Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Spider paralysing a prey

Crab spider paralysing a fly edit

Original - A crab spider (Xysticus sp.) paralysing a fly (Xyloma maculata). Notice the pollen covering the fly's body as a result of the struggle to get free. Crab spiders ambush on or inside the flowers from where they jump on preys coming to feed on nectar

Reason: A dramatic picture illustrating the behaviour of ambush spiders, not very easy to catch. Composition is a bit confusing but that contributes to suggest the struggle of the prey.
Articles this image appears in: Spider, Crab spider
Creator: Joaquim Alves Gaspar

Support as nominator Alvesgaspar (talk) 11:59, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose. I'd definitely support this if it was a bit easier to see what was going on. Also, when viewing it full sized, very little is in clear focus. Usually I'm sympathetic to DOF issues in macro photography but I can't help thinking it could have been improved a bit. What aperture was used? Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 15:28, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Some EXIF info added to the image file. Yes, maybe it could, but we have to think and act fast on those occasions -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 16:27, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - Very true. I've missed many good macro opportunities for lack of time to prepare the shot. :-) It looks like you did about the best you could under the circumstances. Stopped any further down and you'd have just made it less sharp, probably. The extension ring obviously contributed to the lack of DOF though. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 18:06, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I think the degree of difficulty for this shot gives us some leeway to approve despite the DOF issues. howcheng {chat} 16:45, 14 March 2008 (UTC)#[reply]
Oppose. It's quite hard to see what exactly is going on. microchip08 ^{Find my secret page!} Talk to me! I feel lonely! 18:02, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per above. crassic!^[talk] 05:29, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per above. --Richard Bartz (talk) 23:44, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 06:51, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]