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File:Khandoba temple Pune.jpg, featured[edit]

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Temple dedicated to Khanderaya, also known as Khandoba, located in Jejuri, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
  •  Info created and uploaded by PKharote - nominated by Selbymay (talk) 13:37, 8 November 2017 (UTC) - This picture won the first prize for WLM in India this year. It's rare to see this kind of monument with the crowd around during a celebration in this competition and it adds much in value - aesthetic as encyclopedic.[reply]
  •  Support Selbymay (talk) 13:37, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Strong support Time ago without see a amazing and spectacular image like this. Right moment, amazing point of view, composition, historic moment and situation, quality, charming and a long list of amazing for this image. Some things could be better, for example not having cut the structure similar to a Christmas tree in the lower right, also the arm of the person on the left, however, totally minuscule comments compared to the grandiosity of this spectacular photo and possibly image of the year --The Photographer 14:13, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose for now because of perspective issues - verticals should be vertical. --Uoaei1 (talk) 15:28, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    • As it's an awarded picture, I think we don't have to edit it, unless you want to upload an alternative version, even if I don't see the necessity. I put the proposition in the category Religious buildings but the main subject is not the temple but the celebration, it's more a news image than an architectural view. --Selbymay (talk) 16:23, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    • I disagree, Uoaei1. The purpose of this photo is not to be an architectural shot. The camera appears to be pointing slightly down, and so that is the perspective. -- Colin (talk) 17:35, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    • What ever this is, the perspective issue disturbs me, otherwise I would not have opposed. The only result of my vote is probably that you have to wait a couple of days longer to receive the FP star. --Uoaei1 (talk) 19:42, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
      • Uoaei1 by why you are "disturbed" enough to oppose? [though we all know why Livio opposes] There is an expectation in architectural photography that we present a perpendicular view in rectilinear projection and at sufficient distance to avoid exessive wide-angle distortion. But the purpose of the photography here is to give the observer's view of the event. We have people on a high position throwing turmeric on a crowd below. The obvious direction of view is to the crowd. You wouldn't, at this point, look straight ahead at the towers across, so neither should our perspective give that impression. The angle here is a good compromise between a direct look down and keeping level enough to retain the top of the spires. I simply think it is factually wrong to describe this as a "perspective issue". The perspective is correct and a valid one. If you don't like the view and angle, then fine that is merely a matter of taste, but let's not confuse that with any technical fault that isn't there. -- Colin (talk) 21:08, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
        • @Colin: When I see these leaning verticals, I feel disturbed - not more and not less. And I see that a correction would be easy. Do you want to discuss my personal impressions? Please be respectful and accept my vote. --Uoaei1 (talk) 21:22, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
          • I can be respectful if you express your opinion as a matter of taste/feeling. But a statement like "verticals should be vertical" or a complaint about "perspective issues" is simply factually and optically wrong. Furthermore, it gives a bad indication to photographers thinking of nominating at FPC that we have rather odd and limited ideas of what is valid (vs what is enjoyed or disliked), or to photographers trying to improve their photography, that someone this image has a fundamental technical flaw. -- Colin (talk) 08:04, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
            • @Colin: I refer to the image quality rules - so what is wrong or insufficient, or even simply factually and optically wrong? And before you explain me that this rule just applies to architecture photography, just have a look in what category this is nominated! --Uoaei1 (talk) 06:58, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
              • Uoaei1, as you already know, this rule only applies to architecture photography, and even then only for a certain style of architecture photography -- we have several examples that rightly deviate from the rule the camera must be pointing directly level or up. This sort of rigidity of thinking, that there is only one correct way, discourages creative photography. See Dreyfus model of skill acquisition for where "rules" sits in one's journey. The category is not, in fact, what the image has been nominated to be judged for, though it can be helpful if chosen well. If you remember, in the past, those who maintain our FP galleries used to decide where to put each photo, which isn't always easy as a photo can apply in several categories. It was then decided to pass that job onto the nominator. We've gone from the task being done by those familiar with the categories and their maintenance, to the task being done by novices. So we now very frequently find the nominator hasn't chosen well, and the nomination gets these sort of comments about this irrelevance. If you haven't spotted the crowd of hundreds of people, being showered by saffron in an act of religious worship, then you're looking at a different picture to me :-). -- Colin (talk) 10:42, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Spectacular scene. -- Colin (talk)
  •  Support Wow. That's what FP is for! --Yann (talk) 18:23, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Amazed also as a jury member of WLM India :) Poco2 18:24, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Wonderful! Top-down photos are always hard, if not impossible, to correct and here a slight tilt doesn't matter. My main concern is: How do you keep your camera clean with all that powder flying around! :) --cart-Talk 18:44, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose For Uoaei1,terrible terrible... --LivioAndronico (talk) 20:02, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Nice!!! --Sanjay Acharya (talk) 21:29, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 02:41, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support - Great action shot, just an amazing image. I don't give a damn about verticals being parallel in this kind of image. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:14, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support wonderfully NatGeo-ish! --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:08, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Question PKharote, one request: Presumably, the occasion is Holi. Could the fact that pigments are being thrown to celebrate Holi be added to the file description? I wonder, too, whether there's a category for Holi. If so, it should be added for this file. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:33, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Tried to improve the description with links. Jee 04:18, 10 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Fixing the perspective could result in a cut composition that IMHO is a generate another problem. --The Photographer 14:55, 13 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 19 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /MZaplotnik(talk) 22:59, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: People#Events (Arts, concerts, shows...)
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