Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Phalacrocorax aristotelis desmarestii.jpg

Common Shag

 * Reason:Scraped off of COM:FPC, where voting is at 9/0/1.
 * Proposed caption:A young common shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis desmarestii), taken on the island of Cres, Croatia.
 * Articles this image appears in:Common Shag
 * Creator:Julius Rückert

-- Chris B  •  talk  20:00, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Support as nominator MER-C 09:23, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Neutral. I don't mind the fuzzy background, but the subject isn't as focussed as I hoped it would be. - Mgm|(talk) 09:35, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Cool - literally a shag on a rock. --jjron 09:42, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Support; this bird is just waiting to take flight, isn't it? The background, surprisingly, doesn't compromise the subject focus very much, and that's quite impressive in my opinion. -- Alt  iris   Exeunt  09:51, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Judging by one foot being off the ground, I think it is indeed ready to take flight. The other composition quirk is that the tail feathers are partially obscured, but I find that pardonable.There's also a few pixels of glare in the eye; if someone could remove that—don't bother with a new file, just upload over it—it would be great.--HereToHelp 17:31, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh, I didn't notice that it had one foot off; I meant that it's probably a shoo-in for promotion to Featured Picture status. Coincidence is scary. -- Alt  iris   Exeunt  01:50, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah.--HereToHelp 17:42, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Support This image looks quite a bit different from the others at Common Shag, and that appears to be because it's a juvenile, and the other pictures are of adults and of chicks. I'm not a big fan of the reflection in the eye of the bird, but this image very competently illustrates what a young common shag looks like, so I support its promotion to featured picture.  Enuja  (talk) 02:21, 17 September 2007 (UTC)