Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Pangong Tso 2.jpg

File:Pangong Tso 2.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Natural
•  Info Pangong Tso, Tibetan for "high grassland lake", is a lake in the Himalayas situated at a height of about 4,350 m. It is 134 km long and extends from India to China. Approximately 60% of the length of the lake lies in China. The lake is 5 km (3.1 mi) wide at its broadest point. All together it covers 604 km2. During winter the lake freezes completely, despite being saline water. All by KennyOMG -- KennyOMG (talk) 09:29, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Comment Fun fact: in the 2011 Kollywood movie Vedi you can see the exact same view as a backdrop behind Sameera Reddy around the 36 minute mark (eta: different perspective ofc). Director P Deva opted to re-shoot the scene as he liked the lights much better than a few hours before when they originally filmed it. Or so I was told. :) -- KennyOMG (talk) 09:29, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- KennyOMG (talk) 09:29, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 10:17, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 11:54, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --cart-Talk 12:11, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Support I like the cloud shadows speckling the mountains. You see that often enough in mountain landscapes, but owing to the light color of the mountains it works particularly well here. Daniel Case (talk) 14:28, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 15:35, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Nice composition --Michielverbeek (talk) 17:00, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Daphne Lantier 17:07, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --LivioAndronico ^(talk) 18:20, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Jee 03:34, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Support - I'm not sure why the nearest foreground is unsharp, but the picture is spectacular in every other way, a very strong FP. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 03:35, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

• It's unsharp because there's no way (save for a pinhole) to get everything in focus on a full frame 30cm-infinity. -- KennyOMG (talk) 12:14, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

• OK, so that was the wrong question. The real question is: Why didn't you crop out the unsharp parts of the foreground, and why not do it now? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 12:51, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

• Because I don't agree with KoH's "compositionally unnecessary" point. ;) In any case you can just crop it in an editing program to see if it looks better to you or not, takes all of 10 seconds. -- KennyOMG (talk) 13:18, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

• It takes less time than that to simply put my fingers on the screen. I don't see what is harmed by cropping out some of the water. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:42, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

• I don't see what that would improve, in fact it would unbalance the comp with the sky crushing the lake - which would be ironic considering the lake is the important thing here. -- KennyOMG (talk) 00:34, 21 May 2017 (UTC)

• You really could afford to crop at least some of the foreground. But it's your decision, and I surely won't rescind my support vote if you don't. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:33, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
• Pardon me for barging in here, but please don't crop. Even if some of the foreground is a bit unsharp, looking at the "bigger picture" there are several waves there that perfectly emulates the shapes of the mountains, but in dark colors not light. They create a counterpoint in the lower section of the image of what's going on in the upper part even if they are not as sharp as the rest. Without them the photo becomes unbalanced. --cart-Talk 09:40, 21 May 2017 (UTC)

• Nope, not going to. Glad someone looked beyond "unsharp" and noticed. -- KennyOMG (talk) 23:06, 21 May 2017 (UTC)

• Weak  Support but would prefer some cropping of the foreground, because it is 1) unsharp and 2) compositionally unnecessary. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:37, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Halavar (talk) 12:02, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 08:55, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
•  Support It may sound strange but I like the unsharp waves in the foreground in the picture. It makes me feel as if I was swimming there. --Basotxerri (talk) 13:15, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 15 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Daphne Lantier 19:40, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Natural