Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Trapped in Amber

Ant Trapped in Baltic Amber

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 10 Dec 2010 at 03:44:04 (UTC)

Original - Not for voting - Baltic amber inclusions - 40-50 million years old. The ant is about 8 mm long - measured in the position seen in the picture.

Alternate - Not for voting - Nominated by AmericanXplorer13 (talk) - Alternate of the same photo, this currently isn't on any articles, but if it get's featured, it would replace the current original.

Voting Alternate - Nominated and Edited by AmericanXplorer13 (talk) - Edited version of the alternate previously provided, removes shadow and random blue spot, etc.

Voting Alternate 2 - Nominated and Edited by AmericanXplorer13 (talk) - Cropped out portion of fingers, gave it a 3:2 aspect ratio.

Reason

High quality and amazing photo of an ant trapped in Baltic Amber

Articles in which this image appears

Amber

FP category for this image

Geology

Creator

Baltic-amber-beetle

• Support as nominator --AmericanXplorer13 (talk) 03:44, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
• Weak support A slightly less tight crop would be ideal. Nergaal (talk) 06:38, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Try using a crop of the original version of the alt (i.e. the one with higher res); no fingers please. Nergaal (talk) 21:43, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

• I think that the fingers give a good sense of size. Most people have never seen a bug trapped in amber and don't know exactly how big (or small) it is. AmericanXplorer13 (talk) 00:18, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

• Support Alt 2 It is a more interesting picture and fingers give some sense of scale. Noodle snacks (talk) 00:43, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
• Support Alt 2 only if the weird shadow on the left side is removed. It's a pity that the alt, which has far superior composition, doesn't have the sheer resolution of the original. Purpy Pupple (talk) 04:39, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
• Support alt --Muhammad(talk) 10:30, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
• Comment - Edited alternate added. AmericanXplorer13 (talk) 14:21, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
• Support Alt 2 great job american-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 17:53, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
• The alt looks good, but I think that cropping out a bit of the fingers (the nail at least) could improve it. Nergaal (talk) 06:58, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
• Support Alt2 Nergaal (talk) 16:41, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
• Support Alt2 Nice work. SMasters (talk) 07:24, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Promoted File:Amber2.jpg --Jujutacular ^talk 04:34, 10 December 2010 (UTC)