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File:Huerto del Cura, Elche, España, 2014-07-05, DD 32.JPG

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•  Info View of the Huerto del Cura (Priest’s Orchard), the most famous orchard of Palmeral de Elche, with 200.000 palms (Phoenix dactylifera) and 3.5 km² the biggest in Europe and one of the biggest in the world. This orchard is a Spain's national monument, a national artistic garden, and, since 2000, World Heritage Monument. The first palms of the Palmeral de Elche could have been planted in the 5th century BC and this orchard dates back to 1846 and comprises 13.000 m² and includes approx. 1000 palms. As you can see in the picture the orchard also includes different succulents like Ferocactus peninsulae, Cleistocactus strausii, Hamatocactus setispinus apart from palms. All by me, Poco² 11:34, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
•  Support -- Poco² 11:34, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
•  Oppose Neutral for now. The stones are too bright, and the upper left trees are too dark. This can be fixed with the proper technique – the stones are not totally blown out and can be recovered. I like the color and composition, though the plant comes perilously close to touching the right edge of the image. If there is a wider crop available to work from consider whether slightly better framing is possible, too. --Kbh3^rdtalk 02:06, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

  Kbh3^rd: Thanks for your feedback! I can make all those corrections this evening out of the raw file. I also have the possibility to expand the right crop, this frame was actually intentional. Poco² 06:56, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

  Kbh3^rd:  New version available with the attempt to address the issues you pointed out Poco² 18:12, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

• That's a definite improvement and better than mine, which I've removed but is viewable here. Does the original allow for including more on the left, also? The dominant feature of this image is the plant that arcs across the frame, of course. It originates in the burst of leaves at the lower left, but that part of the plant is truncated by the crop. The arc leads the eye right to that, and I have to wonder whether it would be better to include the whole plant, though without knowing what else that would bring into the composition. That might also help with the issue of the line of the rock wall coming right out of the corner, which is not optimal. --Kbh3^rdtalk 18:32, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

• No, sorry, that's it. I cannot offer more image on the left, right, top or bottom. Poco² 20:26, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

•  Oppose Nice and well composed however harsh light, sorry. -- Christian Ferrer ^Talk 06:55, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
•  Support Looks like a still from a horror movie. ;oD Yann (talk) 17:56, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
•  I withdraw my nomination Ok, it looks like I couldn't transmit the beauty of the place (at least not to all :) ) Poco² 20:01, 7 September 2014 (UTC)