Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Texas Purple Thistle

Texas Purple Thistle
Voting period ends on 8 May 2012 at 17:34:53 (UTC)
 * Reason:Meets all 8 featured picture criteria
 * Articles in which this image appears:Cirsium
 * FP category for this image:Flowers
 * Creator:Lauraprl

--Dusty 777 18:03, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Support as nominator --v/r - TP 17:34, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Support --Tomtomn00 (talk • contributions) 17:40, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose the present placement of the image in the article does not contribute a lot to the article. I would probably support it if it was the leading image of an article or had a prominent placement other than being in a gallery. Thistles are rather common flowers so it really has to stand out to deserve FP status. For example there are many nice photos of other Cirsium species: 1, . 2. Also, I am dubious about the species: the cirsium article lists Cirsium horridulum as the yellow thistle, but this flower is clearly purple/pink. Is it another one of those flowers that change colours drastically? Purpy Pupple (talk) 20:53, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose Depth of field too shallow. Jujutacular (talk) 18:49, 6 May 2012 (UTC)