Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Crimea South Coast 04-14 img10 Gaspra Swallows Nest.jpg

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•  Info created and uploaded by A.Savin - nominated by Jebulon -- Jebulon (talk) 16:55, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
•  Support The Swallow's Nest Castle, in Crimea. Incredible place and building, very nice photograph, with a good light, almost perfect sharpness, lovely composition. A FP to me.-- Jebulon (talk) 16:55, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
•  Support Perhaps slightly tilted CCW, but wow and unusual. --DXR (talk) 17:27, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
•  Support Of course; thank you Jebulon! In fact, this photo I wanted to nominate soon. You know my taste, I guess ;) --A.Savin 18:10, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
•  Support Nice. I added a note about a white aura --Wilfredo R. Rodríguez H. (talk) 18:17, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
•  Support Yann (talk) 19:14, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
•  Support --JLPC (talk) 08:01, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
•  Support --Joydeep _Talk 08:51, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
•  Support great! --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 09:37, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
•  Support --Alex Florstein (talk) 09:50, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
•  Support --Cayambe (talk) 10:12, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
•  Neutral I'm not really sure that having the horizon and the veranda at the same level is a very good idea, Alexander, it feels a bit strange to me. Wasn't it possible to have them separated? Did you do it on purpose? --Kadellar (talk) 14:49, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

No, it wasn't on purpose. On the staircase down to the castle, there are just a few points with good vista. Alternative image: here, all other attempts I deleted as much less successful. I don't mind the position of the horizon here. --A.Savin 15:31, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

I think this one of the "keys" of this picture, and I disagree with Kadellar here: oh yes, it is a good idea ! I see it like a picture "in mirror". The upper part is sophisticated and baroque, the lower part is nature and chaos, that's fine !--Jebulon (talk) 16:19, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

The other image is just "good", and less interesting IMO.--Jebulon (talk) 16:22, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

•  Comment When I did a Google search this resulted: https://www.google.ca/search?q=Gaspra+Swallows+Nest&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=AtZbU_TMN-nA2AWwmYG4Dg&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=2560&bih=1315 While I like this image (I like your other one more) I just think there are so many more dramatic compositions that could have been done. This is perfect for Wikipedia purposes but I am not sure it lives up to the wow that could have been. Saffron Blaze (talk) 15:54, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
  • This is perfect for Wikipedia purposes : Yeah !! --Jebulon (talk) 16:22, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

• Indeed, I suggest you nominate it there, as this is Commons :-) Saffron Blaze (talk) 16:29, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

• "there"? What do you mean by "there" ? And indeed, this is "Commons", and there is no better international place for such a nomination ;)--Jebulon (talk) 19:23, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

• Are you debating me here? My point was I would probably support this at one of the Wikipedias FP's but not here on Commons. You took a QI image of a high EV subject; such images are suited to places like en:FP because of their focus on EV. This is Commons FPC, and here wow should take precedence. This lacks overall wow because of the compositional choice and I supported that opinion with dozens of spectacular images of this subject found elsewhere on the internet. I simply did not oppose because the support is overwhelming and I thought it would be simply fruitless and perhaps even rude to do so at this point. Saffron Blaze (talk) 21:08, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

• Not the place for such a discussion, I'm afraid. But I strongly disagree with almost all your statements above. --Jebulon (talk) 22:47, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

•  Oppose It is a very wow subject but I agree with Saffron that this angle/composition does it no justice. This side elevation view and shadowless lighting loses much 3D effect. Most of the context of the location is lost. It is hard, even, to determine how big it is (though the lack of gawping tourists is a plus). -- Colin (talk) 20:16, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
•  Support WOW!!!!! Totally agree with Jebulon. --(✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 23:32, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
•  Support Michael Barera (talk) 05:40, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
•  Support Christian Ferrer (talk) 06:30, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
•  Support Looking at Google images I also think that this subject has lots of potential, but the execution of this one is at FP level to me, though Poco² 08:52, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
•  Support --ArildV (talk) 22:04, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
•  Support --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 23:52, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 16 support, 1 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /(✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 08:54, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

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