Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Hydrangea arborescens Annabelle over a fence.jpg

File:Hydrangea arborescens Annabelle over a fence.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Plants#Family : Hydrangeaceae
•  Info So, why the fence? Besides acting as an interesting line and kind of impromptu "vase" for the flowers, it has another meaning for me. Here in Sweden, these flowers are synonym with old gardens and this perspective and old painted fence, brings me back to being a kid in my grandmother's garden, lying on the grass looking up at the white balls and imagining they were fluffy clouds in the sky. Not sure anyone else sees it that way though. -- Cart (talk) 17:36, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- Cart (talk) 17:36, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Axel Tschentscher ^(talk) 18:07, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Works for me. Makes a surprisingly good desktop wallpaper too. Cmao20 (talk) 23:01, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose The disturbingly out-of-focus left edge isn't working for me, sorry. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 23:50, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Very cool angle and great framing. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 23:57, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose Blurred foreground, but also not very special. Ordinary light, boring grey -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:12, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Working for me. --Podzemnik (talk) 04:49, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose: thumbnail looks lovely, but not much is in focus in the full view. --The Cosmonaut (talk) 06:34, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose per others--Ermell (talk) 06:52, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Weak oppose The idea of the fence as a contrasting line is interesting and works for me; however, I would have chosen a slightly higher point of view so the fence is less dominant, and more of the blossoms visible. My reason to slightly oppose again is a pixelpeeping one: the left flowerball shows entirely sharpened noise instead of the creamy bokeh I’d like to see here, so it won’t work well as a desktop wallpaper either. --Kreuzschnabel 07:17, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

• Kreuz, thanks for your keen eye, I had missed that and you bring up a bothering subject. Sharpening noise is more visible on Commons' interface since it tends to add a bit more sharpening/contrast to photos (more prominent at thumb size). I've discussed this with another photographer and we have compared how photos are displayed on Commons vs Flickr (less extra sharpening) or Photosop and Lightroom. It is rather difficult to get some photos to look good on all sites as well as on your own computer. Anyway, I have reverted the smart sharpening on the left ball and it looks much better. Thanks! --Cart (talk) 10:28, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

• I never knew that websites sharpen images! Charles (talk) 13:46, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

• Sharpening/contrast/whatever; some websites use software that affects how photos are displayed, most prominent with thumbs or previews. Take a look at how this photo looks at thumb vs full size (and it looks less glary on Flickr). Or the difference on Commons and Flickr for this apple tree. MediaWiki seems to like the thumbs more contrasty(sharpening) for "cleaner" display in articles. --Cart (talk) 14:36, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

•  Support Works for me too Bijay chaurasia (talk) 09:39, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose top part of the flowers are too bright and left one is out of focus. Seven Pandas (talk) 21:37, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Great! --XRay ^talk 04:22, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Lovely light! —kallerna (talk) 05:41, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Support per nom.:

"this perspective and old painted fence, brings me back to being a kid in my grandmother's garden,"

We had a hedge back home in the suburbs / Over which I never could see

"... lying on the grass looking up at the white balls and imagining they were fluffy clouds in the sky."

What were the skies like when you were young?

Daniel Case (talk) 01:15, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

A truly poetic vote. Thanks Daniel. --Cart (talk) 09:25, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

•  Oppose per others--Boothsift 02:50, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
•  I withdraw my nomination Thanks all for your comments. --Cart (talk) 08:39, 4 September 2019 (UTC)