Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Baleine à bosse et son baleineau 2.jpg

File:Baleine à bosse et son baleineau 2.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals
•  Info created &uploaded by Jérémie Silvestro - nominated by User:Ikan Kekek -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:08, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Description by the photographer: "Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) near its whale calf, leaping out of water to keep away males. Taken offshore (Tahiti, French Polynesia)."

My comment: This is not a whale portrait but an exciting image of a whale in action, with attendant flying spray. I don't consider the fact that we can't see the whales' faces a detriment, let alone a disqualifying detriment, nor is the spray a detriment - they're all part of a depiction of an event, a specific act by a mother whale, protecting her child. Also, for the record, this was judged in Consensual Review on QIC, but ultimately passed 6-0. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:08, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

•  Support of course! --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 06:01, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 08:33, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Of course it is technically weak, but the image is FP level in content and composition. Charles (talk) 08:59, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --El Grafo (talk) 09:15, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --The Photographer 12:07, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Uoaei1 (talk) 12:47, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Wow! If only I could be so lucky to capture such a shot!! Atsme 📞 14:52, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

•  Comment - That's very nice of you to say, considering that you have taken "lucky" photos of marine life that are better than this one. :-) Of course I was wowed, too, which is why I nominated this photo. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:27, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

•  Support --Milseburg (talk) 14:57, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Wow indeed! --Schnobby (talk) 16:08, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Jee 16:24, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --cart-Talk 19:15, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --LivioAndronico ^(talk) 22:01, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 00:14, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 03:51, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Great. --Laitche (talk) 13:42, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Not as sharp as one might hope, but, hey, either you get this shot or you don't. Daniel Case (talk) 15:47, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Pretty much per User:Daniel Case, having spent more time than I want to admit at sea, this is great photo. PumpkinSky talk 16:18, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Colin (talk) 11:52, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 19 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Jee 13:52, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

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