Mirounga leonina

Reason

Focus is bang on and photo is sharp, great resolution, super pose (also characteristically aggressive), and certainly the clearest image we have of facial and mouth detail for seals.

Articles in which this image appears

Southern Elephant Seal, Elephant seal (gallery)

Creator

Serge Ouachée

• Support as nominator — Maedin\ ^talk 21:36, 9 January 2010 (UTC) reply
• Strong Support Absolutely hilarious. upstate NYer 21:51, 9 January 2010 (UTC) reply
• Support per nom and per UpstateNYer. We obviously need to add hilarity to Wikipedia:Featured picture criteria. :-) Ðiliff «» (Talk) 22:26, 9 January 2010 (UTC) reply
  • Definitely worth a proposal. upstate NYer 23:18, 9 January 2010 (UTC) reply
    • I would support any such proposal. I am also happy to co-chair the subcommittee which decides the background colour of the page for the organisation of the vote count. Noodle snacks ( talk) 09:09, 10 January 2010 (UTC) reply
      • I think the proposal for said subcommittee needs to go to FPC:Talk first. -- jjron ( talk) 13:36, 10 January 2010 (UTC) reply
• Support As mentioned at COM:QI, there's a person in the left eye :) -- Zoo Fari 22:36, 9 January 2010 (UTC) reply
  • What were you expecting :P? Noodle snacks ( talk) 09:09, 10 January 2010 (UTC) reply
• Support But not getting the hilarity? Gazhiley ( talk) 23:18, 9 January 2010 (UTC) reply
• Support And to Gazhiley, look at him! He's so silly. Staxringold _talk ^contribs 18:05, 10 January 2010 (UTC) reply
• Support Simply great (and nice aperture, too!) Kangxi Emperor 康熙帝 ( talk) 18:26, 10 January 2010 (UTC) reply
• Heavy Support It's killer. So perfect. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Buggie111 ( talk • contribs) 00:13, 11 January 2010
• Support - Per nominator. - ☩ Damërung ☩ . -- 04:49, 11 January 2010 (UTC) reply
• Support wow, this is an awesome candidate. - Fcb981( talk: contribs) 01:56, 13 January 2010 (UTC) reply
  • Must be really awesome to bring you back :-) -- Muhammad (talk) 05:59, 13 January 2010 (UTC) reply
    • haha, it is certainly eye-catching, since I happened to be scrolling FPC. And it's nice to be recognized still, thanks Muhammad. - Fcb981( talk: contribs) 05:42, 14 January 2010 (UTC) reply
• Question: In pictures of birds, I have seen that people ask for it to be a profile picture to be able to see the features of the beak, tail and wings. Why is it that in this case it is not asked? Not feature of wings, tail and shape of the body are really distinguishable. Is is different this in birds?  franklin  22:03, 13 January 2010 (UTC) reply
  • It is particularly important for birds so that you can see the plumage. I guess this picture is supposed to be about "face and mouth detail", ie a portrait. Noodle snacks ( talk) 22:09, 13 January 2010 (UTC) reply
  • We have lots of bird FPs, so the expectations are higher. We rarely get arctic creature candidates. -- Zoo Fari 22:12, 13 January 2010 (UTC) reply

• I've asked for that once or twice. My big difference is per Noodle Snacks, this guy another foot down is going to have basically the same coloration and such. Admittedly you get no tail detail here, but it provides significant information. Also, as Zoo mentions, more pics does tend to create higher standards. Staxringold _talk ^contribs 16:18, 15 January 2010 (UTC) reply

• Support. Excellent picture of high encyclopedic value. - Darwinek ( talk) 20:12, 16 January 2010 (UTC) reply
• Strong Support Not only is he cute, but instantly made me smile. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Neon Sky ( talk • contribs) 20:57, 16 January 2010 (UTC) reply

Promoted Mirounga leonina.jpg -- jjron ( talk) 10:55, 17 January 2010 (UTC) reply