Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:The Kelpies 16-9 Stitch.jpg

File:The Kelpies 16-9 Stitch.jpg, featured

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured_pictures/Objects/Sculptures#Statues_outdoors
•  Info The Kelpies are 30m high horse-head sculptures by Andy Scott. They depict kelpies (shape-shifting water spirits), and are located near Falkirk, Scotland next to an extension to the Forth and Clyde Canal. All by me. -- Colin (talk) 19:31, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Inspired by the "exposure" sculpture below, I remembered this stitched photo I took of "The Kelpies". I went early so the view isn't mobbed with tourists in front (there's a couple walking along the canal path, for scale). While there are photos online with this lit up spectacularly, this daytime photo has 126 MP, so there's lots of resolution for you to zoom in to appreciate the sculpture in detail. -- Colin (talk) 19:31, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
• Weak  Support Not the highest immediate "wow" factor, but an impressive amount of detail. The muted lighting does have one advantage: there are no blown-out reflections of the sun on the metal. You might consider cropping out the curb at the far left, which is a bit distracting and not really that effective as a leading line. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 22:45, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Not outstanding light but definitely outstanding detail and image quality. Cmao20 (talk) 22:51, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Weak support Although I like that square crop even more. Daniel Case (talk) 06:57, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support -- Karelj (talk) 10:29, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Lmbuga (talk) 11:31, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 13:59, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support--Michielverbeek (talk) 18:30, 10 March 2022 (UTC) Very impressive sculpture, but unfortuantely a dull sky
•  Support per nom and Cmao20. The view of the sculptures is kind of overwhelming. I don't like the square crop more than this view, because there's too little room on the left in that version. For what it's worth, my preference would be to maintain the current crop on the left and crop just to the right of the "Stretch up your long necks to face the sun" sign, so as to exclude the motorway sign, which is slightly distracting. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:12, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Everyone seems to have their own crop ideas. Perhaps the advantage of this image, on Commons, is that people can make whatever crop variant they want. -- Colin (talk) 08:03, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Good point. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:45, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

•  Support --Aristeas (talk) 08:33, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support -- IamMM (talk) 04:41, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 06:59, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Startus (talk) 11:21, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Weak support A fascinating object but many distracting factors in the background.--Famberhorst (talk) 16:37, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support.--Vulp❯❯❯here! 17:44, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 15 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--A.Savin 21:10, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Objects/Sculptures#Statues_outdoors