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Crowned Lapwing (Vanellus coronatus)

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 4 Sep 2011 at 11:42:46 (UTC)

Original - Crowned Lapwing (Vanellus coronatus) in Mikumi National Park, Tanzania

Edit Lift shadows a bit

Reason

Good quality, EV, resolution

Articles in which this image appears

Crowned Lapwing, Vanellus

Creator

muhammad Mahdi Karim

• Support as nominator --Muhammad(talk) 11:42, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
• Support. Slightly front-focussed, and I'd tend to drop off the ISO a bit, but quite good composition and clarity of the bird given the natural camouflage with the background, and good enough when viewed at a fair image size. --jjron (talk) 13:43, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
• Weak support good but has minor focus problems. Pine^talk 07:25, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
  • Prefer edit 1 would but vote weak support there too. Pine^talk 23:40, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
    • Thanks for the support but it's not a focus problem. As JJ mentions below, I was higher than the bird, shooting from inside a vehicle which gives the illusion of it being front focused --Muhammad(talk) 08:48, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
• Support edit I think its in focus at the eye, but appears front focused at the feed because the photographer is higher than the bird. JJ Harrison (talk) 05:06, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
• Support edit: Colours look a little better. Great definition and EV. Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:54, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
• Support both, prefer original I think the original shadows looked fine, thus prefer the unmanipulated version, but both are good. --99of9 (talk) 12:27, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
• Support either. Good lighting and pose. Focus seems acceptable. Kaldari (talk) 03:38, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
• Support both. Very good. TehGrauniad (talk) 22:46, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Promoted File:Crowned Lapwing (Vanellus coronatus) Mikumi shadow lift.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 17:14, 4 September 2011 (UTC)