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•  Info Salt pans and Xlendi Tower, Gozo Island, Malta. The tower, one of the Lascaris towers, dates from 1650 and is the oldest of the four surviving watchtowers on Gozo. It was built by the Order of Saint John in limestone. c/u/n by Poco a poco (talk) 20:54, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support -- Poco a poco (talk) 20:54, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Nice composition, pleasant light -- Basile Morin (talk) 04:54, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

•  Oppose The new version looks artificial. Compared to the original in the history, there is a sort of mask over the lower half. It lacks natural now. I notice the change really by chance, because I was not notified yesterday after the modification. Unfortunately such transformations without warning the previous voters really happen too often with your candidatures, Poco. I think minor changes are acceptable, but here this is a big difference in my opinion. Better abstain from voting next time -- Basile Morin (talk) 12:53, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

• This is not a fair comment, Basile Morin. If I apply a change on request of a reviewer it is logic that I wait for feedback. In this case the feedback isn't positive and I was asked to revert, so I'd have done that and the issue would have been over. Otherwise I'd have had to warn everybody twice for nothing. Assuming I'd have warned nobody is not really AGF Poco a poco (talk) 18:50, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

• Only two reviewers were notified, not all. No warning to me after new upload on January 12 at 22:50 means misleading vote until the change is detected. -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:14, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

• Basile Morin: I thought you talked about the perspective correction change that I tried and reverted, not about the brightness adjustment at the bottom. To be honest I didn't consider that kind of change so relevant. I checked it again and cannot realise what you commented above about the unnatural look, but ok, will ping everybody about everything in the future, no problem with that. Poco a poco (talk) 12:07, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

•  Info For the record, the modification was reverted at 18:52 after withdrawal of the candidature at 18:50, thus my comment and oppose vote are valid for the previous version -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:14, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

•  Comment I'd suggest cropping out the bottom third or so. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:34, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Nice golden light, I like the bottom third of the composition honestly because the shapes of the salt pan pavement help lead the eye to the tower. Cmao20 (talk) 14:35, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

•  Comment I think they still would minus the bottom third, but there would be less of them and a smaller shadowy area. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 14:48, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

• Ikan Kekek, Cmao20 I wouldn't really like to crop the bottom, it's a nice texture and patter, therefore I adjusted the curves (it's brigther now at the bottom) to equalize it with the rest of the image. Hopefully it helps. --Poco a poco (talk) 22:51, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

• Excellent, I think that is a real improvement. Much fewer shadowy areas. Cmao20 (talk) 00:43, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

• It's definitely better. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:48, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

•  Oppose Somewhat flat appearance, in my opinion lacks depth --Yeriho (talk) 16:24, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

  Yeriho: To be honest, I don't know what you mean, can you please elaborate your comment? I see texture, shadows, depth, perspective... Poco a poco (talk) 22:52, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

•  Oppose You might have the bad luck here that I have been to this place and I really love it. This is in a way a great shot of the tower, the colours are just right, but - and for me this is a very BIG but - the saltpans were created to hold water. They are flat. They need to be flat do do what they are supposed to do. In this picture many of them look tilted. This is greatly disturbing me, it feels like misleading the viewers. --Kritzolina (talk) 07:59, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

  Kritzolina That's due to the lens I used, I can upload this evening a version with a perspective correction, no problem with that. Poco a poco (talk) 12:39, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

  I understand that this is from the lens you used, but as I said, the result is so different than the reality of the place I find it disturbing. I would welcome a different version where the water would not be running out of the saltpans Kritzolina (talk) 15:27, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

  Kritzolina: New version uploaded Poco a poco (talk) 19:12, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

  Unfortunately, like Basile I think the original version was the overall better image. The saltpans look better in this one, but still not really level - so I would suggest reverting to the original version and living with my unhappiness. --Kritzolina (talk) 07:24, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

  I don't understand your feedback either, Kritzolina. You got what you asked for IMHO (or at least I think that I was on the way to get there) and still ask to revert, I don't get it. Never mind, I take this nom back. --Poco a poco (talk) 18:50, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

•  Support Nice looking image. --SHB2000 (talk) 11:19, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Oppose Nice colors, but that's about it. Daniel Case (talk) 04:44, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
•  I withdraw my nomination Poco a poco (talk) 18:50, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 3 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Poco a poco (talk) 18:50, 14 January 2022 (UTC)