Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Harlech Castle Gatehouse Tower, Merionethshire, Wales - 25-07-2017.jpg

File:Harlech Castle Gatehouse Tower, Merionethshire, Wales - 25-07-2017.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture/Castles and fortifications#United Kingdom
•  Info OK, time for a self-nomination at long last. A view of one of the towers of the gatehouse of Harlech Castle, a World Heritage Site in Wales. I can't find any images of the castle in higher-quality on Commons. If anyone suggests it needs a perspective correction.... All my work, Cmao20 (talk) 22:57, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- Cmao20 (talk) 22:57, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

• Note - just after I started this nom I made a couple of corrections, including nudging the white balance towards the cooler side as I felt it was a little warm before. This is now accurate to how it looked on the day. Anyone who viewed the nom right after I made it might need to clear their cache to view the new version. Cmao20 (talk) 23:13, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

•  Comment Congratulations, Cmao20, for submitting your own work (as it seems to be the first FPC "all by you" if I'm not wrong). Well, in my view this tower is clearly a QI, and the light is good. However I'm a bit mitigated on the wow factor (that's subjective of course) as I don't see here a tremendous composition, nor an incredibly original subject. I'm not sure whether or not this one will become FP (I'd bet for no), but I'm personally convinced it is not an obvious one. Other opinions may differ of course. You'll see... good luck! -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:49, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

• Thanks Basile. Yes, this is the first time I have submitted my own work at FPC, I will upload a few more of my images over the next few weeks although I'm not sure if I'll try them at FPC or at QIC. Your opinion is always appreciated, even if you don't support. Cmao20 (talk) 12:39, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

• If you're not sure about QIC, be informed that a promotion there is much much easier than here -- Basile Morin (talk) 00:39, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

•  Oppose Hi Cmao, I'm with Basile basically. There's nothing wrong. It's properly taken and I guess it would pass QI assessment. But here is about "special" pictures, and I don't think that one is. Do you think it's a very special point of view? subject? Were the conditions special? If yes, then you did well to nominate. But to me it doesn't check any of these. And at an age when anyone can basically produce high quality picture, your picture has to stand out on other merits to get the stars here (well I guess, I'm not all the voters). Benh (talk) 15:03, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

• Well, in response I'd say I nominated it because I felt that the perspective conveyed the height and immensity of the tower, and I felt that the light conditions were good that day. It also shows several important features of castle architecture from that time, included the arrowslits and the places where rooms would once have been constructed, and it shows the colour of the decorative yellow sandstone more clearly than any other image on Commons. But maybe these latter few are arguments for why it should be featured on ENwiki, not here. Thanks for your review anyway, it's always appreciated. Cmao20 (talk) 15:16, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

• I agree with you. Your reason would probably be better received at enFPC. And yes here is also a lot of personal point of view, which can get really frustrating from time to time (when you think you took the shot of your life and no one seems to agree). - Benh (talk) 15:31, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

•  Support Very good for me -- Lothar Spurzem (talk) 17:55, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 07:16, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
•  Support, as it reminds me of a similar FP of mine of another British tower against a similar sky (to be seen in better glory as the PotD on the enwiki Main Page tomorrow). Daniel Case (talk) 16:47, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

• Thanks Daniel. Your picture is excellent too, it makes brutalism look almost attractive... Cmao20 (talk) 15:25, 25 September 2019 (UTC)

•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 15:15, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --MZaplotnik^(talk) 09:17, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
•  Weak support: while this type of geometric distortion works for towers, the adjacent walls make the scene a bit caotic, especially the cut off window. But nice colour and sharpness. --The Cosmonaut (talk) 15:06, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

• Thanks for your review. Your point is fully understood, but I think the frame would look a bit empty if the adjacent walls weren't there. And of course in practice there's not really any way to get the image without including at least some of the surrounding walls. That said, it would be better if the window wasn't cut off, I agree - but I've visited this spot a few times and never managed to get a better shot than this one. Cmao20 (talk) 17:44, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

•  Congratulations! on your first own FP. Well deserved. --Cart (talk) 09:02, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

• Thanks Cart. I thought it might do OK, but the voting at first didn't seem to back me up. Glad it passed in the end! Cmao20 (talk) 17:59, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 7 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Cart (talk) 08:59, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

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