Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Balkan fritillary (Boloria graeca balcanica) underside Bulgaria.jpg

File:Balkan fritillary (Boloria graeca balcanica) underside Bulgaria.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Arthropods/Lepidoptera
•  Info This little butterfly (see thumbnail on right) lives at 2,300m above sea level at the top cable car station at the ski resort of Borovets in Bulgaria.

  

  All by Charlesjsharp -- Charles (talk) 17:28, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Charles (talk) 17:28, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- PumpkinSky talk 23:55, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
•  Support seen from a technical standpoint, there are some little issues (for example DoF control around the head). One could relativize that, as it is a tiny butterfly and a difficult one to shoot I guess. But what makes this picture FP for me is the composition. Beautiful. --Sputniktilt (talk) 00:24, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

• This was a difficult image from a technical standpoint. Being small you have to get very close, but it's windy at 2,300m so I needed 1/800. Charles (talk) 07:17, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 02:00, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 02:22, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
•  Question - I agree with Sputniktilt, but Charles, does this meet your own standards of image quality for a butterfly, considering that you consistently argue in Consensual Review that pictures of insects without sharp heads should be declined, even if the picture is large? I'd like you to answer that before I vote, although left to my own devices, I would certainly normally vote to support this picture. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:01, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

• Yes it does, very much so. The sharpness of the hairs around the head is what I wanted to achieve. But I only have 2mm DoF available. I have two other images on different flowers, which I also considered to be FPC

  

  

• I can't get the third photo to display, supposedly because of errors, though my browser sometimes crashes. Anyway, I  Support per others, my own opinion and your explanation. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:39, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

•  Support --Berthold Werner (talk) 06:07, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 06:07, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 06:13, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 06:37, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 16:12, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 21:25, 20 August 2017 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 12 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Yann (talk) 23:28, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

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