the boundary a bit.  howch e  ng   {chat} 17:02, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Support Moondigger's edit. Sharp, large, nice colors, and depicts camouflage very well. Abstain from the discussion on the delisting of the older FP picture. -- theSpectator talk 04:49, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Support Moondigger's version, move delisting to its proper place - note that FPCs are independent of each other, and should be judged so, unless basically the same image - which these aren't. --Janke | Talk 06:41, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Support New Image, Abstain On Delisting. I support either edit of the new image. The delisting of the old one should be seperated and moved down. Nautica Shades (talk) 10:19, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

--Fir0002 10:09, 7 October 2006 (UTC)