Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mother and baby sperm whale.jpg

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 5 Mar 2013 at 17:48:46 (UTC)

Original – A mother sperm whale and her calf, photographed off the coast of Mauritius

Reason: It is one of the best profile pics of the sperm whale on the Web. Granted, it's a little blurry, but this is natural when photographing large animals underwater, and I'd rather not resort to digitally enhancing it.
Articles in which this image appears: Sperm whale
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals
Creator: Gabriel Barathieu

Support as nominator --Kurzon (talk) 17:48, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. For anyone else that is wondering, this is not the same photo that narrowly failed in this nomination about a month ago, although they were probably taken within seconds of each other (contrary to the date claims on the respective image pages). --jjron (talk) 13:42, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. That other picture lost the vote because there was too much digital sharpening (I don't know about this really, I just cropped the images and don't know what the author did to it).

Support — Did a Google image search. This is just about the best large sperm whale image on the web, with good EV. Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 04:38, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support as in Commons. J Kadavoor J e e 07:10, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support the excellent EV and rarity of such an image far outweighs any lack of sharpness and noise. Purpy Pupple (talk) 17:32, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 11:27, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~~Thought I added my vote the last time I was here. Must have been distracted.~~ Could just read before I comment. LOL.--Amadscientist (talk) 10:40, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support as per the reasoning of Purpy Pupple above. --Clarkcj12 (talk) 17:35, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Mother and baby sperm whale.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:02, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]