Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Crocodylus acutus camouflage.jpg

File:Crocodylus acutus camouflage.jpg, featured

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•  Info All by -- Tomascastelazo (talk) 21:06, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
•  Support -- Tomascastelazo (talk) 21:06, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Ralf Roleček 22:52, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
•  Support some quality issues but sufficient wow --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 05:36, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Great strange structures around the animal's head. :) --Tremonist (talk) 12:11, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose The croco hides too well for me to Support this image. Lots of disturbing reflections and quite noisy. --Uoaei1 (talk) 14:50, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
•  Question @ Uoaei1 isn't that the idea of camouflage? So the question is, does the picture tell the story it is trying to tell? --Tomascastelazo (talk) 18:31, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

• If it is this you want to show, you are of course right. But I still find the reflections too disturbing. --Uoaei1 (talk) 12:50, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

•  Support --Mile (talk) 10:57, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
• Weak  Support A lot of reflections. Interesting. --XRay ^talk 18:52, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Inevitable reflections. 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 21:37, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
•  Support It's not a typical image that makes you say "wow," with anything distinctive in it - but that's precisely how the camouflage manages to work so well. --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 06:12, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
•  Support -- H. Krisp (talk) 10:18, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose Sorry but noise and I don't like the composition --LivioAndronico talk 11:01, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose Of course it is a very tough task to depict an example of camouflage as you might want to show the subject and how it merges with the background - two contradictory requirements. But frankly, the picture here is not an example of a camouflaged animal. The reason why you don't see the croc clearly is just a combination of disturbing reflections with a somewhat unhappy composition. --LC-de (talk) 12:43, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
•  Support I like the camouflaged reflections and the fact he is approaching the viewer. -- Colin (talk) 19:54, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

•  Comment I generally try not to “explain” my photographs, but I think it is appropriate in this case. First of all, mangroves offer difficult light conditions. Most pictures of mangroves are taken from the outside looking in, but the view stops at the edge of the mangroves, and seldom ventures in. This is due to the thick foilage that makes it difficult to see far into it. Once inside the mangrove, depending on the day, light seeps in and gives a very spoty look inside, with patches of light next to patches of shadows with a great differential in exposure values, basically photographing small sunlit areas next to shadow areas, and thus making overal light conditions terrible. As just as light seeps in, the reflections of the canopy make a very confusing scene, visually speaking. Reflections everywhere, sunlight coming in small ray like patterns, etc. See here #REDIRECT[[1]] and here #REDIRECT[[2]] and here #REDIRECT[[3]]. When the water is still, it acts as a mirror to a very complex scene, and it is hard to distinguish the real thing from the reflection.

Now to the crocs… When taken in lazy mode, that is, the crocs sunbathing, it is very easy to distinguish them in their environment, and this type of picture give una a good idea of the physiognomy, but not necesarily of their adaptive characteristics or their ability to blend into a scene. See here #REDIRECT[[4]] and here #REDIRECT[[5]].

Now, if we take a close look at the “design” of the crock skin, we see a camouflage pattern on the Surface, and further out, the texture of the skin give the crocs a different type of taxture base camoflage. Se here #REDIRECT[[6]] and here #REDIRECT[[7]]

So between the skin pattern and the texture pattern added to the reflections and to the choppy waters, the crocs blend in beautifully giving them a survival advantage or a hunting advantage. See here #REDIRECT[[8]], and here #REDIRECT[[9]]

Interistingly, when waters are still, the crocs laying still, just beneath the water, resemble logs floating around. See here #REDIRECT[[10]] and here #REDIRECT[[11]]

So, with all that, this picture is not a picture of a croc only, it is a picture of an environment that shows the blending in of a croc in that environment.

--Tomascastelazo (talk) 20:58, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

•  Oppose It is an interesting, and possibly a useful photo. The visual appeal is very limited though, and I would expect more of that for a featured picture. — Julian H.^✈ 10:10, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Julian, sorry. Interesting and useful but no wow for me. --Kreuzschnabel 17:21, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

* Oppose For Julian --Σπάρτακος (talk) 11:07, 25 May 2015 (UTC) Striked --Cart (talk) 19:38, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

•  Info Post-promoted due to sock double vote. 12 October 2018 --Cart (talk) 18:21, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 10 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Cart (talk) 18:21, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

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