I think this is a fantastic image of one of the best-known mushrooms - maybe a bit more open and mature than the "classic" image used in a million 1960s images, but I don't see that as a problem, given that if we only showed the classic stage of development, how would people know what the other stages looked like?
I've seen these fairly regularly - though not in a while - and I'd have said this was right for the mature mushroom, but there's some WikiProject Fungi people around, so let's see what they say. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 05:24, 24 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support It would have better EV with the leaves removed at the base of the stem, and maybe the top is a little OOF, but otherwise it's solid. I see what you're saying about the yellow tint; however the stem color for the species is "white to cream" (gills "whitish"), and this is an older specimen, so its in the range of normal. Sasata (talk) 08:04, 24 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose IMO, lighting is not ideal --Muhammad(talk) 08:42, 24 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Strong flash photography is almost never ideal and although it does bring out the colours of the mushroom, it does look a bit unrealistic. Diliff | (Talk)(Contribs) 11:17, 24 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]