Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Melissodes apicata, f, side, Maine, Du Clos 2015-12-01-17.01 (24313844616).jpg

File:Melissodes apicata, f, side, Maine, Du Clos 2015-12-01-17.01 (24313844616).jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Arthropods/Hymenoptera
•  Info created by USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab - uploaded by Rhododendrites - nominated by Christian Ferrer -- Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 14:02, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 14:02, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 14:15, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - I don't love the upper crop, as I'd like more room there, but you just can't argue with that degree of detail and resolution. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 15:01, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose There are lots of similar pictures at Category:Files by USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Laboratory and the Flickr page but I don't think this is the best and many of them look interesting in thumbnail but less so fullscreen. It just screams oversharpened. There's quite a number of stacking artefacts. The lighting is so harsh my eyes hurt looking at it fullscreen. Having watched the Youtube video about their Photoshopping of the stacked images, I'm not over-impressed at their technique which involves destructive edits, settings that make it "pop" rather than being accurate, and a fair bit of clone tool. I guess I prefer my bees buzzing happily rather than stuck on a pin (as this one would have been and cloned out) and blasted by unsympathetic lighting. -- Colin (talk) 19:56, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Colin put words to my thoughts. Now that we have such excellent photos of happy live bees, I think we are past some of the "collect dead bugs stage". Also the wing looks frayed and damaged. cart-Talk 23:28, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Oversharpened, per Colin. Daniel Case (talk) 02:35, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
•  I withdraw my nomination Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 17:23, 18 October 2016 (UTC)