Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Magnolia grandiflora

Magnolia grandiflora

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 1 Jun 2014 at 00:47:55 (UTC)

It is a close up image on a Magnolia Grandiflora, the petals are clean and fresh, and it is informative, showing the texture of the petals and the parts that are clearly arranged spirally. (not visible on other similar pictures)

Reason: Picture of the day on Spanish Wikipedia, 2013/08, one of the best on Magnolia grandiflora flower and it is clearly informative.
Articles in which this image appears: Magnolia grandiflora, Magnolia, Magnoliaceae - even other wikis.
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Plants/Flowers
Creator: Lohen11

Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 00:47, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose -- I don't consider this close-up particularly encyclopaedic. The former leading picture, showing the flower and leaves was much better. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 11:00, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - not just a very beautiful image, but demonstrates an important point that the parts of the flower are spirally arranged, for which reason I've used it on the Magnoliaceae page, replacing two previous images that were inferior even used together. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 12:22, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose regretfully. I find File:Magnolia flower Duke campus.jpg to have higher EV, because the entire flower, and some of the space around it, is shown. The crop is just too tight here. Sven Manguard Wha? 03:29, 23 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Sven, nobody say that an article can't have several pictures. One close up and a for the general apperance. What one picture doesn't show, that will be on the other. Hafspajen (talk) 11:25, 23 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment this may not be the best lead image for Magnolia grandiflora, for which the leaves are important, but that doesn't undermine the worth of this picture. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 12:31, 23 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I could do without the leaves. That most of the outer petals were partially cropped out is what kills it for me. If you're illustrating the flower, illustrate the flower, don't illustrate part of the flower. Sven Manguard Wha? 16:11, 23 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Depends. This is the feeling I get when I stuck my nose in roses, lillies and other flowers. It is a touchy-feely thing. I like it. Hafspajen (talk) 17:50, 23 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:59, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]