Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Water, Sand and Ice.jpg

File:Water, Sand and Ice.jpg, not featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena#Ice
•  Info Natural phenomenon occurring in Iceland. Icebergs from the nearest mountain get detached and melt on the pitch-black, basalt lava sand. All by me -- Bharel (talk) 19:50, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Bharel (talk) 19:50, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Comment I like the idea. Reminds me (remotely) of this photo. However, the flare of the sun spoils the nomination for me. Not good enough to support, not bad enough to oppose. --Code (talk) 06:10, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

  Thanks Code for your review The flare was actually an artistic choice. I have a few other shots on different angles without the flare, but I chose this on purpose. (Much like another close image I've uploaded with an international glare File: Diamonds of nature.jpg) Bharel (talk) 10:05, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

• Regarding that file's name, please read Commons:File naming. Since people need to be able to search this huge archive to find the right photo, names must be accurate and not poetic or misleading. Only those looking for "natural diamonds" will find that file now, and they will be disappointed. --Cart (talk) 20:48, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

   Done, thanks cart Bharel (talk) 21:01, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

•  Support --Yann (talk) 13:03, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Looks like another one that could be an album cover. Daniel Case (talk) 06:06, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

  Thanks mate :-) Bharel (talk) 12:15, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

•  Support - Beautiful and striking, and this particular flare doesn't bother me, or not much. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:02, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose The colors seem saturated. Natural object that doesn't look natural. I suspect a strong post-processing. And also find the composition has a problem of cropping on top -- Basile Morin (talk) 10:43, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

  Thanks for your review Basile . There's not much post processing actually (tiny bit of mainly exposure correction on the water). The black sand creates a strong saturation difference. I am, however, able to desaturate it straight on the original raw file if you believe it'll be better. Bharel (talk) 15:00, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

• Perhaps just this exposure correction is enough to make the picture looking artificial. You can try to improve it, yes, though the glare on top with the wave cut too short are also bothering in my view -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:59, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

•  Support --MZaplotnik^(talk) 15:55, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 5 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky ^talk 20:20, 24 June 2018 (UTC)