Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Yellow chamomile

Yellow chamomile flower and bud[edit]

Reason: Crisp clear and high quality depiction of the flower in two of its stages of development. Also, a good illustration of the beauty of little things that live all around us, which we won’t notice unless we look carefully.
Proposed caption: The Yellow Chamomile (Anthemis tinctoria) is a species of the sunflower family, Asteracea. It is found in wastelands and roadsides, usually in dry places and low altitudes, and also cultivated for its flowers. The flower-heads are 3 to 9 mm, in general all yellow. It was once the source of a yellow dye, hence the species name tinctoria. The picture shows a full-grown flower and a bud.
Articles this image appears in: Anthemis tinctoria
Creator: Joaquim Alves Gaspar

Support as nominator Alvesgaspar 00:41, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Noisy/unsharp at full res. For a (relatively) common subject a better technical quality can be expected. Also I'm not convinced on the ID - it looks quite different from Image:Anthemistinctoria.jpg and Image:Anthemis tinctoria.JPG. As a last note is there any particular reason for the image name "mother and daughter"? It just sounds a bit tacky if taken in the literal sense... --Fir0002 08:47, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Info - Improved version added. It is Anthemis tinctoria, please check the leaves too. It is a very variable species (see Blamery & Grey-Wilson - Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean, A & C Balck, London, 1988) Alvesgaspar 08:57, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
~~Conditional~~ Support alternative. The noise reduction has helped. I'm not worried by the slight unsharpness and remaining noise in a photo this large of a very small flower—better to upload it at this size and let people downsample where required than to offer a smaller but sharper image. I support the alternative, but only if the image name can be changed to something relevant, otherwise please count this as an oppose in the reckoning. Nice shot. The article (such as it is) could probably stand to lose the other photos, except for the lithograph. ~ Veledan • | T | 19:23, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Info - Done (to alternative version) - Alvesgaspar 20:29, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per most of Fir's comments.. and i really dont like the angle or composition, personally i find it distracing --Childzy ¤ Talk 08:58, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 04:22, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]