Commons:Featured picture candidates/Log/August 2016

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File:12099 on Severn Valley Railway.jpg, not featured[edit]

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British Rail Class 11 12099 diesel-electric shunting locomotive on the Severn Valley Railway
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Result: 1 support, 6 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 04:55, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Cataratas do Iguaçu - Vista de cima.jpg, featured[edit]

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Iguazu Falls - view from the observation deck.
@Ikan Kekek: Perhaps because of the rainbow. 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 23:08, 19 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, the rainbow makes the pictures more spectacular. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 03:15, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Iguazu Falls - view from the observation deck.

And the equipment not been adequate, is not a excuse to us classify as a good photo, or give more credited for this. ;) Actually, with technique even me know how to suppress the limitation of using a compact camera to create a long exposure look... -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton 15:03, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I know this camera and how is difficult create a long exposure, basically you need hack the camera installing another operative system, also the sensor problem that impact the image quality. In this image composition the zoom is irrelevant imho --The Photographer (talk) 19:50, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Again:
"Canon PowerShot SX40 HS is a superzoom [camera], and have a M mode. (see?}"
"And the equipment not been adequate, is not a excuse to us classify as a good photo, or give more credited for this. ;) Actually, with technique even me know how to suppress the limitation of using a compact camera to create a long exposure look... "-- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton 15:03, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
And I didn't say that we need 30s of exposure, just that a longer exposure could clear the clouds, the image is average to bad. And the editions added a huge amount of artefacts -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton 14:21, 22 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Long exposition version

Iguazu Falls - view from the observation deck.

  •  Info Long exposure version is a decompiling of the original version and what could be done in the first moment, thanks to Rodrigo comments. --The Photographer (talk) 16:52, 22 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose - I don't know whether I would have supported this version if it had been the only one offered, but I find the shorter-exposure version clearer and more alive. Both versions have merit, but I don't get what the advantage of this version is supposed to be, and whatever it is, it's lost on me. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 17:40, 22 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 7 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 04:58, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Crested lark singing.jpg, featured[edit]

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Result: 15 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 04:53, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Galite-Galiton 119.jpg, not featured[edit]

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View of Galite island
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Result: 1 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 04:55, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Liège-Guillemins Station, Calatrava.jpg, not featured[edit]

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  • I don't think we should expect everyone to click the Flickr link, so I'm glad you added "This picture uses mirroring" to the English-language description (someone should translate that into French). That having been explained, I have no further objection. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:48, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I don't think we can accept the photo as FP such as the guidelines are right now, BUT I also think we should use this photo as a starting point for a more broader discussion at a more proper place on Commons about new categories and guidelines. We will always encounter new things that the site has not been prepared for and I think the site should adapt accordingly. I was recently in a similar discussion about something new that did not quite fit the policy at English Wikipedia In The News when one of the main news was the Pokémon Go mania. No one had anticipated that a pop culture phenomenon could be newsworthy. But it was solved and accepted. w.carter-Talk 09:26, 29 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well frère J, I haven't opposed it! ;) Don't get me wrong, I'm just as wowed by this image as anyone else, I only want to get all the technicalities and Formal things right before I vote for it. You know all the boring things that have to be right before we can call a pic Featured. One of these is what category this should be in. We promote images of fantasy places in paintings all the time, but should this really be in the /Places/Interiors category? Not everyone are as savvy as we when it comes to image manipulations and someone may see this and want to go and have a look at this amazing place only to find that it does not actually exist. And it can hardly be in the /Non-photographic media/Computer-generated or...? w.carter-Talk 09:39, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Question - What would you say to the argument that a great photo with mirroring is not only beautiful but also educational in showing what can be done with that technique? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:17, 24 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yep, that was just a long exposure of a tram/local train going by. And that place actually exists, bridge railing and all. Funny you should choose a pic of a place where I've lived so I can vouch for the correctness of the view. Problem would probably be that with digital manipulations the possibilities are endless and we would be swamped with "cool" and "cool-wannabe" pictures. As our Alchemist-hp pointed out, this is not what Wikimedia is for. There are plenty of photo sites for that. I vote for this remaining an encyclopedia. And there is already the Category:Digitally manipulated photographs, it's just not linked to FP cats in any way. w.carter-Talk 20:53, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment - It's entirely proper to discuss the aesthetics of this site, what they are and should be, but it's not correct to call Commons an encyclopedia. This site is a repository of photos for the use of any Wikimedia project and also for per se educational reasons. It is not simply an annex to Wikipedia. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:45, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

* Oppose Per others.--Jebulon (talk) 22:09, 25 July 2016 (UTC)Sorry, I can't oppose twice...--Jebulon (talk) 22:10, 25 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Result: 19 support, 10 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 04:52, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Result: 1 support, 6 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 04:56, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Sant'Andrea (Mantua) - Dome.jpg, featured[edit]

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Sant'Andrea (Mantua) - Dome.jpg


Personal argument about an unwelcome vote
* Comment I was sure you'd say that Jebulon, unfortunately (as you can see here [4]) I can not take a picture with a perfect center because there is a fence, thanks--LivioAndronico (talk) 23:18, 22 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Comment Of course, I'm sure there is a good reason for that non-centered image. But not every place is worth a picture, and not every place is worth a Featured Picture.--Jebulon (talk) 07:50, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
      •  Comment Sure Jebulon but we do not change the subject, what you said? It is not centered ... and I responded to that. Then you should upgrade your opposition to what you really believe and not just "is not centered". Everything else is subjective and surely you would not have responded if I had just written to me (which you did not) I do not like etc.. thanks --LivioAndronico (talk) 11:53, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]


Another personal argument about an unwelcome vote
:Surprise...a your negative vote. Strange for the Centered Featured pictures. Trust me the point is just another --LivioAndronico (talk) 21:30, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Stop focusing on others' opposes behaviour. - Benh (talk) 08:55, 24 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I have no problem with the opposes I have problems with those who invent the things. When you end I'll finish.--LivioAndronico (talk) 13:44, 24 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]


One more personal argument about an unwelcome vote
:Sure,sure...--LivioAndronico (talk) 13:44, 24 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
You don’t need to argue. By nominating, you virtually asked me for my opinion about the image, and there it is. Try to say thanks. And pleeeeease try not to take any oppose as a personal insult. --Kreuzschnabel 06:26, 25 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
You must be more calm, I ask an opinion but possibly objective and unspoken things at raaaaaaaaaaaaaaandom. I insulted you? just that you say it is false --LivioAndronico (talk) 12:13, 25 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
You dind’t at all insult me, and I assure you it takes much more to upset me. I just wonder why you – please excuse for my choice of words – seem to feel so pissed off any time someone opposes your nominations. Nobody else in here behaves that way (except Spurzem from time to time). If you plan to keep others from opposing: Won’t work at all. --Kreuzschnabel 21:23, 25 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I do not want to upset you and do not care. Simply you tell falsehoods, the others, in fact, do not share. That's all. p.s. Spurzem is a good guy--LivioAndronico (talk) 21:56, 25 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Sure he’s a good guy, I never said nor meant he wasn’t. He just shares your habit of going spare on any opposing vote. And I am expressing my personal opinion, which is just an opinion. Please keep from tagging it as "false", since your personal taste is not a general standard of wrong or right. It would be false if I wrote things I do not really think, but I don’t. --Kreuzschnabel 12:35, 26 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
If a photo is "certainly overprocessed" isn't a opinion but you say it as if it were a certainty....but is false! --LivioAndronico (talk) 21:32, 26 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Please do us all a favour and look up the meaning of to me in your favourite dictionary. Thank you. --Kreuzschnabel 21:42, 26 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Surely after that you will do a favor to all and you will find your vocabulary the term objective. Thanks. --LivioAndronico (talk) 18:35, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment You asked for an example of inappropriate behavior by you? This subthread is an obvious one. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:50, 29 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Sure and you tell me Ikan Kekek how many people approve this comment? You know how many times I've had comments so always false by the same people? This photo is definitely overprocessed? Ok Since it is "safe" why nobody approve? But please .... seriously!--LivioAndronico (talk) 07:50, 29 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I have no interest in debating minutiae with you. I merely observe that your behavior is bad, and if you want me to, I will point out every time you engage in behavior I consider bad, and that would cause you to be suspended if you did it on Wikivoyage. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:53, 29 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I do not care your opinion, here we are on the commons, for me the way you do it is painful, we have to do? Differences of thought! If you haven't interest,don't do...simple --LivioAndronico (talk) 09:21, 29 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 14 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 04:54, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Betty Friedan 1960.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Betty Friedan
  •  Comment - The description gives a link to the Wikipedia article about her and describes her as an "American feminist and writer". If you don't know who she was, I suggest you read the linked Wikipedia article to start with. She was a very important feminist writer and was highly visible in the media in the U.S., to the point that her name would be one of the first that someone, or at least someone around my age (51) or older would mention if asked to name feminist leaders. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:31, 22 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Of course, I looked her up and of course, she is notable. But frankly the argument, look her up to see her notability defeats the point of a Commons FP. This is a bland photo of a woman, who happens to be important. That may be a very good justification for an enwiki feature. Equivalently, I would not support a feature of a boring picture of some house somewhere, in which something important happened. I expect something more from the picture itself, something which is there here, for example. --DXR (talk) 08:02, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 7 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /INeverCry 20:11, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Locatie, Lendevallei. Petgat 04.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Lendevallei in Netherlands. Petgat.

* Support See comment below. Mmmm... When is the next flight to this place leaving? :) w.carter-Talk 14:03, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Famberhorst: Yes; if I werern't I would have changed my !vote. Daniel Case (talk) 03:25, 24 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done. Small correction. Thank you.--Famberhorst (talk) 15:27, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Comment - It actually might be too dark now; I'd split the difference. However, I would understand that your priority would be to address the concerns about the colors below. I don't see the problem - the colors look real to me. But that's beside the point. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:16, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done. Slightly less yellow. Could possibly turn back to the first version.

  •  Comment - I'm perfectly happy with this version, and I actually consider it the best of the three, providing that the colors are now accurate. You really should ping everyone, though. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:21, 22 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I see nothing impolite in the statement. And I feel quite the same (it’s a nice picture, a bit soft and noisy, some grass blades pixelated on the right side, I suspect oversharpening – all in all I don’t see an outstanding piece of photographic art here) but that has become quite normal. On FPC, we used to consider, "is this really one of the very best images on Commons?", now it seems to be rather "well, it’s not too bad, so I’ll support it" for many voters. Well, if this is the direction things develop here, I know I am free to leave. It’s just the FP star rapidly losing its meaning for me. --Kreuzschnabel 19:47, 22 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment - Different people respond differently to different photos. For example, there is a core constituency for macro photos with bokeh. I like some of them but have a lot less tolerance for unsharpness and especially vertiginous backgrounds than others. That doesn't make pictures I oppose "nothing" or cause the star to lose its meaning because others like photos I oppose. And some viewers don't respond to this kind of landscape photo the way I do. It sucks when, as has often happened, the photographer takes offense at opposition per se and posts petulant remarks, but I do think we should all, while expressing our opinions, try to be polite, and I realize there are cultural differences, as New Yorkers tend to be blunter than people from many other parts of the U.S. and my experience so far has been that Germans are much blunter than New Yorkers (not to mention French people, for whom etiquette tends to be quite important). -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:44, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • No intention whatsoever to make this into a soap opera. Just have in mind that this is an international site and words and meanings are interpreted differently in different cultures so we all have to be very careful. A lot of peace to you too. w.carter-Talk 21:45, 29 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 10 support, 6 oppose, 1 neutral → not featured. /INeverCry 20:09, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Olustvere mõisa viinavabrik ja härjatall.JPG, not featured[edit]

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Olustvere
*@W.carter: Wouldn't en:Meh automatically mean oppose because "no wow"? ;-) --El Grafo (talk) 10:05, 22 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
*Not by default, since it could also include a bit of uncertainty about the tech quality which has very little to do with the wow-factor. :-P w.carter-Talk 10:40, 22 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 3 support, 3 oppose, 1 neutral → not featured. /INeverCry 02:33, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Holy Trinity Cathedral - Niš.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Fragment of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in the city of Niš
  •  Comment - That request is certainly well taken. However, I do look at QIC quite regularly. We simply have a difference in taste. I'd like to see the dozens of similar photos you've taken. Perhaps I'd find them more appealing than other photos that have been featured. And so be it. Differences in opinion make things much more interesting. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:14, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 7 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /INeverCry 02:27, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Lac de Tunis Sud 19.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Sight on Lake of Tunis
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Result: 2 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /INeverCry 02:24, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Rocks at Bodega Head on a foggy morning.jpg, featured[edit]

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View of the California coast at Bodega Head, Sonoma County, on a foggy morning
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Result: 10 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 05:07, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Полярное сияние.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: of what's mentioned above. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:02, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply] Anyone other than the nominator who disagrees may override this template by changing {{FPX}} to {{FPX contested}} and adding a vote in support. Voting will then continue in the usual way. If not contested within 24 hours, this nomination may be closed.
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Result: 1 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 04:59, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Momento Espacial II.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Sunrise taken in Alambari, São Paulo state, Brazil
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Result: 3 support, 6 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 05:01, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:16-07-06-Rathaus Graz Turmblick-RR2 0291.jpg, not featured[edit]

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View from the spire Rathaus Graz; Beavertail roof
@all: This nomination is gone, ok. But its interesting to me to read your opinions. I see my photos different then you. And i can learn, thanks. The crop-suggestion is good. I have see this as civil-ingeneer and second as photographer ;) --Ralf Roleček 20:22, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Ralf Roletschek: If you want to withdraw your nomination you have to add the *{{Withdraw}} template to the nomination page. Looking forward to your next nomination. Best, w.carter-Talk 21:09, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

 I withdraw my nomination --Ralf Roleček 15:02, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Result: 2 support, 3 oppose, 1 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 18:01, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Maison - 20150810 15h22 (11060).jpg, not featured[edit]

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House at Sansais in the Marais poitevin, France.
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Result: 1 support, 6 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 18:03, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:2015 Bazylika w Wambierzycach 02.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Basilica of the Visitation in Wambierzyce
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Result: 2 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 18:02, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Wadi Al Hitan1.jpg, featured[edit]

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Featured picture on Arabic Wikipedia.created by Clr202 - uploaded by Ori~ - nominated by ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 -- ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 07:49, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Result: 10 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 17:57, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:16-03-30-Jerusalem Mishkenot Sha’ananim-RalfR-DSCF7637.jpg, featured[edit]

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Sculpture at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem
  •  Comment I agree that the street lamp could take a hike, but I don't have any problem with size definition since there are three spotlights at the base as reference points. w.carter-Talk 15:23, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 11 support, 0 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 05:16, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Canário do campo.jpg, featured[edit]

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Result: 10 support, 0 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 05:14, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Daurian redstart (female) in Sakai, Osaka, February 2016 V.jpg, featured[edit]

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Daurian redstart (female) in Sakai, Osaka.
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File:George Charles Beresford - Virginia Woolf in 1902 - Restoration.jpg, featured[edit]

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Virginia Woolf
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Result: 14 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 05:16, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Männikjärve raba vana laudtee.jpg, featured[edit]

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Old boardwalk at Männikjärve bog
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Result: 8 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 05:12, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Terrasse Taisho - Les saveurs du Japon mises à l'honneur.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Result: 2 support, 7 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 05:13, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Камениот мост во Зовиќ.jpg, not featured[edit]

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The Stone Bridge in the village of Zoviḱ, Macedonia
  • Or perhaps turn the camera 90 degrees and take a 4:3 standing pic. Anyway, here at the FPC all photographers are asked to do the impossible such as walk on water, hover in the air or go through locked iron fences. That's standard. ;) w.carter-Talk 09:28, 24 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Or choose a shorter focal length. Anyway, we judge images as they are nominated without taking the circumstances into account. Sometimes it’s just not possible to take an FP :-) --Kreuzschnabel 19:50, 24 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 5 support, 3 oppose, 1 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 05:13, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Complejo San Francisco, Arequipa, Perú, 2015-08-02, DD 79-81 HDR.JPG, featured[edit]

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Night view of the religious complex of San Francisco, Historic Centre of Arequipa, Peru.
  • Dearest Poco, it really was just a question not a command, hence the 'question'-template. :) Any good reason for not doing the edit, such as the one you provided above (authenticity), would have been legitimate and acceptable. If you don't want to alter a pic, just say so. I think most editors here would agree, if the reason was solid. Anyway:
 Support --w.carter-Talk 14:48, 24 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 11 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 15:56, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Bombus terrestris queen - Tilia cordata - Keila.jpg, featured[edit]

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Bombus terrestris queen on Tilia cordata
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Result: 13 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 17:32, 3 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Ceriagrion cerinorubellum-Kadavoor-2016-04-11-002.jpg, featured[edit]

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Damselfly intra-male sperm translocation
  • Thanks for the thorough review. I too wish if it could be better and if I can cover the entire subject inline. But there were a lot of challenges: 1. Though the damselflies are much friendly while mating, they are not so friendly until a wheel posture is established. So we photographers patiently wait till then. Here I broke that rule as I had many wheel posture of these damselflies earlier. I've nothing to loose than one single chance even if they get disturbed and fly away. 2. There is lot of motion as the male is applying a lot of force to bend/lift his abdomen, still carrying the female. 3. This (the transfer or charging the secondary genitalia) lasts only seconds and soon they advance to the wheel position. 4. There were foliage between the lens and subject, and I just found a view even if it was not fully inline. :) Jee 06:41, 26 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Centaur-class aircraft carrier, INS Viraat (R22) steams in formation in the Bay of Bengal during exercise Malabar 2007
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Sentry box, shadow. Christiansbotg, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Skočivir Canyon in Mariovo, Macedonia
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Ribblehead Viaduct

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View from Skaftafell National Park, Iceland. The Skaftafellsheiði plateau provides a picturesque view of River Skeiðará and Skeiðarársandur

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"Image of Saint Christopher" in Broekhuizen (Horst aan de Maas) in province of Limburg in the Netherlands
  •  Comment - I have no argument to make on technical matters, so I wouldn't at all suggest for you to change your vote. However, I really resist the notion that a photo in which a statue is the key point of it has to have a disproportionate amount of space taken up by the statue. As is often the case in landscapes that include a particular focus, the subject really is the statue within the landscape, and the larger point is the way the light and surroundings give the sculpture meaning. And to me, the statue being in shadow is perfect for making a poetic statement about its meaning. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:38, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I didn’t make my point clear enough. The composition is fine for me, just the altogether resolution leaves too few pixels for the main object. If this had 16 or 20 megapixels it would be fine. At this low resolution on the main object, the sharpening effects are too harsh for me. --Kreuzschnabel 07:00, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Ikan Kekek: As I said, there are very strong horizontals in this image, given a sense of motion by being mostly from a river and clouds. And in the middle of them is this vertical pillar and statue, like a limb fallen into the river. The effect to me is more disruptive than dynamic. Daniel Case (talk) 04:09, 4 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I appreciate your explaining, because that's not something I think of when looking at visual art. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:11, 4 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment - I have to say, I think people are focusing so much on the trees that they're missing the forest, and it's frustrating for me that I see what I consider great art, a composition that really moves me, and most of you are meh about it. I've been on the other side of this in other nominations, but I'm truly surprised by the opposition to this. And it's not that I'm saying you lack reasons: obviously, you do and have given them. But what about the poetry and the meaning? That's not enough? Is this truly so low-quality technically that you can't look at this and see something that speaks to you in an intense way? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:10, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Comment I can’t help remembering that someone in here made a remark some time ago going like, "Different people respond differently to different photos" ;-) --Kreuzschnabel 10:38, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
      •  Comment - Of course. But that doesn't mean I can't be frustrated, and the amount of opposition is very surprising to me. I frankly didn't really anticipate any reason for opposition. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:47, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support In this case the result surpass the qualities issues, at least for me. Visually very successful, could be the cover of something... Christian Ferrer (talk) 09:17, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I was to support, because I find this picture beautiful in many aspects: light, composition, subject, mood... But the sharpening white line around the whole main subject, even visible at thumbnail, is a no-go for me. I'm sorry .--Jebulon (talk) 09:49, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I don't see the sharpening line and would never have nominated the photo if I could see it, but I did notice several small dust spots above the sculpture's arm this time. I'm going to withdraw, because obviously, this photo has no chance of being featured. I guess my eye for technical issues still needs a lot more development, even if I end up feeling the same way about photographs' overall quality as works of art in the end. Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:12, 1 August 2016 (UTC)  I withdraw my nomination[reply]

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SHORT DESCRIPTION
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The west front of St-Etienne-du-Mont viewed from Place du Pantheon in Paris, France
  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
  •  Info created and uploaded by User:Diliff - nominated by User:Ikan Kekek -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:41, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support - I'll be surprised if this is controversial: A beautiful church exterior by D. Iliff plus an excellent, unnoisy sky. The crops are fairly close on both sides because of the location of the church among other buildings on the place. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:41, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Unusually for a Diliff, this composition doesn’t wow me. Quality is excellent of course but the busy foreground, which can’t be helped and is not the photographer’s fault, still keeps the wow off me. And I don’t find the shadows appealing. --Kreuzschnabel 06:47, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Per Kreuzschnabel. INeverCry 20:06, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support And not only because it is my own parish church... Such a picture of this church is very difficult to take, and the result is very good for me (foreground not busy at all...)--Jebulon (talk) 22:27, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Thanks Jebulon. I agree with you, it's quite difficult to take a better image (maybe possible to have better lighting though) because of the parked cars in the street. As I said to Ikan below, I took this while standing on the Pantheon fence to get enough elevation to avoid the parked cars. And of course waited patiently for traffic to disappear from view. :-) With more visits and planning for the ideal lighting, it could be improved further but the angle and perspective of this image is probably close to ideal. A single straight frontal view will introduce too much distortion because you would need to get too close to the building in my opinion. Diliff (talk) 08:29, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose due to distortion at top, which I realize may be a byproduct of perspective correction, but it's still present. Daniel Case (talk) 18:27, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I didn't notice the distortion and still would have to have it spelled out to me for me to see it. But since this picture obviously isn't going to get the votes for a feature,  I withdraw my nomination. Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:10, 3 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Thanks for the nomination anyway. I agree it's probably not quite at the FP level. The distortion is largely unavoidable though - most European churches are surrounded by nearby buildings and it makes getting the spire in shot impossible without significant distortion. I don't actually think the distortion is that bad in this image however, as I managed to get quite far back. It's less aesthetic though because of the off-centre composition, which the angle of the street required. I took the photo while standing on the fence of the Pantheon to avoid parked cars obscuring the view of the church. Exterior views are always tricky compromises with the environment. If you think the distortion on this one is bad, have a look at this one. :-) It's not possible to get any further back than this without a tree and office building obscuring the cathedral, but the tower is so tall (it's 87 metres tall and I think it's probably only possible to get 30-40 metres back from the front of the building so the angle to the top of the tower is 65 to 70 degrees) that it ends up being pretty disfigured by distortion. Diliff (talk) 08:25, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Пълнолуние над Рила.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Rila National Park, Bulgaria

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Berries of Vaccinium myrtillus

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Panoramic view of the archaeological site Tauresium, Macedonia

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The lighthouse of Galite island
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Bill Clinton speaking
Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: of everything mentioned above. Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:27, 3 August 2016 (UTC)[reply] Anyone other than the nominator who disagrees may override this template by changing {{FPX}} to {{FPX contested}} and adding a vote in support. Voting will then continue in the usual way. If not contested within 24 hours, this nomination may be closed.
  • IMHO, the FPX template is not a tool for driving the last nail into the coffin after considerable opposing but rather to keep FPC which clearly have no chance from gathering dozens of opposes ;-) --Kreuzschnabel 13:28, 3 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Bishkek 03-2016 img11 Chuy Prospekt.jpg, featured[edit]

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Bishkek/Kyrgyzstan: state Honour guards at Ala-Too Square
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File:Dutch Panzerhaubitz fires in Afghanistan.jpg, featured[edit]

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A Dutch Panzerhaubitze 2000 fires a round in Afghanistan.
Probably not noise, but rather JPEG compression artifact, which cannot really be removed. File size is pretty small for 6MP. --DXR (talk) 21:12, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for explaining. It's regrettable that this is a JPG and not in a less lossy format, but after looking at it again, I think it's worthy of my  Support, in spite of the noise. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:53, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
You are Welcome Ikan Kekek I was thinking create another alt nomination, however, IMHO in this case is not necesary --The Photographer (talk) 17:00, 4 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Nisyros - Stefanos Caldera3.jpg, featured[edit]

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Nisyros: Stefanos Crater
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View of a row of corners belonging to the Saksaywaman walls, a citadel on the northern outskirts of the city of en:Cusco, historic capital of the Inca Empire, today Peru.
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Brown-throated Parakeet couple
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View from the top of Mountain Zaghouan
Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: of everything stated above. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:03, 3 August 2016 (UTC)[reply] Anyone other than the nominator who disagrees may override this template by changing {{FPX}} to {{FPX contested}} and adding a vote in support. Voting will then continue in the usual way. If not contested within 24 hours, this nomination may be closed.
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Magasin de secteur du Bosmont
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Curly plumeless thistle
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Movable toilet in the Lom ČSA, coal mine near town Most
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Archives picture : Bridge of Catalans under construction in Toulouse, France, Probably between 1905 and 1908.
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Crete: Mountains of Crete with Potamon barrier lake


Discussion on sharpness handling
:Sorry, but you can't have a sharp foreground if you want to have a sharp background. This is how optic works. Beside of this I wonder what is so important about some bushes and it's a very small unsharp and not disturbing area. --Wladyslaw (talk) 06:11, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Also sorry, but you are wrong. A focus stack from 2-3 images and your image will be complete sharp. Otherwise you can cut the right side or take images with less unsharp foreground. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 06:36, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
A focus stack in non-studio-condition is nonsense. Beside of this the image atmosphere is with this part better than without. --Wladyslaw (talk) 06:46, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nonsense are only your arguments ... but I don't say your image is bad! --Alchemist-hp (talk) 10:27, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Focus stacking without tripod is nonsense, no need to discuss this out. Beside of this I see no need and no improvement for this image to make here focus stacking. A landscape image is not a still life. --Wladyslaw (talk) 18:55, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Natürlich muß man beim Focus Stacking ein Stativ nutzen und natürlich ist es kein Problem es bei Landschaftsaufnahmen wie dieser hier anzuwenden. Wie auf diesem Bild bewegt sich da kaum etwas. Aber jede Diskussion mit Dir artet doch nur in mühseligen Wortspielereien aus. Ich sagte nicht das Du es hättest machen sollen oder gar müssen, ich wollte nur sagen das es möglich wäre! Daher gebe ich es auf, es hat eh keinen Sinn. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 05:05, 28 July 2016 (UTC) P.S.: auf dem Bild vermisse ich trotzdem den Stausee ;-)[reply]
We've seen plenty of great panoramas here that aren't drastically unsharp in the foreground. It's one thing to have reasonable blurring in the distance, but if you want to argue that this should be a Featured Picture because that's what your lens took, I'm sorry, but that's a weak argument. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:57, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
A weak argument IMO is your's. The unsharp area is very little and it does not affect the perception. Next time I downscale the image at 2560 x 976 and you'll not have this problem. Cheers! --Wladyslaw (talk) 08:04, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Again, big panoramas that we've featured have not been drastically unsharp in the foreground. This is Featured Picture Candidates. The other picture you nominated is fine. To me, this one is not for a Featured Picture. Others may disagree (and one already has). Good luck. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:46, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I'll fix both this evening. --Wladyslaw (talk) 08:19, 29 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Kreuzschnabel: fixed now. But why does Commons rotate my picture???--Wladyslaw (talk) 05:47, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Commons behaves a bit strange recently. I tried to rotate the image but it’s still upright. Let’s wait a few hours. --Kreuzschnabel 06:49, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Santa Cristina (Parma) - Ceiling
Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci, from C2RMF retouched.jpg

- Benh (talk) 05:05, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]


Discussion on behaviour
::@Benh: What's your problem with Livio? This vote is just rude, and out of the three votes you've got on this page, two are opposes of Livios FPCs. Other than that you've commented contradicting one of Livio's votes and not done much else. Why don't you get a life and stop following Livio around? It's getting tedious to see you on every single FPC of Livio's trying to insult him and start problems with him. If you opposed other FPCs or even regularly voted on other FPCs by different photographers, I wouldn't say anything, but you don't even try to hide that you're targeting him. INeverCry 06:05, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry to say that, but the problem with Livio is that he's reacting very rude everytime someone opposes one of his nominations. This is why I personally stopped voting on his nominations (with one little exception), but I don't know if "stop following Livio around" really is a solution. I believe that many of his nominations pass FPC simply because there are users who don't oppose just because they don't want to get insulted by Livio. Regarding the picture Benh has clearly a point here. --Code (talk) 09:01, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

[unindent] Comment - My take on this is that Benh is clearly being sarcastic, which in my opinion is unnecessary. But otherwise, I think any objective person, such as a person new to FPC (which I was a few months ago) will clearly see that Livio often is abusive toward people who oppose features for his pictures. Not everyone - he has yet to abuse me for opposing his pictures, because I sometimes support them. But I think it's quite unfortunate that intemperate behavior on FPC is tolerated. And by "tolerated", I mean that users evidently have wide latitude to be unduly personally indignant over negative reviews and react abusively without consequences such as suspension of posting privileges. But as for people not opposing in order to avoid an intemperate remark: Please, go ahead and oppose if you think it's warranted, and feel free to ignore the response; it won't kill you. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:22, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ikan Kekek being you new does not know many things to people who are here for years. You say that often exaggerate, perfect do examples please .You do not speak at random thanks. Besides read before writing, Benh on 3 votes at least 2 are oppositions to my photos and has never voted for. Gently tries to be precise since you're here recently but talk like you know all thanks.--LivioAndronico (talk) 22:37, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment - I don't have to have been here for a long time to see abusive remarks that wouldn't be tolerated as a pattern on Wikivoyage. I should know, as I'm an admin at Wikivoyage. I'm not going to waste my time giving examples, as any observer can see that you often lash out at people for opposing. It's certainly possible that because I'm new, I missed some previous history of those people abusing you, but the things you object to as non-factual are usually matters of opinion, and moreover, your reactions are in many cases extreme and very unpleasant. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:30, 29 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment unpleasant? ONLY COME HERE TO OPPOSE TO YOUR PHOTOS AND PLEASANT FOR YOU? Inventing REASONS ABSURD is PLEASANT FOR YOU? But at least you read read what I write? if this is agreeable to you means you're a masochist, well I do not! Try to look at everything, not just what you want to see, thank you.--LivioAndronico (talk) 09:19, 29 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment It is absolutely not true. I have never had a fight with Daniel, Never cry and you too if the opposition is "normal" without insulting and without inventing reasons to oppose. You and also Behn you're opposites in a "normal" to the nomination which is not passed by a single vote. I did complain or say anything? Another untruth is that if the nomination passes is because they vote support. If they had "fear" not vote support. Kindly answer me, thanks.--LivioAndronico (talk) 09:25, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment moreover, and then the finish, the opposition says "not complete" and not centered, is such a thing invented .... what's missing?--LivioAndronico (talk) 09:58, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I don't fully understand you, sorry. What question should I answer? Concerning the picture: For my taste it's partly too dark and the white balance seems to be wrong. Moreover I think that you often add too much contrast and clarity for my taste. The top part shows some CA and is blurry, at the bottom the crop is unfortunate. However, I'm not going to vote because I don't want you to say that I only oppose your nominations. To make it clear: I would be happy to give you a support vote. It's just that your actual nominations aren't reaching the FP treshold in my opinion. I know that others think different and I completely respect their votes, of course. --Code (talk) 10:17, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Why do you keep changing the subject? I asked you
1) if it's incomplete what's missing ???
2)The last time you voted contrary I have told you something? I complained?
and finally
3)if people had fear why vote in support?
The rest is a personal opinion,thanks --LivioAndronico (talk) 11:19, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Code? Where is the Behn 's lawyer? --LivioAndronico (talk) 19:59, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
It's funny that you don't even recognize that this is exactly the behaviour I was complaining about. However, to give it a last try: I didn't "change the subject" at all. I tried to answer your questions as good as I could. But again: 1) I told you what's missing (at least part at the bottom but after having a second look I think that on both sides the crop is too tight as well). 2) You didn't complain last time I opposed but you've often complained about my (and other users') votes in the past. I'm not going to waste my time searching for difflinks, everybody here knows what I'm talking about. 3) I don't know why so many users support each and every of your nominations. Maybe their taste is just very different from mine. Maybe there are other reasons. BTW, in my opinion the standards here at FPC have lowered in the last months but maybe I'm wrong with that. --Code (talk) 05:12, 29 July 2016 (UTC) [reply]
Maybe you’re wrong but then I’m wrong the same way. There are voters who appear to support any pic which is just nice, and well exposed. We used to look for outstanding, exceptional images which are more than just well done. This one isn’t even well lit! That’s what I meant recently by "the FP star is losing its meaning for me". --Kreuzschnabel 06:41, 29 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Code or you do not understand or want to understand ..... you defend Behn but changes the subject. I do not give a damn about the quality of the images we are talking about something else, that is, people who vote negatively on my pictures and stop. Of course if you tell me crap I have to defend myself in my part so, maybe from your not. The photos maybe missing a part? Can not you see what ridiculous? Maybe? Tries to be serious and bring evidence that even I have time to waste with you or other false things!--LivioAndronico (talk) 07:45, 29 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
It was perfectly clear from the very beginning that this discussion would lead to nowhere. Lesson learned, thank you. --Code (talk) 07:58, 29 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Welcome --LivioAndronico (talk) 09:25, 29 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Didn't expect all this fuss. User:INeverCry, you won't drag me there. Just get back to me when I do something against the rules, and get back to photography which is the topic here. My oppose is valid (seriously, a cropped subject?). Period. - Benh (talk) 08:03, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
certainly Benh it is true that you are a rude. Why do not you put some pictures and see what you can do? it's nice to criticize when you do not do anything else.--LivioAndronico (talk) 06:08, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
LivioAndronico, not sure you r really interested, but you are free to look at them on Flickr. And btw, FPC is not a contest... I'm not after these stars anymore, it's lost its meaning a long time ago. - Benh (talk) 10:01, 4 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
SureBenh as we wanted to prove .... bla bla bla. You are good only to criticize and nothing more. Sad!--LivioAndronico (talk) 18:47, 4 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Sorry, the light is too uneven so it looses some of the wow for me, there is also some CA at the top grate/window that should have been taken care of prior to nominating. w.carter-Talk 12:51, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 7 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /INeverCry 20:08, 5 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Philippe Echaroux - Portrait de Jonny Wilkinson.jpg, not featured[edit]

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File:Hans Holbein, the Younger - Sir Thomas More - Google Art Project.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Portrait of Sir Thomas More, who was Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to May 1532. He was beheaded under King Henry VIII after refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy. His life is the basis for the stageplay and movies titled "A Man For All Seasons"; the 1966 film won multiple Academy Awards.
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File:Henrietta Carpenter by Margaret Sarah Carpenter.jpg, featured[edit]

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An 1839 oil painting by Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1793–1872), possibly of Henrietta Carpenter. Margaret was a notable British painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, won multiple awards, and was given a pension by Queen Victoria.
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Lewis Hamilton at the 2016 Monaco Grand Prix
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Oppersdorfe's palace in Ołdrzychowice Kłodzkie
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File:Festspielhaus Bayreuth 2016.jpg, featured[edit]

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Bayreuth Festspielhaus
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File:Schenson Uppsala domkyrka 1889 - Restoration.jpg, featured[edit]

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Uppsala Cathedral (1889) by Emma Schenson, seen during its remodelling.
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Image:Glebionis coronarium Margarita (17715006869).jpg, featured[edit]

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Glebionis coronarium Asterales
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He's handwriting
Is that shadowing or just writing on the other side of the paper showing through? If that's all it is, I want to oppose twice... INeverCry 07:09, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose My oppose here is purely technical, the photo is in low res and the colors are in the paper have that 'rainbow effect' a mix between CA and posterization. However, this kind of calligraphy where the word themselves form an impression of the sentiment of the poem in the text is a very subtle art form, totally lost on most Westerners. The words may indeed be on both sides of the paper, since this is a technique sometimes used in Chinese art to either get the impression of shadows or to show two sides of an object or a poem. As a work of art and if you read the poem, I find it fascinating! w.carter-Talk 09:44, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment - Any shapes in the writing that are metaphoric and refer to the meanings of the words would need to be explained. Even a Chinese-language explanation could be roughly translated via Google Translate, but without any explanation, those of us who can't read the calligraphy have to fall back on whether the shapes per se are sufficiently interesting for us to want to feature the photo. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:52, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Dear Ikan, of course I realize this. I only wanted to express what I saw as the merits of the pic as well as its flaws when I 'Opposed' to it. I mean, we are supposed to leave a clear report of why we object to pictures, as you so often point out to those who just leave their "o". But I assumed it was allowed to also express what we thought was good with a pic when we oppose, even if it is only a personal point of view or something that others may not understand. w.carter-Talk 10:03, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Historic street sign for the «Bad-Gasse», Klagenfurt, Austria
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Чомга (Большая поганка)
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File:16-03-30-Ben Gurion International Airport-RalfR-DSCF7550.jpg, featured[edit]

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Israel, Ben Gurion International Airport terminal 3 reception hall
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File:Bloeiwijze van Aster x frikartii 'Mönch'. Locatie, Tuinreservaat Jonkervallei 02.jpg, featured[edit]

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File:Cerro Aucanquilcha, Chile, 2016-02-10, DD 15.JPG, featured[edit]

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Landscape in the Aucanquilcha Hill with the Olca volcano, a 5,167 metres (16,952 ft) high stratovolcano, in the background, Antofagasta Region of northern Chile, just west of the border with Bolivia and within the Alto Loa National Reserve.
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File:The Cobbler at Cobbler's Cliff Backa Brastad overhead view.jpg, featured[edit]

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The "Cobbler" petroglyph in Brastad
  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Non-photographic media#Religion
  •  Info I apologize if anyone is offended by this image, but the people who made these rock carvings about 3000 years ago saw things differently than we do. Västra Götaland County has the highest density of petroglyphs in Sweden. The ones in Tanum are even on the World Heritage List. This figure, probably a Weather God, that started the whole petroglyph research science in 1627, is one of the largest rock carvings of a figure in Sweden. It is placed on an almost flat slightly curved rock so you’d need a crane or a drone to get a full overhead shot of it, every other angle produces severe perspective distortions. I came up with the idea of using panorama tech on it, and it worked like a charm! As far as I know, this is the first photo to depict the figure without any perspective distortions. The different shades of grey are the colors of the rock, not shadows. -- All by me. W.carter -- w.carter-Talk 10:44, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- w.carter-Talk 10:44, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support, and congratulations! -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:28, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Sandhamn August 2016 01.jpg, featured[edit]

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Sandhamn
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Photography of professionnal wrester and pro wrestler commentator David Heath (a.k.a Gangrel) took in 2010 during a photoshoot.
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File:Haut-Languedoc, Rosis cf03.jpg, featured[edit]

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A rock with a door. Haut-Languedoc Regional Natural Park, France
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File:Passerelle du Moulin de l'Evêque, Montpellier cf01.jpg, featured[edit]

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Passerelle du Moulin de l'Evêque, Montpellier
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File:St. Andreas, Karlstadt, Altar and Choir 20160727 5.jpg, featured[edit]

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File:View from Skaftafell National Park July 2014 -4.jpg, featured[edit]

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View from Skaftafell National Park, Iceland. The Skaftafellsheiði plateau provides a picturesque view of River Skeiðará and Skeiðarársandur
  • Thanks for your suggestion. I know that the lower right corner isn't ideal - cropping it would remove too much of the foreground however. As for centralizing the composition: well, that's what provoked some criticism during my first nomination. So I'd say it's better to leave the pic as it is. --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 11:34, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Ανεμόμυλος, Χώρα Σερίφου 9514.jpg, featured[edit]

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Abandoned windmill at the Chora of Serifos, below the castle
  • I think that depends on the quality of your sceen and it's settings. On a laptop and ordinary screen it's ok and blue, on a really good 37" it can be a bit violet as you say. w.carter-Talk 13:29, 5 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Crete: Balos laguna
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File:Waldkauz Strix aluco (Linnaeus, 1785).jpg, featured[edit]

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Tawny owl from the Falkenhof in the Wisentgehege Springe game park, Germany.


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File:Warwick Castle May 2016.jpg, featured[edit]

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Warwick Castle
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Philadelphia from South Street Bridge, featured[edit]

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Philadelphia skyline, afternoon

Philadelphia skyline, sunset

Philadelphia skyline, evening

  •  Comment - I'm a New Yorker, but I laughed at that! Not only Philadelphia, but think of the photos of the Pittsburgh skyline we featured, for example. Interestingly, the first 4 pictures to show up in my search of FPs in Category "Skylines in the United States" are from Baltimore; Rochester, New York; St. Louis; and Portland, Oregon. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:05, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Ikan Kekek: I was sort of addressing the international audience, which may not be as familiar with those, and not everyone voting here voted in those FPCs. Daniel Case (talk) 00:12, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment - Understood. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:43, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:11-07-29-helsinki-by-RalfR-007.jpg, featured[edit]

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Wanha Satama (Finnish for "old harbour") is an exhibition centre in Helsinki, Finland.
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File:Finntorp November 2015.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Abandoned petrol station
  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Industry
  •  Info Winter images of a abandoned petrol station in Finntorp, Nacka (Stockholm). Created, uploaded and nominated by -- ArildV (talk) 06:45, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- ArildV (talk) 06:45, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose While I'd normally go for these abandoned places, I don't find this photo good enough for FP. The November light is right for such a gloomy place, but the angle (with the building sticking up over the roof), crop (too much asphalt) and such are not right. Taking a pic of such a place you need to prowl around, go hi and lo, wait around for different light, experiment and then see what did work when you get home exhausted from your acrobatics. Finntorp sure has changed since I last visited it... w.carter-Talk 07:51, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Provisional  Oppose - I like this composition, but some of the whites are blown out at present. Some of the trees are unsharp, too, but I'm willing to tolerate that as part of the whole. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:03, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support I like both concept and execution. Technical issues are minimal imo --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 09:07, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I like the composition but I don’t approve of lighting nor quality. The bright yellow background makes the foreground even darker and bluer than it naturally is. Then, there’s a zig-zag line around the roof which certainly isn’t real. Image looks oversharpened, with sharpened noise speckles in the darker parts (e.g. the roof posts). There surely is a special atmosphere about this picture, and it will work perfectly on an album cover but does less so on our pool of encyclopedic media. --Kreuzschnabel 14:35, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose While I like the idea of photographing vacant or repurposed former gas stations myself (there are probably going to be even less of them over the course of this century, even without assuming a mass switchover to electric or hybrid cars, since mileage is going up and the number of drivers is either holding flat or going down, adding up to less need for gas stations altogether, and as a result I've been taking pictures of former gas stations near me), this picture is not FP for me. Per Kreuzschnabel, but contra some of the other oppose !votes, I am fine with the composition ... but not the light. It should IMO be either all in sun or all in shade (better still, if that is desired, on a cloudy day). Daniel Case (talk) 02:13, 9 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Per others. INeverCry 05:05, 9 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  I withdraw my nomination Thanks for votes and comments. I appreciate the well thought comments.--ArildV (talk) 08:07, 9 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 2 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /INeverCry 21:00, 9 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Bombus sylvestris - Dactylorhiza fuchsii - Keila.jpg, featured[edit]

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File:Mallnitz Seebachtal 01.jpg, featured[edit]

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Seebach Valley and Ankogel (3252m) near Mallnitz, Carinthia
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File:Mallnitz Säuleck 01.jpg, featured[edit]

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Säuleck
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File:Galichica, pogled kon Ohridsko ezero.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Clouds over Lake Ohrid seen from Galičica
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Cathedral (Parma) - Ceiling of right chapel and dome
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File:KarpaSvNikolaOhrid.jpg, featured[edit]

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Rock climber near the village of Trpejca, Macedonia.
There's still a small amount of purple CA at the bottom but the overall quality and composition are wort a  Support. --Code (talk) 10:24, 7 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Salineras de Maras, Maras, Perú, 2015-07-30, DD 17.JPG, featured[edit]

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Worker carrying a sack of salt on his shoulder in the salineras (salt evaporation ponds) in Maras, Peru.
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First teaching class to fly with my mom -- juvenile western gull (Larus occidentalis)
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Image:Old international bridge Tuy-Valenca.jpg, not featured[edit]

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International Bridge Valença-Tuy
 Oppose Per Kreuzschnabel. INeverCry 19:37, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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International Bridge Valença-Tuy

I was not making a color invention I only apply a WB correction, selective noise fix, and light fix --The Photographer (talk) 23:14, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
You call it a difference in white balance; I call it a difference between bluish green and yellow/green. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 03:25, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Agree, two totally different moods. I'm leaning towards the first/Matrix version, the second/Star Wars version looks too stark and cold. B&W looks like the Cold War and gives me the creaps, HDR just looks poisonous. w.carter-Talk 10:02, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I look my version like Indiana Jones film and Ikan Kekek version like resident evil --The Photographer (talk) 17:45, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
B&W

International Bridge Valença-Tuy B&W

HDR

International Bridge Valença-Tuy HDR

  •  Comment Here in HDR
  •  Question - Am I the only one who's very confused now, with 4 different versions? To me, the scattered light is not a deal-breaker, and I'd like to know which photo has the most accurate color. I'm guessing it's probably the first version. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:44, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral on all of these at this point. I love the image ... I expect to see Darth Vader walk past flanked by stormtroopers any minute—but can we decide which version we're going to nominate? Daniel Case (talk) 03:47, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Well, I do not know, I just added the corrections had requested, I do not know how you work here, you see .. The only people who have opted for "B & W" are The Photographer and ArionEstar. --Harpagornis (talk) 10:23, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I sort of think the decision about which one to go for will fall to you. Most of the questions have really been about: Which one of these images is closest to how the bridge actually look at night? Only you can answer that, since the pictures on Google Maps are taken during daytime. Just let us know and hopefully things will sort themselves out. We should at least be able to narrow it down to two versions. These chaos situations have unfortunately become a habit here... I think you should be glad so many people are interested in your image and think it is good enough to discuss so much. :) w.carter-Talk 18:47, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • The first version is the one that most closely, or even HDR.--Harpagornis (talk) 22:17, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • To me, the first version and the HDR version are quite different in appearance. Also, the lighting is better in the HDR version. But right now, no version has enough votes for a feature, so while on your say-so that this at least somewhat closely resembles what you saw, I'd be happy to support it, I am not going to oppose the first version in favor of this one. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:08, 3 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
(procedural comment) Please cross-link 'other versions' of an image when creating them, for sanity of curation efforts. Thanks. Reventtalk 23:01, 4 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Apples.jpg, not featured[edit]

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 Support INeverCry 19:52, 5 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Nice idea, but the whole thing actually seems a bit, well, ordinary for me. If you are arranging apples in a stict pattern, go all in for a wow factor: turn them so they are arranged in size or shape as well, make all stalks point in the same direction or something like that. The water drops on them also detracts from their surface, totally unnecessary, may look good on a single apple or a basket of them but not here. w.carter-Talk 21:59, 5 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral I won't oppose, but W.carter's oppose rationale is just too convincing for me to keep my support up. INeverCry 22:31, 5 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral, I am not bothered by the water drops and the photographer may not have had control over the arrangement of the apples, but I do think a tighter crop might bring out the appley goodness here even better. Daniel Case (talk) 04:19, 6 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • To clarify, I agree that these apples may not be under the photographer's control, but we have previously expected folks here to do better pics of gulls since they are so common. Well, apples are even more common and much easier to handle than gulls. w.carter-Talk 07:51, 6 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • You've had gulls try to physically attack you? I guess the gulls in the U.S. are a little less aggressive. In my experience, they're only interested in stealing your food! -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:07, 7 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Seagull feeding on a dove2.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: as per above comments. Yann (talk) 12:10, 9 August 2016 (UTC)[reply] Anyone other than the nominator who disagrees may override this template by changing {{FPX}} to {{FPX contested}} and adding a vote in support. Voting will then continue in the usual way. If not contested within 24 hours, this nomination may be closed.
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File:Flora MacDonald monument.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Monument to Flora MacDonald, Isle of Skye
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File:"Chuveirão" na Caverna Timimina.jpg, featured[edit]

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File:Desenka meadow 2016 G1.jpg, featured[edit]

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Meadow at dawn near Desenka railway halt.
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File:Palacete Aleppo No. 327. Historical building close to Municipal Market of São Paulo.jpg, featured[edit]

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Historical building close to Municipal Market of São Paulo
It's not possible, there is an trucks and street vendors that do not give room to shoot. It is a truly narrow street how you can see here --The Photographer (talk) 20:54, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your comments and review, btw only for clarify the darkness that you see is the result of pollution, São Paulo is one of the most polluted cities in America, with a population of 40 million. Every morning an ash seen in the windows that eventually adheres to all structures, this is an old facade uncleaned in decades. As you can see in google maps, this facade is dark even on sunny days. This is a photo taken with a D300 and I enlarged the photo digitally and perhaps that is the effect you call Out of Focus, a D300 would never have gotten that size. A hug --The Photographer (talk) 16:45, 3 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the explanation. I like the brighter light in Google Maps better, for whatever that's worth. Best, Ikan Kekek (talk) 03:25, 4 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Yes Google Street Map picture was taken on Jan 2010 and maybe that's an explanation why the painting is more conserved --The Photographer (talk) 18:12, 4 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Paisaje cerca de Calama, Chile, 2016-02-01, DD 83.JPG, featured[edit]

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Landscape near Calama, Chile
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File:Bessie Smith (1936) by Carl Van Vechten.jpg, featured[edit]

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Bessie Smith
The first is a terrible reproduction of a good photo; the second is quite possible. I'll put it into the list for later, but do think we can have more than one FP for her. Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:35, 7 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I absolutely agree on that! -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:06, 10 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:17 Years of Sekar Jepun 2014-11-01 32.jpg, featured[edit]

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Oleg dance
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File:Svidník - Vojnový pamätník a cintorín sovietskej armády (by Pudelek).jpg, featured[edit]

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Soviet Army memorial in Svidník, Slovakia
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File:Bigorski manastir kambana.jpg, not featured[edit]

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A bell tower in the Saint Jovan Bigorski Monastery, Macedonia
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File:Bloeiwijze van Geranium 'Rozanne'. Familie Geraniaceae. Locatie, Tuinreservaat Jonkervallei.jpg, not featured[edit]

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File:Weekend music on Paulista Avenue, São Paulo, Brazil.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Weekend music on Paulista Avenue, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/People
  •  Info All by -- The Photographer (talk) 00:42, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose The composition here doesn't quite work for me; we have the keyboardist cut off at left and a guy watching at far right recording the musicians on his phone who doesn't add to the composition the way a full inclusion of the keyboardist (a closer focus on the musicians) would have. The street sloping down to the left isn't optimal either. I would have moved the focus to the left to include the musicians fully and have the group of watchers balance the composition at right instead of the guy with the phone. INeverCry 01:56, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral - As a musician, I definitely like the idea of this photo, but I'd like to see a more outstanding photo of one or more buskers. This is a very good photo. I'm not sure I'm feeling it as FP, but I respect it. I might reconsider later. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:27, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose INC said it. w.carter-Talk 11:57, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Inappropriate use of level sharpening in photoshop. Have a look at the DoF - it is changing within one distance. For example the woman with the dotted skirt is (partly) sharp while the man left of her (with white T-Shirt) is totally blurred. --CEphoto, Uwe Aranas (talk) 12:29, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
...plus obvious retouching marks on the tarmac ... Is it a composite photo? --CEphoto, Uwe Aranas (talk) 12:38, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Yes it's a composite picture, because the weather was too darked and it was imposible get more DoF (on focus peoples and the musician with the Saxophone) --The Photographer (talk) 04:11, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 0 support, 4 oppose, 1 neutral → not featured. /INeverCry 04:57, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Prohvet Eeliase kirik Vasknarvas 2014 01.jpg, featured[edit]

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Vasknarva orthodox church
  •  Comment - In my opinion, the photo you link, while perhaps more likely to be a Valued Image, doesn't have a featurable composition. This one might; I've been undecided on that, though I certainly like several things about the photo. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:53, 7 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 10 support, 0 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /INeverCry 23:28, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Zea mays 'Ottofile giallo Tortonese' MHNT.BOT.2015.34.1.jpg, featured[edit]

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File:Aarhus City Tower set fra Europa Plads.jpg, not featured[edit]

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  • I'm sorry, I have to admit the others' arguments have shown me drawbacks I didn't initially see in this picture. I still like it, but regret that I will now be  Neutral on featuring it. Very sorry. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:52, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Cirsium vulgare - Keila2.jpg, featured[edit]

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Spear thistle
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File:Transit of Mercury, 2016-05-09 1352z.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Transit of Mercury on May 9, 2016
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File:2016-07-27 Seagull in Zandvoort aan Zee (freddy2001).jpg, not featured[edit]

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A seagull (Larus argentatus) in the dunes of Zandvoort aan Zee.
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File:Rock doves in flight.jpg, featured[edit]

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Pigeons in flight.
@W.carter: Yeah this is all in one shot, it's not a composite of several pics. NOT an fake! Haha. Thanks. --Laitche (talk) 20:19, 3 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Then I must say I'm very impressed! And of course I'll support it. Good and lucky shot. (even if some of the birds have a very slight CA on their featers, you might want to fix that)
  • Yes, it's a flock of pigeons but then you got this almost white, perfectly placed one in an peace-dove-pose. On my way to work there is a farmer with a sense of humor. He has about a hundred white sheep plus one single black grazing in a large meadow. I've been waiting for months now to catch these guys in good light, a good position in a good part of the field for a shot. No luck so far. They are in the shade, they are lying down in the tall grass, blocking the black sheep, showing me their butts, etc. And sheep move a lot slower than doves. How I envy Laitche this shot... . w.carter-Talk 07:03, 4 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 9 support, 3 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /INeverCry 03:07, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Thira (Santorini) - Ia-01.jpg, featured[edit]

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Santorini: Ia
Laitche: stitching errors are fixed now --Wladyslaw (talk) 21:02, 7 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Okay now :) --Laitche (talk) 21:07, 7 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Danke. --Wladyslaw (talk) 04:29, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 18 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /INeverCry 03:05, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Timbellus miyokoae 01.JPG, featured[edit]

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Five views of a shell of a Miyoko Murex
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File:Trascoro, Catedral de Sevilla, Sevilla, España, 2015-12-06, DD 109-111 HDR.JPG, featured[edit]

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Retrochoir of the Roman Catholic cathedral of Seville, Seville, Spain.
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Temple of Hercules (Rome)
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File:2015 Igliczna, Masyw Śnieżnika, Sudety 01.jpg, featured[edit]

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Igliczna, Śnieżnik Mountains, Sudetes, Poland
  •  Oppose Sort of unsharp on the mojuntain, colors kind of dull, composition kind of chaotic and frankly I'm not sure spring—or at least these weather conditions in spring—was the best time to take this picture. Daniel Case (talk) 20:20, 6 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose One word came to my mind – uninteresting. Sorry but that’s what it was. The image just doesn’t focus on anything, leving me wondering: What’s the message? The composition does not offer any clear lines leading my eyes through the frame. Is the distant church on the ridge of any importance? Then, there’s quality. Details are soft even at that small image size, the bright cloud in center is blown. The flat light doesn’t help, making colours looking even more washed-out. I would oppose on QI as well for this. So, there’s no wow at all on my side, neither for quality nor for composition or lighting. Then, maybe I am missing the point, so: Why is this image supposed to be one of the very best we’ve got on Commons? --Kreuzschnabel 21:58, 6 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support I like this composition, especially the plastic clouds. Very good for me -- Spurzem (talk) 18:44, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  SupportMeiræ 23:17, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose to many soft areas, some clouds are burned out. In total: nothing for a FP image. Sorry. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 11:42, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 9 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /INeverCry 22:34, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Anthophora bimaculata - Jasione montana - Tallinn.jpg, featured[edit]

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Anthophora bimaculata
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File:Polyommatus syriaca - Çokgözlü Levantin Çillimavisi 02-3.jpg, featured[edit]

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Levant Chalk Blue (Polyommatus syriaca). Saksağan Crossing, Saimbeyli - Adana, Turkey
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File:Puente de la Constitución de 1812, Cádiz, España, 2015-12-08, DD 21-24 HDR.JPG, featured[edit]

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The 1812 Constitution Bridge, commonly known as "La Pepa Bridge" is a cable-stayed bridge that spans the Bay of Cádiz connecting the city of Cádiz with the Iberian Peninsula, Andalusia, Spain.
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File:Salen - rotting hulks.jpg, featured[edit]

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Abandoned boats near Salen, Isle of Mull
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File:Järise järv Saaremaal.jpg, featured[edit]

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Järise Lake
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File:Sunrise near Krzna river, Poland (2).jpg, featured[edit]

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Sunrise near Krzna river, Poland.jpg
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File:Haut-Languedoc, Rosis cf7.jpg[edit]

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under forest in Haut-Languedoc, Rosis, France
  •  Question - I've been tempted to oppose this for a feature, although I like the photo, but perhaps you could help me decide otherwise. Wherein lies the high educational value, as you see it? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:47, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Perry Anderson at Fronteiras do Pensamento Porto Alegre.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Historian Perry Anderson at Fronteiras do Pensamento Porto Alegre.jpg
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File:San Giorgio in Braida (Verona) - Dome.jpg, not featured[edit]

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San Giorgio in Braida (Verona) - Dome
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File:Bredevoort (NL), Parkbank -- 2016 -- 1398.jpg, featured[edit]

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Park bench in foliage
  • You're welcome, I really like this pic, a lot more than the other you mentioned. In this pic the bench is reclining peacefully in the foliage, a strand of leaves leaning over it, in the other it looks as if the bench is tipping over and being swallowed by the greenery. The perspective also add to this pic over the other's Audrey-style. w.carter-Talk 15:18, 7 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, my point exacly. Since I come here to Commons from the writing side at Wikipedia, I'd really like an FP for every article/weird subject on the WP not just landscapes or churches. ;) I think it'll be ready about the year 2158 or so. w.carter-Talk 13:17, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Juvenile pelecanus occidentalis in flight.jpg, featured[edit]

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Juvenile brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis californicus) gliding above the waves of the Pacific Ocean at Bodega Head, California
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File:Klagenfurt Domplatz Stadtpfarrkirche Hll Peter und Paul 09092015 7245.jpg, featured[edit]

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City parish church Saints Peter and Paul on Domplatz, Klagenfurt, Austria
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File:Munich subway station Candidplatz - exit.JPG, featured[edit]

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Munich subway station Candidplatz - exit
  • This looks more like functionalism than brutalist architecture to me.
And  Support --w.carter-Talk 11:33, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Opel Rekord P1, Bj. 1958 (Foto Sp 2016-06-05).JPG, featured[edit]

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Opel Rekord from 1958
Now you can see the tread. O. K.? -- Spurzem (talk) 17:39, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:16-01-11-Wien-Schwarzweißfilm-01.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Entrance to Museumsquartier Vienna, monochrome shooting
@Alchemist-hp: What????? 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 14:31, 7 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, a "true" black-white image! Not a "recalculated" from a DSRL camera! --Alchemist-hp (talk) 17:06, 7 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:North Harbour Lysekil warm and sunny.jpg, featured[edit]

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Sunbeds in North Harbour Lysekil
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File:Панорама од Крстец.jpg, featured[edit]

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Panoramic view from the peak Krstec on Galičica, Macedonia.
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Image:D.F. Maceda - Fojón.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Rally Fojón Galicia
The plane-photo is primarily a great pic of a well lit, good angle, beautiful plane against a blurred background (panning speed instead of bokeh). Here the light is too harsh and flat, too much uninteresting asphalt (its texture does not alter with speed panning and it "slows down" the pic) and unfortunately the only clearly distinguishable spectators have ended up on the hood of the car. Panning is very difficult, but as stated before, here we ask the impossible of photographers. w.carter-Talk 08:07, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I was speaking figuratively, not about the blurriness, that the pic gave a sense of motion. w.carter-Talk 08:07, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Honestly I can not understand our arguments, and even more if you compare me with a photo to 1/125 sec --Harpagornis (talk) 11:03, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Yo estaba hablando en sentido figurado por la emoción, no de la técnica borrosa, sólo que la foto dar una sensación de movimiento. La discusión no es sobre la técnica, sino de las cualidades artísticas de la foto. (sorry for my bad Spanish) w.carter-Talk 12:35, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Kloster Maria Engelport (2013-07-09 01) Kirche.JPG, not featured[edit]

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Kloster Maria Engelport bei Treis-Karden, Germany
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File:15-07-13-Teotihuacan-RalfR-WMA 0203.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Pirámide del Sol en Teotihuacán, Mexico
  •  I withdraw my nomination
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File:Camel in Jericho, Palestine.jpg, not featured[edit]

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SHORT DESCRIPTION
Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: it is unlikely with the opposes above that it will pick up enough support to overcome them Anyone other than the nominator who disagrees may override this template by changing {{FPX}} to {{FPX contested}} and adding a vote in support. Voting will then continue in the usual way. If not contested within 24 hours, this nomination may be closed.

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File:Vastseliina castle from east.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Ruins of Vastseliina Castle from east
  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places
  •  Info created and uploaded by User:Abrget47j - nominated by User:Ikan Kekek -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:12, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support - This nomination is a stretch just because this photo was declined at COM:QIC, but the sole reason for the decline was "The castle fills only 20% of the picture". I won't argue with QIC standards for depiction of a subject, but please hear me out: This is a landscape with ruined castle, not a picture of castle ruins that happens to have a bit of incidental greenery in it: The landscape including the castle, rather than just the castle itself, is the subject. Or another way of putting it is that without the castle, this is a nice landscape, and the castle is the added element that makes the picture special and, in my opinion, featurable. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:12, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I'm sorry I can't share your enthusiasm over this. The landscape may be part of the scene, but did it really have to include that big fir on the left. The colors and the composition, pardon me for being too blunt, but at first glance I thought it was one of those hand colored postcards from the 60s and we were dealing with a restoration project. Perhaps better suited for VI. --w.carter-Talk 19:31, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I can’t help finding the colours and contrast on the trees rather unnatural (and the clouds, too). Appears overprocessed to me. I don’t say it actually is but it looks like that to me. --Kreuzschnabel 11:26, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

 I withdraw my nomination - It's obvious that there won't be 8 votes to feature, and also, this photographer contributes only photographs, never comments, so there's no possibility of getting any response to this discussion from him/her. Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:55, 16 August 2016 (UTC)}}[reply]

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File:Eugene F. Kranz at his console at the NASA Mission Control Center.jpg, featured[edit]

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w:Gene Kranz
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File:Katherine Johnson at NASA, in 1966.jpg, featured[edit]

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Katherine Johnson
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File:Pont des Catalans restaurée MHNT PHa 138 b34 002.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Restaured archive picture about Bridge of Catalans under construction in Toulouse, France, Probably between 1905 and 1908
Sorry, I'm novice in restauration and usage of wikimedia and I have not found how to propose again the picture... I have created a new file for the restaured version but you can see the original here, thank you for your comment --Anne-LaureM (talk) 10:15, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Anne-LaureM: I've added the file as "Other version" to the file's page, so you can see how it's done. w.carter-Talk 10:38, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much @W.carter: . --Anne-LaureM (talk) 12:04, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
P.S.: I do like the original version better because it has a frame. However, Anne-LaureM, if you do a more thorough restoration of the photo, I might like it better than both that version and this one. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:52, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Arctium tomentosum - Keila.jpg, featured[edit]

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Woolly burdock
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File:Kreta - Blick auf Gramvousa von Imeri Gramvousa.jpg, featured[edit]

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Crete: Peninsula Gramvousa as seen from Imeri Gramvousa
flat? I see mountains :-) --Wladyslaw (talk) 16:51, 9 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Lago de Como, Italia, 2016-06-25, DD 02-06 PAN.jpg, featured[edit]

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Panoramic view of Lake Como, a lake of glacial origin located in Lombardy, Italy.
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File:Wild horses, Shar Mountain.jpg, featured[edit]

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SHORT DESCRIPTION
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File:Building of the Salins de Frontignan 22.jpg, featured[edit]

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The disused buildings of the Salins de Frontignan
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File:Bunker under the Milky Way.jpg, featured[edit]

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A bunker under the Milky Way.
 Comment Milky Way pictures are always noisy for you have to raise ISO settings to high values. Otherwise you won't be able to capture it. Check other FP of the Milky Way (here for example, which you know for sure, or here) . Regarding the image you give as an example, please consider it's a much smaller image, obviously reduced in size to conceal the noise. Moreover, no EXIF information is given, which allows me to infer that it's a double exposure (two different shots blended together for it's the only way to reduce noise in the foreground while being able to capture the Milky Way using an exposure time below 30 sec.) --ElBute (talk) 20:11, 9 August 2016 (UTC).[reply]
We can only speculate, but I think you are going to get this one anyway. I'll be the odd one out per usual. ;) Where does the light on the bunker come from anyway? w.carter-Talk 23:13, 9 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment Every opinion is valuable to me, even more the "odd ones" ;). Please, keep commenting my photos here and in QI. Regarding the light on the bunker, it comes from a warm flashlight as you indicated. --ElBute (talk) 05:51, 10 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

*temp.  Oppose Too much "hot"-pixels (fixable). --Alchemist-hp (talk) 18:04, 9 August 2016 (UTC) --Alchemist-hp (talk) 14:53, 10 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment It will be fixed tomorrow. --ElBute (talk) 20:11, 9 August 2016 (UTC).[reply]
Great, so I'd like to strike my oppose :-) --Alchemist-hp (talk) 20:26, 9 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Done Nine hot/red pixels have been fixed so far. Should you find any more, please tell me. Thanks. --ElBute (talk) 05:59, 10 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:16-04-04-Felsendom-Tempelberg-Jerusalem-RalfR-WAT 6559-6565.jpg, featured[edit]

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Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount Jerusalem
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File:Avestruz alta.jpg, featured[edit]

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Ostrich (Struthio camelus). Specimen of ostrich skeleton prepared by the bone maceration technique and on display at the Museum of Veterinary Anatomy FMVZ USP.
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File:Bloemen van de Boerenjasmijn (Philadelphus microphyllus). Locatie, Tuinreservaat Jonkervallei 02.jpg, featured[edit]

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File:Casino de Montecarlo, Mónaco, 2016-06-23, DD 06.jpg, featured[edit]

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View of the south balcony heading to the Mediterranen see of the Monte Carlo casino in Monaco.
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File:Galápagos sea lions, Santa Fe Island 03.jpg, featured[edit]

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Galápagos sea lion female (Zalophus wollebaeki) suckling a newborn, Santa Fe Island, Galápagos National Park, Ecuador
  •  Comment In a zoo, you have not much choice about your angle of view of course. Seen from this angle, the image just does not strike me extraordinarily. I could imagine zooming on the newborn from about 40 degrees to the left, with the exhausted mother out of focus in the background. Would be more impressive. Maybe not possible in the circumstances, but then, as I keep saying, it takes a bit of luck as well to get a situation where a featurable picture can be taken. --Kreuzschnabel 17:15, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment - The thing is, I find this composition good to move my eye around, and I don't care about not seeing the mother's face, nor do I imagine I'd prefer for her to be blurred, with the other elements currently in the photo invisible. So it's not just that we react differently to this photo; our criteria themselves are dissimilar, in this case. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:59, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Lech - Bürstegg - Sitzbank 01.jpg, featured[edit]

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Bench near Bürstegg. Lech. Vorarlberg, Austria
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File:Osh 03-2016 img36 Sulayman Mountain at the viewpoint.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Osh, Kyrgyzstan: Rocks at the top of the Sulayman Mountain (World Heritage Site)
Спасибо, только эта фотография — не из России. ;) --07:25, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
СССР... ;) INeverCry 21:23, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Spain Andalusia Granada BW 2015-10-25 17-22-07.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Spain, Granada, Alhambra Patio de los Arrayanes
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Spain, Granada, Alhambra Patio de los Arrayanes

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File:Suíno alta.jpg, featured[edit]

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Swine (Sus scrofa). Skeleton specimen of a swine prepared by bone maceration technique in display at the Museum of Veterinary Anatomy FMVZ USP.
@Ikan Kekek: Digital or structural artifacts? 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 17:45, 10 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know. All I know is that I see things that shouldn't be there. There are a couple of white smudges at the top right and top center, a smaller reddish blotch over a vertebra, and a very strange artifact with writing on it above the scale. That isn't an exhaustive list. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:23, 10 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Beach huts at Wells-next-the-Sea 2.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Beach huts on the Wells-next-the-Sea beach, Norfolk, England
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File:Triumph 1800 Roadster, Bj. 1948 (2016-07-02 01 Sp).JPG[edit]

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Triumph 1800 Roadster, Baujahr 1948
  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Objects/Vehicles/Land vehicles
  •  Info Triumph 1800 Roadster from Great Britain built in 1948 at a vintage car rally in Andernach, Germany, created, uploaded and nominated by Spurzem (talk) 18:06, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral -- Spurzem (talk) 18:06, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose QI, but the lighting is a bit dark and this doesn't wow me. INeverCry 19:02, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  I withdraw my nomination O.K.! If personal „Wow“ is a decisive criterion to decline than I have to withdraw and I know how to judge in future. Thank you! -- Spurzem (talk) 19:08, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Comment Ich fände es hilfreich, wenn du dir abgewöhnen könntest, auf Kritik beleidigt zu reagieren. Keiner hat gesagt, das Bild sei Mist oder du könntest nicht fotografieren. Aber wenn du hier ein Bild zur Diskussion stellst, dann forderst du andere auf, ihre Meinung dazu abzugeben. Nichts anderes hat INeverCry gemacht. Sei ihm doch dankbar für die ehrliche Rückmeldung. Und ja, „no wow“ ist ein Kriterium, denn ein FP ist – kurz gesagt – ein QI plus Wow-Effekt. Ein FP muß was Besonderes sein, und wenn man findet, daß ein Kandidat nichts Besonderes ist, ist das auch ohne offensichtliche Bildfehler eine gültige Begründung für einen Widerspruch. Wenn du dann allerdings die Nominierung sofort zurückziehst, hinderst du andere daran, den Kritiker zu überstimmen, aber das ist natürlich deine Entscheidung. --Kreuzschnabel 19:15, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Kreuzschnabel: Danke für Deine Worte. Trotzdem: Wenn ein unscharfes Tierfoto „wow“ ist und das Foto eines Autos ohne Sonnenschein im Hintergrund abgeschmettert wird, fehlt jegliche Sachlichkeit. Dein Foto vom Feldberg zum Beispiel reißt mich auch nicht vom Stuhl; trotzdem respektiere ich die fotografische Leistung und die Arbeit, die drinsteckt, und stimme mit „Pro“. Die andere Möglichkeit wäre noch, wenn ein Bild nicht begeistert oder nicht interessiert, überhaupt keine Stimme abzugeben. Gruß -- Spurzem (talk) 19:37, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Triumph 1800 Roadster, Baujahr 1948

@The Photographer: Thank you for your effort. But these colors are not the right one. -- Spurzem (talk) 19:40, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry --The Photographer (talk) 19:42, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Austerdalsbreen LC0406.jpg, featured[edit]

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Austerdalsbreen
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File:Bombus rupestris - Trifolium pratense - Keila.jpg, featured[edit]

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Red-tailed cuckoo bumblebee
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File:Drymona water fall and pool north Euboea Greece.jpg, featured[edit]

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Drymona kataraktes
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File:Iridiumi satelliidi sähvatus.jpg, featured[edit]

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Iridium flare
I wouldn't mind seeing that trail/shooting star cloned out myself. INeverCry 05:04, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • The picture is called "Iridium satellite twinkling", so I guess not a meteor and not fake. You can go online and see when and where satellites or even the International Space Station will be visible in the sky as the sun reflects on them and this is how they usually look in the rather brief moment you see them. The sunset is most likely a byproduct of taking a photo of the satellite passing. See below. w.carter-Talk 06:22, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I should also not be calling this a "sunset", my mistake, since the timestamp says almost midnight and the info on the file page "moonlit". The moonlight can sometimes create what looks like a sunset on long exposures during the bright nights this far north. w.carter-Talk 06:45, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your clarification User:W.carter --The Photographer (talk) 14:36, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
To The Photographer: this image has nothing to do with the sunset as is eminent from the metadata. And this isn't a falling star. As described in the description it is a Iridium satellite. And even the composition isn't random. It is well know when and where will those flashes occur and photographer was there on the spot waiting for it. All is captured on the image. And as W.carter pointed out there is also possible to capture ISS on a photo, then here is an image from the same author depicting just that. Kruusamägi (talk) 08:28, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I see, thanks --The Photographer (talk) 14:39, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
it was difficult remove this noise because on 90% cases there is information inner the noise. You are welcome --The Photographer (talk) 01:25, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Perry Anderson no Fronteiras do Pensamento Porto Alegre.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Historian Perry Anderson no Fronteiras do Pensamento Porto Alegre

To this day we don't have any good example of academic FP, that could be informative and artistic at the same time. I think. it's good beginning.

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Podarcis sicula taking morning sunbath
  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Reptiles#Family : Lacertidae (True lizards)
  •  Info Podarcis sicula taking morning sunbath. My shot. -- Mile (talk) 16:27, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Mile (talk) 16:27, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose - There have previously been comments that many good pictures of animals in their natural habitat weren't featurable because of the effects of camouflage. In this case, I would make that argument. The lack of contrast unfortunately creates some trouble for the composition. However, it might be able to overcome that, except that I think the bigger problem is the lack of any room above the rock, whose top is not visible. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:26, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Well, I'm the one who usually makes that argument, but in this case that's not the problem (for me, anyway). However, the light seems a little too harsh even if it's natural, and there's too many distractingly unsharp areas near the lizard. And its tail has been cut off at the tip. Daniel Case (talk) 06:06, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Daniel Case, Ikan Kekek. Ikan Kekek: camouflage - animal is seen perfectly, and on best time, good light, perfect colours. I am still worried about your screen - lack of contrast? If you see rock, then we are far apart. There is piece of wood. "Rock" above is missing. Its about animal, rock "isnt" missing. For Daniel Case: Yes, you cant get all at FF@600 mm, shallow DOF, did you check exif ? Catching with tail wasnt my purpose, more body. And that tail is very long, that "tip" makes 30%-40% of his tail length. --Mile (talk) 07:10, 16 August 2016 (UTC) People you waste my time too much.[reply]
  •  Comment - It looks like petrified wood, but I suppose it's actually really dried out wood. But really, you think you're always right and everyone who ever opposes featuring your photos is always wrong and we're wasting your time. You were the one who nominated your photo, and so far, no-one has supported featuring it. So who is wasting your time again? I will continue voting on your photos, using my own eyes and quite good browser. Have a nice day. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:06, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ikan Kekek Keep with comments, just see next time more carefully and be sure. If not - i am opening images sometimes few days to make up my mind. In this case, Case and your comments cant be taken in aspect - our "vision" isnt same. --Mile (talk) 07:54, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I do believe nobody could have taken a better shot in this situation but that does not excuse for the poor crop looking like "sorry, I couldn’t cram the entire animal in". Overlong tails should be left out another way, e.g. by vanishing into the blurry background, as it has been done here, or cropping the image even more to focus on the front part of the body exclusively. --Kreuzschnabel 13:15, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Sympetrum fonscolombii, female, Sète cf04.jpg, featured[edit]

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Sympetrum fonscolombii
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Transit of Mercury on May 9, 2016
  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Astronomy
  •  Info created by Elijah Mathews - uploaded by Elijah.mathews - nominated by PlanetUser -- PlanetUser (talk) 06:20, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- PlanetUser (talk) 06:20, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment - The information is great and the picture is a very good ground capture. However, I'm not sure a feature would be justified. If, for example, NASA took a better photo, it would be in the public domain and should be featured instead of this one. Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:07, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Per Ikan. And, frankly, I am not wowed by this image. Yes, I know what it is an image of. But I challenge you to imagine a viewer with little, if any, astronomical knowledge put in the position of seeing this image and telling you what it is. They would see "a dull yellow ball on a black background with some small black dots on it" And even after you told them what it was an image of, I would bet that they would not be able to identify which of the small black dots visible is Mercury without blowing the picture up to full size (Try it yourself ... you may well pick the sunspot cluster).

    Frankly, I think, full-disc pictures of the sun during inner-planet transits are not as featurable as those that show a portion of the disc with the planet more obvious to the eye, especially near the limb, like this from the transit of Venus a couple of years back. And transits of Mercury are also not as rare as transits of Venus, depriving this image of any claim to historical value (Now, someday, NASA will get that mission done where one of the Mars surface craft will be able to shoot a picture of Earth in transit (unfortunately, barring some way of uploading ourselves to Commons or other transhumanist life-extension projects, I do not think anyone presently here will be around to !vote on that one). Daniel Case (talk) 02:09, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

What I meant was the next such transit of Earth visible from Mars does not take place until 2084. That's 68 years, man ... Prince could be reborn today and live his whole life over again, and he still wouldn't get to be here to see a picture like that. Daniel Case (talk) 21:24, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Understood. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:48, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Tamanduateí train station of Series 2100 Red CPTM, São Paulo, Brazil
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File:St Peter's Church Nave 1, Drogheda, Ireland - Diliff.jpg, featured[edit]

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The nave of St Peter's Church in Drogheda, Ireland, looking north towards the altar.
Das ist die völlig korrekte Darstellung eines so weiten Bildwinkels. Wie aus dem Lehrbuch. Was wäre Dein Vorschlag, um so ein weites Blickfeld abzubilden? Zylindrische Projektion? Dann sind die Bänke verbogen. Oder solche Bilder einfach gar nicht machen? --Code (talk) 12:02, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Haut-Languedoc, Rosis cf06.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Haut-Languedoc, France
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The Frecce tricolori at the Air show Valtenesi del Garda performing the figure scintilla (spark)
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File:A Brazilian family in Rio de Janeiro by Jean-Baptiste Debret 1839.jpg, featured[edit]

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A Brazilian family in Rio de Janeiro by Jean-Baptiste Debret 1839
Yes we need, unfortunately in my case there is a money factor, rio is situed 6 hours from São Paulo my home. --The Photographer (talk) 16:43, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I'm no sure if I can do that because 1) That version is different and 2) The voting period is finished. We can wait for this nomination and I or you could create a delist nomination --The Photographer (talk) 18:54, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Portrait of George Washington (1732–99)
  • The relevant rule is that each FP is one of the very best pictures on the site. If we have dozens of painting FPs that are absolutely huge, detailed files, I would say that this can't possibly measure up at its small size. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:28, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment @Alchemist-hp: We’ve had the size discussion recently. The rule says, Images should have at least 2 real megapixels of information […] reviewers may choose to demand more if the image would benefit from it. So, 2 mpix being the absolute minimum of size, this does not mean that 2 mpix is sufficient in all cases, because nearly any image would "benefit from it". As a general rule, images should have the highest possible resolution (the guidelines say, We can't predict what devices may be used in the future, so it is important that our best pictures have as high a resolution as possible). 2 mpix is tolerated as long as there was no possibility to upload/nominate a higher-res shot, e.g. if a crop had to be made from the exposure. However, this does never apply to paintings which can easily be shot at full resolution. --Kreuzschnabel 20:48, 17 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Kreta - Panorama Rethymno.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Crete: panoramic view Rethymno
Ikan Kekek: Cutting this pano would mean that the image would become a less good proportion. What is "very interesting" on the flats on the right that I shouldn't have cut them off? The architecture is very similar to many others we see in the image. Real garbage we don't see, it`s more a kind of relict of former hovels. Can't find that this is disturbative, this belongs to the culture of Greece. I have endeavored that this parts are not dominating the image and I guess this was successful. --Wladyslaw (talk) 20:14, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment - Your nomination might be successful, but to me the issue isn't only that the buildings in the near right corner aren't per se very interesting to me to be so emphasized, but that they are arbitrarily cropped in a way that I found disturbing. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:49, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Back side of a hotel construction site in Lech, Vorarlberg, Austria. Views of landscape and church tower.
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Valeska Steiner, singer of the singer-songwriter duo Boy live at the Schlachthof Wiesbaden
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File:Vertical granite cliff at sunset.jpg, featured[edit]

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Vertical granite cliff at sunset
  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places#Sweden
  •  Info The air and the light in the old Rixö quarry is sometimes unbeleivable. There are no big cities or industries nearby and the light reflects off the fjord beside it. Most of the time I have to desaturate photos I take there a bit, or people would think I was heavy on the post-processing. The deposite below the cliff is mostly mud slush, hence very soft and few details. All by me. -- w.carter-Talk 08:38, 17 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sidenote: I have been thinking about nominating this for a while now, and when I had the chance it fell on top of the Atacama desert and a pyramid(withdrawn)! Pure coincidence and my little place is nowhere near as interesting as those but I'll go ahead with my nom anyway. --w.carter-Talk 09:10, 17 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Those are different stages of clouds being formed. They are so thin that they are transparent and just barely visible. There is a lot of cool cloud activity here because of all the moist air by the sea. You can sit and watch clouds being formed from nothing or huge clouds dissolving. As you can see in some of my other pics there are also unusual or interesting clouds in some of them. In this case a huge cloud bank was forming behind me and the sun shone through a small opening in it which accounts for the interesting light. w.carter-Talk 07:44, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Capri Portrait.jpg, not featured[edit]

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SHORT DESCRIPTION
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A japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) at the Zoo Sauvage de Saint-Félicien
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File:Salote Tupou III of Tonga in 1908.jpg, featured[edit]

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en:Salote Tupou III of Tonga
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Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Tresonče, Macedonia
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
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File:Dokk1 version 3.jpg, featured[edit]

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SHORT DESCRIPTION
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File:Linaria vulgaris - harilik käokannus Valingu.jpg, featured[edit]

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Common toadflax
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File:RhB ABe 8-12 3510 Bärentritt.jpg, featured[edit]

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A RhB "Allegra" crosses the Bärentritt bridge in the Zügen Gorge, Switzerland
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The Berca Mud Volcanoes are a geological and botanical reservation located close to Berca in Buzău County, Romania.
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Laelatu wooded meadow
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Pot-bellied pig
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File:Ana rosa metro station, São Paulo, Brazil.jpg, featured[edit]

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Ana rosa metro station, Green line, São Paulo, Brazil
✓ Done Barrel distortion, please, let me know if it's ok. BTW, answering your question for someone a Tower could be FP and for others a metro station. In this case what i love of this picture is the composition of diagonals and verticals with the woman descending the metro stairs. As a courtesy, it is always best not to ask why a picture is special because what makes a image FP special is just that, transmit you a valuable information without explanation. --The Photographer (talk) 02:00, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, I didn’t say, "This picture is not special" but I did say, "I can’t see anything special". Meaning it doesn’t "transmit a valuable information without explanation" to me, so I just wanted to make sure I am not missing the point here. No offence intended. Furthermore, I didn’t oppose. --Kreuzschnabel 04:35, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Johann Jaritz: Certainly, this is one of the most stunning photos taken by The Photographer. 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 20:13, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@ArionEstar: This photo might have been taken from a scene of one of the best thrillers by Alfred Hitchcock. I am still amazed. --Johann Jaritz (talk) 03:02, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral I like this overall, but the stance of the woman closest bothers me; it just isn't flattering to her figure to have her right leg and the right side of her butt bulging out. INeverCry 01:10, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Colonial house Rua Tristão Mariano 175, São Paulo, Brazil.jpg, featured[edit]

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Colonial house, Rua Tristão Mariano 175, Bosque da Saúde, São Paulo, Brazil
@PetarM: Sorry, but is it really a reason for oppose? 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 17:25, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your recommendation @PetarM: and I will take into account the next time, however, in this case, the house was protected by a fence that prevented me put my camera on the floor (you could check it on GSM). BTW, In Brazil is not allowed to invade the privacy and this house has been uninhabited for years. A hug --The Photographer (talk) 19:16, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Kreta - Panorama auf Kotsifou-Schlucht.jpg, featured[edit]

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Crete: View at Libyan Sea and Kotsifou Gorge
  •  Support - I just looked at the edited version. I will let my objection above stand, but I think that since the photo as a whole is so good at full-page size, I'll support a feature in spite of my demurral above. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:12, 24 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I'll try a little adjustment this evening. --Wladyslaw (talk) 08:44, 23 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
C messier: You was correct, the image is brightened up now. --Wladyslaw (talk) 04:35, 24 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Lech da Pertan y Fermedes sun Mastlé.jpg, featured[edit]

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Mountain lake in the Dolomites
+1 I agree with Ivar, furthermore all images of the earth, even the more overexposed ones, can have a histogram ok if you if you edit them enough (e.g. overexposed image remapped to grey or with highlight strongly decreased can have a histogram ok, that's change nothing on the fact the camera did not register any details)...and I also agree with Ivar the edition can be improved here. Nice place and composition despite the overexposed cloud. Christian Ferrer (talk) 11:47, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Zaadpluizen van Cirsium vulgare in mild avondlicht. Locatie, De Famberhorst 01.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Seed Fluffs Cirsium vulgare in mild evening light. The Famberhorst in the Netherlands.

 I withdraw my nomination because Nr. 2 is already nominated. --Hubertl 20:59, 24 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Landscape of the Sierra de Entzia mountain range. Beeches. Álava, Basque Country, Spain



 I withdraw my nomination Basotxerri (talk) 15:27, 24 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Pole with tension weight for overhead lines.
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File:Haanja 2010 01 1.jpg, featured[edit]

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Winter in Haanja Upland
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Result: 13 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /INeverCry 23:56, 24 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Santa Cecilia (Rome) - Ceiling.jpg, featured[edit]

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Santa Cecilia (Rome) - Ceiling
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Santa Cecilia (Rome) - Ceiling

If color were an intrinsic property of an object, and it was only the perceived color that changed under different lighting conditions, you could match the object’s intrinsic color in printed output, say, under any lighting conditions, and the colors would then match under all conditions. However, because color is not an intrinsic property of the object but rather a sensation, the only thing you can match is the sensation that a particular color induces in your visual sensory system. That sensation will change under different lighting conditions, and it will usually change differently for different objects. So the best you can do is match colors under specific lighting conditions --The Photographer (talk) 02:03, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Santa Maria in Cosmedin (Rome) - Ciborium.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Santa Maria in Cosmedin (Rome) - Ciborium
  • 1) The perspective isn't very fortunate. It's neither central nor is it really a double point perspective. It just looks as there was no space in the middle so the photographer simply stepped at the right. It doesn't look as if the photographer really had a creative concept.
  • 2) The top crop is bad IMO because a part of the arc is cut (ok, maybe this alone wouldn't be a reason for an oppose vote).
  • 3) The bottom crop isn't good as well because of the cut chairs in the foreground (ok, maybe this alone wouldn't be a reason for an oppose vote, too).
  • 4) The whole picture seems to be distorted a little bit, maybe there's some barrel distortion.
  • 5) The picture has a severe lack of detail (look at the icons at both sides) which may be caused by increasing the contrast too much and adding too much clarity. It's oversharpened as well which makes the picture look like a painting, at least partially.
  • 6) There are some blown out parts at the left and in the background.
  • 7) The white balance is too cold (at the top the walls look nearly blue) (ok, maybe that's a matter of taste).
Sorry but do you really consider this to be one of our finest church interiors we're hosting here on Wikimedia Commons? Apart from that, it's a wonderful church which deserves a much better picture. Livio lives in Rome, he could easily go there again and take a much better picture (HDR, central perspective, better postprocessing). A better version would definitely get my support. --Code (talk) 07:43, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose. Sorry, I agree with Code. It might be the best image of this church to be found with a google image search, but that isn't the standard we should be aiming for. I also don't find it to be a particularly interesting or beautiful church. That's not the main reason for the oppose though, but it does mean that it should be an even more technically excellent image to have the necessary wow for FP IMO. Diliff (talk) 08:17, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I agrre mostly with Code. Especially the non centered composition bothers me. --Berthold Werner (talk) 10:57, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Fully agree with Code. Plus the columns on the left lean out in a funny curved way. There is some severe distortion in this shot. Sorry, but this is way below FP standard for church interiors set by Diliff’s masterpieces. --Kreuzschnabel 13:08, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Can't really add to what Code said. Daniel Case (talk) 17:47, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 7 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /INeverCry 23:57, 24 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de África, Ceuta, España, 2015-12-10, DD 70-72 HDR.JPG, featured[edit]

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View of the main nave of teh church of Santa María de África, a Roman Catholic church located in the city of Ceuta, a Spanish exclave on the north coast of Africa.
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Result: 14 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /INeverCry 20:01, 25 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Paisajes cerca de Calama, Chile, 2016-02-01, DD 84.JPG, featured[edit]

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Landscape near Calama, Chile
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File:Six Men in a Boat at Cobbler's Cliff Backa Brastad.jpg, featured[edit]

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Six men in a boat of the same model as the Hjortspring boat, a detail of Cobbler's Cliff (Skomakarhällen) in Backa Petroglyph Area (or Backa Rock Carvings) Brastad, Lysekil Municipality, Sweden
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File:Apis mellifera - Melilotus albus - Keila2.jpg, featured[edit]

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Honey bee and white sweet clover
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File:Chantry Island Lightstation Tower.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Lighthouse Station
Nomination denied. Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines because only two active nominations per user are allowed. --Jebulon (talk) 09:28, 25 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 1 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /INeverCry 20:18, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Tren de la FCA en el trayecto Ollagüe-Uyuni, Bolivia, 2016-02-03, DD 94.JPG, not featured[edit]

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FCAB railway dedicated to mining transport near Ollagüe and direction to Antofagasta (as part of the 1,537 km (955 mi) route Antofagasta - Calama - Ollagüe - Uyuni - La Paz).
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File:Bright Red Sun.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Bright red sun seen nearly round in shape at dawn.
Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: I am sorry but granuled (jpg artifacts),  Overexposed and be careful - The Photographer (talk) 01:41, 25 August 2016 (UTC)[reply] Anyone other than the nominator who disagrees may override this template by changing {{FPX}} to {{FPX contested}} and adding a vote in support. Voting will then continue in the usual way. If not contested within 24 hours, this nomination may be closed.
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Result: 1 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /INeverCry 20:20, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Hersilia-2016-06-19-002.jpg, featured[edit]

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Tree trunk spider capturing a cicada
  • Tree trunk spiders usually seen on main trunk; not on branches. So making the trunk horizontal may reduce the EV. A portrait crop removing empty sky from both sides may possible. (This is a high speed action; just happened close to my range. I didn't made a single step; just raise the camera and shoot. Only later I found I'm able to capture all important moments, including the bite through shroud.) Jee 03:55, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 14 support, 0 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /INeverCry 20:50, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Odocoileus virginianus fawn, Owen Conservation Park, Madison, Wisconsin.jpg, not featured[edit]

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White-tailed deer fawn (Odocoileus virginianus), Owen Conservation Park, Madison, Wisconsin
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File:Sympetrum fonscolombii, female, Sète cf06.jpg, featured[edit]

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Sympetrum fonscolombii, female
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File:Women model top.jpg, featured[edit]

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Women model top
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File:Ivor Novello.jpg, featured[edit]

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Ivor Novello
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File:Ara bleu (Planète Sauvage, Pornic).JPG, not featured[edit]

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SHORT DESCRIPTION
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File:Trski ohridsko ezero 2014.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Reed near the Ohrid Lake in Struga, Macedonia
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File:Hanomag Kommissbrot (05), 500 cm³, Bj. 1927 (2007-06-17).jpg, not featured[edit]

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Hanomag 2/10 PS
@Alchemist-hp: Tolles Kontra-Argument! Aber an dem Autochen gibt's nun mal nicht viel zu sehen; mehr allerdings als an einem voll verkleideten Sportwagen. Wenn Du genau hinschaust, erkennst Du drei von vier Rädern, die sich drehen, die Vorderradaufhängung mit der Lenkung, die Lenksäule und das Lenkrad, den Tank und den Kühler hinter dem Fahrer, die Scheinwerfer und die Abdeckplane statt einer Frontverkleidung aus Metall. – Wie ich sehe, läuft es aber wohl darauf hinaus, dass ich die Bewerbung zurückziehe. -- Spurzem (talk) 15:03, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
O.k. – White helmets are often white when sun is shining. But I see that this is a heavy lack. -- Spurzem (talk) 16:47, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Young juniper needles.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Young juniper needles
  • I tried several DoF and this is actually the one that came out best. The different shoots on the juniper were at so many levels, no way of getting all of them sharp (complete focus stacking is not an option on a cliff with a handheld camera). At f/11 many were sharp, but so was also the older parts of the branches and the picture just looked messy, the background also became way to sharp with that. As for the artistic side, the little shoots looked like small bright stars against the darker green/brown and I tried to catch a "constellation" of them, no deeper meaning than that. It came out better that I hoped for since I normally don't shoot plants and I can honestly say that wouldn't had managed even this if I hadn't been looking at so many of Famberhorst's and Iifar's pictures lately. The honor for any good comments for this pic should fall to them, any blame or bad critique is all on me. :) --w.carter-Talk 21:28, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 2 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /INeverCry 19:08, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Amphithalamus vallei 01.jpg, not featured[edit]

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A shell of Amphithalamus vallei

This is one of the smallest shells of my collection. Its size (0.9 mm) is a little bit larger than the dot at the end of this sentence.

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File:Estação da Luz 2015.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Estação da Luz 2015
Thanks for your review, however, It's not a hdr, you can't show the station interior without a external overexposition and in this case the interior is main subject. Btw, let me know if the noise is gone. --The Photographer (talk) 12:26, 24 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Noise level is ok. The other issues remain. --Code (talk) 05:54, 25 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I can not say that the other picture with the distorted trains and dark colors is more interesting. -- Spurzem (talk) 18:50, 24 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Done Overexposition and Anyway, thanks for your hour recomendation --The Photographer (talk) 19:26, 24 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The Photographer did you cloned stamp the sky and the arc?? How this is going to be a FP????? The photo stamped bellows to you at least?

File:Problem with Estação da Luz 2015.gif File:Jeff the killer Meme 2.png

Ikan Kekek, Spurzem, Frank Schulenburg, Daniel Case, pleas, review your votes, tks. -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton m 09:03, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
✓ DoneYou can see that the rta example is too much overexposed, and the image on this nomination is much more big. BTW Your station example is in a different position in relation to the sun, you can't take a picture of Luz station (not HDR) without expose the exterior. However, I used another version and I think that it's fixed, please, let me know --The Photographer (talk) 18:57, 24 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
 Support So ... much ... better ... now. Did you use one of those adjustment brushes? I have some images that could benefit from that treatment. Daniel Case (talk) 03:01, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
It was a rebuild and rebuild from NX Capture and not Lightroom, I used a selective lighting exposure selector --The Photographer (talk) 03:44, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Done --The Photographer (talk) 03:36, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 5 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /INeverCry 19:12, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:2016 Gebaeude Grosser Feldberg ks01.jpg, featured[edit]

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Buildings and towers on the Großer Feldberg, Taunus
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File:Four-spotted chaser (Libellula quadrimaculata) female dorsal.jpg, featured[edit]

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Four-spotted chaser
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File:Frecce tricolori Air show Valtenesi del Garda Manerba .jpg, featured[edit]

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The Frecce tricolori at the Air show Valtenesi del Garda
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File:2016.06.24.-04-Viernheimer Heide-Viernheim--Krabbenspinne-Thomisus onustus-Weibchen.jpg, featured[edit]

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A crab spider - Thomisus onustus, female.
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File:Lynx rufus - Zoo Sauvage de Saint-Félicien - 2016-07-19.jpg, not featured[edit]

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A bobcat (lynx rufus) at the Zoo Sauvage de Saint-Félicien
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