Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Llantwit Major Beach, Oct 2023 06.jpg

File:Llantwit Major Beach, Oct 2023 06.jpg, featured

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 6 Nov 2023 at 05:19:22 (UTC)
Visit the nomination page to add or modify image notes.

Featured picture candidates/File:Llantwit Major Beach, Oct 2023 06.jpg Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Llantwit Major Beach, Oct 2023 06.jpg

• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Natural/United Kingdom#Wales
•  Info Pebble beach at Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. The sun makes a rare break through the clouds on a day of typically changeable British weather, illuminating the ever-eroding Blue Lias cliff with its distinctive layers of limestone and shale. Created, uploaded and nominated by BigDom -- BigDom (talk) 05:19, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Support -- BigDom (talk) 05:19, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Support - ABAL1412^{🇻🇳🇸🇺🇷🇺} (talk ☭) 09:25, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Terragio67 (talk) 20:16, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Support Very good. My one question is whether the red from the sunlight on the man at the top of the cliff is a problem or whether it's considered a normal part of photography. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:54, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

•  Done Good spot. Have had a go at fixing those pixels. Cheers, BigDom (talk) 04:12, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

• That's an improvement to me. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:25, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

•  Support Maybe the man (above) can be cloned.--Famberhorst (talk) 05:39, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

•  Question Why? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:11, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 07:40, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Support The man is okay inmy eyes. --Milseburg (talk) 21:02, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Support--Princess 🍵 Rosalina 10018 00:06, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Oppose Good informative value, and sun is a capricious visitor on British Isles indeed (I too need to hunt for it here...). I'm opposing because the composition really bothers me here, with horizon very straight but awkwardly neither at 1/2 or 1/3, perceived heaviness at the bottom due to too much space taken by pebbles (was that deliberate?), the warning sign which spoils the otherwise peaceful content. Somehow this picture won't stand out for me, maybe it is idiosyncratic looking at how many support votes the image received...  Podstawko  ●talk  08:53, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

  @Podstawko Thanks for the detailed review, just replying since you asked a question and will address a couple of your other points (which are very fair) at the same time. The horizon, fair enough, I was aiming for 1/2 but looking again in Camera Raw it is about 50 pixels off halfway. I could happily lose 100px of pebbles at the bottom to get it more precise. The pebbles were deliberate because I liked their texture, but of course deliberate doesn't mean it was objectively a good idea! As for the warning sign, well, it was there and there's not much I could do about it, but actually I quite like it for its educational value and the way it adds some tension to the scene. Cheers, BigDom (talk) 10:06, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

•  Neutral IMO too much foreground. The sign is disturbing - but not a problem. Sharpness could be better too. --XRay 💬 16:28, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Oppose Average composition, no wow. —kallerna (talk) 06:44, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Alternative version

•  Info @ABAL1412, Terragio67, Ikan Kekek, Famberhorst, Agnes Monkelbaan, Milseburg, Rosalina474418, Podstawko, and XRay: The original is doing OK votes-wise but I've taken on board the last couple of comments about the foreground and present here a 2:1 crop with much less of the pebble beach visible. It also has the advantage of placing the horizon on the 1/3 line now. Just pinging you all for feedback as much as anything as I always welcome constructive comments. Cheers, BigDom (talk) 17:09, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

• Just realised I forgot to  Support the alternative. BigDom (talk) 15:24, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

 Support Definitely better. I would still get rid of the warning sign (philosophical question: how far should we interfere?), but this new version is definitely something I'd support.  Podstawko  ●talk  17:31, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

•  Support yes, this 2nd version, IMO it's ok and better... --Terragio67 (talk) 18:49, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --XRay 💬 18:54, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Support--Princess 🍵 Rosalina 14148 23:40, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Support Ook deze.--Famberhorst (talk) 05:42, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 06:38, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Oppose Average composition, no wow. —kallerna (talk) 06:44, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Support this one, too. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:59, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Oppose I also struggle to find wow here, sorry Poco a poco (talk) 08:30, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 12:59, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Oppose I prefer the first version. There the foreground is good and interesting. Here sky takes to much attention. --Milseburg (talk) 15:43, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

  You are one of my favorite photographers, but here it's a matter of point of view, Stephen Hawkings would have said “Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet”. Terragio67 (talk) 21:28, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

•  Support ★ 02:06, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Aristeas (talk) 10:20, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Support the alternative. -- Radomianin (talk) 22:25, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --MZaplotnik^(talk) 14:05, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Support.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 05:47, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 14 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 13:29, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Natural/United Kingdom#Wales

The chosen alternative is: File:Llantwit Major Beach, Oct 2023 06 (cropped).jpg