Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:142 Eva Nilsson and 143 Clara Nilsson Moseby in Musselloppet 2019.jpg

File:142 Eva Nilsson and 143 Clara Nilsson Moseby in Musselloppet 2019.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Sports#Individual sports
•  Info The course of this competition runs through the nooks and crannies of the Old Town in Lysekil, so there are opportunities to photograph the runners against a fairly clean and uncluttered background. At this spot, there was also a white wall to reflect sunlight onto the "shade side" of the runners. This synced pair, probably mother and daughter, caught my attention. All by me, -- Cart (talk) 14:07, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- Cart (talk) 14:07, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Nice shot.--Famberhorst (talk) 15:45, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Good capture. Cmao20 (talk) 16:38, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose Too ordinary. Background distracting. Runners are not 'synced' and are not showing great running skills. Charles (talk) 16:54, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

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Charles, you are always welcome to oppose my photos, as you so very often do, but please do not critizise the people in the photos. Not all running competitions (or parts of) are about skills and winning, many of them are about having a good time. Thank you, --Cart (talk) 17:23, 4 August 2019 (UTC) I'm not criticising the runners, just your ill-judged choice of submitting this image to FP. Did they want to be here? Do they even know they are here? Serious athletes can expect to be photographed and see their faces in a newspaper, but fun runners? Who are clearly identified. I'd be horrified if it happened to me. Charles (talk) 20:06, 4 August 2019 (UTC) Now you are just twisting things to turn this on me instead. It may be an unknow competition to you, but not so here. It is covered by Swedish west coast newspapers, radio stations, Swedish runner websites, etc. I was far from the only photographer at the race and the runners are very well aware of this. This is one of many sports events in Sweden where ordinary people mix with elite athletes, the biggest being Vasaloppet. Every participant in these sports events knows what to expect. --Cart (talk) 20:30, 4 August 2019 (UTC) Oh really? You finish in 61 minutes (the leading female competitor took 38 minutes) and then expect to be immortalised in a 'competition' to be one of the finest pictures on Wikipedia without your agreeing? I don't think so. Charles (talk) 20:42, 4 August 2019 (UTC) Are you suggesting that it is ok for the photo to be on Commons, but not ok to nominate it for FP because the runners are not elite runners or in the first group to finish? If so please take this to ANU so we can get this sorted out, because that is a rule I'm unfamilliar with. We have a lot of people without notability who have been "immortalised" as FPs. What is the difference between this nom and this photo (named, not notable, didn't win)? --Cart (talk) 20:49, 4 August 2019 (UTC) Sent to ANU. This the link. And there is a big difference. Sylvain Morin (no. 6331), is a well-known champion athlete. As is David Bizet. I imagine they know each other, hence the tap of the shoulder. Charles (talk) 21:40, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

•  Oppose Not really a big wow factor for me; the image itself is fairly ordinary and I'm not seeing a remarkable event or people.--Peulle (talk) 18:30, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Boothsift 05:08, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Comment Indeed not very wowy with the motion blur showing quite poor running style and the boring and distracting background, which could have been blurred a bit better at only f/2.8 instead of f/6.3. They are both facing you and your camera, that's good! --Granada (talk) 08:07, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

• Thanks for dropping by Granada and thanks for the tips. I'm no way near as good at this as you, but learning and testing. The reason I dared nominate this, was that there are very few photos of women runners of good resolution and I thought that might tip the scale in favor of this. You never know. --Cart (talk) 09:37, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

•  I withdraw my nomination --Cart (talk) 13:57, 6 August 2019 (UTC)