Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Griffon vulture takeoff.jpg

File:Griffon vulture takeoff.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
•  Info created & uploaded by Artemy Voikhansky - nominated by Tomer T -- Tomer T (talk) 16:11, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Tomer T (talk) 16:11, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support. The wing tips are a little out of focus, but still an imposing picture. —Bruce1ee^talk 17:33, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support per above --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 19:16, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support what they said --cart-Talk 19:56, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support lNeverCry 21:52, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
• Weak  Support. Shutter speed is a bit too slow to freeze motion entirely but still very good. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 21:57, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Qualified support per King. If the pose were any less striking it would have fallen short. Daniel Case (talk) 03:58, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment - I'd support per everyone's points, but first I'd like to know what the little white lines to the left of the bird are. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:23, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment - Tomer, thanks for nominating this! In my eyes the main issue in this picture is that the head is quite before start of DOF and is blurred for that reason.
  That's why I didn't nominate this for QI... (but uploaded since the pose is so cool I couldn't resist).
  Ikan, I didn't notice them until you've asked. Probably dirt falling off due to fast acceleration. Artemy Voikhansky (talk) 09:17, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

• If they're natural and in fact genuinely part of the image, that's fine, and I  Support. I think it's an open question whether this could have passed a Consensual Review in COM:QIC. I could see it going either way. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:43, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

•  Support --Pierre André (talk) 11:31, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
• Crop could be wider. --Mile (talk) 14:03, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 04:30, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Per the author, the pose is so cool and I like the background. --Laitche (talk) 15:34, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 18:11, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 21:25, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 22:04, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Some unsharpness is good to give the motion feel. Jee 06:57, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --LivioAndronico ^(talk) 21:44, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 16 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /lNeverCry 22:00, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

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