Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Piping plover

Piping plover

The Piping plover (Charadrius melodus) is a sparrow-sized, sand-colored, endangered shorebird that lives on the Atlantic coast and on the shores of the Great Lakes.

Really liked the photo. Rather large. I can't see any noise or graininess.

• Nominated by: ​​​​D​​tbohrer​​​​^{talk•contribs} 22:25, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Articles: Piping plover

Comments:

• It's a really good picture, I agree, but it's not going to be voted as a featured picture. The depth of field issue is too much; the bird's beak is in sharp focus, but by midbody it's a bit blurry, and the tail and feet are far too blurry. Also, I'm not sure how much voters would like the composition; the bird's left eye looks missing because its head not quite turned enough to see the eye, the bird disappears into the background (encyclopedic but not compositionally interesting), and the bird's toes are buried in the sand (ecologically encyclopedic but not encyclopedic for bird identification). Thanks for finding it and uploading it though; it's of much higher resolution than the current info box image, and does give readers a good idea of what the bird looks like. Enuja (talk) 23:20, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

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