Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Amanita muscaria Marriott Falls

Amanita muscaria set nomination

Original 1 - A. muscaria, Button

Original 2 - A. muscaria, Immature

Original 3 - Mature A. muscaria, Mature, Some of the white spots may be washed off with rain

Reason: Good quality and lighting. Nominating as a set. All three have enc, showing different stages of growth.
Articles this image appears in: Amanita muscaria
Creator: Noodle snacks

Support as nominator --Noodle snacks (talk) 10:43, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
~~Weak oppose~~, I think. I appreciate the difficulty of getting a good shot of these due to numerous distracting elements and the inevitable 'looking down at' angle of view, but, although the technical quality of them is very good as always, I don't find the composition is particularly great in any of them. That said, I'm not entirely sure how it could be improved either given the distracting elements mentioned above are also pretty fundamental given the environment that they grow in... Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 11:43, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- PS, how was it? ;-) Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 11:55, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Apparently they are non-toxic after "parboiling in plentiful water". Magic mushrooms actually look quite different. Anyway, the distracting elements are principally pine needles and per the article in the southern hemisphere they are "symbiont with pine plantations". The buttons are obviously looking down a bit. I had the pleasure of lying in the mud for the other two though. Noodle snacks (talk) 12:01, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support I don't think we're ever likely to get much better. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 20:42, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support- these are as high a quality as you are going to get while they are natural. Technically very good, the composition shows off the mushroom in its natural environment. J Milburn (talk) 17:57, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support per JMilburn. Sasata (talk) 22:52, 19 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose three-piece, support either earlier stage with the mature mushroom. My feeling is that I don't get different EV with the two earlier stage pictures. I'd prefer to drop the first one, it has the worse composition. I would also support either of the other two (2 or 3) on their own (they should be promoted either as a pair or a singleton, not both). Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 23:10, 19 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- The buttons in image 1 are about the same size as the one just visible on the left of image 2. Casliber, who did a lot of work on the article, was asking around for a picture of a button before this image was taken. I think that the first image has definite EV. Noodle snacks (talk) 05:55, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - I agree. Those things are tiny, and it's a quality image that illustrates well what they actually look like. Unless you dig them up (which obviously wouldn't fit with this set) that's all you're going to really get. J Milburn (talk) 19:10, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose 3-piece I agree with Papa Lima Whiskey. I do not like the first image, as it doesn't look like FA quality, but the second two are great pictures of the mushrooms in their natural environment, and I would definitely support those 2 on their own. hmwith τ 13:42, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Original 2 / 3., Weak oppose Original 1. late vote - change of heart. Individually, 2 and 3 are of sufficient quality and EV. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 12:17, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted No prejudice to individual nomination. MER-C 02:51, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Translation: CBF, my bot can't do it. Noodle snacks (talk) 03:57, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK, lets it now rather than later. Promoted Image:Amanita muscaria Marriott Falls 1.jpg and File:Amanita muscaria After Rain.jpg. MER-C 12:45, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]