Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Xantho poressa 2009 G1.jpg

File:Xantho poressa 2009 G1.jpg, featured

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Info All by George Chernilevsky -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 21:40, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Info Crab Xantho poressa, female at spawning time. It is tiny animal, like $1 coin by size.
Support -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 21:40, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Great image! I have never seen a crab with the eggs. I wonder how they taste?--Mbz1 (talk) 13:22, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support interesting photo--M Zaplotnik ^{(my contribs)} 20:02, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Darius Baužys ^{→ talk} 20:27, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support ■ MMXX ^talk 21:30, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support --The High Fin Sperm Whale 03:45, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
~~Oppose~~ Change vote: now Neutral see comment below Sorry, this is a nice and highly informative picture but I've got some questions: The crab is laying on the back, right?! Is this usual to burn the eggs in the direct sun ;-) or do you turn it around to show the eggs? Would be interisting to know, and maybe good to note it on the dicription page. Furthermore I don't think this is a FP cause of the harsh lighting and resulting strong shadows. The slightly sideview is not the best position to show the crab cause of the resulting dof problems. Definitely QI & VP but imo no FP, sorry George. --mathias K 05:50, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

After very fast photographing (1-2 sec) this crab has returned to usual pose. I wouldn't like to do it harm. If a crab falls to back, it can turn self to normal pose for few seconds. Photo of this biological ID with eggs is very rare in Web. -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 07:14, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Believe that this is a very rare and well captured scene. Change vote to neutral cause of the not perfect conditions while taking the pic. No sup because of the technical reasons posted above. Thanks for the comment and greetings, mathias K 07:24, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Valuable image of an interesting subject, but the quality is just not there. Lighting problems (the shadows especially) and it could definitely be more crisp. FP is for the best of the best. Steven Walling 17:39, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral Very, very educational and also very rare! And thanks for not killing it for the image. But, the image is not perfect. I think the crop should be a little tighter. Lighting is also not perfect. I would love to support it but I am batteling between neutral and oppose. Amada44 ^{talk to me} 18:25, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support considering the difficulties to takethis picture --Mbdortmund (talk) 18:27, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per SW. --99of9 (talk) 10:36, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 17:42, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lighting is, of course, not the best, but it is a fine photograph otherwise, especially for this topic. ~Kevin Payravi (Talk) 05:43, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Harsh light make shadows obscure important parts of the animal. I also wouldn't call this rare or difficult, just a bit uncomfortable for the xanthid. Lycaon (talk) 20:48, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 9 support, 3 oppose, 2 neutral → featured. /–Juliancolton | ^Talk 17:59, 2 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Arthropods