Commons:Featured picture candidates/Log/July 2011

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Frecce Tricolori
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Result: 2 support, 1 oppose, 1 neutral → not featured. /Łukasz [Wolf] Golowanow (talk) 21:41, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Gargano's photograpy made on 10-05-2011 by Paolo Nespoli on International Space Station
Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: of poor image quality: little detail, white balance off. Alvesgaspar (talk) 22:17, 29 June 2011 (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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Taraxacum officinale vulgaris in the yard.
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Common Redstart - diet and feeding
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Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
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Libellula depressa

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Polish state ensign

 I withdraw my nomination Łukasz [Wolf] Golowanow (talk) 14:52, 30 June 2011 (UTC) PS How many FPs of flags do we have?[reply]

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Potjiekos pot
 Comment There is nothing in this image to qualify it as an FP, quality is not good at all and it's overexposed in many parts, compare it to these images:
  ■ MMXX  talk  08:06, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I know all these photos, they're great. I still think this photo is special and attractive, since it shows a somewhat extraordinary use of fire, not very common nowadays. By the way, what you think about File:Waldbrand-Bodenfeuer.jpg and where you were when it was up for delisting? :) Tomer T (talk) 12:44, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with you about delisting that image, also your image is nice, but IMO it could be much better.   ■ MMXX  talk  15:45, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Marsh Wren
  • Avec plaisir ! Il est peut-être moins "parfait" que certains précédents, mais c'est aussi pour ça qu'il me plaît. Je trouve que tu as magnifiquement capté son attitude, presque un peu étonnée. Superbe !--Jebulon (talk) 16:24, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 19 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 16:11, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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ČD Class 801 (M 131.1)
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Result: 7 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 16:13, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Grünes Heupferd ♀ Tettigonia viridissima
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Result: 10 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 16:18, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
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Result: 7 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 16:10, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Pszczyna (Pless) Palace - the Entrance Hall
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Result: 2 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 16:14, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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A Sami (Lapp) family in Norway around 1900.
 Comment If you compare the deriv, the editor really screwed up the ground on the far right. Although the deriv is pleasant (with a blue sky), it seems a tad overtweaked, but the ground cloning screw up (also corroborated with the source original) would definitely not get a support from me. I think the current image is stunning, for sure! – Kerαunoςcopiagalaxies 02:52, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment You might be right. I didn't check out the details so carefully. Yet I like the idea in that one, how the tones have been set. --Ximonic (talk) 18:35, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 14 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 18:45, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Mating wheel of Red-veined Darters
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Result: 14 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 18:43, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Fonias first waterfall, Samothrace island, Greece.
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Result: 1 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 12:31, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Billy the Kid tintype that recently sold for USD $2,300,000, the 4th highest amount for a photograph of all time.
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  •  Info The only known authenticated image of Billy the Kid. Tintype that recently sold for USD $2,300,000, the 4th highest amount for a photograph of all time. Created by unknown photographer.
  •  Support -- Scewing (talk) 04:09, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Info as stated here this image is mirror inverted. in addition to the orientation of the Winchester Model 1873's loading gate, we can verify this information by the orientation of McCarty's belt and vest. The buttons of his vest are right over left (from McCarty's pov if closed) in this mirrored version but should be left over right (from McCarty's pov if closed) - that's what we can see on countless images of the same period. The belt ends to the right (from McCarty's pov) but should rather end to the left (from McCarty's pov). These are two additional inidcators which give proof to the fact that is image is mirror inverted. I'd be happy to perform a digital restoration of this unique item if you could provide a high res tiff scan. Regards, PETER WEIS TALK 05:55, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Good idea. I emailed the auction house and they're sending my request for a lossless image to the photographer who took the digital image of the tintype. Can you tell from the original EXIF metadata whether or not he took the picture in a lossy or lossless format? Scewing (talk) 17:16, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
This digital copy was created using a Canon EOS 5D Mark II, which could theoretically provide a 21.1MP raw file. Using 320ISO is nonsense - repros should be done at the lowest ISO possible, for the Canon this would be ISO50. Using a 100mm lense is good, because it prevents the image from major distortions. The library of congress mainly useses a P45 digital back for their digitasations. Hasselblad has recently announced the H4D-200MS. There more pixels, the merrier! If they get 2.3M $ for that particular image, maybe they can invest 1 or 2 $ in a proper scan before they actually sell it. I disdain the idea of not having a seriously high resolution scan while this image is vanishing in some sort of private collection. Regards, PETER WEIS TALK 06:22, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, true, you may choose ISO50 on a 5DII, but it's an "ISO enhancement" setting as the ISO 25600 on the other side of the ISO range for this camera is, AFAIK. The lowest ISO setting on this Canon without any electronic tricks is ISO 100, I guess; ISO 50 being of some use for situations where you need a longer exposure but where a ND filter is not an hand, at the price of not having the last bit of possible detail in the image. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 22:48, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
All DSLR ISO works with electronic tricks. There's no film that gets exposed. For clarification: ISO 50 is basically ISO 100 with different metering. It falls 2/3 of a stop short at the highlights. Depending on your setting to digititise an image, this might be handy. On the other hand exposure bracketing might be useful here as well. You can remedy the effects of improper lighting and digitally increase the dynamic range of an image via this method. Maybe we are lucky and they'll do a better scan next time. Regards, PETER WEIS TALK 08:22, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment After I saw you'd uploaded this, I was hoping you'd nominate it. I too hope for a mirror reversal of a high(er)-resolution version, which I would gladly support. While the continual use of the mirrored image needs to be discontinued, in my opinion (and I was surprised the media still uses it to such a heavy extent), I also believe the disintegration of the photograph is as notable as the image itself. If the restoration is done extremely well, I could support that as well, but the original I think stands on its own for sure. – Kerαunoςcopiagalaxies 01:30, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I've retouched the image and cleaned it a little but I didn't flip it, it still could benefit from more restoration but I don't think it could be up to FP standards.   ■ MMXX  talk  19:34, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Here it is a new version.   ■ MMXX  talk  14:11, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 1 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 12:34, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Día de muertos
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Result: 1 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 12:32, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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A U.S. Air Force F-15 Strike Eagle with the 335th Fighter Squadron
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Result: 10 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 09:24, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Saturn's Rings in Ultraviolet Light.png
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Result: 10 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 09:21, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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  •  Support Picture is symbolic and the technical issues doesn't exactly "ruin" the picture. Essam Sharaf (talk) 23:00, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- MartinD (talk) 20:10, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Per Azeri and Ocaasi. I also think that the uncropped version would be better. --Sherif9282 (talk) 04:26, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Striking shot that is quite emblematic of the Egyptian revolution, and I agree that a less-cropped version is preferable, to show more of the wild blue yonder surrounding this action. The lion, symbol of a king in Egypt, is surmounted by a young anonymous citizen protester in blue jeans, who holds the flag of his country above all. And the whole revolution was staged, if by staged you mean noncombatants, after some planning and organization, showing up in public squares with banners and flags so that their demonstrations of civil disobedience would be noticed by the powers that be (that were), and by the cameras of the world. If you mean literally whether this shot was contrived or taken out of context, the other shots in the Photostream it comes from indicate otherwise. Abrazame (talk) 07:07, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Tomer T (talk) 11:18, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose -- Despite the historical value and because of poor image quality. Canvassing doesn't help either. Alvesgaspar (talk) 22:26, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Significant historical value. Technical imperfections are less important than having images that are of historical and educational value. And, no, I haven't been canvassed.Tom Morris (talk) 23:42, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment FPC is not a forum to make a political point by trying to rally people to support a substandard photograph. There are other places for that kind of nationalism (Only judging the FPC process here, not the events). Commons is not a place to endorse political (r)evolution by putting this kind of images on the front page. FPC of national flags (with much better quality, BTW) have been shunned for similar reason in the past. W.S. 07:15, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Comment I didnt rally anyone to support the image nor it's a matter of nationalism; All I did was ask people on wikipedia english to give their opinion(s) about the image. you can check each of their talk pages on wikipedia if you dont believe. I would also like to point out that the majority of the people that commented here are not Egyptian, rather from different backwards and political ideologies. -- The Egyptian Liberal (talk) 08:01, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
      • I have not checked where the canvassing was done or who did it, but it is very apparent. I'm not talking about the people that did the canvassing neither but about the principle. W.S. 09:45, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
        • You call twenty of your friends on wikipedia english, you really think they will have an objective look at your work?--Citron (talk) 10:39, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
          • I actually asked people who worked the main main article to comment. and Yes, they remain objective no matter what. Now, If you are going to accuse me of canvassing anyone, please show evidences or put a cork in it. -- The Egyptian Liberal (talk) 16:32, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
            • No one is making wild acccusations, as the notifications you have made are technically cavassing. In my opinion, this would have been appropriate in WP:FPC, because pictures are assessed there in terms of specific encyclopaedic value. But not in Commons because we evaluate pictures in much broader terms, with a special focus on technical excellence. Alvesgaspar (talk) 08:09, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Result: 8 support, 6 oppose, 1 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 09:20, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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 Comment (poor english) I think, Jovianeye, that I can agree with you. But the marine life, the daily marine life must be considerable in this photo. The marine life of my nation. In spite of this, the image can be not wow, but it will be not wow by photographic criteria. For me, for Galician people, this image can be suggestive, until the image can express an identity (it's a personal opinion)--Miguel Bugallo 15:16, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Definite wow for me. Gorgeous photograph, in my opinion, and I'm sure fish traps aren't the easiest thing to make "look good". I disagree with kaʁstn about the tight crop: it'd be tight if it were cropped any more than it is, but there's plenty of breathing room for the eyes to roam about the subject. I love the metallic color, and it made me want to look at the article. The image, by the way, looks great in an article as well. – Kerαunoςcopiagalaxies 23:45, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose -- Not the best scenery for the subject. As is looks like abandoned traps, just trash. By the way, 'fish trap' is not the best designation as these artifacts are used to catch crustaceans (e.g. lobsters, not fish. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 20:49, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

 I withdraw my nomination: (to Alvesgaspar) Sorry, I thought that “fish” meant “to fish”, not the animal (a fish). Someone must do English corrections in the image.

The "nasas" (... traps?) are used, but the "nasas" aren't abandoned traps or trash: Do you know the effect of the sea water on wood? I can understand that you can say that. I can't understand that this can be a objection to be a image FP (español: te pasas)--Miguel Bugallo 00:36, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I can't understand. I think that you don't wan't to say that the thinks important to me are trash, but you say that of the object and of my life (you must read my comment in this discussion)--Miguel Bugallo 01:22, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Assim dito é muito diferente. Os covos estão na praia (o fundo da imagem é areia), o lugar normal para deitar os covos não é a areia, é a terra firme, pelo que estão em erva, mas erva seca, na beira da praia. Eu penso que o dono vive em lugar próximo e os covos estão entre a vivenda e a embarcação.
Não há problema. Retirei a imagem pelo erro na categorização (fish trap), tras as suas palabras evidente. Não compreendo a sua agresividade. Depois eu sentin-me más agredido (trash). Só posso dizer que não compreendo ser tratado como delincuente. Isso sim, a imagem, para mim, não tinha futuro em FP. Para mim o importante é escuitar críticas e apreender, não medalhas. Mas não há problema: disposto a colaborar com você quando quiser. --Miguel Bugallo 22:55, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Desculpe o meu português. Levo 25 anos sem escrever e/ou falar em português (sem contar cuatro ou cinco conversas em Commons). Uso Flip para escrever melhor, mas agora não está activo--Miguel Bugallo 23:04, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
One last thing: to me, a more appropriate scene is impossible; only on sea or in the sea, but it's not the same--Miguel Bugallo 23:18, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Há aqui um mal entendido, Miguel. Eu não disse que a sua foto era lixo (trash) mas sim que as nasas pareciam ter sido deitadas para o lixo (trashed). Não há qualquer agressividade nas minhas palavras. Now in English for everyone: there is a misunderstanding here. I didn't say that your photo was trash but that the traps looked like having being trashed. There is no agressivity in my words whatsoever. Alvesgaspar (talk) 08:41, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, Alvesgaspar. My level of English is too bad. It's normal that I must use translators to understand. (Writing with a translator, because I don't know to say this:) I must be more careful and patient: I am able to learn and to improve. Thanks--Miguel Bugallo 22:38, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Result: 8 delist, 1 keep, 0 neutral => delisted. /George Chernilevsky talk 06:22, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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French Vipera aspis aspis.
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Shiraz Botanical Garden

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Result: 1 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 06:25, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Bust of Emperor Caracalla

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Panoramic view of the Danube with Esztergom (HU) and Sturovo (SK) from Esztergom Castle
 Comment Benh: I cannot accept "I don't like framing" as an argument. It could be "I don't like colors" next time. Nevertheless, I accept the point about the cropped building. What do you think, what could I do with the horizon to be more straight? I tried to find a workaround, but couldn't. --HoremWeb Place of Auditions 19:28, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, unfortunately, judging a picture involves some "subjectivity". I don't have the right to say the framing is not good, because other people might like it like that. But I have the right not to like it. I like taking panoramas too, and when I end up with similar disturbing elements in the foreground, I would keep only the center part of the whole thing. Using alternate projections might help to get more of the panorama. I don't know the exact conditions under which you took the sources photos of the panorama, but I believe you should have set the camera a bit farther ahead to avoid most of the elements in the foreground. This would have helped getting most, if not all, of the closest building at the bottom. To my knowledge, fixing the horizon is easy, provided your sources pics are aligned correctly (if you went through some sort of automated process, this might not be the case), and provided you use decent software such as Hugin. It's most of the time a matter of setting the "viewpoint" (hope I name it right) correctly. - Benh (talk) 20:05, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • I add that although it could be considered a subjective matter, leaving the foreground elements like what we see here is to me due to a lack of practice (or just a bad habit) in taking panorama pictures, hence my oppose. I wouldn't oppose because of colors, unless it looks really unrealistic or whatever. - Benh (talk) 20:11, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment Taxiarchos: could you explain what do you have against the quality? I understand and accept your remarks on composition, but I would like to learn how to improve on quality side. --HoremWeb Place of Auditions 19:28, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for all who took time to vote, and especially Benh for the explanations. I still in trouble with the horizon because it is not tilt but bent. I will check out for the software you've suggested. --HoremWeb Place of Auditions 21:00, 7 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]


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Result: 2 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 06:00, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Result: 3 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /The High Fin Sperm Whale 16:52, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Account too young, sorry!--Claus (talk) 12:13, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment The border isn't even straight. The image itself might be a scan, I'm not quite sure—it seems really soft, and yet grainy. So maybe it's supposed to look like that. Anyway, back to the border, my understanding was that images aren't supposed to have borders if it can be helped. – Kerαunoςcopiagalaxies 03:53, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Question I think the annotation may have disappeared. It was originally pointed to her left arm squeezing against her body. What was the issue again, was it poor cloning or something? I'm not sure I see a problem. Her cleavage—the very top part—has a similar look, sort of an out-of-focus blurry line that her left arm seems to create also. Would this not be natural somehow? – Kerαunoςcopiagalaxies 17:32, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 6 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 06:03, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Account too young, sorry!--Claus (talk) 12:11, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 3 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 06:04, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Church St. Preobraženie in Kruševo, Republic of Macedonia.
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Fiat 500 interior
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Karin Timmermann
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Period photograph of New York University library
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ORP Wdzydze
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The European Starling, Common Starling or just Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
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A bay window at da:Toldboden (Aarhus)
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Spheniscus magellanicus, Spheniscidae, Magellanic Penguin, Skeleton; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany.
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 Oppose Contrast stretched to far. Shadows inside the boat are pure black and white parts are overexposed. -- /人 ‿‿ 人\ 苦情処理係 16:50, 7 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Vorsäss, Maisäss Schönenbach bei Bizau im Bregenzerwald im Vordergrund die Subersach der Sevisschrofen 1659m, im Hintergrund Hehle Kopf 2058m und Pellinger Köpfle 1994m
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Gracias Tomascastelazo. Me gustaría preguntarte lo siguiente: ¿Tú crees que sería preferible que en vez de centrar el crucero (el sujeto de la fotografía), lo desplazase para respetar la regla de los dos tercios? Yo creo que no, creo que en imágenes como esta no procede, pero la próxima vez que sea posible tomar dos imagenes diferentes, lo haré, e intentaré proponer las dos. ¿Debería tomar estas imágenes un poco de lado y no de frente? Gracias--Miguel Bugallo 01:22, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Miguel, la regla de tercios, aunque se llame regla, es solo una guía, no es algo inflexible. En este caso lo mejor que se podía hacer es exactamente lo que hiciste, en mi opinión. Muy probablemente yo hubiese hecho la misma toma. Aunque de alguna manera estás respètando la regla, al situar el transversal en el tercio superior. Respecto a tomarla de lado, la imagen tal vez se haría un poco mas dinámica, al inclinarse el transversal. Si te desplazas a la derecha, por ejemplo, el lado izquierdo de la transversal baja y el derecho sube, y viceversa. Sin embargo, si te hubieses desplazado a la derecha, hubieses perdido algo de volumen, pues las sombras tenderían a disminuir. A la izquierda, las sombras se hubiesen incrementado. Lo que yo hago, con objetos estacionarios, es siempre explorar el punto de vista y tomar varias fotos, a distancias diferentes, alturas diferentes y desplazándome alrededor de la imagen. En fin, esto de tomar fotos es como aprender los cambios manuales en los autos, se convierte en una segunda naturaleza. Una práctica que yo hago, es evaluar rápidamente los elementos gráficos de los sujetos y acentuarlos, tal como color, volumen, contorno, textura, etc. Lo que si sugiero es que le des auto levels en photoshop, se mejora la imagen.--Tomascastelazo (talk) 21:42, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Gracias Tomas. --Miguel Bugallo 22:26, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Iris sibirica in natural monument Novoveska draha, Czech Republic
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Dunluce Castle
Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: it is too small (1600x1200), sorry.--Jebulon (talk) 17:34, 7 July 2011 (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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Hochmoorgelbling Colias palaeno
  •  Info The Moorland Clouded Yellow, Palaeno Sulphur, or Pale Arctic Clouded Yellow (Colias palaeno) is a butterfly in the family Pieridae.

created uploaded and nominated by -- Böhringer (talk) 09:50, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

somehow I can not shake the feeling that .... Have you ever voted with pro? --Böhringer (talk) 20:14, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
That's irrelevant. Could you identify the flower, or not? W.S. 20:44, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
oh ja ich kann :-) du Naseweis Namens Lycaon --Böhringer (talk) 21:19, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Well that's much better. W.S. 21:28, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Ho! The support of Wetenschatje, it's worth at least five! :D--Citron (talk) 09:02, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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The caterpillar of Spilosoma canescens eating a Jap pumpkin leaf in suburban Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Head on with barbed hairs.
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Oscar winners

 I withdraw my nomination--Hoangquan hientrang (talk) 11:50, 8 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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  •  Info created, uploaded, nominated by -- Tomascastelazo (talk) 21:02, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Something common, but a little different here... -- Tomascastelazo (talk) 21:02, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose So much photographic information is lost to whatever happened there. The shadows are so dark, and the colors are so overtweaked, it doesn't even look real. No one's helmet should "glow fluorescent" like that, not in the daytime. I can't even make out the details of the tires, though I know I should since the image was snapped fast enough. There are also lens spots and/or dirt. – Kerαunoςcopiagalaxies 04:50, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment
  1. Dark objects in a shadows are... dark.
  2. Colors are not tweaked, that´s the way they are, helps people see them... much like construction vests, the idea is to be seen.
  3. the tires are slightly blurred... motion blur, that is not a photographic fault.
  4. luminosity values are what they are and reproduced according to their value in the dynamic scale. Can´t expect white to be shown as gray or blue, for example.

Thanks for your review. --Tomascastelazo (talk) 14:47, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Comment You are correct, but I chose to leave it like that for two reasons, one practical and one for composition. On the practical side, the image can be cropped by the end user if they don´t need the sky, but if they do, to place text, for example, it is there. On the composition side, it gives the bake space into which to fly. Personal choice. --Tomascastelazo (talk) 19:01, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Correct. This is one of the shortcomings of digital photography. If neither extreme exposure is right in this case, it is because the luminosity of the scene, that is the dynamic range of the scene is wider than the dynamic range of digital cameras. Consecuently, the exposure is in the middle values. To have overexposed to bring back the shadow detail, would have meant to push the highlights even further out into more over exposure, and to under expose the sky would push the shadows into even darker values. There is a dynamic range for existing light conditions, for film and for digital. The shorter scale is the digital one. Digital works great when that scale is short. --Tomascastelazo (talk) 19:01, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment You could have used a little bit of flash to brighten the subject. bamse (talk) 01:03, 7 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment I'm almost sure the sensor's dynamical range was wider than this jpg image shows. Do you have the RAW? If so, I believe this can be done much better with the right postprocessing. Feel free to send it to me via mail if you don't know how to accomplish that. -- H005 10:39, 7 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment Both of you are correct... and this is how one learns! I did not use flash because of the sync speed, it would have created a double image. And yes, the raw file can yield a bit more, but guess what? I did not shoot raw! In any case, my intention was to freeze the moment considering the contour or outline of the subject, expose for a half decent sky and I did not concern myself much with shadow detail, for I think it is irrelevant in this particular case. The graphic element here for me is contour and the photographic concern was to freeze motion. Sometimes in order to privilege certain things, one has to sacrifice others. --Tomascastelazo (talk) 14:54, 7 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Motor ship Georg Büchner immobilized in the Stadthafen (city port) of Rostock.
corrected WB, with the raw-file it would be better i think, cause the burned part at the ship and the black area in the front are now more visible. rework out of original dng file. Thanks to Grand Duc for providing it.

* Support  Oppose--Miguel Bugallo 00:21, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I prefer the image with corrected WB. Now I don't like this image, I like the other. As Leviathan1983--Miguel Bugallo 01:36, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose It's a fine picture, sodium vapor against stormy night sky, but I'm just not sure the frame has been used to its fullest potential. There's a lot of dead space, and an incredible amount of emphasis on the reflection. I would almost rather see the ship taken from starboard, even if that means you have to boat out there to get it, and fill the frame with more ship, less sky and water. – Kerαunoςcopiagalaxies 01:44, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support excellent composition --kaʁstn Disk/Cat 11:11, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I like the image, but I think it should be cropped using the same 2:3 ratio. (see image annotation) The empty space on the left can be removed and the ship can be off-centred. --Jovian Eye talk 12:23, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Doucus (talk)
  •  Oppose the WB is totally off, the composition with that current crop isn't excellent imo. See my edited version. --mathias K 13:15, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Overly restrictive license construction going against the spirit of Commons. W.S. 15:29, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
You're right: The license seems not to allow the commercial use--Miguel Bugallo 01:42, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment This site and large areas of Rostock are illuminated by night with yellowish street lamps, sodium-vapor lamps, I think. Is it wise, then, to alter the colour rendering to get an impression of bright white light on scene? I recall exactly this yellowish hue of the location as depicted when I took the photograph. The edited version could not be seen as such in reality, IMO. As for the licensing theme... Well, what is the "spirit of Commons"? This file is free (due to the GDFL 1.2), Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia explains the reusing of GDFL-licensed material before dealing with the CC, so there is nothing against any "spirit of Commons", here. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 20:02, 2 July 2011 (UTC) PS. Mathias, you'll get soon my DNG raw via Wikimail.[reply]
  •  Comment I've uploaded a new version with the corrected WB. Thanks again for the original dng file. It's a hard decision with the colours at such a situation like this. For me who don't knew the lighting there, it's just a wrong WB. Even if the lighting situation is more like your picture, the colours are not like this in reallity. For my taste i prefer the corrected colours, or a version between yours and mine, but the nominating one is to heavy for my taste. Regards mathias K 11:33, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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360° panorama near the summit of Mount Ellinor in the Olympic Mountains of Washington State
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Muammar Qaddafi, the Libyan chief of state, attends the 12th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Feb. 2, 2009. Qaddafi was elected chairman of the organization.
  •  Info created by Jesse B. - uploaded by Martin H. - nominated by Alex Lukic Alex discussion 19:27, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Alex discussion 19:29, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Villy Fink Isaksen (talk) 19:53, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Perhaps I have a short mentality. But do you think normal (and neutral) that a image of an alive dictator it was QI or FP? I hope that it is not image of the day in Commons--Miguel Bugallo 01:55, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment It is the picture - not the person. --Villy Fink Isaksen (talk) 12:51, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment His people have nothing against him. He is not a dictator and this fake revolt of few groups of rebels has been imposed from outside - states like: France, Germany and USA, which could be called a real dictators. --Alex discussion 13:51, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Comment The comment just above is only an opinion. It is completely out of scope, useless regarding the assessments of pictures, and should be deleted. The (so-called) "Community" here really don't care with the author's point of view in international affairs matters. FPC page is really going wrong... --Jebulon (talk) 14:46, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I like the composition but this picture is a bit too much on the soft side in my opinion. The focus is quite narrow.  Comment Indeed this is not the right place to argue about political (etc.) opinions, or who is wrong and who's right – it is not what Commons is about. Just keep it neutral and focus on the pictures as pictures. By the way, I personally wouldn't have anything against a featured picture of any dictator (or not a dictator, however you see it. I don't mind!) if the picture was good enough and met the FP guidelines. I just accidentally dropped a cucumber from a bread into my fish soup. --Ximonic (talk) 17:45, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment That's right, Ximonic, good photo-critic is what we need here. I'm sorry for your lunch :) I'm sorry but I had to react, because I was kind of provoked by Lmbuga. Alex discussion 18:12, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, Alex, I did not want to be provocative. I only wanted an answer so that I clarified my doubts. My doubts are about publicity and about of if commons can do publicity with a person--Miguel Bugallo 22:15, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I think that the word “dictator” has been inopportune and disrespectful. Sorry--Miguel Bugallo 22:43, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

*****Haha, lol. It's just paperwork on a desk (maybe authorizing the killing of innocent civilians). But anyhow, must we have a portrait of every dictator in the featured pictures list? I don't think so. —stay (sic)! 15:59, 10 July 2011 (UTC) The previous comment has been stricken-through, due the partiality and non–neutral point. Alex discussion 14:57, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Bassin de Latone, Versailles
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Salim Chishti's Tomb
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An Eastern gray squirrel, Parchi di Nervi, Genova
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The Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki at MIT Media Lab.

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Prinzipalmarkt seen from fountain of St. Lamberti
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Hochalppass Panorama
  •  Comment I wouldn't be so sure a polarizer was used. On a 180° pano, you normally see the unevenness yield by a polarizer ; unless the picture is taken when the sun is at zenith, which is normally not the case here at time generation of EXIF. I also never seen that polarizer affected this much rocks (top of roßer Widderstein). - Benh (talk) 11:13, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I do not have a polarizing filter --Böhringer (talk) 12:25, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
OK. What else did you do to darken the sky? Digital enhancement? Another technical gadget? Regards, PETER WEIS TALK 10:22, 7 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
What makes you so sure something was done to it? I rather believe it simply hasn't been exposed long enough to have a medium-bright blue. Look at the snow, it should be somewhat white on a sunny day like this, but it is grey. The dynamic range of the scenery is very wide, difficult to catch without good and balanced postprocessing from the RAWs. -- H005 10:49, 7 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
This effect looks rather unnatural to my eyes. Vignetting might be another answer to the question - yet I don't believe this is a realistic depiction of the sky. As for the colour of snow: ever thought of the clouds and their soft shadows? Luckily we don't need to theorize, Böringer is here to answer our questions (is he?).
Question 1: What's the reason for the dark skies?
Question 2: Did clouds cast their shadows on the snow (explaining the greyish snow tone)?
Regards, PETER WEIS TALK 14:30, 7 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
mein englisch beschränkt sich auf Google translate :-) Vielleicht hilft dieses Bild weiter. (Exif) Die selbe Einstellung und Uhrzeit. Bitte beachten sie, das dies der mittlere Teil des oberen Panorama ist und dieser auch ideal ausgleuchtet war. Zudem ist das Bild im Querformat.:
--Böhringer (talk) 20:49, 7 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, sprich das doch. Kein Problem, dann schreibe ich gerne noch mal auf Deutsch, um was es hier geht. Es gibt mehrere Kritikpunkte an deinem Bild von Seiten der User: Verzerrung des gesamten Bildes, nur ein Panorama unter Vielen, allgemein zu dunkel, unterbelichtet, Schnee ist zu Grau, Himmel und Spitze des Großen Widdersteins ist zu dunkel (stimme ich zu). Die Fragen die offen sind, sind folgende: Warum ist der obere Teil des Himmels so dunkel? Ist der Schnee deswegen so grau, weil die Wolken einen Schatten geworfen haben, oder hat das andere Gründe? Welche Ausrüstung wurde genutzt um das Bild zu machen? Welche Bearbeitungen wurden durchgeführt? Beste Grüße nach Österreich und regards, PETER WEIS TALK 22:18, 7 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
die Fragen habe ich soweit schon verstanden. Dazu habe ich das Bild nebenan hochgealden. Dort sieht man in den exif Daten die Einstellungen der Panoramabilder. Es gab bis auf das Zusammennähen mit PTGui keine weitere Bearbeitung. Dass die Schatten im Schneefeld von den Wolken stammen, sieht man ja im Bild selbst. Warum der Himmel oben so dunkel ist weiss ich nicht. Vermutlich habe ich zu viele Bilder oder eine zu grosse Überlappung beim Erstellen des Pano gehabt. Eine Verzerrung links in den Wolken kann ich beim besten Willen nicht sehen. Für mich gibt es keine geraden oder schiefen Wolken ?!? --Böhringer (talk) 10:11, 8 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Den Kritikpunkt "Verzerrung des gesamten Bildes" kann ich so auch nicht finden in den Kommentaren, ist meine Anmerkung "I also see a strong tilt - look at the clouds to the left" gemeint? "Tilt" ist aber keine Verzerrung, sondern eine Schiefe. Und der linke Teil des Bildes sieht mir sehr schief aus. (Anders als das Detailbild rechts - das ist gerade!) -- H005 13:50, 8 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
diese und andere Ansichten nehme ich als gegeben an, da werde ich nichts ändern können. Trotzdem danke ich für die rege Anteilname an der Bildbewertung. --Böhringer (talk) 21:43, 8 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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 That's true, he's pretty.Citron (talk) 23:11, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Act of election of the General Deputy of Biscay, in Gernika. First meeting of this assembly after 2011 local elections, with its' new deputies and conseillors. Photo taken with a 8mm.
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The Ponte della Maddalena in Tuscany
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Fourth of July fireworks seen across the Potomac river at Washington, DC.
  •  Comment It is quite easy to make such criticism. The subject here is not the landscape by itself, but along with the fireworks. The monuments are marked as annotations in the image. Regarding the exposure, this sort of subject is quite challenging. I chose ISO-200 to keep the noise low. The aperture was kept constant in all shots and f/9 was chosen to optimize sharpness. The shutter was chosen after a few trial and error attempts to 1/2 second. Despite these settings, a lot of the images were over-exposed. This is because of the luck factor I guess. I was unable to move from this spot which I reserved by arriving at the location 3 hours in advance! I fortunately have the RAW file and am planning to renominate the image after adjusting the exposure. --Jovian Eye talk 12:20, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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ORP Grom
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Statue of Hercules & Cacus by Baccio Bandinelli in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy.

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The total phase of the June 15, 2011 lunar eclipse. Its entire duration is covered in this composite of a regular sequence of digital camera exposures, tracking the dark lunar disk as it arced above the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.
 Comment They are not "digital shadows" MMXX, was a cloud night in June 15, and those are clouds ;) Béria Lima msg 17:07, 8 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure what do you mean by "digital shadows", perhaps I phrased my comment badly, anyway, IMO image is still very interesting and valuable.   ■ MMXX  talk  21:17, 8 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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EC-135 SP-HXX
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Fourth of July fireworks seen across the Potomac river at Washington, DC.
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Middle lake of Bastan, short before sunset, Hautes-Pyrénées, France
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Rosemary Standley, of Moriarty, on stage at the Eurockéennes de Belfort 2011.
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Summit cross of the mountain Saukarkopf in Austria.
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Portrait of the common wasp Vespula vulgaris
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Chungara Lake in Lauca National Park, Chile
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premises of the hamburg parliament
 Comment please consider reading the image description page. the highlights in the windows and chandeliers were an explicit decision for this image. even the darkest version (-2ev stops) didn't feature any detail for this particular area. although technically possible the correction of this "flaw" (as some people tend to see it) wouldn't harmonize with the image as a whole. moreover this is what you'll experience when on location. regards, PETER WEIS TALK 23:13, 16 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Worker of Korea Party Monument, Base of the Juche Tower. Pyongyang, North Korea
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Genetic reassortment
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Tosno River, Leningrad Oblast, Russia.
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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: the overall quality is low, e.g. with blown highlights and much noise Tomer T (talk) 19:52, 18 July 2011 (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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Balaeniceps rex
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Bridge over highway A4 in Poland, near Góra Świętej Anny
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a painting in the townhall of hamburg
  •  Question is it a HDR photo? Why? It looks very flat for me. The colors are false for me too. And why f/10 for a flat subject? The best resolution will be at f/2.8 or f/4. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 16:31, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment yes, this image has been achieved by exposure bracketing. the the camera's sensor was not perpendicular to the painting, due to it's position on the spot. that's why i'd chose f/10. the lacking perpendicular was remedied by using photoshop's lense correction tool. the best resolution for the EF 85 mm f/1.2L II USM is at f/5.6 regarding center, border and extreme measuring. diffraction won't be an issue below f/11. as for colours: repros (especially on here commons) feature considerations on this issue. since this is a non-professional reproduction (due to its daylight exposure, non-use of a colour seperation guide and other criteria) of the painting and i being a sceptic on faithful reproductions, i suggest to see the image on location. regards, PETER WEIS TALK 19:26, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Kamal Abbas, director of the CTUWS during the 2010 National Minimum Wage protest
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The Ipanema Park, localizated in Ipatinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
This black spot is a kite. --HVL (talk) 23:26, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Well in my opinion, that kind of ruins the image for me, unless the kite was able to be seen more clearly up closer. —stay (sic)! 00:52, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Wael Khalil is a socialist activist and a blogger at Waelk.net. He is active in the Palestinian solidarity, anti-war and democracy movements that filled the Egyptian scene in the decade that preceded the revolution and is a software engineer by education and profession
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A picture of Sexten Dolomites
I try a crop as you suggested...--Llorenzi (talk) 15:13, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Much better, thanks. --The High Fin Sperm Whale 18:15, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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The little alpine "Wild lake", around the Wilde Kreuzspitze-Picco della Croce
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ompetitor in Yyteri SM Motocross 2010 -competition in Yyteri.
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Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) in Yyteri.
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  •  Support --Jovian Eye talk 01:19, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Supportstay (sic)! 06:23, 13 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose What is the bird looking at? It mortifies me not to know, the bird makes me think that what it is looking at is much more important than itself, the subject of this picture. Composition could have been much better, imagine this picture in landscape orientation with the subject at far right and the remaining space filled with the blurred background, it wouldn't still show what it is looking at, but definitely would have been a much better and pleasing composition. (Gussisaurio (talk) 18:55, 13 July 2011 (UTC))[reply]

 Oppose Low quality and nothing exceptional --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 15:28, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Große Ochsenauge, Maniola jurtina, mating
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  •  Info The Dormition (Assumption) Cathedral in the Kremlin, Moscow. Northern door. All by Alvesgaspar (talk) 11:54, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 11:54, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support FP !--Jebulon (talk) 14:30, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose There are some points that i dislike about this image. At first it is huge in file size. That is ok. But it looks upscaled to me. No point inside the image is sharp. That means it is a bit unnecessary large (size as well as file size). The second thing are the colors. They have very low contrast, even if i consider the color washed out. On the other hand there are very dark areas which are immediately black. The next point is the perspective. I can assume that perspective correction was applied. But it is overdone, giving the pillars a strange, distorted look. (Shot from close below, corrected as if shot from far away, doesn't work in this case) Additionally i dislike the crop at the top. Overall to many flaws to be a featured picture in my opinion. -- /人 ‿‿ 人\ 苦情処理係 15:04, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Fifteen images on the D80 would give 150 megapixels to start with. Even after downscaling to 50 megapixels (approx 3:1 downscale ratio) The top portion of the image lacks sharpness. As Niabot also points out, the contrast is quite low. --Jovian Eye talk 16:52, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Info -- No downscale at all, poor mathematics ... and a clumsy assessment. A typical high quality jpeg image on the D80 is 2.5 Mb and 15*2.5=27.5 Mb (not 150). Moreover in most panoramas there should be substancial overlap between adjacent images, close to 25-30% in both directions. I never downscale my images nothwidstanding the fact that they would appear sharper that way. The reason for that should be obvious to all competent reviewers, as this subject has been discussed more than a couple of times here. Alvesgaspar (talk) 18:14, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment not that simple. We've to take into account the overlapping area. Let assume it's a 5x3 mosaic of landscape photos with 20% overlapping area, as often recommended. My calculation give me 8500x8800. If I'm right, this picture is not downscaled, but only cropped. Since it looks to use rectilinear projection, the soft upscaled parts can't be avoided. - Benh (talk)
 Comment Yeah, clumsy calculation on my part! I just did rough calculation in my head and not a precision simulation. But, lets not be clumsy and confuse megapixels with megabytes (which I was not referring about) [10.2*15=153 megapixels]. --Jovian Eye talk 22:51, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose for me simply to tight crop, in all derections, for a FP otherwise OK. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 18:35, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral tight crop in the top.. but I dislike most the prespective correction.. these quality/sharpening issues is not a problem.. we shouldn't accept as FP only images with the latest high-tech low noise digital sensor, or the highest quality lens.. Ggia (talk) 12:04, 18 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

 Withdraw. I will prepare a new nomination addressing some of the issues. As for the tight crop, no chance of doing it otherwise -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 08:46, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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An American Lady butterfly against a cloud-filled sky. Brilliant shot!
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A male Common Blue Damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum) showing a very pronounced cold color
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Immature male of the Blue-tailed Damselfly (Ischnura elegans)
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Blue-tailed Damselfly
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Mountain biking in Alps. View from Vršič - 1680 m above sea level.
  •  Comment For God sake, what is bike accidentally doing there, on Mountain biking.JPG, and even in foreground ?! ...so  Request Mr. Werner, please take full review before voting. --Mile (talk) 15:39, 13 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
imho a picture of mountain biking should show mountain biking but not a bike laying in the gras. --Berthold Werner (talk) 17:57, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Black-tailed Skimmer
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Quiraing, Isle of Skye
  •  Info It’s very interesting what some people can read everything from a picture. For the bright colors and different blue in the sky is a polarizing filter responsible. God for the clouds ;-) The colors can i reduced. I’m not going to paint shadows on the ground. --Ritchyblack (talk) 10:32, 13 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • The image is composed and tonal values corrected wiht "Gigapano" and gradation curve edited wiht PS-CS3 and some bad crossings repaired. (Sorry, i do not speak English. I use google translator) --Ritchyblack (talk) 11:55, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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 I withdraw my nomination Alvesgaspar (talk) 22:43, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Anna Calvi at the Eurockéennes de Belfort 2011
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La Chambre à Arles, by Vincent van Gogh (Paris version, frame cropped)
  • I'm not quite sure what you are pointing me to but but it seems to me that here, the emphasis is given on the colour, texture and mood more than perspective accuracy (might be wrong of course). In manga drawing, issues on proportions and perspective are more annoying. - Benh (talk) 19:20, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • I'm reasonably certain this image accurately depicts the distorted perspective used by van Gogh in his original painting. There are several nearly identical versions from various other sources on Commons, as shown below. Dcoetzee (talk) 19:06, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Bucket dredger ship Maykan (IMO 7391616) and port tender MZ-11 (MMSI 272003300) near port of Odessa. Ukraine, the Black sea.

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Bucket dredger ship Maykan (IMO 7391616) and port tender MZ-11 (MMSI 272003300) near port of Odessa. Ukraine, the Black sea.

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I've removed some scars from his forehead and arm, do you think I should upload the retouched image with a new name? I'm not sure if they were some temporary scars or permanent ones (which could be part of subjects personality)   ■ MMXX  talk  19:33, 16 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I strongly recommend this for each and every derivative of an original. It'll help people to refer to an original, and they don't have to look anything up in the file history. Especially if working with archival material, this becomes handy. You must not destruct the integrety of original works by simply overwriting them. Since we don't have a capacity issue here on Commons you can invest some extra bytes in uploading new images instead of overwriting the old ones. There are various systems on how to denote your edits in a proper way. I tend to use the aforementioned template for retouched versions and add "original" or "edit" to the image's filename when appropriate. Just a suggestion - see other works to find out what works best for you. Regards, PETER WEIS TALK 23:21, 16 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
You are right, I'll revert and upload under a new name after this FPC finished.   ■ MMXX  talk  11:58, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

 I withdraw my nomination I've also reverted the file to it's original version, I'll upload another file.   ■ MMXX  talk  14:27, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild
You was there and know that it's possible to get a centered composition from this distance? --Berthold Werner (talk) 06:14, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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360° Mohnenfluh Oberlech Panorama
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Miño river in A Arnoia
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Anosin Boris and Gleb Monastery, Istra District, Moscow Oblast, Russia: Cells building
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A panorama of Baltimore's Inner Harbor skyline at night taken from Federal Hill.
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US Declaration of Independence
 Info Agree. Commons definitely should not be American-centric, but the United States Declaration of Independence is one of the most celebrated manifestos for human freedom and self government in the history of western civilization. We shouldn't let its country of origin detract from its worldwide historical value. Scewing (talk) 22:46, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • This declaration is very valuable i think, so perhaps one more missed rule in VI scope. Those who set it should seriously reconsider some "updating". Otherwise not much FP here, even bad IQ - I dont see any use of huge resolution seeking chemical substance. There is one Feautered on EN.Wiki at normal-more than enough-size. --Mile (talk) 11:37, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
If you think it's really that important to change the guidelines - there's nothing that prevents you from doing it yourself. Start a discussion on VI, on village pump or ask directly those who edited the current guidelines. As for high resolution: possible usages of high resolution images are very obvious. Printing, digital wallpapers, derivative digital art and scientific research are just a few examples where high resolution images comes in handy. This platform is not a mere image deliverer for wikipedia - it's about people and their projects, their needs. It's always possible to downscale a high res version of an image, whereas upscaling comes along with a massive loss of quality (lossless image formats). Regards, PETER WEIS TALK 07:37, 18 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I judge just what is seen, not what could be seen. Primary use is Wiki anyway. Those working science out of it will surely get on the spot, with some other $$$ equipement, otherwise migth be ending-up hobby class is delivering to science class - pharse. --Mile (talk) 14:58, 18 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
 Info This kind of image is allowed in the VI project, there is even a specific gallery for them: Commons:Valued_images_by_topic/Historical/Documents. The exclusion is only for .pdf files like this, I think. --Myrabella (talk) 09:45, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Wael Khalil is a socialist activist and a blogger at Waelk.net. He is active in the Palestinian solidarity, anti-war and democracy movements that filled the Egyptian scene in the decade that preceded the revolution and is a software engineer by education and profession
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Messerschmitt BF109 at Airpower11

Picture of a Messerschmitt Bf109, the standard fighter of german Luftwaffe during WWII. This is an original BF109G owned by EADS. The picture has an interesting view into the cockpit, much details (pilot, antenna) as a nice addon you can see the shadow of the cockpit on the left wing. The aircraft is sharp but you can see the moving propellor. Exif data is available, coordinates as well.

Picture is below 2 Megabyte but only because of a very smooth background, dimension are more than average with 4.015 × 2.676 px. -- MatthiasKabel (talk) 17:11, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Calves heads
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Moth, Austin's Ferry, Tasmania, Australia
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Normal anatomy of the human eye and orbit, anterior view
 Comment You're right, for sure, regularly around the eye there are many tissues (as you know there are epithelial tissue, connective tissue, muscle tissue and nervous tissue; specifically for this presentation we need muscle and nervous tissue, to highlight the main point — the eye and its connection to brain.) The author has wanted to present only the anatomy of the eye (the sclera, cornea, retina, pupil... ...and nervous connection of the eye and brain, that's the optic nerve and retinal blood vessels) — we need only muscle and nervous tissue here, so showing complete facial musculature around the eye would be pointless for educative experience of the picture. I hope u're getting this. Alex discussion 22:03, 16 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Panoramic view of some of the hairpin turns on the road between Kallikratis and Kapsodasos
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Stéphane Guillon Montreux Comedy Festival 2010

 I withdraw my nomination Citron (talk) 17:16, 23 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Hot Air Balloon being inflated, seen from inside.
  • Yes, it's a view from inside, which I forgot to mention. I fixed this. As for the tilt you talk about, I'm afraid there's not much I can do.. That's just the pattern from how the envelope lies on the ground. If worth it, I may try to clone out the "something" on the upper left, which is part of the "throat", or nominate an alternative. Thanks for the review. - Benh (talk) 21:51, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Hot Air Balloon being inflated, seen from inside.

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A giant spider crab in oceanarium SPb
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Example for shōnen ai artwork.
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Interior view of the dome of Little Hagia Sophia
This image of the dome is shot by me yesterday (19 July 2011). Natural day-lighting was coming from the circular windows of the dome (the lights inside the Mosque were turned off). It is clear that in this nomination the white balance is wrong and the image has a general pink color which is not natural. Greetings from Istanbul. Ggia (talk) 11:58, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Supportstay (sic)! 00:42, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose lacking metadata, improper notation of digital editing (please consider using {{Retouched image}}), symmetry could be improved, the subject has almost no structure and its colours look rather flat, sharpness could be more crisp. regards, PETER WEIS TALK 08:31, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose in the middle there s a cord which is hanging a lamp from the dome that you removed.. look here. and seems the colors flat - over-processed.. Ggia (talk) 09:24, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Info I did take a note that the cable was removed (see upload history)! The colours in my image are as close as you can get to how they really look, that other image you linked to has awful colours that aren't even close to how it really looks there! (Compare it to all the other pictures on Commons.) As for the "crispness", please note that the painting itself is rather soft in many areas as they tried to make it look three-dimensional through artificial shadows. -- H005 21:28, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment the colors of the other image are close to the lighting conditions the time the image has taken.. there is no comparison between the two image.. And it is not mentioned that the other image has to get the FP status instead of this one. Ggia (talk) 23:33, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral The removal of the cable was not that easy and was quite successful. But it looks tilted (although it is a ceiling). It should have been rotated so that symmetry is perfect. Also, EXIF can be restored from the original. W.S. 17:16, 18 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support the symmetry should be correctable by extracting a new crop from this. I think a square image would be very nice. --Jovian Eye talk 00:41, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Ritchyblack (talk) 04:29, 22 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Thanks to all for their comments. Unfortunately it was impossible to take the photo in full symmetry because you'd have to go directly under the top point of the dome, and then the lamp hanging down would cover the center od the painting. I will nonetheless try to improve the symmetry by manipulations. As for the white balance: This is made from a raw file without changing the white balance. @Ggia: Other images found on the internet have various colours, but check out e.g. a Google search [5] - I believe that most images are closer to the colours of my image than to your photo from Tuesday, but you find both. It may be a matter of the actual light falling in through the windows. It was a cloudy day when I was there IIRC. -- H005 22:08, 22 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Lacks depth and sharpness - Any1s (talk) 20:30, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, Spain
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Ceiling of the portal arch above the main entrance of the cathedral of Berlin with a pneuma mosaic.

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Polish SAR

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Trinity Cathedral of the Anosin Boris and Gleb Monastery, Istra District, Moscow Oblast, Russia
Where? A.S. 08:43, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The pale line all around the building. W.S. 10:41, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not that lucky to have eagle's eyes, but I wonder which argument Kallerna, who (randomly?) opposes all of my candidatures, will think up for my next file to candidate. - A.S. 11:22, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Haloes on light/dark interfaces originate in camera but are often quite limited to absent. They are however reinforced by sharpening an image and can the become very visible, as is the case here (assuming it was sharpening). About the othe part of your comment, I don't believe Kallerna is targeting anyone, he is only a bit more critical than most here around (I'm even worse), trying to raise the standard of promoted images. W.S. 11:40, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The territories to the south of the cathedral are not allowed for visitors. Besides, it is possible that the tower of the gate church would then disturb in the background. - A.S. 08:21, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, I can't see any obstacle. And how about capturing this façade in the morning when lit by sun? --ELEKHHT 10:28, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Pantocrator of the Deisis mosaic, in Hagia Sophia.
this is the full mosaic - in a low quality image. Ggia (talk) 06:49, 22 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately, I was not able to shoot the other characters properly and this is all I have to present. --Eusebius (talk) 07:24, 22 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I was yesterday in Aya Sofia and I have shot these mosaics.. the left figure was half under shadow but the right was ok.. when I will be back home I will upload some of them. I just mentioned that here because this is a good example of how a set of 3 images could be nominated for FPC. Ggia (talk)
  •  Oppose shows only part of the mosaic, and quality could be better (I guess it was perspective fixed, since it's taken at 28mm). In the end, it doesn't really make justice to how beautiful this is (I was there as well). - Benh (talk) 11:26, 22 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Soviet steam locomotive SO18-3100
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 I withdraw my nomination Citron (talk) 21:41, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Panoramic view of La Guaira city and Caribbean sea (left), and Caracas (right). At the center is Oriental peak at El Avila National Park.

 I withdraw my nomination Paolo (talk) 13:36, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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SHView of Caracas from Bello Monte at sunset
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Metz: Porte des Allemands
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Plants in the Ruwenzori Mountains, SW-Uganda, Bujuku Valley, in about 3700 m altitude. Center back, hung with lichen, a high tree-Erica, way forward both hands "trees" with bright green leaves (Dendrosenecio adnivalis) and Lobelia, and in front of straw flowers.

Plants in the Ruwenzori Mountains, SW-Uganda, Bujuku Valley, in about 3700 m altitude. Center back, hung with lichen, a high tree-Erica, way forward both hands "trees" with bright green leaves (Dendrosenecio adnivalis) and Lobelia, and in front of straw flowers

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The Matterhorn, taken by Klein Matterhorn on 2 January 2011
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Krinnenspitze
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gynoecium of geranium sylvaticum
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Armstrong after Lunar EVA
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Worse than Broadway tower, but very simular.
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Anadarko Tower

 I withdraw my nomination Tomer T (talk) 16:27, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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  •  Oppose Good image but.. I don't like the shadow in the right bottom. I think it is feasible to have an image from the same angle without this shadow. Ggia (talk) 03:59, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support The shadow and the tight crop do disturb, yes, but not nearly enough to discredit such a beautiful pic. It's to be featured imo. Tourists can't just disappear, could be the best crop possible at day. Paolo (talk) 18:54, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Bananenfalter, Caligo atreus
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Charles Bradley
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An Alpine Marmot
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Mont Saint-Michel
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Palace of Fontainebleau
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Orthodox Church of the Saint Resurrection (translit: Svyato Voskresenskyi). Khmelnytskyi highway, 5. Vinnitsa, Ukraine. Built in 1910.
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Portrait of Yellow-headed Amazon Parrot
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The Royal Jordanian Falcons
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Saint Sava Temple in Belgrade
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