Original - The Common Indian Toad or Common Asiatic/Asian Toad or Black-spined Toad, Duttaphrynus melanostictus, is a species of toad that is common in South Asia. The species breeds during the monsoons. Young toads may be seen in large numbers after the monsoons, and may grow to eventually reach 20 cm in length.Edit Reduced highlight in eye.
Reason
12MP photograph of this animal in its natural range, taken when the animal is naturally active (at night).
Weak Support A better image could be taken in the daylight. The flash reflection in the eye is a tad distracting. Maybe worth cloning out? JujutacularT · C02:21, 14 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I've added a version where the highlight is reduced. If you remove the highlight entirely, the toad looks as though blind. I feel that daylight images of nocturnal animals have the potential to distort reality, not only because the animals aren't going to look as active and poised as they do at night, but also because of the constriction of the pupil, which, as you perhaps noted in your comment about the eye highlight, influences human perceptions. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 13:51, 14 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
We generally prefer not to downsample images, so this image is being nominated at a slightly noisy 12 megapixels rather than the more common 1-1.5 megapixels that we see being nominated, at which resolution, this image would have no remaining visible noise, see for yourself: File:Bufo melanosticus 01 dwnsmpl.JPG. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 10:03, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]