Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Almandine

Almandine

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Original – Almandine is a species of mineral belonging to the garnet group. The name is a corruption of alabandicus, which is the name applied by Pliny the Elder to a stone found or worked at Alabanda, a town in Caria in Asia Minor.

Reason: HQ & EV
Articles in which this image appears: Almandine
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Geology
Creator: Archaeodontosaurus

Support as nominator – Alborzagros (talk) 06:30, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
~~Support~~Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 09:30, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I've seen photos of minerals that are clearer than this. See my user page. CorinneSD (talk) 01:55, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Okay, I've done that. In what way could this image be improved? Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 23:38, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I don't know the finer points of photography, but I don't understand why this was photographed with a black background. I think that if it were photographed on a white background it would give a better indication of the precise shade of brown of the matrix. Also, if the light were shining from one direction, there would be a slight shadow that would give a better idea of the overall shape and three-dimensionality of the mineral. CorinneSD (talk) 19:14, 25 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Thanks! I had a closer look, and I'm pretty sure the black background was added in digital processing- there's a tiny area of white at the bottom, and the border of the black seems to have the characteristic smooth curves and lines generated by a selection process. The matrix might be schist, which would be silvery grey (I just searched for "almandine matrix" and that seems the best match). So I've struck my support. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 09:03, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It would be nice if we could find another, better, image of this same mineral. - CorinneSD (talk) 17:23, 26 January 2015 (UTC) [reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:38, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]