Commons:Featured picture candidates/Log/January 2016

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The village of Cabrières and the Pic de Vissou, France
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Result: 11 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Christian Ferrer (talk) 21:09, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) at Rodeo Beach, Marin County, California
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Result: 12 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Yann (talk) 21:21, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Koluvere bridge
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Result: 10 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Yann (talk) 21:19, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Marabou stork, Jurong Bird Park
 Request The description needs to be extended: captive animal, Jurong Bird Park, Singapore. --Cayambe (talk) 20:44, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
✓[OK] Firebrace (talk) 21:01, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I'll turn the saturation down a bit... Firebrace (talk) 23:46, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 6 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Yann (talk) 21:19, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Image of Grace Our Lady with six Fingers at the parish- and pilgrimage church Maria Laach am Jauerling, Lower Austria.
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Result: 10 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Yann (talk) 21:21, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Far distance view from Storkenkopf in the vosges to the Alps during inversion
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Result: 7 support, 7 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 19:02, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Sturnus vulgaris (Common Starling) in Paris.
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Result: 3 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 18:48, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Royal castles in Stockholm
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Result: 11 support, 6 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 18:46, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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San Carlo al Corso (Rome) - First Left chapel ceiling
  • FP should be our finest images. Therefore my question. I gave you an opportunity to explain why this image is one of our finest images. We have thousands of interior QI. Compared to the average IQ: the colors are worse (unrealistic, incorrect white balance, strange blue colour), level of detail and sharpness are average, composition is average and simple. Therefore my question, why is it one of our finest interior images?--ArildV (talk) 19:27, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Very good is just empty words. What is very good here and what is better than a average QI? Sharpness (not very good, soft corners and borders), level of details (average, soft corners and borders), composition (average, improvable), lightning (average, not to bad for a old church but improvable with for example exposure fusion). Therefore my question, why is it one of our finest interior images?--ArildV (talk) 20:09, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think there is a fundamental difference between explain every comma and asking the most basic and elementary question, why is it a FP?. Anyway, I only ask to give you an opportunity to explain why this image is one of our finest images. Very good is not a convincing answer.--ArildV (talk) 20:37, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The top is more cropped than the bottom, for one thing. That's a little jarring. Daniel Case (talk) 07:45, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

 I withdraw my nomination--LivioAndronico (talk) 10:11, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Result: 4 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 18:53, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Female and two male glow worms
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Result: 1 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 18:56, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Athena, Johannes Benk
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Result: 16 support, 0 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /--Hubertl 07:48, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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City gate in Langenburg
 Comment I understand the ISO 100 and tripod suggestions. But no and no, tripod was not available and traffic meant a long exposure time for ISO 100 was not doable. -- KlausFoehl (talk) 19:17, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 1 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Yann (talk) 21:15, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Delosperma cooperi (Pink Carpet) in jardin botanique de Lyon, France.
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Result: 10 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Laitche (talk) 08:23, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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The Reichstag building in Berlin at night with a Christmas tree in front of it.
  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
  •  Info The Reichstag building in Berlin at night with a Christmas tree in front of it. Left of the Reichstag, the International Trade Centre (Friedrichstrasse) and the television tower (Alexanderplatz) can be seen. The bright thing above the television tower is the moon. The cupola of the Reichstag building was designed by Norman Foster. All by me. -- Code (talk) 20:46, 23 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Code (talk) 20:46, 23 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support - I find the composition good enough to feature. I predict that someone will object to the inclusion of the poles in the right foreground, but I not only find it fine to include them but value them as helping my eyes to move laterally to the left. One of my favorite living painters, Stanley Lewis, likes to paint things like fences and construction materials and makes beautiful compositions with them. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:28, 24 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thank you, I know what you mean. First I thought I should clone the poles out but on the other hand - well, they really exist. I made some other pictures from different perspectives but this one was the best, even with the poles. But of course I could understand if someone would object them. --Code (talk) 08:06, 24 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment - Thanks for pinging me. I much prefer the original version. This one has a lot of what seems to me to be empty dark space that isn't doing anything. If you really want to get rid of the poles and crop the file differently, I suggest you crop it much closer to the Reichstag building, so that there's much less dark grass and such. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:15, 26 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
for me this version is OK --Pudelek (talk) 09:00, 26 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment Thanks for pinging me.- I prefer the first version of the December 23, 2015 which is more focused. Both version are of good quality--Pierre André (talk) 09:26, 26 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment I would crop to a panorama style - less foreground, less sky. Charles (talk) 10:10, 26 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment I'm fine with both versions, but maybe you should follow Charles' advice and crop to a panorama --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 10:49, 26 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I prefer the second. --Medium69 You wanted talk to me? 11:21, 26 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I'll support if you take out half the foreground of the new version. Charles (talk) 22:52, 26 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  CommentThank you, Code. At full page resolution, I definitely prefer the original version because it has details that help me move my eye around the picture plane, whereas the newest version lacks the poles and cuts off some of the plants, and I even like the somewhat glary stuff to the right of the building for that purpose. To me, the original is much more interesting, and I will not vote for the new version to be featured. Have a great New Year, everyone! -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:44, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 14 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Laitche (talk) 08:24, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Your Motherland Will Never Forget - Canadian patriotic artwork published in Canada in Khaki
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Result: 10 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Laitche (talk) 08:20, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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 Comment A permanent one, but it opened for the public in May 2015. --C messier (talk) 16:30, 28 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 10 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Laitche (talk) 08:21, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Mosaic of Neptune and Amphitrite in Herculaneum, Italy.
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Result: 11 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Laitche (talk) 08:26, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Ceiling of Sagrada Familia Cathedral, Barcelona
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Result: 12 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Laitche (talk) 08:25, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Wall and gate tower of Smolensk Kremlin, Russia
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Result: 7 support, 6 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Laitche (talk) 08:26, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Singer Madita at a charity concert in December 2015
  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/People
  •  Info created by Tsui - uploaded by Tsui - nominated by Tsui -- Tsui (talk) 11:09, 25 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Tsui (talk) 11:09, 25 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support I don´t miss anything being a perfect stage picture! --Hubertl 11:37, 25 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Nice pose. 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 14:22, 25 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Great, subtle picture ruined by serious posterization in the blue portions (particularly lower right). Daniel Case (talk) 19:04, 25 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Per Daniel. INeverCry 19:24, 25 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I do see what you mean. It just excludes practically any concert photography since the change from light bulbs to the new, strictly monochromous light emitters (usually it's LEDs), especially when blue or magenta is used. Looking at the FPs of concerts, I see that almost only those with white light get featured - or the blue/magenta parts got heavily edited (or yellow overexposure/posterization is tolerated). As a frequent photographer at concerts I am very aware of the lighting situation since the introduction of the new lamps. I do not like it, but that's how it is. I try to use/include it in the composition, which worked quite good in this one I think. The back of the lower arm is not the focus of the image, it is rather the frame. --Tsui (talk) 01:47, 26 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support I'm usually very worried about things like posterization, but with coloured concert lighting, it's very difficult to avoid even with the best equipment and technique. And I just don't think it hurts this photo. — Julian H. 10:50, 26 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • Actually, on second thought: It would have been avoidable by just lowering the ISO and doing the brightening in post.  Neutral I guess. — Julian H. 10:52, 26 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      • It was taken with ISO 2500 (200mm, 1/200, 3.2). While camera and lense are really good at low light, increasing ISO and reducing the noise afterwards would result in a significant loss of detail (hair, textures). --Tsui (talk) 12:38, 26 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
        • I suggested lowering the ISO (to something like ISO 400 or 800) with the same shutter speed and aperture and doing the brightening aferwards. The result should be almost identical while preserving all highlights. — Julian H. 09:58, 27 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
          • My fault, I misread your comment above. Though I'm not sure, if decreasing ISO under such lighting conditions (overall quite dark, white light from the left, this kind of blue from the right) can bring satisfying results, it sure is worth a try. I will think of it at the next opportunity. --Tsui (talk) 10:13, 27 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
          •  Comment I believe it is usually not advisable to underexpose a photo and then brighten it afterwards. Increasing the analog gain (ISO) in the image sensor itself yields superior signal to noise ratio than afterwards when the data has already been discretised. If you underexpose the picture and then brighten it afterwards, there will be even more posterization and noise. dllu (t,c) 09:21, 28 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Per Daniel. --Medium69 You wanted talk to me? 11:25, 26 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Good concert picture. Nice expression. Yann (talk) 09:54, 27 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral It is a good picture, but I think it should be possible to take higher quality pictures even in concert scenes dimly lit by blue light. For example, Denis Barthel recently uploaded a lot of concert photos similarly illuminated by dim blue or red light, many of which have much higher resolution, less noise and no noticeable posterization: [1]. On the other hand, his camera has a better image sensor... dllu (t,c) 09:21, 28 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Don't mind the blue light - artificial light is what it is so one has to expect some unusual effects. But the bottom half of the image is weak to me. The long wire from the microphone and her hand holding the wire are a distraction. The shapeless dress adds nothing either. A square crop at the top is better for me but then not particularly high resolution any more. -- Colin (talk) 21:49, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • Don't want to change your opinion, but to me it is especially the hand holding the cable and the curve of it which, besides her calm expression, add to the appeal of the image. The lack of theatrical gesture of the one hand not holding the mic, usually singers singing ballads do such gesturing, makes it kind of subtle and serene to me. I like it like that, but of course that's in the eye of the beholder. --Tsui (talk) 07:43, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Per Yann. --Johann Jaritz (talk) 13:07, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 5 support, 4 oppose, 2 neutral → not featured. /Yann (talk) 14:28, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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View of Solovetsky Monastery, Northern Russia
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Result: 18 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 15:45, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 13 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Ivar (talk) 08:33, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Typical house in the Atuncolla District, Puno Province, Peru.
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Result: 5 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Ivar (talk) 08:36, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Back dome of de la Viña church, Salta, Argentina
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Result: 4 support, 6 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Yann (talk) 01:04, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Exemplar of a Large Painted Locust (Schistocerca melanocera) in Punta Pitt, San Cristobal Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. This Orthoptera can reach a length of 8 cm and is endemic to the Galápagos Islands.
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Result: 2 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Ivar (talk) 08:38, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Panorama of Trevi fountain 2015
  •  Weak per above --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 11:25, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Medium69 You wanted talk to me? 12:04, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Hubertl, it's not about "the finest picture of this exact subject", for that is true of most images presented here. It's about being among the finest on Commons. So compare with other city night photos. Plus points for avoiding all the tourists (though it is not impossible and getting out of bed early seems to be how it's done). But the sky is completely black so minus points for lack of colour (blue hour). The fountain itself is quite heavily blown. So the exposure isn't handled well. The windows are at all sorts of angles so unless there's been an earthquake, there must be something gone wrong when stitching or projecting. The central third is sharp and the two reliefs there are well lit, but the rest is very soft and very very badly lit. Compare File:Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy 2 - May 2007.jpg (daytime, I know). In that, the building is not wonky and the form of the statues, columns, stones and flowing water can all be seen. There's actually texture on the building. Whereas here most of the lighting is flat or blown or the image so soft that very little detail is there, despite the larger JPG. In Diliff's photo, one can see the fountain water beautifully falling, whereas here it is just a blur. And the nail in the coffin is that the fountain itself is cropped so it fails to be a complete image of the subject. This is not among our finest night photos, and for such a highly-photographed subject, we should expect better. -- Colin (talk) 14:54, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Comment I confirm some aspects you set to discuss, Colin, but not in general. Your complaints are not enough for me to oppose this picture as FP. I explained my doubts. The clipping areas, using a 27mm lens (18mm with crop). Everyone, who was there, knows, how difficult it is, because you cannot go back. It´s incredible narrow. The fact, that the fountain area is cutted of, is my biggest problem, because its an inherent and important part of the fountain. On the other hand, it is not possible to get a night picture without a blurry waterfalling. The whole scenery (fountain and background) was recently renovated, so you can´t hardly compare Diliffs and Livios picture, regarding to the texture of the stones, the house etc. But I wasn´t there after the renovation. Summarized: The best night picture we have right now, I would love to take this scene with the new 11-24mm I´m working with. At the blue hour in the morning, in Summer or spring. Livios HDR are out of the camera afaik, he doesn´t make AEB with 5 or more single pictures. This maybe could bring a better result. And at the very end, he doesn´t have really good, professional lenses. --Hubertl 15:22, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      • Well your closing comments really sum up this nomination. Poor Livio with his inferior technique and equipment, we must make allowances. Come on, look at our excellent night photos of featured buildings and consider the combination of colours, fine detail and careful exposure and framing. Do you think that if Diliff, for example, uploaded and nominated this, the response would any anything but a column of "WTF?" opposes. We pick at a little CA or noise or a blurry corner on our best nominators, but others get a free ride. The only thing remarkable about this image is the lack of tourists, and given that Livio lives in Rome rather than having a brief holiday there, doesn't make it very remarkable in my book. He can go back. Any time he likes. I compare with Diliff's because it shows the building is not in fact the "Leaning Palazzo Poli" but a perfectly regular building, and I hardly think renovation would cause later image to be inferior. It is about light -- quality and direction. It is possible to photograph a fountain at night while still showing the flow, you need to use a slightly faster exposure. Simply using ISO 200 rather than 100 would have captured the flow rather than turning the fountain into a blur. That's the sort of detail, I expect from a featured picture of a fountain. -- Colin (talk) 17:48, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      • It is his choice not to do a proper AEB/exposure fusion, our task is to decide whether that's a good or bad choice (same thing for the photographer's choice of aperture, time, exposure, composition, focal length). I dont understand the "lack-of-professional-lens" for two reasons. We are reviewing the image (otherwise should I oppose a similar imagetaken with an more expensive camera?), high quality lenses for Nikon does not have to be expensive (100 euro lens, 20 euro lens). Nikon D5200 is a very good camera with a very good sensor (superior to all Canon cameras except Canon EOS 5DS/R, and with better Dynamic Range when Canon EOS 5DS/R).--ArildV (talk) 22:07, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Per Colin. Daniel Case (talk) 16:01, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Per Colin (exposure/crop).--ArildV (talk) 22:07, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose as per Colin: overexposed, fountain is cropped. Yann (talk) 06:09, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose along the lines of what Colin wrote, most notably the clipping and light. — Julian H. 14:55, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Overexposed, and the building is off-centre. Firebrace (talk) 01:31, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 10 support, 6 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Ivar (talk) 08:34, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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 Info ... a different angle ... Then it would be another picture. The view into the blossom was or is intentional. --Hockei (talk) 09:45, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 7 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 14:38, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Bus station in Chur, Switzerland
  • Maybe some space on the left, top and bottom? Or a symmetrical composition from further left? I don't know the surroundings, so I'm not sure if or where there is a good composition there. It's ok for showing the building, but that's not the standard for FP. — Julian H. 11:17, 26 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
 Info Please, see see the alternative nomination with a wider crop on both sides. --Cayambe (talk) 19:18, 26 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for that, of which I wasn't aware. I'd like to imagine that the company, through its advertisement company, paid for the license to use it. The Devil Wears Prada itself conspicuously features quite a lot of brands, like Apple, Bang and Olufsen, Porsche, Prada, etc :-) --Cayambe (talk) 17:13, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Alternative

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Result: 9 support, 1 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 14:25, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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The chosen alternative is: File:Chur Busbahnhof ext 2015 wide.jpg

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London MMB »1E6 Lightning
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Result: 14 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 14:29, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Jesuit-Church, Vienna
{{Kontra}} Per Daniel. INeverCry 19:30, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 14 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Laitche (talk) 14:49, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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A Musica by Oscar Pereira da Silva 1896
I have suggested that we really need to split off any painting noms as a separate "featured digitization" category. One can't critique the composition or suggest a crop or make any aesthetic complaints, because all that's a fait accompli and the one person who could do anything about that is often long dead. So, the most we can properly base a judgement on whether this belongs here is whether the digitization was achieved flawlessly. That's probably why paintings get almost rubberstamped ... we're here to judge the technical quality, not the art itself. Daniel Case (talk) 07:41, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
we're here to judge the technical quality, not the art itself. I disagree with this. I could agree in QIC, but not in FPC, as long as we accept "no wow" rationales for a decline vote ... About the "digitization", I think there is a strong difference between a work of one of us (non professional photographers for almost all of us), and the photographs made by professionals or with "tools" like "Google art" or so. My support votes are very rare for these kind of pictures...--Jebulon (talk) 11:01, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps, Jebulon/Daniel, we should have a discussion on talk FPC about what the criteria are for artwork. The current criteria don't seem to be getting used at all. -- Colin (talk) 12:08, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
May be. For me, in this order: 1. painting from a known painter (in this case, has articles in 3 different languages); 2. the reproduction is very well made; 3. additionally here, the frame enhances the painting colors. Regards, Yann (talk) 13:18, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 7 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Laitche (talk) 14:47, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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An equirectangular 360x180 degree view of the nave of Brompton Oratory in London, England.
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Celebes crested macaque at Durrell Wildlife Park
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the sitting man
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Munich subway station Hasenbergl
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From English Wikipedia: "A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie is an 1866 landscape oil painting by German-American painter Albert Bierstadt that was inspired by sketches created on an 1863 expedition."
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"The Carpet Merchant" by Jean-Léon Gérôme, c. 1887
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Silesian - Moravian Beskids
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Lohu manor
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Valtu windmill
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Sunset on the beach in Brighton.
 Comment If it were for educational value, here half the nominations should be burned --LivioAndronico (talk) 08:05, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
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Cologne, Germany
Are we sure about those being "night" colors? Cologne is at 50º N ... certainly far enough north to have short nights that time of year, but not white nights (and even if it does, I doubt they are this bright at 12:30 a.m.) Daniel Case (talk) 07:50, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Irony. --A.Savin 09:44, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
 Info It's Malaysia time in the EXIF. I often forget to switch my cam back to German time when coming back from Asia. For the same reason, I always tag my uploads only with the date and not with the time. --CEphoto, Uwe Aranas (talk) 10:23, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
 Info The colors are exactly as they are in the new harbour quarter. The crane houses are just concrete grey. Severinsbruecke is in light green as it should be. The photo was taken from a ship after a rain shower when sky was still partly covered with clouds. --CEphoto, Uwe Aranas (talk) 10:29, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment I know and I don't blame you. A sunny morning might have been better though. --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 16:10, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Great! What about nominating one of them in FPC? --CEphoto, Uwe Aranas (talk) 11:44, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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"Family of Queen Victoria", oil on canvas, 1846
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Soccer game Czechia - Austria 2014
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The El Arenal neighbourhood (part of the Casco Antiguo district) of Seville (Spain), viewed from the Giralda, the cathedral's bell-tower.
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Ivan Žabota: Portrait of an old man, oil on canvas, 1910-1930
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
I know that ... pictures like this have a high EV for that reason. However, that same trait also makes it difficult (but not impossible) to take in-environment pictures of spiders that have featurable wow. Nothing I can do about it. Daniel Case (talk) 17:48, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Sacra di San Michele
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Apollo laughing hysterically at the dingleberry poo stains we found on the floor upon return home from LA.
  • I agree about the sharpness; unfortunately the original photog included a lot of dark extra space in the room in the original for some unknown reason, so I had to crop out half the image. As for the rest, I'd say dick picks, porn, and selfies are what we've got too much of on the internet (and Commons), and this is one of the better yawning cat picks we've got; I don't upload average yawning cats. INeverCry 20:01, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Kayaker playboating on the Durance river (France)
  •  Oppose Colin makes good points. The issue I was after is the basic question of what is the person doing? This particular shot doesn't give me much to go on by itself. Is he doing a trick, did he accidentally roll over, etc. INeverCry 08:38, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I understand your point of view, but to do such a trick, a wheel, the paddler has to have his head in the middle of a wave, so it's quite impossible to catch both the action and his face. In addition, it's realy the action that I wanted to show, who is the paddler is not important, contrary to the case of Tony Estanguet — 0x010C ~talk~ 14:05, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) at Las Gallinas Wildlife Ponds, Marin County, California.
On noise
    • This photo was taken with an up-to-date class-leading camera, at ISO 100 in very bright daylight. And still you aren't happy with the "noise". Perhaps it's time to re-calibrate your expectations or even to appreciate a little grain. Photons are particles and the world does not look like Toy Story. I don't want Frank to feel under pressure to blur this photo just to gain another vote, or for us to get only 4MP bird photos like we use to. -- Colin (talk) 12:34, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Colin, will the world stop rotating for you if I don't support this right off the bat (especially seeing as I am the only one not !voting support)? I don't bully you every time I don't understand your !vote when we disagree (which happens more often than you think); perhaps it is expecting too much of you to reciprocate. Daniel Case (talk) 04:02, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Daniel, this is a forum, not a simple popularity vote, and part of that involves discussing reviews. If you're not prepared to justify/defend/explain your criticism of e.g. "background noise => no support from me" then don't make it. It's as simple as that. It isn't "bullying" and you won't shut me up by playing games like that. Your criticisms of tiny amounts of "noise" in otherwise fine photographs (while completely ignoring in others) is quite harmful to this project. That's why I bring it up. You're a very frequent and very vocal reviewer, and some new reviewers might, on seeing your opinions all over the FPC candidates here, think this was an acceptable reason to oppose. That's how a culture forms and before we know it, we're back to the days of JJ Harrison and his 2MP birds. So my advice is if you want to make comments that state your opinions assertively then get a thick skin. -- Colin (talk) 07:53, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
My response was not an emotional one, just an intellectual one ... I really am curious why you do this sometimes, to some users, and not others. If I had a thin skin I'd complain about every single time you've done this to me or someone else—in fact, since you brought this up, I am nothing less than amused and/or baffled trying to reconcile your high-minded self-justification above with this comment of yours in an FPC a month or so ago (And while we're at this, can you explain how this friendly and well-intended advice to another user helps promote a collegial and constructive atmosphere among users not only here at FPC but on Commons generally?

And above and beyond all that, I strongly doubt my reasons for !voting one way or another have influenced anybody in how they themselves !vote. Plenty of pictures have succeeded overwhelmingly where I have been one of few, or even the only, oppose !vote. I think you know that feeling yourself, which is why I'm surprised that you would take it upon yourself to take it to me over that. I reserve the right to oppose images where I feel they're too noisy in some way, just as you (I assume) reserve the right to oppose images when you think they're too close to a "tourist snapshot". While I feel that's not a good reason to oppose, I respect your right to make that a basis for your oppose and I don't try to get under your hood on that one. All I ask is the same respect from you. Daniel Case (talk) 17:21, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not going to respond in detail to your emotional rant. Daniel, if you can't handle criticism of your opinions that are made on an open forum like this, then don't check the "Watch this page" when you submit them. That's all. "Respect" is not the same as "Don't criticise me" but I suspect you wish it was. The reason your opinions might influence others is because you state them quite verbosely and adamantly whereas others either say little or show some humility. I expect others to challenge my views just the same as I will challenge others. If you leave a lot of opinions around, then expect some of them to be challenged by others. -- Colin (talk) 18:07, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, thanks a lot to both of you. I like getting feedback on my work – that's part of why I'm here. Over the last couple of years, the technical aspects of my photography have improved and I'm tremendously thankful for this opportunity. My perception is that Commons contributors are mostly focused on things like noise, chromatic aberration, file size, etc. whereas aesthetic aspects seem to play a much smaller role. In general I think that's ok – if you're a photographer and your main interest is getting feedback on your images that goes beyond technicalities, you just post them on Flickr or (even better) on 500px. Now, whenever I upload an image here that I consider "high-end", I carefully check all technical aspects of that shot. In the case above, I've checked the noise and thought it was ok. If it turns out that people disagree with me, I usually look at the image again and upload a new version if needed. With all of that said, I would personally be very happy if we as a community of high-end Commons photographers or critics of fellow high-end photographers could re-calibrate our approach to what image quality means. Over the last couple of years I've seen dozens of shots that were of low aesthetic quality but made it through this process because they were technically ok. So, feedback is always welcome (and, to be clear, I fully respect both your input, Colin and Daniel Case), but also let's not forget that outside of our small community here people might care most about the aesthetics (and, in the case of Wikipedia readers, the encyclopedic value) of a shot. All the best and thanks again. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 22:12, 6 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment Yes, it seems like I gravitate towards a specific sewage pond in January to shoot this species :-) So funny. Thanks a lot for your observation and a Happy New Year! --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 22:15, 6 January 2016 (UTC) [reply]
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Chandelier of the eighteenth century in the Museo di Capodimonte (Napoli)
✓ Done thanks--LivioAndronico (talk) 11:58, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • But the filename needs to have "nineteenth century" and not "eighteenth century" in it. I understand that in Italian, it's the ottocento, but if you're using English, we call it the 19th and not 18th century (though it's also called the 1800s). I agree with Hubertl's remarks, but since the level of detail in the depiction of the chandelier strikes me as really impressive, I do vote to  Support featuring this picture. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:23, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Water slide tower at the lido on Woerther See, Poertschach, Carinthia, Austria
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The cemetery of San Diego, seen from El Panecillo, is located in the Historic Center of Quito, Ecuador. The cemetery was inagurated in 1872 in a location where fallen of the Battle of Pichincha (1822) had been buried. There have been entombed numerous significant people, including 5 presidents of the Republic of Ecuador.
Thanks, I now know the exact place from where the picture was taken. Unfortunately the quarter of San Roque, where the entry to the cemetery is located, is rather an unsafe place. --Cayambe (talk) 19:19, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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A 360x180 degree equirectangular panorama of the interior of Laon Cathedral in Picardy, France.
 Question Why use ISO 400?. --The Photographer (talk) 18:48, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I added a note --The Photographer (talk) 18:53, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Sometimes, when it´s really dark, you need more than 30 seconds if you use ISO 100, so in this case, you will have within a series of 5 or 7 pictures two, sometimes 3 pictures with 30 seconds. It also depends of the EV-spreading. Or you decide to make the pictures just within half an hour instead of 45 minutes. You can avoid it, when you raise the ISO. In this particular case, there is no noise, even not in the darkest areas. --Hubertl 18:58, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hubertl is exactly right, there are many reasons to use ISO 400. Mostly I use a higher ISO because it means that completing the panorama is much faster. ISO 400 will complete the panorama 8 times faster than ISO 100. These HDR panoramas are quite time consuming already (10-15 minutes of constant shooting with about 100 images), and doing it at ISO 100 also introduces other problems, like people walking in front of the lens during the exposures. The quicker the panorama can be taken, the more likely it will have no problems like this. And as I said, because of the HDR processing, it usually doesn't have worse noise than ISO 100 (non-HDR). Diliff (talk) 20:56, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Hubertl and Diliff, I really appreciate your answers and are quite logical. IMHO, It has enough sense to save time and sacrifice some quality only slightly. However, again (note) Look the door difference between both door sides (right and left), its not just noise problem, it look like a focus, sharp?. Something wrong to assemble the images resulting in a strange blur --The Photographer (talk) 21:59, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The slight difference in sharpness in some parts of the image is because I use a 14mm rectilinear lens. It's ultra-wide, and the edges are not as sharp as the centre, so when the images are stitched, the sharp parts are sometimes blended with softer parts. If I used a fisheye lens, the result might be slightly better because the edges would not need rectilinear correction, but I don't own one. I could also use my 35mm lens instead of 14mm but instead of 100 images, it would need 250-300 images. Diliff (talk) 22:44, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Diliff: Don't you own the Sigma 24mm art lens? Don't you consider using it for spherical panoramics? I made some experiments with my 24-70mm zoom lens at 24mm and found the results quite convincing from a technical point of view (see here). With that lens I needed to take ~40 pictures (without HDR) although probably less would have been sufficient, too. However, 24mm seem to be a good compromise between the number of frames you need and the quality you get. Now I'm considering to get myself a 24mm prime lens for such panoramics because the zoom lens is quite large and heavy for the NN3 Mk II and has some barrel distortion at 24mm which can cause more or less unresolvable stitching errors. --Code (talk) 06:18, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
No, I have the Sigma 35mm, not 24mm. The 24mm might be quite useful for 360 panoramics though, as it is high quality and wouldn't require so many images... But I don't need 3 Sigma Art lenses right now. ;-) Diliff (talk) 07:15, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I understand the problem now, you need brighter lenses. I made a panorama composed of 349 photos with 35 mm. However, I have kept the RAWs in a folder waiting for my grandchildren someday come together these photos. It is technically almost impossible to do that now. I had not seen the result with ToolServer tool, it was really wonderful. --The Photographer (talk) 23:37, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Not exactly, the 'brightness' of the lens has nothing to do with it. To get the maximum depth of field, you need to use f/8 or higher anyway, which nullifies any advantage you might get from a wide aperture lens. It is the slow aperture of f/8 or higher that causes the exposures to be so long. Diliff (talk) 07:15, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, the door is slightly softer than the rest. Perhaps someone bumped it during the exposure. Or the lens edge-softness Diliff mentions. This and the "noise" you see are all pretty insignificant. I can only hope that 4k monitors become standard soon and 5k comes down in price, so these damn pixels become invisible and we can move on to judging the image. -- Colin (talk) 22:52, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Bieszczady - mountains in Poland. Sunrise - view from the Chatka Puchatka hostel
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french archaeologists at work in Pompeii

 I withdraw my nomination--Jebulon (talk) 17:35, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Exemplar of brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) laying in Tortuga Bay, Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador.
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An little girl making money for her family by posing with a snake in a water village of Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia
 Info The girl is sitting in the front of a small boat with a provisional mast. The sails were not used, but the mother was steering the boat alongside my boat and the girl started to beg for money. The rope is part of the sailing canvas. This was a shot from a shaking boat to another shaking boat and I could not make the girl move around to get a better sight on her. What struck me was not the snake, but the eyes of the pitiful child. This is, why I choosed to take a close-up with a somewhat small DoF that got the focus on the eye part. --CEphoto, Uwe Aranas (talk) 07:51, 4 January 2016 (UTC) [reply]
Understood, and I will vote to  Support on that basis. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:18, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Trésor Caelius plat
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Jõelähtme River
To me the real problem with the woody debris is that it's also darker than I would like, although to be fair that does make it less of a distraction. At bottom, it's an inevitable tradeoff of leaving the shutter open for two and a half seconds, perhaps with a polarizer or ND filter, and why I think it would look better cropped to just the water. Daniel Case (talk) 02:43, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Mercurialis perennis
 Support - Thank you. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:06, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
It might just be the topography ... not all forest floors are flat as a pancake. Daniel Case (talk) 17:07, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The floor doesn't bother me, just the curvature of the trees on the right and left edges. — Julian H. 18:08, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I try to understand the exif here (50mm and f/1.4 but good dof and almost fisheye-lens perspective distortion)--ArildV (talk) 18:59, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I find this very strange, too. This distortion looks more like it was taken with a fisheye lens. Either the EXIF is wrong or something happened in the postprocessing. --Code (talk) 20:30, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
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Young bengal, three years old.
belongs to me ^^ --Medium69 You wanted talk to me? 01:57, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Ceiling of Santa Maria in Vallicella (Rome).jpg
  • I have no idea what you're talking about. I think it's a good idea to explain a oppose-vote (I allways do). And I have never proposed any expensive lenses. And composition, wb, exposure and colours has nothing to do with expensive lenses (it's about execution, and post-processing). --ArildV (talk) 16:03, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • if you have no idea you should read what you write! Say :"FP is not just a QI of a nice place" is for explain? or:"The photographer need to bring something more to the table" is for explain? Are you serious? Don't you write this? [4] 100 euro for a lens that normally the price (in Italy I don't know in your country) is 300! I did not say that the best lenses do better pictures (though honestly so of course) I just told you not to teach and don't give wrong prices, thanks--LivioAndronico (talk) 16:24, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I told you and you do not pretend (?) to understand and that's fine.In Italy we said "to wash your head to the mules you lose water and soap". And then what normal person goes to buy a lens in Japan (from Italy) ??? Anyway, is waste time to talk with you,also because i don't see your nomination here.Goodbay.--LivioAndronico (talk) 18:13, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Maïa Barouh at the music festival Waves Vienna 2015
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Inside of the Vesuvius crater

 I withdraw my nomination

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Qahatika girl

 I withdraw my nominationYann (talk) 12:35, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Relief of a dancing Maenad on an ancient Roman gravestone, exposed at the parish church St. James the Greater at Tiffen, Steindorf, Carinthia, Austria
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Kitchener, Britons wants you!
 Oppose Ugly brown propaganda poster. INeverCry 02:58, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Striking my oppose - more of an emotional response than an appropriate judgement of the image's quality. I'll pass these by in future. INeverCry 10:06, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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The document establishing the indulgence to the faithful who visit the chapel of St. Jacob's in parish church in Kłodzko
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Eurasian tree sparrow
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Helios, Johannes Benk, Vienna, Museum of the History of Nature
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Fountain of the Virgin (Fontaine de la Vierge) at Square Jean XXIII and apse of the cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris, France
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Pühajärve sõjatamm udus
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Amaryllis (Hippeastrum) flowers photographed against a dark background
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Panoramic view north from Ben Lomond
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Ring-tailed Lemur portrait
I don't deny it is cute! Do you think they got it from Commons or did you post it to Flickr/Facebook? I seem to recall they had a social media page/group that looked very much like a request for free photos for them to use for their own publicity. I wonder if ZSL supplied your photo to the newspapers. You know, the reason my Flickr album isn't on Commons is I was told I could not release the photos with a free licence that permitted commercial use, unless I paid a fee (basically an hourly rate to take commercial photos at the zoo). Since they are a charity, I was minded to honour that, but increasingly I'm tempted to ignore it since they don't seem to have much respect for photographers. -- Colin (talk) 21:16, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
They may have got it from Flickr, but as I'm so lazy and never tag anything they might have had a hard job finding it. I've just checked and the only two (auto) tags on it are "animal" and "outdoor"! It was explored on there, though, and it is titled "Ring-tailed lemur", so could be. I can usually tell from the attribution as to whether it was from Flickr or Commons, but as they weren't polite enough to do any I'm stumped :) I did put it on FB, but only in a private album, I think. Yeah, pretty much every zoo I've ever been to has a similar "no commercial use" policy. I'm no legal expert, but most of them seem pretty wooly, and I can't imagine they would ever be enforced for an image taken by an amateur and released under a free licence. Then again, if said image went viral and someone in their commercial dept smelled money, who knows? --Baresi F (talk) 22:37, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I'm increasingly sceptical about viral photos. I mean, did the Weasel/Woodpecker guy get paid for all the news photos, never mind all the social media and parody photos. So I suspect if ZSL ever complained that they saw no money from a viral photo taken in their zoo, my response would be "You and me both". Commons won't delete your zoo photos, regardless of any contract terms, because the contract is between you and ZSL so doesn't affect anyone else. The best you can hope for is a courtesy deletion should the lawyers come knocking. Btw, do you realise that Facebook rights-grab your photos for eternity. Flickr's terms are quite reasonable but Facebook is collecting billions, if not trillions, of rights to photos to do whatever they like with, even if you leave, and you can forget about attribution never mind share-alike. -- Colin (talk) 22:51, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
If you love to make fotos from a zoo, Baresi F, come to Vienna, the Tiergarten Schönbrunn supports everyone, who wants to make fotos. Without any restrictions, you can work with tripods or not, just as you like. They only ask to be additionally mentioned as Tiergarten Schönbrunn. --Hubertl 23:08, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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View of the Church of the Savior on Blood in Saint Petersburg from the Griboyedov canal.
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Lichfield Cathedral Exterior

 I withdraw my nomination. It seems unlikely to pass, and I take the comments on board. Diliff (talk) 10:12, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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SHORT DESCRIPTION
Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: as per above arguments. Yann (talk) 22:38, 6 January 2016 (UTC)[reply] Anyone other than the nominator who disagrees may override this template by changing {{FPX}} to {{FPX contested}} and adding a vote in support. Voting will then continue in the usual way. If not contested within 24 hours, this nomination may be closed.
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Tarassac hamlet, Hérault, France
 Comment Firebrace try to have more respect for the people here. Comments like "horrible" or "dull", for example, are useless and offensive. Thanks. --LivioAndronico (talk) 22:40, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Dull means, "lacking interest or excitement". It describes the image perfectly, and the cat's mouth was disgusting—offensive, even. Try to have more respect for other people's opinions. By the way, this view on a clear day is already a featured picture... Firebrace (talk) 00:06, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment thanks for the translation, but the respect is for wise poeple and it does not seem the case. I repeat: have more respect. Dull or horrible isn't a opinion. thanks.--LivioAndronico (talk) 02:47, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I have no idea if the user is "wise" or not. I was commenting on the (dull) picture. Maybe you've been here too long... Firebrace (talk) 14:42, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Stormy sea in Porto Covo

 I withdraw my nomination Alvesgaspar (talk) 16:04, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Stormy sea in Porto Covo

  • I am more and more convinced that a talented photographer is someone who can see beauty where the rest of us only see "yet another boring something". Some are born with such talent, others have to patiently learn it with experience and time. Yes, I agree that the sense of depth is one of the key factors of this scene. The other is the contrast between the white of the sea, the dark cliffs and the blue of the sky. Happy New Year! -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 00:07, 6 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

 I withdraw my nomination Alvesgaspar (talk) 16:04, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Lightning rod installed on the third floor of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
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Sonny Bill
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Daniel Case (talk) 01:22, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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"Among the Sierra Nevada, California" by German-born American artist Albert Bierstadt
Assuming you're being sarcastic, you should note that despite Google Art Project images having been among the potential PotY nominees for several years running, none of them have ever even been a finalist (another argument, IMO, for treating art digitizations separately). Daniel Case (talk) 17:41, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Bieszczady - sunrise from Chatka Puchatka
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Panorama of the Tobolsk Kremlin from the Cape Chukman
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Holstentor in Lübeck, Germany. View from Holstentorplatz.
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Mosaic of the Wheel of Fortune from Pompeii
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Xinghai Bay Bridge, Dalian, China.
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Yawning cat
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Sexually aroused male sitting on a toilet.NSFWTAG
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Coronation of the Virgin, by Gentile da Fabriano
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
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Munich airport
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Graphosoma lineatum
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Mezereon
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Water slide tower at the lido on Woerther See, Poertschach, Carinthia, Austria
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This one: Maybe with a slight cut on the right side. --Hubertl 11:57, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

[unindent] I like that one better, too, but I probably wouldn't vote to feature it unless some particular crop convinces me. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:45, 6 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Question: The photo was made by my wife. Do you want that picture here?--Famberhorst (talk) 16:36, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, Dominicus, but give it some time! In this case, we should go through with this one. --Hubertl 16:42, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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I understand that ... the point of TimedText would be to explain this using subtitles, which can be added in as many languages as desired. Daniel Case (talk) 17:03, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
How could it be impractical? TimedText is an editable text file. It couldn't be easier than that. Daniel Case (talk) 20:26, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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  Oh, I myself haven't seen it yet. --Hockei (talk) 17:40, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Instruktive panoramic view from Rimberg in Hesse
  • A textless version is possible but much less instruktive. Sorry, I see no value in adding clouds at the top or leaves on the buttom. A higher focal length sometimes requires even more extreme "letterbox"-formats to show the whole possibilities of what is visible on a clear day from a mountain. --Milseburg (talk) 13:03, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I dissagree about a textless version being less instructive, having such a version allows this picture to be translated and used on other language Wikipedias. I'm a translator myself (along with many, many other Wikipedians) and as it is now I could not include this pic on Swedish Wikipedia without translating the names. Some names are the same, but as it is now it would be useless on wikis using another alphabeth, like Russian, Hebrew, Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Arabic, Tamil, Bengal, to name a few. You need to see the "bigger picture" here. What good is such a fantastic photo if it can only be used fully in a few European countries. cart-Talk 14:25, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I didn't mention "higher focal length" and don't understand how focal length is relevant. It's a stitched image -- you can make it any width and height you like? For this view, I agree the very bottom isn't that interesting, so there isn't much point in expanding it, but for others there may be. The point is that the vertical height here is smaller than the human eye sees when looking from this viewpoint. Whether its because you've oriented your camera in Landscape mode or because you've cropped out some sky, or because your stitch didn't include much sky, the result is a scene that simply has sky removed that a viewer would see. The fact that the sky is featureless or has clouds you don't think add "value" is missing the point. Negative space is an important part of any composition. Subjects need room to breathe, and the lack of sky here isn't natural. -- Colin (talk) 13:43, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Vertical hight is smaller than human eyes are able to see and the horizontal angle is much larger. So this can´t be a criterion. Think you are looking around horizontal with binoculars and low magnification. The point is, weather it makes sense to overcroud the image with volatile contend, that does not belong to the intention of the image: Information what landmarks can be seen from this lookout-tower. With a higher focal length, I can pick up distant things closer, but I need more single images. So a one-row-panorama gets longer and more "letterboxlike". Weather there is on top a second row with nothing but sky necessary, I would deny. --Milseburg (talk) 16:13, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Having compared against our existing panoramas, I think Alchemist is right. There's just not enough going on in this image to give wow, plus other issues raised above. -- Colin (talk) 20:20, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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San Giacomo in Augusta (Rome) - Intern

 I withdraw my nomination --LivioAndronico (talk) 20:28, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Sangaste Cemetery
yes, at right upper part, at the junctions between the sky and the brown branches, there are purple fringes Christian Ferrer (talk) 22:08, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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High brown fritillary (Argynnis adippe) on a brown knapweed (Centaurea jacea) flower
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Central nave of the Church of San Miguel, Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. The church is composed of 3 naves, where the central nave is higher than the lateral ones, with pillars decorated with gothic motifs and very diverse baldachins, whereas the altar is a work from 1609 by Juan Martínez Montañés 1609. The construction of the church began in 1484 due to a visit of the Catholic Monarchs to Jerez de la Frontera, but it took several centuries to complete, resulting in a harmonious mixture of elements from the late Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque.
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  •  Info Central nave of the Church of San Miguel, Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. The church is composed of 3 naves, where the central nave is higher than the lateral ones, with pillars decorated with gothic motifs and very diverse baldachins, whereas the altar is a work from 1609 by Juan Martínez Montañés 1609. The construction of the church began in 1484 due to a visit of the Catholic Monarchs to Jerez de la Frontera, but it took several centuries to complete, resulting in a harmonious mixture of elements from the late Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque. Poco2 14:05, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Poco2 14:05, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support maybe a small vertical line problem on the right side, easy to fix IMO (see door)... --Hubertl 14:08, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Weak Support. Although I would say that some of the highlights at the top seem a little too overexposed (more highlight reduction needed?) and the shadow detail is much noisier than I would expect for a ISO 100 HDR processed image. Perhaps the brightest exposure of the bracket did not 'expose to the right' for the shadows? What bracketing settings did you use? Also, I'd have liked to see a bit more foreground, it seems to have the same issue that many of Livio's church interiors have - lots of ceiling and not much flooring. I try to keep it as near to the rule of thirds as possible. I understand that when you are limited by the focal length of your widest lens, you may have to compromise somewhere though. Perhaps next time you could at least take two frames (one upper and one lower) and stitch them together, if you're not willing to go down the 'full mosaic' route that I take. Diliff (talk) 14:23, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    David, I have reduced hightlights now a bit more, but this will not get more detail on the upper part of the window on the top right. I just used 3 frames, probably should have used 5 as it was extremely dark there (only the candles in the center and the rays of light through the windows). The brightest frame (30 seconds) was not as bright as I had hoped, so I should have probably set it to bulb and waited for 1 min or increased ISO to 200. Regarding your suggestion about taking 2 frames, I'll try it out. In this case, I can actually offer more crop on the bottom but that results in a worse perspective IMHO. I usually find the ceiling more interesting than the floor and the closer benches distract a bit as there are spaces among them. Poco2 16:54, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 16:01, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I've uploaded a new version with an improved symmetry, crop and perspective/tilt. Poco2 16:54, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
thanks. Very good! --Hubertl 17:31, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Sunflower head
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West facade of the Paul-Löbe-Haus in Berlin-Mitte during the blue hour.
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
  •  Info The horizon is perfectly horizontal now. The problem is that it looks like tilted the other way because of the land on the right. The image was slightly sharpen but the blur caused by haze and spray cannot be fixed. Alvesgaspar (talk) 22:54, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Varied tit
P.S. I removed the fringing and color noise partially. --Laitche (talk) 15:05, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Poster for Jules Massenet's Don Quichotte
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Stormy sea at Porto Covo

 Question You´ve already nominated two pictures plus an alternative. --Hubertl 23:24, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Altar of St. Martin's Church in Bamberg
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Pulpit in the Jesuit church, Vienna
Julian I fixed it, I presume, it was a mixture of spot lights, natural lights and HDR-Processing with Photomatix. I don´t really know why. But thanks, so I can avoid it maybe with the next series. --Hubertl 09:11, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Hubertl, if you're using Photomatix for the HDR processing, I would recommend that you try Lightroom instead, as it is superior (In my opinion) for HDR processing. You have a lot more control over the result, especially with the use of adjustment brushes. If you only have an older version of Lightroom (4 or 5) and not Lightroom 6 which has built-in HDR merging, you could still merge the images to HDR in Photomatix but instead of doing the tone mapping, you can just save merged but unprocessed HDR file as a 32 bit TIFF and then import that TIFF into Lightroom. Just a suggestion. Diliff (talk) 09:25, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Before I did the tone mapping with PS (I had LR 5.xx at this time), but the results are bad, so I tried Photomatix, with quite good results. I never tried it with LR later (I have 6.xx) because I thought, it´s the same engine as in PS. But thanks for your hint, David, I will try the next one with LR. --Hubertl 09:38, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I'm surprised you had bad results with Lightroom, even LR5. It's always been superior to Photomatix for me. Photomatix has a bad habit of oversaturating colours and losing the natural tones of a scene. And of course you cannot be selective about the processing - the whole scene must be processed with the same settings - with Lightroom you can process one area in one way and another area in another way, using strong highlight recovery only on specific areas (this is vital for my church interiors where the stained glass is still overexposed even with strong tone mapping in Photomatix). Anyway, I can only recommend that you use the tools that work for you, but I'm surprised by your comments about LR. Perhaps it could be the method used rather than the ability of the tool itself. Diliff (talk) 10:09, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I´m working on it... --Hubertl 10:37, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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All Saints Church Carshalton
  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Interiors/Religious buildings
  •  Info created by Diliff - uploaded by Diliff - nominated by Diliff. This is a just regular, suburban, slightly run-down parish church, but with a difference. It is home to a beautiful organ case (and rood screen, visible in the corresponding view) by distintive Gothic Revival architect Ninian Comper, who also designed the rood screen of another London church that I photographed a while ago. Although the image contains a wide view, this organ case is the centrepiece of the image and main subject for the nomination. -- Diliff (talk) 09:43, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Diliff (talk) 09:43, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support So beautiful. And flawless quality. Do you make appointments with the parishes before taking such photographs? --Code (talk) 11:00, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Usually no, but in this case I did as many of the 'hidden gem' suburban churches (and there are many that I haven't visited yet) in London are often not open to the public except on Sundays when they're in use. I contacted the Pastor and asked to visit and he opened it up specifically for me on a very dark overcast rainy day. What you can't see so easily in this photo is that because of the weather outside, the lights were very bright and beautiful in person, but the RAW images had very very warm yellow cast, and it took a lot of WB correction and creative selective desaturation of the scene to make it look natural and neutral again. It was a challenging scene to process. Anyway, that shouldn't have any affect on votes, but I thought you might be interested in that. Diliff (talk) 11:26, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Really beautiful! 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 12:25, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I think the wide-angle view was a mistake here. The subject, the organ case, is small and distant from the viewer, and the enlarged/distorted arches on the sides completely dominate one's attention. I suggest (on file description) a 2:3 portrait crop that properly focuses attention on the organ while retaining four windows and sufficient surrounds for context. For a photo of the interior, I think File:All Saints Church Carshalton Interior 6, Surrey, UK - Diliff.jpg is the best of the set. With that, the vertical perspective distortion is minimised due to the high view point, and the horizontal view is not extreme. So one feels confident the proportions are realistic, unlike the nomination here. -- Colin (talk) 12:30, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • I don't think there's any object in this scene that is unrealistically stretched out of proportion in a way that you could argue about in other ultrawide images of mine... Maybe you're just more sensitive to the proportions of the arches than I am, I think they look about as you would expect when you're underneath them, looking upwards. Anyway, I agree that a higher vantage point avoids some of the extreme vertical distortions but I don't particularly like the composition from that angle as the off-centred position doesn't create make for nice symmetrical converging lines. I would have loved to have taken it from a central position but of course that's where the organ is. In any case, the subject is the organ in its surroundings here, so the elevated view from the organ isn't really a solution to that problem. The image itself could be cropped to reduce the distortions but then it would suffer compositionally if the window was incomplete. I don't think there's any perfect solution, but I just don't think the distortion is that extreme in this image. Diliff (talk) 13:08, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
      • Well the other picture clearly wasn't intended as a solution for the view of the organ, but is I think suitable as a view of the whole interior, and I don't mind the off-centre view. The crop I suggest doesn't make the window incomplete, and I think is quite a superior image of this organ, which I would support. This just suffers from all the problems of photographing an object with a wide-angle lens -- it makes the subject small and far away and places too much emphasis on the surrounds. I have two eyes and 3D vision so one can't claim this is like being there. With a 2D projection one is left only with perspective clues to figure out depth/size and we all know that a wide-angle rectilinear projection exaggerates perspective (near objects become huge and distant objects become small). From a compositional point of view, this image is simply dominated by some arches and white stone walls, whereas it should be dominated by the organ. -- Colin (talk) 13:35, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
        • True, but the nature of reality is such that by definition, near objects are larger than distant ones, the only difference is that a wide angle view widens this effect and telephoto compresses it, as compared to our eyes. If we could photograph an interior like this with a 600mm lens from a large distance (hypothetically if the near side wall was removed), we'd find that perspective just as confusing, if not more. As we've discussed many times before, I guess it comes down to how attuned our eyes (or more accurately, our brains) are to different projections and angle of views, and I suppose through working with ultrawide images for many years, understanding the view comes naturally to me but perhaps not to others. Perhaps you're also right though that an organ like this should be more front and centre, but cropping it as heavily as you do reduces the resolution a bit much for my liking. I suppose I'll put it on the list of places to revisit one day. ;-) Diliff (talk) 13:53, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Hubertl 14:03, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Laitche (talk) 14:51, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support as I do so many of Dave's church interiors, although I will add that Colin's suggested crop is also featurable should that be separately nominated and preferred. Daniel Case (talk) 20:49, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) in flight at Bodega Bay, Sonoma County, California.
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Holstentor in Lübeck, Germany. View from Townside.
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Jules Massenet in 1895

[unindent] Comment Doesn't that have too much color? It looks a little blue to me, and this is a black & white (OK, sepia toned - I take Jebulon's point) image. Am I seeing something that isn't there? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:01, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Jetty of Varese Beach, Mar del Plata, Argentina, panorama
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St. Peter and St. Paul's Church 2
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P-51 and Spitfire bottom
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
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Wojciech Sanatorium in Lądek-Zdrój, stuccos
I was not able to stand directly in front of the arcade, because there are column. --Jacek Halicki (talk) 21:36, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'm not so bothered by the lack of symmetry, and also on the basis of this statement, I'm fine with giving this pretty photo a moderate level of  Support. It's pretty enough for me. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:06, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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The Confucius Temple in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
All by -- CEphoto, Uwe Aranas (talk) 20:10, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Looks smarter. Thanks! Daniel Case (talk) 18:18, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Actress Lillian Gish, 1921
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Pumpkin
  •  Oppose Not surprisingly (if you've seen my other comments skeptical of bokeh), I agree with Daniel in this case. Your photograph isn't only of a single pumpkin. If you had wanted to photograph only a single pumpkin, you could have chosen to put it by itself in an entirely black or white room. You have every right not to take my view seriously if you prefer not to, but I will further say that I find the background so aggressively blurred that at full size, it tends to make me dizzy. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:08, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Michelangelo's David 2015

 I withdraw my nomination I do not think you can make comparisons with pictures at different times of day with different lighting, and then I do not dwell on the many stupid things I've read--LivioAndronico (talk) 19:21, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • LivioAndronico, you only escaped a ban from FPC because you pretended to retire and sell your camera gear. If I see another insult like this, it will be your last FPC nomination. You have the opportunity here to learn from others and improve your photography but instead you insult and refuse to accept your images could be better. -- Colin (talk) 20:09, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • No Colin,i don't escaped ,I lived. Anyway i come back beacuse we need to people different of you that threaten and say things false and meaningless. Remember this is a community and don't decide nothing without the others! --LivioAndronico (talk) 22:56, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) in Las Bachas, Baltra Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. The blue-footed booby is a long-winged seabird with a wingspan of up to 1.5 m (4.9 ft). The species is 90 cm (35 in) high and is easily recognizable by its distinctive bright blue feet, which is a sexually selected trait, as the males display their feet in an elaborate mating ritual by lifting their feet up and down while strutting before the female. Although the blue-footed boobies are usually associated to the Galápagos Islands (where half of all breedinmg pairs nest), they can be found from the Gulf of California down along the western coasts of Central and South America down to Peru.
  •  Question What did you do? Since I'm not comparing the two versions in real time, I can't be positive that you did anything (rather than that I'm reacting differently after a night's sleep), but my subjective reaction is that it seems much better. I still wish the entire rock was clear at full size, but it is clear at full-page size, and though I'd still prefer for the background to be clear, it's no longer making me feel dizzy. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 18:37, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ikan Kekek: if you refresh your cache you will realize the differences. As stated in the change history I did some cloning in the background (tip of a white boat, a blue boat and something else on the right. When I looked at the picture that didn't disturb me, but later on, when I looked carefully it did, and, as you mentioned, made me also kind of dizzy. Poco2 18:53, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thank, and it's a better photo for it. But I still don't like the way the horizon line breaks up the background. Daniel Case (talk) 01:46, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Mortar at night.
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Scythe Forge Museum
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Northern white-breasted hedgehog
  •  Comment Both other FP hedgehogs is European hedgehog, this one - Northern white-breasted hedgehog. And two promoted too aren't completely isolated from a background - it is typical for the wild nature. Anyway, thanks for your review. -- George Chernilevsky talk 20:31, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • On that basis, I am willing to  Support this picture. The lighting is strong, but I figure that's how it looked that day (maybe I find it less harsh than Colin does), and I do find the hedgehog cute. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:58, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
In May hedgehogs are very active after winter hibernation. Also this time of search of partners for pairing -- George Chernilevsky talk 20:58, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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"Creation of the Man by Prometheus"
?? --Hubertl 18:48, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Minimal tilt to left side (in the opposite direction to clockwise) --The Photographer (talk) 01:53, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Not at all. It is an old object.--Jebulon (talk) 15:40, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Il m'a fallu un certain temps pour trouver une erreur dans votre photo. Excellent! :) --The Photographer (talk) 01:53, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Non, il n'y a pas d'erreur. Just a very very old object, not perfectly straight (maybe)--Jebulon (talk) 16:43, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Rugby player trying to escape other players
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
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Greek Evzones at the tomb of the Unknown soldier in Athens.
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Vaults and roof lantern of Laon Cathedral Notre-Dame, Picardy, France
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Salagou Lake, France

*  Support --Σπάρτακος (talk) 21:01, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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discussion on taking pictures of subway stations in Germany
... and you certainly won't have to! :-) Some are in fact really, really ugly, like the one near my family's house. Other stations are still on my to-do list though --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 19:56, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
For my part, I'm happy to feature any U-Bahn pics that are great, and it doesn't matter to me how many different stations are thus featured. Other cities, including Berlin, have some beautiful U-Bahn stations that could use a great photographic representation on this site. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:38, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Ikan Kekek: Of course I would already have taken lots of Berlin U-Bahn pictures but unfortunately it's forbidden to take photographs inside the stations. --Code (talk) 06:29, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Yep, Berlin's public transportation network is a rather tough place. It's not impossible to get a photo permit though. Deutsche Bahn is way more relaxed, I had no problems taking this FP --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:08, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
FoP-Germany doesn't allow interiors. Nice that you document U-Bahn in Munich, but the photos aren't safe on Commons... --A.Savin 20:57, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Not being safe on Commons is true of many, many photos here - theoretically. I mean, even most church interiors or pictures taken in zoos are somewhat problematic, considering all legal implications that are summed up by the wonderful German term "Hausrecht"... but this might not be the right place to discuss this issue, imo --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 22:08, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
There is some difference to your example: a) uploading files to Commons in contrary to someone's Hausrecht does not violate any Commons' policies; b) uploading files not covered by their national FoP rules does. --A.Savin 22:30, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Well, there seems to be an ongoing legal debate in Germany whether public train stations actually qualify as interiors in terms of FoP. Anyway, I'd argue that a mass deletion of thousands of pictures (!) would be a bit premature at the moment. --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 06:37, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Beinan Township, Taitung, Taiwan: The traditional stilt house of the Beinan people, one of the 16 aboriginal tribes of Taiwan.
  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
  •  Info Beinan Township, Taitung, Taiwan: The traditional stilt house of the Beinan people, one of the 16 aboriginal tribes of Taiwan. This big size pillared house was used as a kind of "flat sharing community" for adolescent men before entering the marital status.
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Ceiling of Santa Maria Maddalena (Rome) HDR
I had already done a Google image search before I posted. Your picture seems to be the most vivid search result, with others being much duller. That could easily mean that your photograph is simply much better, but that's why I asked. So please address this. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:44, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
My photographs have a exposure very long (this 10 seconds!) and colors are ever more vivid than other exposures much shorter.Thanks.--LivioAndronico (talk) 23:06, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for that really clear explanation, and I'm happy to  Support this photo. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:57, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Based on the other images, it looks to me like the bright and dark parts of the painting have been brought closer together - the overall contrast in other images seems to be much larger and is almost nonexistent here (which looks fake regardless of context). I  Oppose based on that, sorry. — Julian H. 08:24, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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View at the peninsula on Lake Woerth, Poertschach, Carinthia, Austria
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  •  Comment The center of the image is relatively sharp, while the foreground and the background is less sharp (at least partly due to, unavoidable, limited DOF). But if you talk about the overall sharpness, I'm not sure. Yann probably know much more than I do about images restoration.--ArildV (talk) 21:49, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I find the composition random (woman at right cut, the man(?) in the background left hidden), but this needed a very careful balance between aperture and speed. The place is probably not very well lit, the people may move, and it is not staged. What kind of restoration is needed? Yann (talk) 11:58, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Basically, all I wanted to know was whether the blurriness was in the original photograph or the fault of the reproduction. Since it was apparently original, I, too, will vote to  Support featuring it, because of its historic importance and also its composition. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:57, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Stage director, set designer and painter Achim Freyer with the Nestroy theater award 2015
I understand. It was your choice. Daniel Case (talk) 18:21, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Buddhist monk in Myanmar
Lack of information about parental consent didn't seem to bother you when you cast this !vote a week ago. Daniel Case (talk) 03:08, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Daniel: I was aware about this, but I decided for me, that this was a different situation and included a parents consent as part of the family income. I realized this situations by myself in different ways from my own travels to asia/south asia or south america. --Hubertl 08:24, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Daniel, the mother was steering the boat where the girl was sitting and the mother collected the money for taking photos. So if this is not a consent, what is it then? --CEphoto, Uwe Aranas (talk) 15:49, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Cccefalon: I agree that consent was probably implicit in that situation, and since you took the image I defer to your description of the situation. But the larger point is that this issue never came up in that discussion, i.e. no one ever asked you about it to satisfy their concerns (The only way we knew that you and she were both on adjacent boats was because someone asked you about the framing of the image). Daniel Case (talk) 18:17, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
If !voters want to register ethical objections to the featuring of an image that would otherwise be featured, they have {{Neutral}} or (better yet) {{Abstain}} to make the point with without affecting the outcome. As for "viral" ... I think Ralf means that the CC-0 license, since it is not SA, does not require reusers to use it. It's a way of saying it's not easy enough to share, rather than too easy. And, frankly, that's a more tenable objection to the image, although one I don't think most of us (ahem) share. Daniel Case (talk) 22:00, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Well, no,if an ethical objection stops it being among our finest, so an oppose is justified. And ethics are imo far more important than some effort to force free-content ideology onto others. I know Ralf means "share-alike" but the problem is using the term "viral" makes many people think our CC images infect the works that contain them, and they actually don't. They don't even infect derivative works. I've seen people write to journals claiming they need to make a whole issue of their journal open/free because it used a CC image. -- Colin (talk) 00:12, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
A license is viral, if every re-use must take the same license. But a picture with CC-0 can be re-used, whoever you want. The next use have no license and this is not viral. Once there was a basic principle here, to disseminate free licenses. CC 0 does not promote the spread of free licenses, it hinders the spread. Therefore, CC 0 is for me outside the project scope of Commons.--Ralf Roleček 08:03, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The "viral" term is one rejected by the free-content community (it was coined by Microsoft in the days when it didn't understand) because it is quite misleading and unhelpful. Please avoid it and use "share-alike" or "copyleft". And no, our mission here is to provide free content that can be easily re-used. We aren't here "to disseminate free licenses" and that has never been Commons' mission. Are you going to start opposing PD works from NASA or old photographs just because someone is legally entitled to remix the work and create something non-free. Perhaps you should campaign to extend copyright for 200 years past your death just so your free licence can be perpetuated for even longer, rather than worry someone might create a non-free work in the year 2200. What an upside-down view of our mission. That's quite a disruptive reasons to oppose and one FPC should utterly reject. -- Colin (talk) 08:27, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Gate of the Annunciation's chapel, Cathedral of Santa María, Sigüenza, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. The chapel was founded in 1515 by the judicial vicar Fernando Montemayor. The rich portal is decorated in Cisneros-style and has images of St Michaeil and St Jacobus in the lower part, mudejar elements in the arch and a scene of the Annunciation in the frieze. The cornice is of arabic-style and over it there are gothic-style arches with a calvary scene in the middle. The iron grille, of gothic style with renaissance ornaments, is a work of Juan Francés.
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Ceiling of San Carlo al Corso (Rome)
Is a raw,but isn't important --LivioAndronico (talk) 16:13, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
In any case, can you crop out the white corner on the lower left? I think that's uncontroversial. — Julian H. 16:24, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Can you suggest a crop? because don't understand where is the "white corner". Danke --LivioAndronico (talk) 18:22, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Just zoom into the lower left. The image ends and there is plain white background looking through. Needs about 5-10 pixels of cropping from the left. — Julian H. 19:39, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Ups...✓ Done,thanks --LivioAndronico (talk) 22:05, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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"Mount Adams, Washington", an 1875 oil-on-canvas painting by Albert Bierstadt
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Red geranium flower.
Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: as per above. Yann (talk) 05:40, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply] Anyone other than the nominator who disagrees may override this template by changing {{FPX}} to {{FPX contested}} and adding a vote in support. Voting will then continue in the usual way. If not contested within 24 hours, this nomination may be closed.
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Aviator-Memorial on Wasserkuppe, on the left in the background Milseburg
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  •  Question - And not to pick on User:Uoaei1, who is a great photographer, but this photo is currently under consideration for FP and looks likely to be approved. Is the entire flower pixel sharp in that picture? I have abstained from voting on it because I'm not convinced it's clear enough at full size (not to mention that I don't love the bokeh). I understand that it's a much larger file (though still smaller than 6 MB), but is it a better photo than this one? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 03:00, 18 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Please do not mix up MP (Mega-Pixel) and MB (Mega-Byte)! For me, the sharpness of this picture is not bad, but not outstanding for a studio picture. This is one difference to my picture, which shows a flower in its habitat somewhere on alpine pasture (see GPS data). Another one is the size: the size of the flower on my picture is about 10% of this one here. I will not vote for or against this image - it is good, but I am not convinced by composition (is the orientation correct? why is the raceme cropped? why is it shown in this diagonal orientation?), and I do not like the black background. --Uoaei1 (talk) 10:10, 18 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment - Thanks for your explanation. Maybe I should have asked Alexandar before nominating this, but it's been interesting to learn more about the criteria you all use to evaluate photos, so in that respect, I'm not sorry. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:12, 19 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

 I withdraw my nomination. Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:26, 20 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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"Seal Rock, California", a painting by Albert Bierstadt, circa 1872
  •  Comment - I dislike it, too, but I don't know if what I'm disliking is the painting or the reproduction. If the painting really looks like that, in my opinion, it sucks. I don't find it conducive to my eye moving around the picture frame, as everything just seems to sit there, regardless of the theoretically dramatic scene being depicted. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:40, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • What I find interesting about this painting is not the composition, but the colors of the water and the light on the water, and the sense of action in the waves. --Pine 05:18, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Japanese white-eye
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Epitaph for the noble Ulrich von Ernau II. in the porch of the parish church Saints Michael and George, Moosburg, Carinthia, Austria
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Reflection of Manhattan buildings in Central Park pond
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Bieszczady mountains, Poland - Połonina Wetlińska
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Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina, which will be on it's closest on 17 Jan 2016
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Draw War Bonds, Offner, 1918
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Eryx jaculus
As written in the file page, it was taken in Pylos (Peloponnese/Greece). I added relevant categories to the file and asked to the uploader if he can add a geolocation. Thanks, Christian Ferrer (talk) 16:33, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I mean, was it taken in the wild, or is it a vivarium? Regards, Yann (talk) 18:36, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The snake looks rather nervous and lively, and this is a greek snake so I will say there is reasonable chance it is taken in the wild, but I can't answer instead of @Benny Trapp: Christian Ferrer (talk) 20:37, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Lincoln Cathedral Rood
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William Grant Still

By the way, I'm afraid this will likely be my last contribution to Commons. I don't think one should work where actively disrespected. Adam Cuerden (talk) 03:17, 18 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Adam Cuerden: Fuck, if that were true I'd have to retire myself, and so would at least 50 or so users I've treated with disrespect over my 7 years... I hope you'll reconsider. I've always liked having you around. I've found that sometimes you have to just do what you enjoy here, even in the face of poor treatment or lack of recognition of your contribs. It helps to tell people to fuck off now and then (you can use a meme too, like this one)... INeverCry 03:53, 18 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@INeverCry: Commons apparently think that wanting there to be one place that people can go to see your work, and having the most unobtruive way of linking that physically psossible on Commons - a category link at the bottom of the page - is too much to ask and that I'm in the wrong for insisting on it. If that's not comprehensively overturned by tomorrow, I quit. Adam Cuerden (talk) 04:42, 18 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Adam Cuerden: It'll be a shame if you do leave Commons. I agree with you completely about the category not being hidden though FWIW. Your work is a whole lot harder and more time-consuming than Flickr2Commons transfers. I'd back you at VP, but my brand isn't very popular here since my de-sysop; I'd probably do you more harm than good. You've got to do what's right for you in the end of course. I wish you well whichever way it goes. INeverCry 05:07, 18 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Well, looks like things have sorted out there. Things were looking rather bleak when I wrote that, came round now. Adam Cuerden (talk) 19:53, 19 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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An enclosed courtyard on Vasilievsky Island in Saint Petersburg
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Kihelkonna bell tower and church
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Salagou Lake, France
  •  Comment - For such a populous country, my experience is that France has quite a lot of countryside, though of course a lot of it, unlike this spot, is cultivated. Actually, it's interesting to me how much that's also true of other populous European countries like Italy and Germany. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:47, 20 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Ikan Kekek: What I meant was that this looks more akin to the "never developed" sense of wildness we see in pictures from outside Europe, where we know there are large areas that have never been cultivated or exploited otherwise and that is part of the landscape's identity. Daniel Case (talk) 16:30, 20 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Heermann’s gull (Larus heermanni) at Richardson Bay, California
 Comment Adjusted it very slightly. Thanks for the feedback! --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 02:44, 18 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment Laitche, I think we're on :-) You take another bird picture, I'll go on another photo shoot next weekend. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 03:56, 19 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Gate of Mooste Manor
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Naha, Okinawa, Japan:Hoshimmon (Kimihokori-Ujo) Gate to the inner yard of Shuri Castle.
All by -- CEphoto, Uwe Aranas (talk) 14:34, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment I am sorry, that I cannot offer more. I was standing with my back on the opposite wall of the gate and I used all, what I could get with the 24 mm zoom setting of the 24-105 mm lens. It might be more amazing, that I managed to get no border blurs in the leftmost and rightmost parts of the image. --CEphoto, Uwe Aranas (talk) 17:35, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Irises, by Vincent van Gogh (1889)
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Walking reflection
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A crap spider - Xysticus cristatus, female
 Comment I'm was lying on the ground to take pictures of this small spider and this is what the background is. The natural environment where it walk and hide from enemies. I do not want to convince you to change your opinion. I respect it. But I have the feel it is a standard to say ... background is distracting ... . This cannot be valid for every picture in generally. It isn't in any way regarding to this picture and for me it is a big nonsense. Even if hundreds of people would say the same as you say. Thanks for your review. --Hockei (talk) 06:49, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Question - Would it be possible to take this kind of photograph and have the entire visible body of the spider be clear (not blurry)? Some of the legs are very blurry, even at full-page size. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:04, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment I've used F11. This series of pictures are really macro shots and was taken at the beginning in 2014. For newer pictures normally I chose F13 and sometimes even more to get more depth of field. But, in this case it is exactly the right choice to get the best balance between sharpness an the desired blurred background. According to my understanding in FPC it is not necessary that all part of the spider have to be sharp. A decreasing sharpness in the back- and/or foreground can be an artistic part of the composition like in this picture for example.. --Hockei (talk) 12:14, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Sure it can be, but that doesn't mean I have to agree with it. Part of the decision that's being made in FP voting and discussion is whether a picture has "a 'wow factor'". That calls for a subjective determination, and I don't think you can argue that my basis for making that determination is unfair because you disagree with it. I appreciate your detailed response and your consistently diligent efforts to take pictures of small animals and plants, and I hope to support your next nomination, but I will respectfully  Oppose featuring this picture. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 12:58, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
My explanation was just an answer to your question. Not more. --Hockei (talk) 15:32, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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PaInterior (apartment) of the old distillery Löhning, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  •  Comment I thought about your wish. IMO it's natural and good as it is. The floor has a polished surface and this surface is reflecting the bright sky. It's like a mirror. --XRay talk 06:38, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]


PaInterior (apartment) of the old distillery Löhning, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Erechtheum Acropolis Athens
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
@Julian Herzog: I made a slight correction. --Medium69 You wanted talk to me? 11:57, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Not entirely fixed to my eyes. — Julian H. 21:17, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment - I'm undecided on this photograph, because though I like the scene and find the composition interesting, I'm bothered by the blurring beyond the foreground. I also wonder what the photo would have looked like if it had been wider on the right. The photo does look good at full-page size, though not as much at full size. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:17, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Ikan Kekek: On the right is another entertaining lamp. on the left side at the top, a lantern burned by long exposure. I adjust the frame to the bottom of the vases is not cut --Medium69 You wanted talk to me? 11:49, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I understand that explanation. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 12:48, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment - Boring and uninteresting object? Good God! I'm almost tempted to support this picture in reaction to that remark, but of course I realize we all have different eyes and minds, and therefore differences in taste. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:56, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment Fortunately everyone has their own tastes. The world would be boring otherwise. --Medium69 You wanted talk to me? 20:03, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment Amen to that! Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:31, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Couple of Blue-footed boobies (Sula nebouxii) during a mating ritual, Lobos Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. The blue-footed booby is a long-winged seabird with a wingspan of up to 1.5 m (4.9 ft). The species is 90 cm (35 in) high and is easily recognizable by its distinctive bright blue feet, which is a sexually selected trait, as the males display their feet in an elaborate mating ritual by lifting their feet up and down while strutting before the female. Although the blue-footed boobies are usually associated to the Galápagos Islands (where half of all breedinmg pairs nest), they can be found from the Gulf of California down along the western coasts of Central and South America down to Peru.
The rock made this photo a little bit confusing also. -- RTA 16:15, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hi RTA, thanks for your feedback and uploaded Version. There is always room for improvement, and I've darkened the shadows a bit, and have retouched the WB slightly, that helped IMHO. The version that you presented goes though further than what I would dare, especially regarding contrast. I hope still that you like the new version, which is somewhere inbetween. Poco2 18:08, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
:), I was not there, I can better judge than me. -- RTA 18:37, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Traunsteinera globosa
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
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Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome - Dome HDR.jpg
intellego - bene! --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 13:17, 20 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Charles Gounod
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Madonna of the Pomegranate (Botticelli)
✓ Done thanks--LivioAndronico (talk) 22:11, 20 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment - Thanks, Livio. It's clearer to me now, so I think it's better. I am not sure I know how the work looks in the flesh well enough to support, though. Sorry about that. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:49, 21 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

 I withdraw my nomination Thanks guys,effectively isn't FP --LivioAndronico (talk) 07:09, 21 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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SHORT DESCRIPTION
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Parts of the former industrial plants in the North Duisburg Landscape Park in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Golden laurel wreath

 Trying something as requested by Hubertl, back soon. Thanks.--Jebulon (talk) 16:37, 24 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Bristol Cathedral Lady Chapel, Bristol, UK
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Mailbox of the headquarters of the Post and Telegram Office in Lima, capital of Peru.
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Daurian redstart
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Earth over Moon
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Playng with the waves
@Alvesgaspar: The same sort of bravado in the face of an overwhelming natural force ... Daniel Case (talk) 21:54, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Skyline of Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
I'm fine with the light. Just a difference of taste, I think. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:43, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The Bridge is for trains and on the side, there is a walkway only for pedastrians. U can have a look at the location when u click in the discription page on the coordinates. Regards --Dr. Chriss (talk) 12:38, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Misvormde nevelzwam (Clitocybe nebularis) in verval. Locatie De Famberhorst 04
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landscape of Mérida (Venezuela)
Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: while this is a nice image, with only 1.4 Mpx this is way below our minimum size requirement of 2 Mpx, without any obvious mitigating factors. Sorry, --El Grafo (talk) 17:43, 21 January 2016 (UTC)[reply] Anyone other than the nominator who disagrees may override this template by changing {{FPX}} to {{FPX contested}} and adding a vote in support. Voting will then continue in the usual way. If not contested within 24 hours, this nomination may be closed.
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Cat in Clovelly, Devon, England
  •  Comment - I believe the cat is asleep. It's interesting that you find the leaves distracting, whereas I find them very helpful to the composition because they create a foreground and also provide a kind of partial framing that's a bit of a counterpart to the cat's shape (see the L shape of the leaves, the related obtuse angle of the cat's body and tail and the larger L shape of the part of the outer wall below the window and the part to the left of the window). I think we two have very different ways of looking at and conceptualizing form. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:16, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The field isn't too deep, so we don't IMO need the plant to give us perspective. And as for taking a picture of a sleeping cat, they look better when they're curled up. Daniel Case (talk) 19:41, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Khandala's hill view
Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: Sorry but the upper part are too overexposed. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 11:51, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply] Anyone other than the nominator who disagrees may override this template by changing {{FPX}} to {{FPX contested}} and adding a vote in support. Voting will then continue in the usual way. If not contested within 24 hours, this nomination may be closed.
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Tiny lentil plant growing into a lamp.
Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: nice idea and funny photograph, but the technical quality is not here: noise, overexposed parts, busy background, flares, glass reflection, poor framing (portrait would be better than landscape orientation), thight crop above...--Jebulon (talk) 13:29, 24 January 2016 (UTC)[reply] Anyone other than the nominator who disagrees may override this template by changing {{FPX}} to {{FPX contested}} and adding a vote in support. Voting will then continue in the usual way. If not contested within 24 hours, this nomination may be closed.
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coiffe mochica au Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera Lima Pérou
Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: small image; quality rather low (compact camera); bad lighting; crude cut-out of black background. -- Colin (talk) 12:38, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply] Anyone other than the nominator who disagrees may override this template by changing {{FPX}} to {{FPX contested}} and adding a vote in support. Voting will then continue in the usual way. If not contested within 24 hours, this nomination may be closed.
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Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: Sorry, but you've trashed your image with the processing since the first version. The sky has gone cyan and is heavily posterised. The snow is now completely blown-out. Generally over-saturated. I think your original image was fine, but just didn't have enough WOW to earn FPC. I recommend you just accept this image isn't FPC. Currently the many flaws mean it shouldn't be QI either. -- Colin (talk) 11:53, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply] Anyone other than the nominator who disagrees may override this template by changing {{FPX}} to {{FPX contested}} and adding a vote in support. Voting will then continue in the usual way. If not contested within 24 hours, this nomination may be closed.
  •  Comment I reverted to the original. It was QI, but the new one isn't anymore. Regards, Yann (talk) 12:11, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    I agree that revert should be done to keep the QI status. But this leaves us with an image that is now the same as one which failed to gather sufficient support last time -- so there's no longer a good reason to re-run the nomination. -- Colin (talk) 14:22, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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