Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Doña ramona.jpg

File:Doña ramona.jpg, featured

Voting period ends on 8 Apr 2009 at 21:56:58

•  Info created, uploaded and nominated by -- Tomascastelazo (talk) 21:56, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Support Doña Ramona, a Seri healing woman from Sonora, Mexico. There are only about 800 Seris left. It is an ethnic group on its way of dissappearing -- Tomascastelazo (talk) 21:56, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --norro 07:07, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Support —kallerna™ 10:00, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Support Roquai (talk) 20:08, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --Lošmi (talk) 00:40, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --Notyourbroom (talk) 06:04, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose Don't like composition --Dmitry A. Mottl (talk) 06:50, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose I am also not convinced of the composition. why did you chose this composition? --AngMoKio (talk) 20:22, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

•  Comment I chose this composition because Seris hold a very close relationship to the land, and the cactus in the background is characteristic of their habitat, so I wanted to picture her in the environment that they hold close to them; second, she had just picked up herbs and was chanting in appreciation. --Tomascastelazo (talk) 21:29, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

•  Support--Mbz1 (talk) 18:07, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose 'Posed' composition. Lycaon (talk) 20:24, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

•  Comment Lycaon: Since you make two opposes to two of my pictures based on the the “pose” issue I will take the liberty to disagree on your disagreement. First of all, a portrait, according to Webster, is a pictorial representation of a person usually showing the face. These pictures are portraits, and in addition to showing the face, they show the environment in which they live and is relevant to understanding them as persons and their culture, which is a disappearing one (only 800 Seris left, as opposed for example to 10,642,836 Portuguese, which you seem to be fond of). They are by no means meant to be featured on Vogue or pretty people magazines, but rather as subjects in a coordinate of time and place. They don´t “pose” with a superficial idea of “looking good”, instead, they just stand and allow themselves to be photographed, as they are. This is how they interact with the camera, this is how they want to be seen. Now, the terms “strong”, “normal”, or “weak” pose are subjective evaluations based on the personal experience and cultural capital, or lack of it, of the observer which may not be connected to reality at all. So if you oppose on the “pose” and fail to appreciate the knowledge value of the image, that is your personal choice and right. Photographically, encyclopedically and anthropologically speaking IMO, you miss the point. --Tomascastelazo (talk) 15:11, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

•  Support --Ahabvader (talk) 22:52, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --Muhammad (talk) 13:51, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --Paris 16 (talk) 17:08, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

result: 10 support, 3 oppose => featured --AngMoKio (talk) 11:06, 12 April 2009 (UTC)