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Original – The Lattice Brown (Kirinia roxelana) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in South-Eastern Europe and the Near East.
Reason
High quality image, useful, used in three articles.
Articles in which this image appears
Kirinia roxelana +2
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Insects
Creator
Gideon Pisanty
  • Comment Funny enough the orange blur is the thing that gives balace to the picture, it takes up the colour of the small patches on the butterfly, also gives the balance this picture needs, just cover it and look at the picture again. Hafspajen (talk) 19:19, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • I even downloaded the image and used Gimp to eliminate the orange blur (I duplicated the layer and desaturated it *a lot*, then I painted the rest of the image back in). I also tried cropping it. I found that my eyes could concentrate more on the butterfly afterwards. Exactly because the blur has the same tone as the spots on the butterfly, my eyes keep jumping back and forth. I think that a "balance" effect would be the case if e.g. the out-of-focus orange spots were homogeneously distributed around the butterfly. Then again, nobody else is complaining, so I decided that this was just me, and I proceeded to support the image :-) --Ebertakis (talk) 23:04, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Kirinia roxelana male 1.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 08:40, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]