Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Impala mutualim with birds.jpg

Impala mutualim with birds

Original - A male impala at Mikumi National Park. Red-billed Oxpecker are feeding on ticks found on the Impala, a practice that benefits both animals.

Alternative 1 Larger resolution and wider crop.

Reason: Good quality and very good EV for many articles. Shows the impala in a natural environment and illustrates the relationship between the two species.
Articles in which this image appears: Impala, Mutualism (biology), Red-billed Oxpecker
Creator: Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Support as nominator --Muhammad(talk) 17:07, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The framing is too tight at the top. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 19:58, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Edit added. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 20:36, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - I removed edit per cloning issues. Appreciate the effort though, thanks --Muhammad(talk) 17:53, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The stalk of grass running through the face of the oxpecker on the back is a crying shame. And, wearing my bird-nerd hat, its inclusion in mutualism is debatable. Oxpeckers are part mutual and part parasitic. The extent to which this is so is a source of ongoing debate and research. Sabine's Sunbird talk 05:06, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- In the beginning the oxpeckers are mutalistic and then they end up being parasitic. Would it be better if I included that in the caption? Grass through the oxpecker is indeed unfortunate but sometimes it is impossible to see such minor things through the wiewfinder. But it illustrates the implala and the environment quite well, IMO --Muhammad(talk) 12:49, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The clone job on the edit needs a little more work; many duplicated features --Benjamint 06:25, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Replaced with alternative with natural wide crop and minimal cloning --Muhammad(talk) 17:53, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
If more users prefer a wider crop, I can probably get a better one from the original. --Muhammad(talk) 12:49, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nominator.--Mbz1 (talk) 17:27, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
~~Reluctant oppose~~. Cloning problems at far right. Durova⁴¹² 19:16, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- And the original? --Muhammad(talk) 00:13, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Support alt 1. Thank you for fixing the cloning. Good capture. :) Durova⁴¹² 16:24, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
~~Oppose~~ Support Alt1. The cloning is an absolute no no for me, the "original" has a bit of an unbalanced composition and I would like the subject to show more detail (i.e. give me more pixels). --Dschwen 15:53, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Alt 1 Uploaded. Much higher resolution (I need more RAM) and wider crop from another image in the batch. --Muhammad(talk) 17:53, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - Thanks. The Alt1-version has the added benefit of the blade of grass not being in the bird's face. --Dschwen 19:01, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - You and me both, Muhammad. Makeemlighter (talk) 02:27, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - Usually with high res images, PS is very slow and a bit of impatience and it crashes. It's a sad situation --Muhammad(talk) 14:19, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      - RAM is so cheap these days though. What are the specs of your machine? Laptop or desktop? What sort of RAM does it take? Maybe I could mail you some ;-) I have some old sticks lying around. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 14:28, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        It's a laptop with 1gb of RAM. I had a good desktop back home but when it came to laptop vs camera and lenses I took a cheap laptop. Thanks for the offer, but I probably get a better one in a few months now that my sales are picking up :) --Muhammad(talk) 16:01, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support either, prefer edit 1. Nice EV and an interesting subject. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 22:22, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Impala mutualim with birds wide.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 04:03, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]