Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:1. কান্তনগর মন্দির.jpg

File:1. কান্তনগর মন্দির.jpg, featured

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•  Info created by Pinu Rahman - uploaded by Pinu Rahman - nominated by IamMM -- IamMM (talk) 14:39, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
•  Support -- IamMM (talk) 14:39, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
•  Support At first glance, I thought it was some electrical component! The wow of this temple is more in the details rather than the overall structure, but for me this is worth featuring mainly for its educational value. A quick search doesn't return any other aerial view of this subject on the internet. — Rhododendrites ^talk |  18:04, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Ivar (talk) 18:56, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
•  Question Very nice! Do the walls of the temple really have this ‘barrel distortion’, or is this just barrel distortion by the camera lens? --Aristeas (talk) 09:12, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

•  Comment Pretty sure that's at least mostly due to how the roof is constructed. It's curving up (and probably also a outwards bit) in the center. See how the outer roof line hits the rainwater outlets (peeking out at the corners) at an angle? If you use those outlets as a reference, lens distortion appears to be quite well-controlled for a drone camera. --El Grafo (talk) 10:28, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

• Well, it's physics or rather the angle of the view. :-) If you look at this building in the many photos of it in the Category:Kantanagar Temple, the walls are straight but are curved upwards quite a bit. When a shot is taken straight down from the middle, things lean outwards from the center [1]. You can see some of the inner part of the walls/railings/parapets and the central tower has straight sides. But as you go outward, the low walls surrounding each step are more and more curved upward and therefore they appear to be "bulging" outwards because of the perspective. To me, this looks like very accurate photo of this building with no barrel distortion. If it was a camera/lens distortion, the fence at the bottom of the photo would also be curved, and it's not. (You can sort of think of it as looking straight down a take-away box) --Cart (talk) 14:46, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

•  Comment I would like to thank both of you very much for your explanations! One can learn so many things on the FPC page … :–) --Aristeas (talk) 16:12, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

•  Support per Rhododendrites. --Aristeas (talk) 16:12, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 05:20, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
•  Support Amazing image --Kritzolina (talk) 20:17, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 23:22, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
•  Support Quite interesting. We should fix or delete the red-linked category, though, and this needs an additional category of views from above. That's all housekeeping that doesn't bear on the quality or interest of the photo. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:13, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 15:21, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
•  Support per Rhododendrites. Daniel Case (talk) 06:41, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 10 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:04, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Architecture