Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Heteractis magnifica

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Reason

Well done underwater photo and lead image of its article. It shows the magnificent sea anemone with its symbiotic partner pink anemonefish. The pixel count isn't ideal but underwater photos have a higher degree of difficulty, so I hope the technical quality is sufficient. The photo was captured off the north coast of East Timor.

Articles in which this image appears

Heteractis magnifica

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Cnidaria

Creator

Nick Hobgood

• Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 18:34, 12 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment. At this level of sharpness (maybe typical for underwater?), more pixels would be pointless. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:48, 12 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• True, for comparison here is one of the better images of this subject, more recent photo, and FP on Commons. Underwater photos are hard. The nom image has good EV and composition (it shows the column of the anemone for instance), so I nominated it. Bammesk (talk) 19:45, 12 April 2020 (UTC) . . . I struck "more recent", my mistake. (it was nominated in 2017 but not more recent)[reply]

• I added an Alternate. The alternate isn't prominently displayed in an infobox, however it is in a gallery on symbiotic relations of the magnificent sea anemone, and is in the article of the pink anemonefish. Bammesk (talk) 20:58, 12 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support original. The alternate reminds me too much of Finding Nemo in a way that makes it feel cartoony to me, and doesn't show the full shape of the anemone. As discussed above, I suspect that expecting a sharper image underwater might be unreasonable, and therefore that the lower pixel count is non-problematic (because more pixels wouldn't be useful). —David Eppstein (talk) 07:41, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support original. MER-C 11:16, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support the beetroot. --Janke | Talk 14:22, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support both the original and the alternate. --Gnosis (talk) 18:39, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support original as it shows the full anemone. Poydoo can talk and edit 21:43, 17 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Original – DreamSparrow ^Chat 05:56, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Amphiprion perideraion (Pink anemonefish) in Heteractis magnifica (Magnificent sea anemone).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:19, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]