Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Río Saigón, Ciudad Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, 2013-08-14, DD 21.JPG

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File:Río Saigón, Ciudad Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, 2013-08-14, DD 21.JPG[edit]

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Container ship Tan Cang 15 in the Saigon river in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  •  Info Container ship Tan Cang 15 in the Saigon river in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. All by me, Poco2 05:47, 28 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Poco2 05:47, 28 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Tomer T (talk) 17:31, 28 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --(✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 03:40, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Christian Ferrer (talk) 04:13, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Call me a killjoy but I cannot see what is featureable here. Quality is high (excellent FF camera + ISO 100, 1/320 - no wonder!), but motive and composition are too ordinary for me. I have also problems with the light because nearly the complete ship is in unfortunate shadow (only tiny areas at the nose and on the front parts of the containers receive some light). Motive: If you walk for instance through Hamburg you have much more impressive container ships than this one. You could have made this photo special if more of the surronding context had been visible. As it is here, it is just a (relatively boring) ship in any harbour in any country. A well done documentary photo of a ship but imho no FP, sorry. --Tuxyso (talk) 07:28, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Well, what is extraordinary to me (feeling like a fragile tiny thing next to a huge container ship which is 50 times bigger that the boat I am in, and looking at the ship from the bottom how it pass by), may be ordinary to you, no problem with that. Regarding the place (Saigon river in Ho Chi Minh City), it may also be ordinary to you but to me it is not what I would call a place around the corner in my home city. Poco2 07:39, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    I'm a little concerned about giving so much importance to where the image was taken. Wikimedia Commons is a global project and have a global perspective. It is true that users from Europe (especially Western Europe) are over-represented here, but should it really affect the assessment of the images? Are pictures from Vietnam more exotic and therefore have a bigger wow? Ho Chi Minh City metropolitan area is populated by more than 9,000,000 people and Vietnamn have more then 90 million inhabitant (more inhabitants than Berlin and Germany), no remote or difficult to reach location.--ArildV (talk) 10:53, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    I think that you didn't focus it the way I mean. Vietnam is not more exotic than Spain globally (but it is, of course, to my person). If we were flooded of high quality pictures from Vietnam then my comment would not be accurate, but right now in the category of Quality images of Vietnam you will only find pictures of Prenn (mostly flowers) and mine. So, although Commons is a global project, a big majority of the photographers and reviewers here come from Europe and America and will more likely be familiar to cities like Berlin, Madrid, Paris or London than Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi or Phnom Penh. To me usually it will have more wow seeing something I haven't ever seen before than something I have seen in person. Poco2 11:43, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Michael Barera (talk) 01:35, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose per Tuxyso, sorry --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 08:08, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose per Tuxyso. Kruusamägi (talk) 17:56, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose per Tuxyso --Ivar (talk) 18:00, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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