Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Swallowtail Butterfly

Swallowtail Butterfly

Original - A Swallowtail butterfly on a flower in Italy. Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful butterflies which form the family Papilionidae. There are at least 550 species, and though the majority are tropical, members of the family are found on all continents except Antarctica. The family includes the largest butterflies in the world, the birdwing butterflies of Australia (genus Ornithoptera).

Reason

A great shot of a Swallotail butterfly with Full Resolution.

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Swallowtail butterfly

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Redmarkviolinist

• Support as nominator ṜέđṃάяķvюĨїήīṣŢ ^{Drop me a line}§ 21:13, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose sorry but very low in detail - looks like it has been oversharpened in an attempt to compensate - and the background is suffering some very unappealing and distracting bokeh. Mfield (talk) 21:19, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose per Mfield. crassic!^[talk] 22:40, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose. As a snapshot, it's very impressive. But it's not a great piece of animal photography by any stretch. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 11:02, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Not promoted . --John254 14:42, 26 April 2008 (UTC)