Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Water for use in aerial firefighting being carried in a bucket attached to a MChS Mil Mi-26 heavylift helicopter.jpg

File:Water for use in aerial firefighting being carried in a bucket attached to a MChS Mil Mi-26 heavylift helicopter.jpg, featured

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Featured picture candidates/File:Water for use in aerial firefighting being carried in a bucket attached to a MChS Mil Mi-26 heavylift helicopter.jpg Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Water for use in aerial firefighting being carried in a bucket attached to a MChS Mil Mi-26 heavylift helicopter.jpg

• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Objects/Vehicles/Air transport
•  Info created by Yuri Smityuk - uploaded by Russavia & Dura-Ace - nominated by Base -- Base (talk) 18:01, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
• Information: The Mil Mi-26 is the world's biggest helicopter and is used in the firefighting role by the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Russia. A photo of Mi-26 using water buckets, in order to give viewers a sense of the wow of this photo, can be seen here. Base (talk) 18:01, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Base (talk) 18:01, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support--g. balaxaZe★ 18:54, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support - That's very interesting. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:06, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support- unusual and nice --Villy Fink Isaksen (talk) 19:26, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Daphne Lantier 20:22, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support –Juliancolton | ^Talk 22:34, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 03:25, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 03:56, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
•  weak oppose Maybe I'm the only one, and though the image certainly is different, it feels weirdly artificial. The image is abstract in a way, but that doesn't seem to be the intent of the image. More than anything IMO, the background (I assume it's water) looks very unnatural and strange (to me I keep seeing lightning), and ruins the focus of the photograph, which is the bucket of water. Nothing in the image is particularly sharp, or shows good detail. Overall, it just feels off to me, and I don't really know how else to describe it. Sorry. WClarke 04:32, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

•  Comment - Without prejudice to the rest of your points, I feel sure the background is mostly treetops. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:31, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

• @Ikan Kekek: You're right, after looking at it they do appear to be treetops. WClarke 20:37, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

•  Weak support I agree with WClarke about the technical shortcomings (it's noisy, although that may not have been avoidable given the circumstances, but also the red on the ropes looks posterized). However, it's a striking and unusual enough image to support. Daniel Case (talk) 05:34, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Mild oppose It is indeed an ingenious, unusual and interesting sight, but I think there are too many technical shortcomings in the picture to feature it. -- Slaunger (talk) 20:21, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose - Per WClarke. Jan Arkesteijn (talk) 08:49, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --The Photographer 10:56, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
•  Support I like this a lot.... it's much better than other photos we have of the same subject. - Revent^talk 02:56, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 11 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Jee 06:25, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Objects/Vehicles/Air transport