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Great green bush-cricket - Tettigonia viridissima, female
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Result: 16 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:26, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Holi Bonfire in Udaipur in front of Jagdish Temple
  • I'm actually not sure myself what category fire belongs in, but since this isn't fire as a natural phenomenon, there may be some kind of category for religious rites or celebrations. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:04, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support, now that the wire is gone. Very dynamic. --The Cosmonaut (talk) 20:54, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support - Not greatly wowing me for whatever reason but I think it's deserving and interesting. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:27, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment undecided on this one. I think for me the main issue is that for this to depict a particular kind of culturally significant fire/event rather than some other flame, I'd want to see more context in the photo. For example, there are some people there in the background, hard to see except at the edge of the frame. A wider shot to get more of the event in the frame would be good (of course, then it would be hard to get the full flame -- and they're not so conducive to panoramas :) ). — Rhododendrites talk14:32, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Since the people are hardly visible in this image, it doesn't belong in the 'People' category. All fire photos (if the fire is the main subject) belong in 'Natural phenomena#Fire' regardless of how they started, by humans, nature or divine intervention (take a look at the other photos in that gallery). I've fixed to category now. --Cart (talk) 15:22, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose not an excellent picture for me. --Fischer.H (talk) 15:49, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment - Fischer.H, I don't think that's explanatory. You should say why it's not excellent, or what you think isn't excellent about it. Note that I'm not saying you're wrong in your evaluation, just that what you've stated doesn't explain your vote any more than the oppose symbol with no text afterwards. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:39, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 3 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:28, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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La Grande roue de Montréal
Today I think that's me who is trite and boring. Nice image. But it lacks a litlle thing, maybe a better light. Christian Ferrer (talk) 19:39, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose, more or less per A.Savin (though I don't find the side crops very tight). I feel like the tricky thing about this kind of photo is that to be great, the positions of the pedestrians should aid the composition. I don't think they do in this instance, which makes this photo certainly IMO good but not exceptional. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:41, 24 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 05:13, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 10:38, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose IMHO the image was taken to close to the ferris wheel and the random crowd in the foreground disturbs the scenery, resulting in an overall generic look. There are plenty of great shots of the Grande roue de Montréal taken on top or even behind of the bridge leading to it. The blue sky works quite well with the snow-covered environment, but I think the ferris wheel will look great under almost all light conditions (blue hour, golden hour, sunset, sunrise, etc.) Definitely worth a second try! Regards, Christoph Braun (talk) 14:41, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment: Ikan Kekek, Christoph Braun, I can't quite agree with the criticism regarding the presence of a (relatively small) group of people. This is a major tourist attraction in Montreal, and to expect that no people be present, as if it were some sort of pristine wilderness, is a bit counter-intuitive. If anything, it would make the scene look sterilized and post-apocalyptic. I believe the people are well-integrated into the scene: they occupy only a small portion of it, nobody is cut off and nobody is obscuring any part of the main subject. I really don't see how the people are any more distracting than the conifer trees, for instance. --The Cosmonaut (talk) 15:24, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • The Cosmonaut I didn't say that I expected the absence of people. A well-positioned single person, a small group or a couple can improve the composition and provide a sense of scale. In this case however, the pedestrians look rather generic. Furthermore, thanks to technological advances like ND filters, even crowded places can be photographed without people in the final image. Regards, Christoph Braun (talk) 17:05, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Christoph Braun: the ND technique would require the exposure time set to a few minutes to remove the slow-moving objects, like pedestrians. For this very brightly-lit scene with lots of whites, it would mean having the smallest possible aperture, which would inevitably lead to degradation of the image quality. For me, it doesn't seem like a meaningful sacrifice just to clear a very small part of the scene of people. --The Cosmonaut (talk) 17:51, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The Cosmonaut Changing the aperture won't be necessary with the appropriate ND-filter. A similar outcome can be achieved by taking multiple shots of the same scene and blending them in Photoshop/GIMP. Regards, Christoph Braun (talk) 18:11, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Christoph Braun, true, that would work, but the question of the necessity of it remains... Do you have an example of a FP, where the presence of tourists in a very touristy place is not generic? I linked to this photo below, and I honestly don't see any difference. --The Cosmonaut (talk) 18:39, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The Cosmonaut That's exactly why I would have voted against that one as well. Here are some examples where integrating people into a composition went rather well. Regards, Christoph Braun (talk) 20:18, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Christoph Braun: well, at least you're consistent :-) And yes, these are good examples. --The Cosmonaut (talk) 22:02, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The Cosmonaut QED. Regards, Christoph Braun (talk) 00:06, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I posted very clearly what I thought about the people, which is not that it's a problem there were people in the photo. I really can't see how I could have been much clearer, other than if I suggested a specific position of people that would help the composition (but why on Earth would I do that?), but if anyone is sincerely confused, tell me what language seemed confusing. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 17:30, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ikan Kekek, you nominated this image, and it passed with no opposition (deservedly so). Would you care to elaborate how the specific position of the tourists is different? It's every bit is as random and generic. --The Cosmonaut (talk) 17:51, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment - Of course these things are very subjective. But I don't agree with you that the positions of the people are equally random in that photo. They are along the sides and in the front, thereby actually helping the form by working with the lines. The only one who damages the composition somewhat is the woman in the near left, but she is still not really in the center, and the five tall spires on either side have such a strong effect on the viewer that the damage is greatly attenuated. In taking a photo of a ferris wheel, you inevitably have to be further from it, so that the people come between the camera and the ferris wheel in a way that's different in degree and even arguably kind than is the case with the photo of the top of the Milan Duomo. Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:15, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
By the way, did you read the comment I wrote when nominating that photo? "Daniel Case has been taking many photographs that either focus on the tourists or fit the paradigm of 'landscape with people'. In this case, the people are much less important than the fantastic tall spires on the duomo's roof, but their presence creates a rhythm for the viewer's eyes, so neither he nor I think it damages the composition, and it's also a way of acknowledging the elephant - or, well, crowd - in the room, which is not always best to ignore." -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:31, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I really don't see how the distribution of the tourists, who are predominantly on the left and in the centre, with barely anyone on the right, aids the very symmetrical architectural theme, but I appreciate you taking the time to express your view. --The Cosmonaut (talk) 02:27, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think it's essential for there to be exact symmetry of tourists in that situation. I judge photos mostly by how I can move my eyes around the picture frame. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:34, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 7 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:27, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Castle of Zafra, Campillo de Dueñas, Guadalajara, Spain.
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Result: 8 support, 5 oppose, 1 neutral → not featured. /--Cart (talk) 12:49, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Rocks on the Milseburg, view to the west
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Result: 2 support, 3 oppose, 1 neutral → not featured. /--Cart (talk) 12:47, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Boulevards de Paris by L'Illustration, journal universel – PNG version: 98,647 × 5,933 pixels.
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Result: 1 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--MZaplotnik(talk) 13:33, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Noisy Friarbird
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Result: 15 support, 0 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /--MZaplotnik(talk) 13:34, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Oldham's bow-fingered gecko
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 I withdraw my nomination Tomer T (talk) 21:01, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Entrance to castle Hohenwerfen, Werfen, near Salzburg, Austria.
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Result: 7 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--MZaplotnik(talk) 13:10, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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  •  Info As I see you have just brightened it instead to increase the contrast. So you've lost colours in the bright areas. The denoising is hardly visible. I've made a test version (not perfect) of your first jpg-file. If you want write me your e-mail address so that I can send it to you. Maybe you want use it for comparison. But beware, I give no guarantee that the other viewers find that better. ;-) --Hockei (talk) 13:05, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Interior of the former abbey church St. Johannes Evangelist in Michelfeld in the Upper Palatinate
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View of Pettstadt in the district of Bamberg
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Panoramic view of Capdenac-Gare (view from Capdenac-le-Haut), Aveyron, France
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Result: 12 support, 0 oppose, 2 neutral → featured. /Tomer T (talk) 18:11, 4 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Part of "Le site des Orgues", Ille-sur-Têt, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
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Result: 12 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--MZaplotnik(talk) 14:02, 5 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Shaggy ink cap - Coprinus comatus
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Result: 6 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--Ikan Kekek (talk) 14:32, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Old World swallowtail (Papilio machaon gorganus) in Hungary
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Vermilion waxcap
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Result: 16 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--A.Savin 22:15, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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  • If you download the image to say Photoshop and crank up the saturation to max, you will see that it is not a uniform black background. Instead it is dark blue with green specs all over it. It is very easy to take an image like this if the subject is in strong sunlight. Please compare with this image taken at the base of a hedge with the flowers in a beam of sunlight. I had to bring out the background from raw or it would have been totally black (since I know some people here have trouble with very black backgrounds). If I can do such shots, I'm sure other photographers, better than me, have no problem taking similar photos. --Cart (talk) 15:30, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Not so. Your image is nothing like this one. I had already opened it in Photoshop and reduced shadow and it is a completely uniform background. As is the case with a number of this photographer's images. There may be a technique to achieve this, but you are nowhere close. There's no rule saying he can't play with backgrounds, but I'd just like to know in this instance. Charles (talk) 22:58, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • I didn't claim my photo was as good as this, just on the right track, a pointer to how this can be made. You are often taken what is written too literally. If you reduce the shadows, you will see a uniform background. However, playing with saturation will reveal what colors may be hidden in the darkness. Hopefully you will get a full explanation from the author. --Cart (talk) 23:14, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 18 support, 0 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /Tomer T (talk) 21:16, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Famous Altino Arantes building surrounded by other buildings around it.

 I withdraw my nomination. Thank you! --Andrei (talk) 12:54, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Painting by James Ensor (1860—1949)
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Result: 1 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--A.Savin 13:30, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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 I withdraw my nomination Tomer T (talk) 13:09, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Result: 2 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--Cmao20 (talk) 17:10, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Result: 4 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 01:29, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Long Grotto of Kungur Ice Cave
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Result: 3 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 01:28, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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25 Pfennig Notgeld banknote issued by the Town of Jüterbog, dated Oct. 1, 1920, RV: Hl. Geist Kapelle, size: 54 mm x 83 mm.
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Result: 10 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--A.Savin 19:40, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Vietnamese mossy frog, Theloderma corticale, Karlsruhe Zoo
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Result: 14 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--A.Savin 19:40, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Pont de la Caille, also called Pont Charles-Albert - Wire-clamping device

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  • Thanks, much appreciated. Small question: With panoramas like this, where a distortion like this might not be the best thing for the accuracy of the image, have you thought about not taking all the photos from the same spot, but rather place the camera in front of each house along the street, or something like that, and later merge them? I have done that on some occasions (this is one) and you get a more true perspective. --Cart (talk) 17:07, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Cart First of all, I like this kind of perspective, it may be "less encyclopedic", but I enjoy it; secondly in order to reduce this distortion I need to use more mm and for that I need to go further (or alternatively do what you did, taking a picture in front of each house), but IMHO none of these 2 options were practicable, because therefore I would have had to go further to the back, which wasn't physically possible or I should have gone closer with lots of distracting elements, specially people (and which is surely more tricky to stich to a pan later on). Poco a poco (talk) 17:37, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

 I withdraw my nomination Tomer T (talk) 20:03, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hozomon with visitors under their umbrellas, a rainy day in Tokyo, Japan
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Result: 1 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--Basile Morin (talk) 22:57, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Confirmed results:
Result: 9 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 23:00, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Commons:Featured picture candidates/

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  • Category:Commons:Featured pictures/Places/
  •  Info created by Don - uploaded by Don - nominated by Don -- Don ) 01:12, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Don (talk) 01:12, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Without even looking at the full resolution I can tell you that for a photo like this, the resolution of 2,7MP is too low to impress me.--Peulle (talk) 07:47, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Interesting, but the darker sky at the top breaks the illusion almost immediately. Maybe add some ND filter (simulation) to the sky half or brighten up the water half? It has a slight surreal feeling to it due to some "impossible" angles and some things seemingly missing in the top half due to perspective (btw, phone/power poles: cloned out or really not visible?). But I'm not sure the effect is strong enough to "make" the image. In any case, I prefer the flipped first version over the later rotated versions, as it keeps the letters in the logo readable. --El Grafo (talk) 10:29, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Striking reflections but I agree with El Grafo that it looks a little bit surreal and unnatural. I find the colours a bit too bright, and the image could also do with a perspective correction. Cmao20 (talk) 17:47, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 1 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--Cart (talk) 11:57, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Wahkeena Falls
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Result: 14 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--A.Savin 08:43, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Tamischbachturm with freshly fallen snow
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Result: 1 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /MZaplotnik(talk) 20:29, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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 I withdraw my nomination Tomer T (talk) 13:07, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for the clarification. Gzen92 [discuter] 08:36, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I understand but I don't have more. Gzen92 [discuter] 08:39, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I figured so. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 16:57, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 10 support, 0 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /--A.Savin 22:12, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Northern caddisfly - Limnephilus rhombicus
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Result: 8 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Ikan Kekek (talk) 15:33, 10 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Long-term exposure at the Ellerberg in Franconian Switzerland
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Result: 15 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Ikan Kekek (talk) 15:29, 10 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Striped bronzeback
  •  Oppose The oversharpening is not only visible on the tongue but around the whole head. Strong! I don't see the slightest reason to tolerate it considering the great composition. This fault has nothing to do with the composition but it is a homemade mistake and can be corrected very easily. I'm convinced that is sharp enough nevertheless. Maybe you don't matter about my rejection but it won't cares me. I'll support this picture if this is corrected. --Hockei (talk) 12:44, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • This is a photo in the jungle of a Thai National Park, but there are made-made items (possibly tables?) in the reflection - so I was curious. Is this a laboratory-type set-up? I visit hundreds of forests and I never ever see snakes out in the open like Rushenb manages (very jealous). What's the secret? Are the snakes captured then released for the photo? Do you know why the images are all credited to Thai National Parks. 17:45, 1 January 2020 (UTC) Charles (talk) 17:46, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • OK. I hadn't realised that Thai National Parks is a website run by a tour company. Charles (talk)
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Result: 19 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:58, 10 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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 I withdraw my nomination Tomer T (talk) 21:54, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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  •  Comment I guess it's the use of "facies" that is a bit confusing here — I only know it from geology (and there seems to be a medical use in English), but in Russian the word Фация seems to have some other uses as well. Maybe we can find some better description. I think what we see here is a drop of tear fluid that has been left to dry, allowing the dissolved salts to crystallize and form interesting patterns (some more examples in this article at telegraph.co.uk) - correct? --El Grafo (talk) 11:08, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Not really that impressed by a round gray object on a black background that looks like lots of other round gray objects on black backgrounds. Also, yes I know it was taken through a microscope, but we have plenty of other microphotographs without that level of CA near the edges. Daniel Case (talk) 19:05, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment - Fascinating, but as Daniel says, there appears to be a lot of purple chromatic aberration near the edges of the crystals. Could you please get rid of that? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:30, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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  •  Info "Crown shyness" is a scientific term. It basically means that the crowns of individual trees of some species do not touch each other, leaving a bit of a gap in-between. I've added a link to the English description. --El Grafo (talk) 10:38, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Head of Yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis) in Farnese Gardens, Rome, Italy
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Lund Cathedral
  • It's not an issue that there are people in the photo. The issue is that they are doing random, distracting things - scratching their back, taking photos - and the ghosting is somewhat problematic, too. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:26, 5 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Migrant hawker - Aeshna mixta, female

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Château de Peyrepertuse, Département Aude, France

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✓ Done. Removed spot. Thank you for your reviews.--Famberhorst (talk) 16:30, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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View of Étretat, France
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Buildings with colorful neon street signs at blue hour, Shinjuku, Tokyo
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A midsummer's sunset from Enoshima Island
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Nomination denied. Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines because only two active nominations per user are allowed. --Cart (talk) 17:05, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Mitsuike Park (Kanagawa Prefectural Mitsuikekoen)
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Three Sisters, Blue Mountains National Park, New South Wales, Australia
Thank you. A very nice place, especially near sunset. This one was taken at this time. – I'm a little bit sad. It's a photograph taken last October. The last images saw of this place are full of smoke. --XRay talk 05:56, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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  • I don't prefer it. That's a new nomination. If you intend for me to have the same standard for delists as I have for new nominations, I would probably propose for a majority of FPs promoted before a certain year to be delisted. But do you really want to take the time to do that? Therefore, I support only delistings which seem really obvious to me. Maybe this one should seem obvious, but does it matter? Nope. It will be delisted. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:09, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Question - Do you think we should remove the FP designation from all photos that are too low-resolution to pass now? If so, that should be done by a bot, because we're not going to want to spend time voting on every one of them individually, I would think. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 16:11, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • This scenery is really not as interesting for me that I would say "still featured despite resolution". --A.Savin 16:57, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Oh come, Ikan. Even today we would feature an 800×600 px image if only it had tons of wow, wouldn’t we? The minimum resolution is a "should", not a "must". So what’s this talking about automatically removing all lo-res images regardless of their wow? OTOH, if you could make a bot to detect and measure the wow in an image and judge it against resolution, we could just close FPC down and let the bot decide on today’s nominations too within one second. Even more, we wouldn’t need nominations at all, just let the bot look over any freshly uploaded pic and feature it on the spot. Interesting idea :) --Kreuzschnabel 21:50, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Result: 12 delist, 2 keep, 0 neutral => delisted. --Cart (talk) 12:04, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Bubalus bubalis (water buffalo) calf
  •  Comment great shot, but I don't like the processing. As it is now it looks quite flat to me, both in terms of colors and and contrast, white balance rather cold. To some degree that's of course natural under cloudy conditions, but I think this one could be a much stronger image if it was edited for just a little bit more "pop". --El Grafo (talk) 09:34, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Yes, it's a bit washed out, needing tone adjustment or something. I don't know if pollution is the cause, like I found in Nepal. Charles (talk) 09:57, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • This is not the processing but the average light, because to face the animal, I had to chose a non-optimum angle. Agree it's a bit washed out, although the face strikes me. Thanks for the feedback -- Basile Morin (talk) 11:14, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Person underneath red clouds in Krkonoše Mountains, Czech Republic
 Comment dust spots removed, I am affraid it is all I can do...--Grtek (talk) 19:48, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment natural, without any color correction.--Grtek (talk) 08:48, 10 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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White-throated kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis fusca)

 I withdraw my nomination Charles (talk) 10:52, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Patricia Sosa in concert

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Scleroderma verrucosum in the Bruderwald in Bamberg. Focus stack from 21 frame
  •  Comment Quatsch. Er ist das Gegenteil vom Dickschaligen K., also ergibt es einen Sinn. In meinem Bestimmungsbuch steht er auch so drin. Es gibt außerdem noch andere Trivialnamen. Ermell kann ihn benennen wie er will. --Hockei (talk) 11:35, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Dateinamen auf Commons sollten den Gegenstand exakt bezeichnen, und der jetzige Trivialname wird auch für Scleroderma areolatum verwendet und ist damit nicht eindeutig. Ich kann alternativ auch damit leben, nur den wissenschaftlichen Namen stehen zu lassen. --Kreuzschnabel 12:16, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Dass S. areolatum gelegentlich als Dünnschaliger K. bezeichnet wird, beruht lediglich auf eine Verwechslung mit S. verrucosum. Der Fehler liegt bei der deutschen Wikipedia. Die Bezeichnung Dünnschaliger K. sollte dort daher bei S. areolatum entfernt und auf S. verrucosum verlinkt werden. --Hockei (talk) 16:36, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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(European) birthwort - Aristolochia clematitis

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Interior of Tromsø Cathedral, Norway.
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Flower of a red chrysanthemum with dew drops in a garden in Bamberg in Upper Franconia. Focus stack of 32 frames
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Yellow-tufted Honeyeater
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 I withdraw my nomination Tomer T (talk) 14:43, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Rose-ringed parakeet - Psittacula krameri, female
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  • Ikan, yes there is. If you click backwards through the categories for it you will end up at Category:Psittacula krameri where you can see it belongs to Ordo: Psittaciformes • Familia: Psittaculidae. The Psittaculidae is new for that order so it will have to be created for this photo. Still it is helpful to include it in the FP category for the person who will sort this (probably me...). I've fixed the cat for you. --Cart (talk) 00:01, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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✓ Done. Small noise reduction on the right. Thanks for your reviews.--Famberhorst (talk) 16:36, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Palm House at Botanic Garden, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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Lochemse Berg, barbed wire and trees at the southern part of the mountain
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 I withdraw my nomination Tomer T (talk) 10:53, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Village de Castelnau de Lévis
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Exemplar of Waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) in Chobe National Park, Botswana.
  • Without wishing to be disrespectful to your opinion, I do think this is a little harsh considering the high resolution of the image. To make my point clear, from this image one can produce this 10.5 mpx downsample which is sharp all over. To me voting against this image because of sharpness at 100% is just penalising the author for providing us with a full-resolution shot. Cmao20 (talk) 18:27, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thank you Cmao20, may I add something to that? This is a wildlife image and not taken in the zoo around the corner. It was also taken from a considerable distance, as this animals are pretty shy, and for that I had to use a 600mm and yes, as you say, I am offering a big file, namely, over 50 MPx. I don't find the image lacking sharpness, the shot had to be handheld and for that I had to increase the ISO a bit. Poco a poco (talk) 20:26, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment zoo or not, this image is not sharp. ISO 400 at almost midday sunlight should not have any effect on the result. FP should be the finest on Commons and imho this is not it. --Ivar (talk) 21:08, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment - Definitely sharp enough, IMO. My only issue with the photo, really, is a nitpicky one: I'd prefer for the waterbuck's face not to be partially criss-crossed by grass. That's a very difficult thing to avoid, but it's what's making the difference for me. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 12:11, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment It's probably not sharp enough, but not enough for me to oppose. The grass in front of the face is not ideal. Hand-held 600mm must be tricky and probably explains the softness. Charles (talk) 13:06, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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attacking herring gull (larus argentatus. Photographed at Spiekeroog.
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Man enjoying the view from the Witthoh with a good view of the Alps
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Great crested grebe - Podiceps cristatus
  • OK, since you do mean to nominate this photo,  Oppose per my remarks above. As for categories: This is a grebe, a kind of waterfowl. Surely, there's some subcategory of birds this would belong in? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:09, 17 January 2020 (UTC
  • The subcategory for the photo is not created just because you write it in the nom, but it is a great help for those who sort the FPs in the right section in the galleries, to not have to do the detective work of finding out where it should be placed. Most users don't do that themselves. --Cart (talk) 09:18, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Flower of nasturtium with drops of water stacked with Helicon Focus from 18 pictures
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Kimono Forest at night, Arashiyama Station, Arashiyama, Kyoto, Japan
  •  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 05:25, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support - This is fun. I think of Christo and compare this favorably to the "Gates" he and Jeanne-Claude temporarily installed in Central Park, New York City in 2005. Is there a particular artist who should be credited with this installation, or is it part of the train station that they hired people to do and that the city (or the railway company, if it's private) takes credit for? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:41, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sure thing, though to be honest, my favorite thing about that installation was that it was temporary. :-) I notice this language in your file description: "developed by the interior designer Yasumichi Morita". But developed doesn't mean the same as installed. I suppose the point is that Morita planned out the installation and then it was executed to his specifications by people employed to do so? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:14, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Jüdischer Friedhof Waibstadt
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Commonwealth Avenue Bridge, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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Clouds gliding in Makhtesh Ramon, Israel.

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Clarendon Building, Oxford
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Last light of the day on shacks at the old dock in the abandoned granite quarry in Govik, Lysekil Municipality, Sweden.
  • Yes, I know the saying and I thank you for it. It is a dismal place and the low winter light makes all the difference. The reason the upper right is less sharp than the rest of the photo, is because it is really much further away. It may not look like it, but if you check on a map, those cliffs and trees (where I shot this FP) are almost one kilometer away as opposed to the old dock and shacks at about 200-250 meters. I'll see if I can do something about it, but I can't promise anything. --Cart (talk) 18:34, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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View of Varese Beach in summer
@Cmao20:  and @Charlesjsharp:  ✓ Done thanks!!!! Ezarateesteban 00:46, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
 Support Cmao20 (talk) 18:00, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Daniel Case:  CA fixed thanks Ezarateesteban 14:52, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Just before sunrise on a rainy day at the beach of the Île de la Corrège, Leucate, France
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English: USSR style propaganda poster. Français : Affiche de propagande style URSS.
  •  Oppose OK, I must admit that guy looks just like he's posing for a cold war propaganda poster. Even the general direction of this edit makes sense, it wants to be used as the base for an en:Image macro of sorts. But the whole background is distracting and the text is a bit ... uninspired. If you'd just cut out the guy, place him on an empty background, and let the meming communities of the interwebz have a go at it, I'm sure somebody would come up with something hilarious - but this is not it. Also: PDF. --El Grafo (talk) 09:17, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose per others. Daniel Case (talk) 04:41, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Jetty with the ladders in last light of the day
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Horned ghost crab
 Oppose Tilted seems to be the agreement. We should wait till the photographer returns and has an opportunity to correct it. Charles (talk) 13:02, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Alternative

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  • @Ermell: I'll upload now my crop because it is my last chance for the remaining time. It is an exception for me. Normally I don't do this but I can't wait longer for your answer. I hope you are not angry. Please set it back to your version if you don't like it. --Hockei (talk) 13:51, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support I didn't find it easy to include the background somehow, but this version turned out pretty good. Why should I be angry. Constructive work is always supported by me.--Ermell (talk) 19:02, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Peaceful dove
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Common blue - Polyommatus icarus, male
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Church in Brénac, commune of Argences-en-Aubrac, Aveyron, France
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Darwin Waterfront and Convention centre, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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Gazella subgutturosa subgutturosa (Güldenstädt, 1780), Persian gazelle; Karlsruhe Zoo, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Bamboo Forest, Arashiyama, Kyoto, Japan
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View of the Fernsehturm (TV tower) from the bottom, Berlin, Germany.
Fine, more natural now -- Basile Morin (talk) 14:32, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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The lookout from Ayyoob Cave located on top of Ayyoob Mountain, Shahr-e Babak, Kerman, Iran.
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 Question Which species do we see here? --Cayambe (talk) 17:29, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Great black-backed gull - Larus marinus
  • Neither do I, but I'd still give it another little push in the upper mid-tones. Anyway, after giving it some time I think I'd stick to my vote regardless of that. There's nothing actually wrong with it and I like the composition with just the right amount of lead room. In particular, I really like how the diagonal of the white\brown feathers runs parallel to the diagonal of the brown beach\bright water (a little bit more to the right and they would've lined up perfectly). But none of that really makes me go "Wow, that's awesome!", so … --El Grafo (talk) 12:00, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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8 support 2 oppose, against 8 support 2 neutral. Tomer T (talk) 20:20, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Common hoopoe (Upupa epops epops)
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main hall of Ec Szombierki
  • Yes that is right, they have plenty of 'wow', but the "boring paper work" for each nomination has to be done right too by the nominator regardless of that. It is all written in the rules of FPC. An FP is so much more than just a pretty picture, we also need background info on it and good categories and description so that Wikipedians around the world can find it and will know how to use it. A picture without context is useless. We always help 'newbies' with all this, but in time all users have to grow up and fix the basic requirements themselves. After 17 successful FPs, you should be able to do this. --Cart (talk) 18:00, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose per Cart. When nominate other people's work presenting it properly is important, such as this image where I added an English caption before nominating. An FP should be made as useful as possible for anyone working on a project to find and use. As for the picture itself, it's definitely got 'wow' although it's not that sharp and detailed in the shadows. I think I would support it overall though. Cmao20 (talk) 19:18, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I know I'm being really indecisive on this one, but Amirpashaei is right about it. Anyone could visit this place and take an identical shot with higher technical quality. There's nothing imaginative or unique about the composition, the wow comes from the location, and even that could be captured better. Cmao20 (talk) 23:25, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Amirpashaei, I can tell you why I supported this one if it helps. I think there's something magnificent and tragic about decaying heavy industry like this, it makes me think about the age of techno-optimism when buildings like this were shiny and new, and about all the people who spent their working lives here long ago. It's an emotional argument more than anything else. You're right about the technical problems though. Cmao20 (talk) 15:32, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • this picture is just a snapshot you can take it with your mobile. I agree with you about the emotional and magnificent and tragic. but these items are in this place and art of photographer just selecting this place to photographing. the art of photographer most be using elements that helps to reaching the main goal of that picture. we can't see any special look or composition could make the photo stronger.or at least I can't see it.--Amirpashaei (talk) 15:53, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • You're not wrong, in truth; it's not that carefully composed. Supporting it was a marginal decision for me. The images you have been submitting of your own at FPC are all much higher quality than this. I'm sad that WLM didn't give your pictures as high a status as they deserve, but we are always happy to see your work here at FPC. Cmao20 (talk) 16:07, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • To me the 'wow' does not always have to be a positive happy feeling. (The again, I'm Swedish and we know a lot about being dark and depressed... ;-) ) The 'wow' in this is the feeling of sadness, of dreams gone by, of the passing of time and that nothing is eternal. A photo that evokes an emotion, good or bad, has 'wow' to me. --Cart (talk) 16:15, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment - I have not voted for this photo, but I don't agree that it's "just a snapshot". The composition is fairly good, in terms of framing. I'm in no way awed by it, but it's not random. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 16:25, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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abandoned church
  •  Question - Why did you nominate it if you oppose a feature? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 12:22, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Ikan_Kekek because I wanted to know what's the wow of this picture and what's the reason of the first award of WLM. now I realized that I overestimated WLM and the judgement. I understood beauty of picture, sharpness, focusing , blurring , ca, blown section, no detail in shadow, perspective correction, framing and composition are not important to jury. --Amirpashaei (talk) 14:02, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Amirpashaei, you are right in that the juries of WLM sometimes make very strange choices and it does you credit to see that. A win in that competition does not guarantee that the photo will be an FP. But if you look at the rest of the photos in lower placings, you will always find very good pictures to nominate here. Many FPs are picked from around 5-20th place. Go with what you feel is right when you make nominations, that is always better. --Cart (talk) 15:10, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Amirpashaei, I agree with Cart here. WLM is an unusual competition that seems to be judged fairly randomly, paying little attention to image quality and much more emphasis on immediate visual wow. Lots of the winners have poor image quality, oversaturated colours etc. But there are usually a few gems hiding within the majority of mediocre shots. I found and nominated these three FPs by looking through WLM regional finalists, and all three passed with strong margins. Cmao20 (talk) 15:25, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • I sent 27 pictures to wml and 10 of them got FP and 4 of them selected as 10 best pictures from iran. But in surprise none of them could award 1 to 15 in wml. heritage office in iran don't care to good pictures and they don't want to spend any budget on it. I wanted to impress them by that. my goal was professional photographing from iran's heritage in 1-2 years. I nominated my pictures as FP for reaching this goal. by the way my job is architectural photographer and if I want to photographing heritage instead restaurant and houses I need to money to spend it in this way. now I'm upset why I overestimated wml and judgement.--Amirpashaei (talk) 15:43, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • [Edit conflict] Yes, this has been discussed before, more on the talk page than in FPC noms but sometimes here, too. I would similarly say that the best photos, from the viewpoint of FPC regulars, in the monthly photo challenges are only sometimes in the top three. Often, they're further down the list. Now and then, 2 of the top 3 or, I think on at least one occasion (not sure, though), even all 3 of them are excellent and have passed at FPC too. It's more common for the top 3 to be QIs, but quite often, some of them are too small or unsharp/noisy/weird in perspective to be remotely close to QIs, yet they placed 1st or 2nd in the photo challenge. My feeling is that WLM and the Photo challenge are good places to look for interesting photos by photographers whose works in some cases haven't been represented among FPs and are deserving, but you should use your own judgment about which photos seem deserving to you. I might nominate one that's interesting and I think might or might not pass, but I wouldn't nominate one I've already decided is not an FP to me. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 15:46, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • My sympathies, Amirpashaei. Iran is an extraordinarily beautiful country, and fortunately, it is well represented among FPs. Poco took quite a few FPs during his trip to Iran a few years ago, and others have taken others. But I haven't the slightest doubt that there's a lot more out there to take breathtaking photographs of. Don't spend beyond your means to do it, but we'll be here to look at whichever photos you nominate. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 15:50, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Attacking European herring gull (Larus Argentatus) utside Spiekeroog in the Lower Saxon Wadden Sea National Park, Germany.
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Gaisrückenstraße «Am Kåte» in Winklern, Pörtschach am Wörther See, Klagenfurt Land, Carinthia, Austria
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waves on rocks
I don't make HDRs. 99,8% of my own works are single shot photos, with only a few panoramas. You apparently don't enjoy the processing. Christian Ferrer (talk) 16:01, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know, maybe... or some little water droplets. I have cloned its out. Christian Ferrer (talk) 22:43, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Eastern Grey Kangaroo mother and joey, Brunkerville, New South Wales, Australia
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Result: 17 support, 0 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /--Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:26, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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@Ikan Kekek: it should go into the "Macropodidae" subsection of that page. Trying to fix that with this edit, hope the bot will understand? --El Grafo (talk) 12:15, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, El Grafo. It should work unless the bot also looks for the category at the top, in which case, that should be changed, too. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 13:12, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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SHORT DESCRIPTION
  •  Neutral Nothing wrong with the compo but its is unfortunately a tad overexposed. Knopik-som, is there any chance of dialing down the highlights? Yep, it is one ugly cat IMO although it looks so pitiful you can't help having some sympathy for it, but as Wikipedians and photo critics we must be able to put aside our own preferences and simply look at the image. (Hey, I've supported a number of spiders and other yuck-y photos.) Just having FPs of cute cuddly animals and places we want to go on vacation to will not help the Wiki project. --Cart (talk) 12:20, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done Fixed lighting. Thanks you. --Dmitry Makeev 14:15, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • Thanks Dmitry, do you think you could be so kind as to add where this photo is taken (town, country), that is always useful for a Wiki. Move to  Support. Looking at those big, begging eyes, I just want to knit something for it to keep it warm. --Cart (talk) 14:51, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Construction of new Émosson dam, 1971
  •  Comment I have tried removing the worst scratches and specks, with the caveat that I don't know what I'm doing. Do you think my edits have improved the image, or should I revert them? --Draemmli (talk) 17:15, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • The rocks in that area seem to be actually pinkish, and I assume the streaks in the foreground are pinkish due to taillights, with added pink on the bends due to brake lights. I assume that, as this is the 1970s, these are halogen lights. The concrete seems both greenish (in reflected light from the ground) and pinkish (in areas with more direct light). I'm not sure what the whites should be here for realism. HLHJ (talk) 20:54, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Your question about the author sent me on a bit of a journey. My original source no longer names any photographer, so I thought I might have mistakenly copied this from some other upload. However, there are a bunch of other photos from Comet Photo AG credited with Hans Baumann on Commons, and for all of those, the ETH library now names a Heinz Baumann as the author. So, for this photo here we can't be sure anymore, but it might be this Heinz Baumann. I'll edit all the affected image descriptions. --Draemmli (talk) 18:53, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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View of Cap Blanc-Nez from the beach
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Tractor on the field
  • Ikan, I don't think it's possible to identify any crop since there is none. The tractor is just harrowing the field, preparing the soil for planting a crop. You can't possibly request that we try to see into the future what will be planted in those fields. The small spots of green you see are weeds and remains of last year's crop. The photo is taken in April, which is a normal month for fixing the soil after the winter to plant what will grow during summer and harvested in the autumn. At least in the northern hemisphere. --Cart (talk) 18:28, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Ceiling Cat by Eva and Franco Mattes
  • I guess all that white space is so that you can use it for whatever meme text you care to add to this particular Ceiling Cat photo. And to be clear, it's not a photo on a ceiling but an art installation. To put it bluntly, some artists took a dead stuffed cat and put it in a hole in an art gallery ceiling, to make a sort of 3D version of the internet occurrence called Ceiling Cat. --Cart (talk) 00:28, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I hope this is seen as a valid reason to oppose, but the artwork holds no interest for me. The image quality is very good, but I think when I judge a digital reproduction of artwork I judge it in part on what merits I believe it holds as well as on the quality of the reproduction. This may be an internet curiosity but I don't see it as interesting or important art. Cmao20 (talk) 11:23, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose likely the original photo this is recreating was a live cat, but this is taxidermy.--BevinKacon (talk) 11:54, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Making the taxidermy look so realistic is, in my opinion, an impressive feat. -- King of 05:46, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose This doesn't work for me. Basically, I don't find this cat interesting, then I don't like the very large white background, and to finish there are technical issues in my opinion, some parts seem overexposed -- Basile Morin (talk) 14:39, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • The "large white background" is necessary to show that this is a ceiling and clearly connect this piece to the meme. The ceiling is as much a subject of the work as the cat. This is not a work about a cat. It is a work about the meme. It plays on the ideas of originality, reproduction, derivative works, appropriation and plagiarism. It challenges you to ask "what is original at all?" in this age of social media, the internet, and wide proliferation of copies of images. Can appropriated works be considered original? Can a derivative work be considered artistic? --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 09:00, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • A lot of questions you ask but that don't come to my mind when I look at this image. "Just a boring cat" is still my main impression. The artist may have spent a lot of time on lolcats everywhere on facebook, but I haven't, and feel ok without -- Basile Morin (talk) 09:14, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • My take on it would be that the concept of Ceiling Cat is funny and philosophically interesting, as a sculpture/installation IRL it is good, but unfortunately it doesn't translate into a good photo. Perhaps if there was someone interacting with this Ceiling Cat, it would make a really good photo. (For the record: I love LOLcats. I have made many myself, some with my old now departed cat posing for them. I have books with them. I look them up online. But most of them would not make good photos.) --Cart (talk) 11:28, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Kathleen Lake, Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon, Canada
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Windows of Pavillon Jacquet in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
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Street crowd reflecting in the polyhedral mirrors of the station Tokyu Plaza Omotesando, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
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Silhouette of the Holy Trinity church (Latvia) at sunset
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Deutsch: Installation auf dem Palastbrücke in St.Petersburg. Russland. Русский: Инсталляция на Дворцовом мосту в Санкт-Петербурге. Россия.
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Double-barred finch
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Result: 21 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Ikan Kekek (talk) 14:19, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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 I withdraw my nomination Tomer T (talk) 17:30, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Boulenger's pricklenape
  •  Oppose - Thank you. So it's not like a little gecko, what with it being about 25 cm long. Whereupon, though I like the photo and find it valuable, I doubt it's really up to the quality of the best wildlife - or, for that matter, reptile - pictures we feature. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:51, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 3 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Ivar (talk) 08:49, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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 Oppose Per the above reasoning. --Domob (talk) 13:45, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sorry, invalid vote. The rules are: "Editors whose accounts have at least 10 days and 50 edits can vote." This vote was your 17th edit. Welcome back later when you have made more edits. :-) --Cart (talk) 23:06, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Ermell (talk) 09:49, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I'm inclined to agree with A.Savin. There are plenty of tutorials on YouTube about how to create "puddle reflections". However, even with Photoshop, you can't change the angle of the reflection. A reflection is always like if you look up from underneath the subject, like you can see in this photo. A quick cut-paste-turn in Photoshop of this photo shows that the reflection has exactly the same angle as the 'normal' buildings, only a slightly different version so probably a photo taken before or after the first. This of course made me suspicious of the other reflection nom we have. That one looks like it could be the real deal since the angle between the monk and the wall behind him are different and there are several photos made with that puddle and apparently from the same rainy day. Or it could be better done in PS, hard to tell. --Cart (talk) 11:25, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment - I feel duty-bound to respect experts who think the photo was dishonestly manipulated, so I've pulled my supporting vote. But perhaps Sdfery could come and address this. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 15:07, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Per others. Left below the centerline is also something wrong.--Famberhorst (talk) 16:50, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

 I withdraw my nomination didn't notice the fake clouds. Tomer T (talk) 05:53, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Mandevilla boliviensis
I'm quite puzzled by the often expressed notion that due to the overabundance of flower photos being nominated, more stringent standards need to apply. Right now, this is the only active flower nomination. I've been a fairly regular visitor over the last 6 months, and this situation is quite representative. Compared to the amount of landscape and architecture photos that gets nominated, we are hardly overwhelmed by flowers, and yet the myth that we are continues to perpetuate, for some reason... --The Cosmonaut (talk) 01:01, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • You may be right. I think the problem is that it's easy to take a pretty picture of a flower because, well, flowers are pretty, but for an FP I'd want something exceptional either in composition, subject (unusual or especially beautiful flower) or resolution. Cmao20 (talk) 10:08, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, but who decided that taking a flower photo is easy? This might be the case for extremely common plants like dandelions or house plants, when a photographer has a total control of the environment. Doing any sort of macro photography outside the studio setting is not a trivial task. First of all, there is a question of access. Most of us live in the urban areas of the Northern Hemisphere, so we're not exactly spoiled with an abundance of rare and exotic plants. I've had to literally crawl on the ground and bushwhack, while being attacked by clouds of various bloodsuckers to get some photos. This one is from a greenhouse, so nothing too extreme, but even so, the awkward angle of the flower and the movement of air provided enough of a challenge. Overall, I would say that to produce a decent flower photo has on average required more effort from me compared to my landscape and architecture photos. My point it, we should assess the candidates on their explicit merits alone without arbitrarily applying stricter criteria based on the preconceived notions of whether the shot was easy to take or not. --The Cosmonaut (talk) 17:31, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Cherry blossoms falling in front of a mausoleum at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York

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Black-eared cuckoo


Nomination denied. Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines because only two active nominations per user are allowed. --Cart (talk) 10:51, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Migrant hawker - Aeshna mixta, male
  •  Comment I don't think so. Recently here were promoted a mushroom. Two very similar pictures of one mushroom. Both this and this. So, why should my other one be delisted? It's even another species and not the same as the pictures of the mushroom. --Hockei (talk) 15:11, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Note that I didn't vote for the second nomination of that mushroom; I voted neutral, for the same reason as here. I never support two similar images both being FP. If we feature two images of the same species/building/landscape etc. that don't complement each other (i.e. a night shot and a day shot, or a male and a female of a particular species, or two massively different angles/compositions, would be fine for me) then we can't really say we are promoting the 'most valuable pictures from all others' as the guidelines say. Instead we should identify which is the better of those two images, keep that, and delist the other. Most FPC voters seem to disagree with me though, and your image is going to pass anyway without my support. Cmao20 (talk) 18:09, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 17 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Cart (talk) 10:22, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Cambodia. Water buffaloes.
  •  Comment - It is a terrible sight, but I won't oppose on that basis. The most I do in cases in which I can't emotionally stomach supporting a photo is not vote on it. Examples of when I did include a photo of a heroic equestrian statue of noted Jew-mass-murderer Khmelnitsky, and I also couldn't bring myself to vote on the picture of the sphynx kitten that doesn't merit being opposed on the basis of picture quality. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:34, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I just express my aversion to animal suffering. Changes usually start small.--Famberhorst (talk) 06:09, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment If animal cruelty were the subject of the picture, I might have a different perspective then. But that's not the issue, I see how cruelty to animals is taken for granted by simply taking a "nice" picture of an animal and not seeing the suffering or not caring. Not to forget the grass. Otherwise good quality, no question. --Hockei (talk) 07:57, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 9 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Cart (talk) 10:23, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Dome of the Palace of Post and Telegraf of Valencia, Spain.
  •  Comment - I also object that the black background is not described among the modifications and is nothing anyone would see when they visit the place. Please add it to the enumerated modifications in the "Retouched" notice. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:44, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose for now. Poco, I don't think this is as well-edited as it could be. I'd invite reviewers to take a look at the file history, and to compare the sharpness of this version to that of 25th August 2014. The older version is clearly much sharper than the current one. I can see why you have made the edits, cropping out the edges to remove the ghost on the left, but they have had a detrimental effect on the image quality. The version of 2014, even with the ghost there, is a fairly solid FP to me, because of the good image quality and the beauty of the motif. Cmao20 (talk) 16:12, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 9 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Cart (talk) 10:24, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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wd:Q288283 is since 2018 mayor of Amsterdam, capital city of the Netherlands, and for some, her position is very controversial. Here she reads to a school class to encourage the interested in books and reading by children.

 I withdraw my nomination Ciell (talk) 15:14, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Asperitas bimaensis cochlostyloides viridis; height 2.6 cm; Originating from East-Sumba, Indonesia
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Result: 21 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Cart (talk) 13:13, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Russia, Suzdal. Church of Antipia and Lazarevskaya Church
@W.carter: what other active nomination does Dmitry have besides File:Cambodia. Water buffaloes.jpg? Tomer T (talk) 23:26, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 1 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--A.Savin 06:21, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Night view of Mestia.jpg
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Tenthredinidae - Euura salicis, larva
  • Upscaled images have been a no-no at FPC as long as I've been here. There is nothing gained quality-wise by upscaling an image; the only thing that happens is that a too small image becomes technically eligible for FPC. --Cart (talk) 23:28, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • That's what I thought. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:36, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Indeed there is no rule that says that upscaling a picture is not allowed (Digital manipulations). If you want to introduce this rule, discuss it beforehand in the talk page. Before you technically assess the image, first compare it with the original version that still has 3.5 MP. It's not just scaled up. And what is bad, when a picture is upscaled a bit so that you can look at it better? The result is decisive. Last but not least, I didn't hide this "manipulation", so long as it is a manipulation at all. --Hockei (talk) 08:30, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Even if the no to upscaling is more of a practice than a written rule, it serves no purpose for the image quality. There are plenty of things that we object to here that are not written in the rules. You don't need to write down everything if common sense is used. As for looking at the picture, with today's computers and monitors, you can crank up the magnification as far as you like. Better to keep the images in their original size. --Cart (talk) 10:34, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose For me upscaling should always be done client-side if wanted, because uploading an upscaled image to Commons is really just adding file size without adding any extra information or quality. This is a good photo and a good QI but I'm not sure it has enough real detail to be an FP, we have sharper photos at this resolution. This said, I do appreciate you were honest and open about the fact that it's upscaled. And no, it isn't a written rule, but I can't really think of a reason why it's ever worth it. Cmao20 (talk) 10:52, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose per upscaling and arguing "there is no rule". Please don't do that: you can't require all possible reasons for opposing be pre-codified in rules. -- Colin (talk) 11:14, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I really cannot confirm what you say about the quality of the pictures in this category that are comparable with my picture. But anyway, thank you so much for changing of your reason for your vote against. --Hockei (talk) 13:27, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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  • As I tried to match the photo with other photos in the category, trying to estimate the location, nothing matched. I then noticed that Tomer T had moved the photo to a category with another monument ID than the one on the photo, no idea why (the tempel is part of the Grand Palace complex). Anyway, back in the right category and moved to sub-category, there were other photos from sort of this angle and I did find a likely spot for the photo. The street view match nicely. At first I looked for a pool of some kind, no luck, looks like the photographer had taken advantage of a large puddle in the street after a rain. Very creative. --Cart (talk) 11:31, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • I tried to move it to a more precise sub-category because it had a too general one. I'm not sure how it ended up with the wrong category, that obviously wasn't my intention, I guess the reason is related to the identical prefixes of those temples, and to the auto-completion of HotCat. Anyways, thanks for correcting. Tomer T (talk) 12:05, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 24 support, 0 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /Tomer T (talk) 20:38, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Jim Jim Creek (near Jim Jim Falls), Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia
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Lake Sylvester during the sunrise, Kahurangi, New Zealand
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View towards Lookout Range from John Reid Hut, Kahurangi, New Zealand
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Result: 20 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Cart (talk) 21:18, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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  • For me it was first the water below. For a "by the water" person like me, running water usually gives me a sense of how large something is. Then I noticed the tree up left, looks like a young larch, and last the tufts of dandelion leaves in the crevices around it. --Cart (talk) 20:44, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment The Wow factor for me are the unique circular folds of the figure. Completely detached from the more or less horizontal folds in this steep rock wall. I had never seen it so beautiful before. So it is not that normal. Beautiful architecture of mother earth.--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 16:19, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 5 support, 8 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--Cart (talk) 21:19, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Epinephelus lanceolatus
Thank you. Since flash photography is not allowed in the aquarium, one has to be creative in the moment and while post-processing. --The Cosmonaut (talk) 00:17, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Done --The Cosmonaut (talk) 01:10, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 9 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Ikan Kekek (talk) 13:25, 30 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Road in Bílá Voda (Weißwasser).jpg
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Autumnal trees; Malsch, District of Karlsruhe

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Sentry box of Wartburg Castle in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany
  • This is one pedantic reviewer (= me) opposing because of one stupid little detail while almost everyone else seems to be OK with it. In the grand scheme of things, my opinion does not matter. This is your work, and if trying to fix the "issue" forces you into compromises you are not willing to make, then don't listen to me. You've fixed the halo, but lost some over-all contrast and sharpness. Personally, I like this version much better, as I think it suits the mood (although I think you went a bit too far when brightening the shadows). Others will disagree, and that's OK. Anyway, here's my  Support. --El Grafo (talk) 13:38, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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View from the Napoleonseck near Tengen-Watterdingen (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) to the Swiss Alps
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Result: 9 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--Cart (talk) 17:52, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Pulpit of the St. Ägidius church in Kirchaich
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Marrakai Road in the Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia
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Sněžka (Śnieżka, Schneekoppe), Krkonoše mountains
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