Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Common Brushtail Possum

Common Brushtail Possum[edit]

I took the following photograph at Grampians National Park in Victoria, Australia as a group of Common Brushtail Possums were clamouring around our campsite looking for food scraps. The nose of the possum is slightly out of focus, but, other than that, I can't see anything significantly wrong with the photograph (other than, of course, the relatively low resolution). The eye of the possum also seems to bear a battle scar or two, which I always thought was cool. I was just looking to get everybody else's thoughts, since my opinion is quite obviously biased!

Self-nominate and support. Ackatsis 10:32, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

It is an interesting picture. For starters I find the cut-off ears and general composition a bit of a problem (i.e., it looks like a bit of a rushed snapshot), and the possum looks a bit startled. However, there was very recently an image of I think it was a racoon that was similarly cut-off that gained very strong support. Apart from the focus, another problem are the blown out areas of the nose and lips (the parts where what should be pink looks white). The uneven lighting and flash reflections are other areas that could be frowned upon in FPC voting. Nonetheless, while I personally feel it would struggle, I would be interested to see how it would fare. --jjron 11:34, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Well, the raccoon pic focuses on the mask, so the cropping is less problematic than here, where we'd want to see the whole animal. I didn't realize that Australia had possums too, but then again, "possum" in North America is really short for "opossum". I also know I'm anthropormophizing but it really looks like the possum is startled. howch e ng {chat} 19:50, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Yeah, I'd probably look startled too if some idiot stuck a camera with a flash in my face! The truth is, we were camping at the Grampians, and we'd been preparing some fruit salad for our dessert. I swung my torch around to see that a possum had clambered onto the picnic table and was licking the fruit salad straight out of my cup! Needless to say, I let them have the rest of it... Here's some background reading on the 63 species of possum [1], which are native to Australia, New Guinea and Sulawesi. Here, too, is the article on the Common Brushtail- which is the species of possum depicted in the photograph [2]. Ackatsis 02:49, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- Our possoms are cuter than your opossoms! :) --Candy-Panda 09:21, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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