Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Haeckel Stephoidea edit.jpg

Radiolarians of the order Stephoidea, by Ernst Haeckel.

The 71st plate from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur, showing radiolarians of the order Stephoidea. Radiolarians form intricate mineral skeletons, usually with a central capsule dividing the cell into inner and outer portions. Radiolarians are found as zooplankton throughout the ocean and are important diagnostic fossils, found from the Cambrian period onwards.

Edit 1: cleaned up and corrected gray-ish areas on background, white border cloned out

Reason

Following comments over on this image's time at PPR, I've decided to try and run the gauntlet here : ) This is my first try at this, so I'll try and make sure I do everything right.. Basically, I believe that the image is a beautiful representation of the subject. On to the criteria.. The image is technically (I believe) excellent, and is well over the resolution guidelines. The image is in PD as copyright has expired, adds a graphical side to an otherwise dry - my personal opinion - article, is neutral and also avoids digital manipulation. The caption is my attempt at it and I'm not altogether sure about it, but hopefully someone here can tidy it up if there's a problem. An image in the same series as this was nominated and passed back in February 2006 (Discussion). It also appears on the gallery present on the radiolarian page.

Articles this image appears in

Radiolarian, Kunstformen der Natur

Creator

Ernst Haeckel, Uploaded by User:ragesoss

• Support as nominator shas^Yarr!/_T|C 00:43, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Support edit 1 - Nice correction and thank you for the edit mikaul : ) shas^Yarr!/_T|C 14:37, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
• Support Very cool, nice resolution. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Teque5 (talk • contribs) 01:04, 24 January 2008
• Comment mikaul offered to clean this up. I think that would be a good idea, given the noise found in the black background. Samsara (talk • contribs) 02:33, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
• Support edit 1 Wonderful illustration of huge enc value. A nice, big scan from what looks like a pretty good quality original. mikaul^talk 17:18, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
• Support edit 1 - Nice. Thank you so much Ragesoss and Mixpix! pschemp | talk 06:20, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
• Support edit 1 More Haeckel? Look great, though.--HereToHelp ^{(talk to me)} 02:24, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Haeckel Stephoidea edit.jpg MER-C 04:34, 31 January 2008 (UTC)