Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Butterfly August 2008-3.jpg

Painted Lady

Original - A Painted Lady Butterfly (Vanessa cardui) collecting nectar from a Lantana camara flower. Resident in south but migrating northward each spring to produce a summer brood all over Europe

Reason

Hight resolution and good quality depiction of a beautiful species of butterfly, comparing favourably with the existing photos and adding values to the articles.

Articles this image appears in

Painted Lady, Vanessa cardui

Creator

Joaquim Alves Gaspar

• Support as nominator --Alvesgaspar (talk) 17:57, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
• Support So sharp I can count individual scales. Durova^Charge! 18:44, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
• Support Great Detail and an good background Noodle snacks (talk) 01:11, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
• Weak Support Great shot. Nice composition and good EV. It seems to me that the flower is more in focus than the butterfly. The eyes are a bit blurry to me. I doubt there's anything that can be done to fix that, Too bad. (Giligone (talk) 23:44, 2 September 2008 (UTC))
• Weak Support It's a pretty butterfly but I disagree with Durova^Charge! - doesn't seem particularly sharp to me --Abdominator (talk) 03:57, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Butterfly August 2008-3.jpg MER-C 06:16, 7 September 2008 (UTC)