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Featured picture candidates Featured picture candidates are images that the community will vote on, to determine whether or not they will be highlighted as some of the finest on Commons. This page lists the candidates to become featured pictures. The picture of the day images are selected from featured pictures. Old candidates for Featured pictures are listed here. There are also chronological lists of featured pictures: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and current month. For another overview of our finest pictures, take a look at our annual picture of the year election.

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Formal things Nominating Guidelines for nominators Please read the complete guidelines before nominating. This is a summary of what to look for when submitting and reviewing FP candidates: Licensing - Images licensed with solely "GFDL" or "GFDL and an NC-only license" are not acceptable due the restrictions placed on re-use by these licenses. Resolution – Images (with the exception of animations, videos, and SVGs) of lower resolution than 2 million pixels (pixels, not bytes) are typically rejected unless there are 'strong mitigating reasons'. Note that a 1600 × 1200 image has 1.92 Mpx, just less than the 2 million level. A 1920 × 1080 image, commonly known as Full HD, has 2.07 Mpx, just more than the 2 million level. Graphics on Commons are not only viewed on conventional computer screens. They may be used in high-resolution print versions, and the images may be cropped to focus on portions of the image. See Commons:Why we need high resolution media for more information. Scans – While not official policy, Help:Scanning provides advice on the preparation of various types of images that may be useful. General quality – pictures being nominated should be of high technical quality. Digital manipulations must not deceive the viewer. Digital manipulation for the purpose of correcting flaws in an image is generally acceptable, provided it is limited, well-done, and not intended to deceive. For photographs, typical acceptable manipulations include cropping, perspective correction, sharpening/blurring, and colour/exposure correction. More extensive manipulations, such as removal of distracting background elements, should be clearly described in the image text, by means of the {{Retouched picture}} template. Undescribed or mis-described manipulations which cause the main subject to be misrepresented are never acceptable. For historic images, acceptable manipulations might include digitally fixing rips, removal of stains, cleanup of dirt, and, for mass-produced artworks such as engravings, removal of flaws inherent to the particular reproduction, such as over-inking. Careful colour adjustments may be used to bring out the original work from the signs of ageing, though care should be taken to restore a natural appearance. The original artistic intent should be considered when deciding whether it is appropriate to make a change. Edits to historic material should be documented in detail within the file description, and an unedited version should be uploaded and cross linked for comparison. Value – our main goal is to feature most valuable pictures from all others. Pictures should be in some way special, so please be aware that: almost all sunsets are aesthetically pleasing, and most such pictures are not in essence different from others, night-shots are pretty but normally more details can be shown on pictures taken at daytime, beautiful does not always mean valuable. Artworks, illustrations, and historical documents There are many different types of non-photographic media, including engravings, watercolours, paintings, etchings, and various others. Hence, it is difficult to set hard-and-fast guidelines. However, generally speaking, works can be divided into three types: Those that can be scanned, those that must be photographed, and those specifically created to illustrate a subject. Works that must be photographed include most paintings, sculptures, works too delicate or too unique to allow them to be put on a scanner, and so on. For these, the requirements for photography, below, may be mostly followed; however, it should be noted that photographs which cut off part of the original painting are generally not considered featurable. Works that may be scanned include most works created by processes that allow for mass distribution—for instance, illustrations published with novels. For these, it is generally accepted that a certain amount of extra manipulation is permissible to remove flaws inherent to one copy of the work, since the particular copy – of which hundreds, or even thousands of copies also exist – is not so important as the work itself. Works created to serve a purpose include diagrams, scientific illustrations, and demonstrations of contemporary artistic styles. For these, the main requirement is that they serve their purpose well. Provided the reproduction is of high quality, an artwork generally only needs one of the following four things to be featurable: Notable in its own right: Works by major artists, or works that are otherwise notable, such as the subjects of a controversy. Of high artistic merit: Works which, while not particularly well known, are nonetheless wonderful examples of their particular type or school of art. Of high historic merit: The historical method values very early illustrations of scenes and events over later ones. Hence, a work of poor quality depicting a contemporaneous historical event can be nonetheless important, even if the artistic merit is relatively low. Likewise, scans or photographs of important documents – which may not be at all artistic – nonetheless may be highly valuable if the documents are historically significant. The reason for the image's historical importance should be briefly stated in the nomination, for those reviewers unfamiliar with the subject. Of high illustrative merit: Works that illustrate or help explain notable subjects, for instance, illustrations of books, scientific subjects, or technical processes. The amount of artistic merit required for these will vary by subject, but, for instance, an illustration that makes the working of a complicated piece of machinery very clear need not be notable as a piece of artwork as well, whereas an illustration for a book might well be expected to reach much higher artistic standards. Digital restorations must also be well documented. An unedited version of the image should be uploaded locally, when possible, and cross-linked from the file hosting page. Edit notes should be specified in detail, such as "Rotated and cropped. Dirt, scratches, and stains removed. Histogram adjusted and colors balanced." Photographs On the technical side, we have focus, exposure, composition, movement control and depth of field. Focus – every important object in the picture should normally be sharp. Exposure refers to the shutter diaphragm combination that renders an image with a tonal curve that ideally is able to represent in acceptable detail shadows and highlights within the image. This is called latitude. Images can be on the low side of the tonal curve (low range), the middle (middle range) or high side (upper range). Digital cameras (or images) have a narrower latitude than film. Lack of shadow detail is not necessarily a negative characteristic. In fact, it can be part of the desired effect. Burned highlights in large areas are a distracting element. Composition refers to the arrangement of the elements within the image. The "Rule of Thirds" is a good guideline for composition and is an inheritance from the painting school. The idea is to divide the image with two imaginary horizontal and two vertical lines, thus dividing the image into thirds horizontally and vertically. Centering the subject is often less interesting than placing the subject in one of the "interest points", the 4 intersection between these horizontal and vertical lines intersect. Horizons should almost never be placed in the middle, where they "cut" the image in half. The upper or lower horizontal line is often a good choice. The main idea is to use space to create a dynamic image. Foreground and background – foreground and background objects may be distracting. You should check that something in front of the subject doesn't hide important elements and that something in background doesn't spoil the composition (for example that the streetlight doesn't "stand" on someone's head). Movement control refers to the manner in which motion is represented in the image. Motion can be frozen or blurred. Neither one is better than the other. It is the intention of representation. Movement is relative within the objects of the image. For example, photographing a race car that appears frozen in relation to the background does not give us a sense of speed or motion, so technique dictates to represent the car in a frozen manner but with a blurred background, thus creating the sense of motion, this is called "panning". On the other hand, representing a basketball player in a high jump frozen in relation to everything else, due to the "unnatural" nature of the pose would be a good photograph. Depth of field (DOF) refers to the area in focus in front of and beyond main subject. Depth of field is chosen according to the specific needs of every picture. Large or small DOF can either way add or subtract to the quality of the image. Low depth of field can be used to bring attention to the main subject, separating it from the general environment. High depth of field can be used to emphasize space. Short focal length lenses (wide angles) yield large DOF, and vice versa, long focal lenses (telephotos) have shallow DOF. Small apertures yield large DOF and conversely, large apertures yield shallow DOF. On the graphic elements we have shape, volume, colour, texture, perspective, balance, proportion, noise, etc. Shape refers to the contour of the main subjects. Volume refers to the three dimensional quality of the object. This is accomplished using side light. Contrary to general belief, front lighting is not the best light. It tends to flatten subject. Best light of day is early morning or late afternoon. Colour is important. Over saturated colours are not good. Texture refers to the quality of the surface of the subject. It is enhanced by side lighting… it is the "feel" to the touch. Perspective refers to the "angle" accompanied by lines that disappear into a vanishing point that may or may not be inside the image. Balance refers to the arrangement of subjects within the image that can either give equal weight or appear to be heavier on one side. Proportion refers to the relation of size of objects in picture. Generally, we tend to represent small objects small in relation to others, but a good technique is to represent small objects large contrary to natural size relationship. For example, a small flower is given preponderance over a large mountain…. This is called inversion of scales. Not all elements must be present. Some photographs can be judged on individual characteristics, that is, an image can be about color or texture, or colour AND texture, etc. Noise refers to unwanted corruption of colour brightness and quality and can be caused by underexposure. It is not a desirable quality and can be grounds for opposition. Symbolic meaning or relevance … Opinion wars can begin here … A bad picture of a very difficult subject is a better picture than a good picture of an ordinary subject. A good picture of a difficult subject is an extraordinary photograph. Images can be culturally biased by the photographer and/or the observer. The meaning of the image should be judged according to the cultural context of the image, not by the cultural context of the observer. An image "speaks" to people, and it has the capacity to evoke emotion such as tenderness, rage, rejection, happiness, sadness, etc. Good photographs are not limited to evoking pleasant sensations … You will maximise the chances of your nominations succeeding if you read the complete guidelines before nominating. Video and audio Please see Commons:Featured media candidates for video guidelines. Set nominations If a group of images are thematically connected in a direct and obvious way, they can be nominated together as a set. A set should fall under one of the following types: Faithful digital reproductions of works notable in their own right, which the original author clearly intended to be viewed as a set. Examples: pages in a pamphlet, crops (puzzle pieces) of a prohibitively large scan, a pair of pendant paintings. Not acceptable: Arbitrary selection of sample works by an artist. A sequence of images showing the passage of time. They could depict frames of a moving/changing object or a static object during different times of day or different seasons. Examples: diagrams illustrating a process, steps of a dance, metamorphosis of an insect, maps/drawings/photos of the same subject over the years (frame of view should be more or less the same). A group of images depicting the same subject from different viewpoints, preferably taken under the same lighting conditions when possible. Examples: Exterior and interior of a building, different facades of a building, different interior views, obverse and inverse of a banknote/coin. Not acceptable: A selection of different rooms in a skyscraper, the facade of a church plus an organ, any images of fundamentally different scopes. A group of images which show all possible variations of a particular class of object. Examples: Male and female versions of an animal (preferably in the same setting), all known species of a genus. Not acceptable: A few breeds of cats (unless they share a defining characteristic and represent all possible examples of that). Adding a new nomination If you believe that you have found or created an image that could be considered valuable, with appropriate image description and licensing, then do the following. Step 1: copy the image name into this box, after the text already present in the box, for example, Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Your image filename.jpg. Then click on the "create new nomination" button. All single files: For renominations, simply add /2 after the filename. For example, Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Foo.jpg/2 All set nomination pages should begin "Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/", e.g. "Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/My Nomination". Step 2: follow the instructions on the page that you are taken to, and save that page. Step 3: manually insert a link to the created page at the top of Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list: Click here, and add the following line to the TOP of the nominations list: {{Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Your image filename.jpg}} Recommended: Please add a category from the list at COM:FP. Optional: if you are not the creator of the image, please notify him/her using {{subst:FPC-notice|Your image filename.jpg}} -- ~~~~. Voting Editors whose accounts have at least 10 days and 50 edits can vote. Everybody can vote for his/her own nominations. Anonymous (IP) votes are not allowed. You may use following templates: {{Support}} ( Support), {{Oppose}} ( Oppose), {{Neutral}} ( Neutral), {{Comment}} ( Comment), {{Info}} ( Info), {{Question}} ( Question), {{Request}} ( Request). You may indicate that the image has no chance of success with the template {{FPX|reason - ~~~~}}, where reason explains why the image is clearly unacceptable as a FP. The template can only be used when there are no support votes other than the one from the nominator. A well-written review helps participants (photographers, nominators and reviewers) improve their skills by providing insight into the strengths and weaknesses of a picture. Explain your reasoning, especially when opposing a candidate (which has been carefully selected by the author/nominator). English is the most widely understood language on Commons, but any language may be used in your review. A helpful review will often reference one or more of the criteria listed above. Unhelpful reasons for opposing include: No reason "I don't like it" and other empty assessments "You can do better" and other criticisms of the author/nominator rather than the image Remember also to put your signature (~~~~). Featured picture delisting candidates Over time, featured picture standards change. It may be decided that for some pictures which were formerly "good enough", this is no longer the case. This is for listing an image which you believe no longer deserves to be a featured picture. For these, vote: Text to use Displays as Meaning {{Keep}}  Keep It deserves to remain a featured picture {{Delist}}  Delist It does not deserve to be a featured picture anymore. This can also be used for cases in which a previous version of an image was promoted to FP, but a newer version of the image has been made and is believed to be superior to the old version, e.g. a newly edited version of a photo or a new scan of a historical image. In particular, it is not intended for replacing older photos of a particular subject with newer photos of the same subject, or in any other case where the current FP and the proposed replacement are essentially different images. For these nominations, vote: Text to use Displays as Meaning {{Keep}}  Keep Do not replace the old image with the new image as an FP. {{Delistandreplace}}  Delist and replace Replace the current FP with the proposed replacement. If you believe that some picture no longer meets the criteria for FP, you can nominate it for delisting, copying the image name into this box, after the text already present in the box: In the new delisting nomination page just created you should include: Information on the origin of the image (creator, uploader); A link to the original FP nomination (it will appear under "Links" on the image description page); Your reasons for nominating the image and your username. After that, you have to manually insert a link to the created page at the top of Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list. As a courtesy, leave an informative note on the talk page(s) of the original creator, uploader(s), and nominator with a link to the delisting candidate. {{subst:FPC-notice-removal}} can be used for this purpose. Featured picture candidate policy General rules The voting period is 9 complete days counted from the nomination. After the end of this period the result will be determined. Votes added on day 10 and after are not counted. Nominations by anonymous contributors are welcome Contributions to discussion by anonymous contributors are welcome Only registered contributors whose Commons accounts have at least 10 days and 50 edits can vote. Exception: registered users can always vote in their own nominations no matter the account age and number of edits. Nominations do not count as votes. Support must be explicitly stated. Nominators and authors can withdraw their nominated pictures at any time. This is done by adding the following template: {{withdraw}} ~~~~ Remember, the goal of the Wikimedia Commons project is to provide a central repository for free images to be used by all Wikimedia projects, including possible future projects. This is not simply a repository for Wikipedia images, so images should not be judged here on their suitability for that project. Rules of the 5th day based on vote counts on day number 5 (day of nomination + 5) Pictures are speedy declined if they have no support (apart from the nominator). Pictures are speedy promoted if they have 10 support votes or more and no oppose votes. (Note that if it takes more than five days to reach this threshold, the picture can be promoted as soon as it is reached.) Once either speedy criterion is reached, the voting period is considered closed, and no more votes may be added. Pictures tagged {{FPX}} may be removed from the list 24 hours after the tag was applied, provided there are no support votes other than that of the nominator. Pictures tagged {{FPD}} (FP-Denied) may be removed from the list 24 hours after the tag was applied. Only two active nominations by the same user (that is, nominations under review and not yet closed) are allowed. The main purpose of this measure is to contribute to a better average quality of nominations, by driving nominators/creators to choose carefully the pictures presented to the forum. Featuring and delisting rules A candidate will become a featured picture in compliance with following conditions: Appropriate license (of course) At least seven  Support votes at the end of nine days Ratio of supporting/opposing votes at least 2/1 (a two-thirds majority); same for delist/keep votes Two different versions of the same picture cannot both be featured, but only the one with higher level of support, as determined by the closer. Whenever the closer is not sure which version has consensus to be featured, he/she should attempt to contact the voters to clarify their opinions if not clear from the nomination page. The delisting rules are the same as those for FPs, with voting taking place over the same time period. The rule of the 5th day is applied to delisting candidates that have received no votes to delist, other than that of the proposer, by day 5. There is also a limit of two active delisting nominations per user, which is in addition to the limit of two active regular nominations. The FPCBot handles the vote counting and closing in most cases, current exceptions are candidates containing multiple versions of the image as well as FPXed and withdrawn nominations. Any experienced user may close the requests not handled by the bot. For instructions on how to close nominations, see Commons:Featured picture candidates/What to do after voting is finished. Also note that there is a manual review stage between the bot has counted the votes and before they are finally closed by the bot, this manual review can be done by any user that are familiar with the voting rules. Above all, be polite Please don't forget that the image you are judging is somebody's work. Avoid using phrases like "it looks terrible" and "I hate it". If you must oppose, please do so with consideration. Also remember that your command of English might not be the same as someone else's. Choose your words with care. Happy judging… and remember... all rules can be broken. See also To edit the list of nominations go to: Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list For a chronological list, see Commons:Featured_pictures/chronological For an archive of previous nominations, see Commons:Featured picture candidates/Log For instructions on how to close nominations, see Commons:Featured picture candidates/What to do after voting is finished Basic list of photography-related terms Quality image candidates Valued image candidates Photo challenge Photography critiques Help:Scanning

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Featured picture candidates

File:Treppenturm, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, 150118, ako.jpg

Voting period ends on 12 Oct 2016 at 12:15:21 (UTC)
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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
•  Info created and uploaded by Code - nominated by -- Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 12:15, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 12:15, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose - I regret that this isn't wowing me. The building itself is not striking to me, and the reflections aren't helping. Perhaps others may feel differently. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 12:21, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Orthetrum luzonicum-Kadavoor-2016-09-08-001.jpg

Voting period ends on 12 Oct 2016 at 09:47:35 (UTC)
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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals
•  Info created and uploaded by Jeevan Jose (Jkadavoor) - nominated by User:Ikan Kekek -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:47, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - This is one of the clearest dragonfly pictures I've seen. We can see the compound eyes, and the body is also nicely clear. Good composition and fine bokeh, in my opinion. And for what it's worth, we have no featured pictures of this species of dragonfly, as of yet. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:47, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 09:51, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Unusual wing position too. cart-Talk 10:00, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment Thanks Ikan Kekek for the nom. He is perching on Colocasia esculenta and the background is also another leaf. Jee 11:09, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Comment - You're welcome. Thanks for the additional background information. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:13, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Support excellent --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 11:15, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment Underexposed! --Ivar (talk) 12:48, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Seckau Maria Schnee Panorama 01.jpg

Voting period ends on 12 Oct 2016 at 09:18:47 (UTC)
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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Natural#Austria
•  Info Maria Schnee pilgrimage church at the Hochalm near Seckau, Styria. All by me -- Uoaei1 (talk) 09:18, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Uoaei1 (talk) 09:18, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 09:48, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose nice, but wrong light direction for the main, the "Maria Schnee pilgrimage church". The church is in shadow and too dark. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 10:00, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Composition and golden ratio: Almost 50% rather empty sky are too much. The horizon is too low. Otherwise verry good, apart from the a bit too dark church. --Milseburg (talk) 10:15, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
  • Milseburg, I disagree that the "golden ratio" (or "rule of thirds" also) should ever be a reason to oppose. It's about as valid as opposing any image that isn't 2:3 aspect, say. Just as certain aspect ratios are popular/generally-pleasing, and certain arrangements of objects within the frame are popular/generally-pleasing doesn't follow that an image that breaks this "rule" is flawed. To be honest, most extreme panoramas (and certainly 360° ones) fail to be pleasing compositions. They have a certain educational interest quality, for panning around the image, but as a whole image, they generally don't please the eye imo. One can argue such panoramas are meant to simulate the view of a person looking around the view while looking straight ahead. As such, a horizon about halfway is natural, and indeed the camera will be facing that way to avoid distortions. So a seriously cropped sky (as some of your noms have) looks vertically compromised to me. The view is very wide and thus needs room to breathe vertically. -- Colin (talk) 11:40, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
    • We will not agree here. I feel a 50:50 split between sky and ground even at these formats to be disadvantageous. Especially so much blue sky is boring. Think of the impression it would make in printed form on the wall. This is not a sperical panorama. --Milseburg (talk) 12:17, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose The subject and ground is just too dark. -- Colin (talk) 11:40, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Hamburg, Landungsbrücken -- 2016 -- 3173.jpg

Voting period ends on 12 Oct 2016 at 05:51:05 (UTC)
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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture#Germany
•  Info all by XRay -- XRay ^talk 05:51, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- XRay ^talk 05:51, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - Part of the sky looks blown, but overall, an excellent photo, in my opinion. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:45, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support @XRay you can cut the blown part of the sky without losing anything. The composition will be better too! --Alchemist-hp (talk) 09:38, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

• I'll try it within the next days. Thanks. --XRay ^talk 09:47, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

• ... and fixed. --XRay ^talk 10:15, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

• I like it better this way. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:25, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
• Thanks, perfect --Alchemist-hp (talk) 10:30, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Support INeverCry 09:49, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support A harbor, some ships and interesting structures, you got my attention. :) cart-Talk 10:05, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support very well done - especially considering the difficult lighting conditions --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 11:12, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Sorry, but I disagree about the lighting. I think it looks too dark such that it is hard to make out things. I wonder if too much effort made to avoid blowing out the sky (which to me is not a big deal if handled well) and thus over-reduced the foreground. Also the colour balance looks too warm and the timestamp does not indicate late evening golden light. -- Colin (talk) 11:46, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Rimberg-Panorama 2014.jpg

Voting period ends on 11 Oct 2016 at 20:12:23 (UTC)
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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Panoramas
•  Info Renomination after total review and reload. The labels are most work here. Ordinary annotations don´t work in this format. Created by Jörg Braukmann - uploaded by User:Milseburg - nominated by Milseburg -- Milseburg (talk) 20:12, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Milseburg (talk) 20:12, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - I believe I supported this before. Great job on the labeling! -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:23, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 01:22, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support It's a very good picture and I'll support it as is, BUT it would be even better if there was one version of this without the text or with editable text. That way it could be use in more languages, or if someone would like to extract a part of it for some article. The text thing was solved very elegantly in this file where some of the versions were without text or editable, but there are of course other ways to do this. cart-Talk 10:39, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support per W. Carter --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 11:10, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Neutral There is too little sky and too little vertical height, like looking through a letterbox at the world. I would encourage you to take multi-row panoramics (or at least, to hold the camera vertically) to avoid this problem. Invest in a panoramic head if you like taking these pictures. Also, per Cart, there should be a version without labels. -- Colin (talk) 11:52, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

• A textless version is possible but much less instruktive. Sorry, I see no value in adding clouds at the top or leaves on the buttom. A higher focal length sometimes requires even more extreme "letterbox"-formats to show the whole view from a mountain. --Milseburg (talk) 13:03, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Catedral de Sioni, Tiflis, Georgia, 2016-09-29, DD 97-99 HDR.jpg

Voting period ends on 11 Oct 2016 at 19:37:03 (UTC)
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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Interiors/Religious buildings
•  Info Ceiling of the Sioni Cathedral, a Georgian Orthodox cathedral in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. The cathedral is situated in historic Sionis Kucha (Sioni Street) in downtown Tbilisi. It was initially built in the 6th and 7th centuries. Since then, it has been destroyed by foreign invaders and reconstructed several times. The current church is based on a 13th-century version with some changes from the 17th to 19th centuries. The Sioni Cathedral was the main Georgian Orthodox Cathedral and the seat of Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia until the Holy Trinity Cathedral was consecrated in 2004. All by me, Poco² 19:37, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Poco² 19:37, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --cart-Talk 19:51, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Even thou that purple fringing within dome windows might need some attention. But overall, that's an excellent image of a very complex thing to capture. Kruusamägi (talk) 19:55, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

  Ivo, those slight purple fringes are now removed Poco² 20:28, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Support Very interesting light. --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 21:12, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Nice view and light, max camera picture size --The Photographer 21:14, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support. This is special to me with the light plus the beautiful church interior. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:20, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Karelj (talk) 22:00, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 01:23, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Ivar (talk) 05:46, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Wow. Very good! --XRay ^talk 05:53, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support very beautiful but please do enjoy your vacation and take care of your raws after your return! ;-) --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 11:05, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Bucharest - Sunset on Lipscani Street (28592940111).jpg

Voting period ends on 11 Oct 2016 at 18:31:25 (UTC)
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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture/Cityscapes
•  Info created by Bukarester - uploaded by Bukarester - nominated by Bukarester -- Bukarester (talk) 18:31, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Bukarester (talk) 18:31, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose sorry, but the foreground are too dark, the sky overexposed. The image need also a perspective correction. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 18:57, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose The picture is way to dark and in need of some perspective correction. It is recommended that you nominate a picture for Quality Image before trying it here. That way you can get tips and hints from other users on how to improve it. cart-Talk 19:01, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose per others. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:24, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed because per comments, too dark and sky overexposed

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File:Rhodes' old town.jpg

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•  Info created by LunaLinda - uploaded by LunaLinda - nominated by LunaLindaLunaLinda -- LunaLinda (talk) 18:28, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- LunaLinda (talk) 18:28, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose sorry, but harsh light and overexposed. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 18:51, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Alchemist-hp. It is recommended that you nominate a picture for Quality Image before trying it here. That way you can get tips and hints from other users on how to improve it. cart-Talk 19:03, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
• Mild  Oppose - Might this need perspective correction, too? I think you have a good compositional idea, but how would it look from the other side? The wooden terrace (or whatever it is) gets in the way of the view of the arch. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:27, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per Alchemist-hp. INeverCry 01:24, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Clearly overexposed. Daniel Case (talk) 06:16, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Hamburg Süd (Hamburg-Altstadt).04.29971.ajb.jpg

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•  Info Cultural heritage monuments from 1890s and 1960s along Nikolaifleet canal in Hamburg. One of many great architecture images by Ajepbah. I appreciate the composition, the perfect light, and the contrast between old and newer buildings. Uploaded and created by Ajepbah. Nominated by -- Arild Vågen (talk) 17:32, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- ArildV (talk) 17:32, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose chromatic aberration and focus problem (See notes), horizontals look cut --The Photographer 17:47, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

  I don't agree about the "focus problem", the bridge is just foreground. I'm really struggling to see the CA here.--ArildV (talk) 19:57, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Oppose - Right. And an unsharp foreground is less than outstanding, in my opinion (and apparently in The Photographer's opinion). I like the composition, though. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:30, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

• Weak  Oppose Image is good, but somehow there's no wow for me (maybe it's to overcrowded). [And I can't see any CA or focus problem]. Kruusamägi (talk) 20:00, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose In addition to the noted technical issues, I find the composition to have been too ambitious—I see how the photographer wanted to capture the abstract patterns of the buildings, but there's too many of them, and they clash. A simpler focus might have worked better, as well as eliminating the technical issues. Daniel Case (talk) 06:14, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

 Comment The clash of the patterns is just what I wanted to show with this picture ;-) This is the complete view, here (still with focus problem in foreground), here, and here are simpler focuses of the main subject. --Ajepbah (talk) 06:52, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

 Comment - I like the complete view best. Some of the whites look blown, but otherwise, it's a good picture. I don't know whether it would be featured; some people might perhaps find some fault with the crop or perspective of the nearest building as well as the glary light and blown whites, but I would vote to feature it, based on the quality of the composition to my eyes. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:48, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Support in my eyes the composition works --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 11:01, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Città Vecchia di Rodi.jpg

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•  Info created by LunaLinda - uploaded by LunaLinda - nominated by LunaLindaLunaLinda -- LunaLinda (talk) 17:21, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- LunaLinda (talk) 17:21, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Harsh contrast, car is cut, need verticals fix. This file is only a sample of what I'm telling you and not and It aims to make a real correction or alt nomination --The Photographer 22:16, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose per The Photographer. cart-Talk 18:14, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose harsh light and the image need a slightly perspective correction. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 19:00, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose - There are compositional problems, too. It's best to avoid including part of a car or cutting things off as you did with your left crop. The light is harsh, but that's a very common light in the Southern Mediterranean. I'd be OK with light that's just a little less harsh. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:34, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per others, Alchemist especially. Daniel Case (talk) 04:25, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Bucharest - Smârdan Street (28547822606).jpg

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•  Info created by Bukarester - uploaded by Bukarester - nominated by Bukarester -- Bukarester (talk) 13:05, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Bukarester (talk) 13:05, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose I can see how the sunlight building caught your eye, sandwiched between the buildings on either side. You've clearly pointed the camera up, perhaps to try to get the top in the frame or to avoid a busy street below. But the result is converging verticals, which have not been corrected in software. I think the building on the far right isn't so interesting as it is in shadow. And the leftmost part of the left building is also rather plain, so those could be cropped out perhaps (or hold the camera portrait, which might give you the vertical height you need). I see from your EXIF you have Contrast=High, Sharpness=Hard. I suspect this might be making the image look a bit over-processed. Consider using more standard/neutral settings on your camera, or else take raw rather than JPG and use a raw image processor like Lightroom, which I can strongly recommend. -- Colin (talk) 16:32, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Nice idea, however, Overexposition fix was too far changing whites for greys (look left building), denoise artifacts, right building too harsh underexposed, sky posterization (see notes) --The Photographer 17:53, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment @Bukarester: Since you are rather new to this section and probably only ended up here since you tried to get your picture as Picture of the Day, you may not be familiar with the rules. If you want to end a nomination you have to put {{withdrawn}} and sign your post instead of just removing the nomination. Colin wrote that in the edit summary, but I doubt you saw that. cart-Talk 18:53, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose - I agree that this photo is not featurable, for the reasons given above, but I would like to encourage you, because you had a good compositional idea here. My only real disagreement with the composition (aside from questions of lighting dealt with above, etc.) is that it would be better to crop out the bit of a building you have near the left margin. The rest is technique and practice. I hope you will eventually be able to nominate a featurable picture in time. Meanwhile, I'd suggest for you to frequent Commons:Photography critiques for more advice, and after a while, COM:Quality images candidates. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:42, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per Ikan and others. Daniel Case (talk) 04:21, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Kendall Wall Band.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/People
•  Info created by imasku - uploaded by imasku - nominated by Imasku -- Imasku 20:58, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Imasku 20:58, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose - Poorly cropped, cutting off people's hands. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:44, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per Ikan. INeverCry 01:28, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Lots of dust and scratches. Looks like a scanned publicity photo. Daniel Case (talk) 04:18, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose per above --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 11:18, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Cascading waves at Kallbadhuset Lysekil.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena#Storms
•  Info A "Kallbadhus" (literally "Cold bathhouse"), open-air bath, can be found in many Swedish towns. Most were built during the 19th century (like this one) and they usually look like small castle pavilions. Built for comfortable outdoor bathing, this is not the kind of weather you usually associate with them. This is the most difficult photo I've taken so far. Tripods are not an option in storms, unless you want to chase them for sport, and you get showered with salt water. I tied the camera to my hand to keep it from blowing away and set it to continuous shooting hoping that something would turn out ok. Of the over 800 pics I took that evening, 600 had too much camera shake, about 60 of the remaining showed something interesting and only 8 made the final selection. All by me, -- cart-Talk 10:49, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- cart-Talk 10:49, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - Are some parts of clouds posterized? I'll leave that determination to someone else. I really like the drama of this picture. But be careful! We wouldn't want you to get blown away. :-) -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:10, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Lack o sharpening, some element disturbing and unbalanced.(I added notes) However, I like this composition. --The Photographer 18:00, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

• Thank you for the notes. However the stone block is pretty hard to move (and it's part of the harbor infrastructure so not to be cloned out) and I like to keep the whole wave to the right. Let's keep this nomination as it is. :) cart-Talk 18:09, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

You should wait the nightfall and try move it, however, Try to keep too many elements in the composition could shut down the importance of all remember it's only my opinion. --The Photographer 18:17, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

It was almost nightfall when I took the pic and moving stone blocks was the last thing on my mind then. :D Anyway the storm is over now, I'll probably have to wait another year for the next big one. Your opinion is much appreciated, we'll see what others have to say. I'm hoping to avoid another editing circus. cart-Talk 18:23, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

I spent most of my childhood in a small village on the Margarita island, Caribbean Sea. Every afternoon after school, I went with my father to fish. The pier and buildings were more rudimentary build in colonial times, however, swell and sky were almost the same. --The Photographer 20:49, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Support --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 21:13, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Great shot! --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 23:10, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Qualified support Yes, the clouds are posterized. But I see that as a necessary tradeoff to getting a shot that shows us the serenity and fury of nature in one scene. I'd support the suggested crop, too. Daniel Case (talk) 03:11, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support And 7. INeverCry 06:33, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I like it as it is, but that's just me. Ceannlann gorm (talk) 10:55, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 10:57, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Grådö skans 2016-09-27.jpg

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•  Info created by Vivo - uploaded by Vivo - nominated by Vivo -- Vivo (talk) 07:53, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Vivo (talk) 07:53, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment - The composition is lovely, and I like the soft light (though maybe a bit of the brighter areas are posterized). However, I'm not sure whether I am ready to support a picture for its atmosphere when the focus feels so soft. I think I could, except that the near right corner is quite unfocused even at full-page size. So to sum up, for me to support this photo, I think you'd need to do a horizontal crop at least 1/4 or so of the way up. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:36, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment @Ikan Kekek: Cropped, better? --Vivo (talk) 09:31, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
• Weak  Support - Thanks. I'm still a little bothered by the remaining unsharp grasses in the near right corner, but more cropping would be destructive and the overall picture is peaceful and pleasant. I also really like how the railing and then the far shore of the lake bisect the picture, with the hills in the background. Whether someone considers this composition good enough for a feature is quite subjective, so I'll be interested to see what other people think. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:39, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Thankfully you saved most of the beautiful curve of the fence. cart-Talk 10:26, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Color noise, lack of DoF and wrong cut (IMHO hould have been at the fence base) --The Photographer 17:56, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose sorry, nice mood, but the quality isn't ok: color noise and sharpnes (false focus point?). --Alchemist-hp (talk) 19:03, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Question - What is a false focus point? I could also use a pointer on what color noise is and how to look for it. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:46, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

• Only a small part of the foreground is sharp: DoF is insufficient. "color noise" take a look at 100% and you see it all over. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 22:13, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

• I'm well able to see sharpness and unsharpness, but I don't know specifically what a false focus _point_ is. I have of course looked at this photo at full size. I guess I do see the color noise, now that I'm looking for it, even though it's not nearly as obvious as in my Google search results for "color noise". -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:39, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

• Please take a look to the article: en:Image noise. My english is max. only 2. I'm not a english speaker, so please forgive me the accuracy. "false focus _point": if I see an image only with a few foreground sharpness, so it is for me a false focus point, but I mean more the DoF ... --Alchemist-hp (talk) 23:47, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

• Danke, und es ist kein Problem dass dein Englisch ist nicht wirklich toll. Entschuldigung dass meine Deutsch ist nicht so gut. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:52, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

• --Alchemist-hp (talk) 09:34, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Weak support per Ikan. For me, the flaws notwithstanding, the mood works well enough. Daniel Case (talk) 03:05, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

File:San Francisco City Hall, nighttime, September 2016.jpg

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•  Info created by dllu - uploaded by dllu - nominated by Dllu -- dllu (t,c) 05:53, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- dllu (t,c) 05:53, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Info This nighttime photo is taken from the same vantage point as the daytime photo, which is already an FP. dllu (t,c) 05:53, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Question Why are the last two flag posts/flags cut so close by the crop? INeverCry 06:11, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

• If I had taken a few steps backwards, ugly cars would be in the frame. I was using a prime 50mm lens so changing the field of view is out of the question. After thinking about it a bit, I decided this crop is better, but now I am not so sure. I don't consider the tight crop to be a critical flaw, but if it is, I may retake this photo as a panorama (though I try to stay away from this region at night due to several recent stabbings and robberies). dllu (t,c) 07:06, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Support - It's not perfect, as various compromises have to be made to take a long-exposure night photo in a city. Sharpness is not optimal but quite sufficient for me, and there are some star trails, but they aren't really too visible except at full size and aren't that prominent in the overall composition. I agree with INC that a slightly wider view would be better - or even better, a slightly narrower view that eliminates most of the blown lights (would you consider that crop?) - but I'm OK with featuring this. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:01, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose You have white and red pixles. Quality is not there, expecially for FF. Lens perhaps ? Light isnt so good. --Mile (talk) 07:10, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Nicely done. I might have a slight preference for blue hour in order to contrast the unlit portion just below the dome from the night sky, but this is excellent nonetheless. --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 07:30, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Code (talk) 07:37, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I like Ikan's idea of a narrower crop. Not a big concern overall though, especially when your safety is at risk. INeverCry 08:30, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support very well done! --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 09:06, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Very nice! --cart-Talk 09:08, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 18:57, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Narikala, Tiflis, Georgia, 2016-09-29, DD 154-156 HDR.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture/Castles and fortifications
•  Info Night view of the Narikala fortress and the's statue in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. The fortress was established in the 4th century and expanded by king David the Builder in the 7th century. Vakhtang I Gorgasali (ca. 441 - 512) was king of Caucasian Iberia. All by me, Poco² 04:14, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Poco² 04:14, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Hm. Sorry. The composition is not that convincing (tree on the right, cut houses at the bottom, a lot of empty sky at the top). Then there's a lot of blur (wind? camera shake?) and and it's somewhat noisy. --Code (talk) 04:20, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per Code. INeverCry 06:25, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment - I actually like the contrast between the empty sky at the upper left and the buildings at the lower right, but I'm wondering whether I'd like the composition better if the lower crop were below this. I feel like I'd like to see at least some of the rest of the largest of the buildings with triangular roofs. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:07, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose WB ? --Mile (talk) 07:12, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  I withdraw my nomination Poco² 18:19, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Dülmen, Buldern, Schloss Buldern -- 2015 -- 0040-4.jpg

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•  Info all by XRay -- XRay ^talk 04:06, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- XRay ^talk 04:06, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Looks good to me, but there is a row or two of anomalous pixels on the bottom of the image that should be cropped out. dllu (t,c) 05:45, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

• Thank you for your hint. I‘ll fix it tomorrow. --XRay ^talk 18:21, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Fixed Just fixed. --XRay ^talk 05:19, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Support --Alchemist-hp (talk) 06:18, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 06:26, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - I'm a bit bothered by one or two unsharp plants in the foreground on the right side at full size, but I quite like the composition and atmosphere, which to me feels Halloween-like. Bare trees with that kind of appearance are a trope of spookiness here in the U.S. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:12, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Mile (talk) 07:13, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support great! --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 09:02, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Spooky. --cart-Talk 09:14, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Cayambe (talk) 11:26, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Jee 16:48, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 17:40, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 18:41, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I really like the composition and atmosphere. Jacopo Werther ^iγ∂ψ=mψ 18:52, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support wow. well, there are some problems with branches (like to ones in foreground), but the wow impression is too strong to really care about that. Kruusamägi (talk) 20:04, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 21:15, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Petrópolis Cathedral, Saint Peter of Alcantara Church, place of Emperor Pedro II, Brazil.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture/Religious_buildings#Brazil
•  Info All by -- The Photographer 13:06, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment At full size, there are a number of distinct concentric halos around the lightsabre church spire. Think this can be fixed? cart-Talk 13:20, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

 Done This Spires is bassically light and the solution is add noise "fix". I simply rollbacked a noise reduction performed over the original file (not uploaded). Please, let me know if it's ok for you. Thanks --The Photographer 13:32, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

There is still some banding even if the bands are faded into each other, but it's a cool and unusual curch pic so I'll  Support it. cart-Talk 18:58, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Neutral Nice composition but quality could be better especially since it's only 8 MP. --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 21:48, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support, King's comments notwithstanding. Daniel Case (talk) 18:36, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose - I don't like either version - the one with the halos or the one with the noise - enough to consider it sufficiently outstanding for a feature. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:45, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

Please, if possible, let me know any suggestions that I can use in the future. --The Photographer 23:01, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

Well, I think the composition is a good idea, but unfortunately, I wouldn't be able to give you technical advice. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:50, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Iceberg in the Arctic with its underside exposed.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena#Ice
•  Info created by AWeith - uploaded by AWeith - nominated by W.carter.
  As someone stated earlier, quality comes from factors: quality of the shot and rarity. This is not only a beautiful picture, it is also the first good photo we have here (AFAIK) of an iceberg with part of the underside showing. Until this photo was uploaded, all Wikipedias had to rely on an artist's impression of what an iceberg might look like under water. -- cart-Talk 12:59, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- cart-Talk 12:59, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support per nom. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 13:13, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Karelj (talk) 16:36, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 21:46, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Gimme a drink of some o' that ... Seriously, great. Can I say that, if promoted, this will be the northernmost FP so far? Daniel Case (talk) 01:28, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

• I shot this one at approx. 80°N i.e. 600 nautical miles from the pole. I'd be glad to nominate another one even further north if you promise to be generous with your vote ; -). --AWeith (talk) 15:32, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

• Polar bear doing morning yoga? :) --cart-Talk 15:52, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
• yeah, thought that might be north enough ... :D --AWeith (talk) 17:09, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

• There is a map/system/whatever with only the FPs displayed? Or do you just have them all in your memory? --cart-Talk 09:23, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Support INeverCry 01:56, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --XRay ^talk 04:20, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Cayambe (talk) 07:43, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 09:00, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Per cart Jacopo Werther ^iγ∂ψ=mψ 10:58, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment That's a pretty high latitude, 8 deg higher than my northernmost FP;) But could you make the geocode just a little more precise? It is shown in the middle of the ocean, yet there is land to be ssen in the background of your image. I can recommend this tool for creating a better Location template. -- Slaunger (talk) 16:07, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

• Slaunger, since I and not the photographer (AWeith) made this nomination, I'm not sure he is keeping a eye on this page very often, so I'm 'pinging' him for you. cart-Talk 16:18, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

• Sorry for not being able to answer in due time; I’m just moving my son and his household from Hamburg to Bavaria. The image is taken just west of Sjuøyane, i.e. 80°40’N 19°09'E. I’ll specify the exact lat/long as soon as I am back home.--AWeith (talk) 17:01, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Support Absolutely no problem. I added the more precise geocode in the file page for you. Nice shot. I have been photographing icebergs years back, but found it hard to get such a clear view of the iceberg under the surface. Very nice work. -- Slaunger (talk) 20:20, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Support Jee 16:52, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Nice shot. Ceannlann gorm (talk) 11:02, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Panorama von Wien-Favoriten mit Tangente und Simmering 50mm (2 von 2).jpg

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•  Info All by Hubertl - View from above the Highway, just befor the tunnel - view from the roof of the Monte Laa building.
•  Support -- Hubertl 05:57, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support By 2050, 50% of all surfaces in the world will be covered with graffiti... INeverCry 06:18, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose - A good QI but not an interesting enough view or maybe, in the absence of that, interesting enough light for me to want to feature it. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:34, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose sorry, per Ikan. But do come back at night and add light trails to the composition --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 09:12, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 20:38, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support A nice urban take on the Kraftwerk album cover: "Die Sonne scheint mit blitze STRAAAHHHLLLL'N ..." Daniel Case (talk) 01:25, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Jee 02:41, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Nice curvy lines. --cart-Talk 09:16, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per Ikan Kekek. --Karelj (talk) 22:04, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Cruiseship passing bacino San Marco Venise.jpg

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•  Info all by Moroder -- Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 20:29, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 20:29, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment File name is a little inappropriate, the ship may be visiting but I doubt the passengers onboard the cruise ship are in Venice to wreck havoc and claim the city as their own. Also, what's with that free-floating lamp on the left? Looks really odd. cart-Talk 21:09, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
  •  Comment Obviously it is not an invasion in military terms but there are thousends of passengers on every ship and there are lots of protests going on, even on these days, against this "invasion". I could easily crop out the lamp but it should give an idea how close these monsters are to the neighborhood --Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 21:58, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

• Having lived for many years in Visby, I know exactly what happens when one of these big cruise ships arrive in the harbor... Nevertheless, all material on the Wikimedia project should be neutral (see Commons:File naming and en:Wikipedia:Neutral point of view) and unbiased regardless of our own point of view. If your picture is strong enough, it will speak for itself without any agenda-pushing title. cart-Talk 23:12, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Support INeverCry 01:51, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
• Moderate  Support - The big cruise ship on the left side of the picture gives me a kind of feeling of dislocation. This is an unusual view for a non-resident of Venice to see, and I find this a good and interesting composition. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 03:08, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Comment - I do agree with cart about the filename, though. Maybe "View of Venice with cruise ship" or something. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 03:09, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Comment I changed the filename but I'm not able to change the subpage name --Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 06:13, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

•  weak support good, important picture, but any chance to get rid of the irritating lamp on the left side? --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 09:11, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Martin said it, I read your comment about the lamp and had it been attached to something, I would not mind keeping it but as it is now it serves little purpose, the gondolas are enough to show the proximity to settlements. cart-Talk 11:06, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Comment Cloned the erratic lamppost, hoping to get stronger support ;-) --Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 14:07, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Comment I think the WB is too yellow and green. --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 20:39, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose per KoH. Also, I feel the composition to be too crowded. Either the gondolas or the cruise ship by themselves might have had a shot, but together they fight for the viewer's attention. Daniel Case (talk) 00:17, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Comment - The fight between the gondolas, the cruise ship and the famous scenery of Venice is the entire point of the photo, so when you say that a picture with these different elements can't work for you, you're saying you disagree with the entire concept of the photo and, for all practical purposes, seemingly, the point that Moroder was trying to make. He couldn't make his point effectively without having both the gondolas and the cruise ship in the picture. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:16, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Oppose wrong colors, WB? --Alchemist-hp (talk) 06:21, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Црква „Св. Јован Канео“.jpg

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•  Info created & uploaded by Darkocv - nominated by Tomer T -- Tomer T (talk) 14:48, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Tomer T (talk) 14:48, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment - Pretty, but is it overprocessed? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 15:26, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Note that have two existing FPs of this church: here and here. I agree with Ikan that it looks overprocesed, with far too much contrast and dark shadows. There's posterisation in the sky/water. It isn't especially detailed (6MP and not sharp). -- Colin (talk) 18:37, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
• After looking at those two pictures, I definitely  Oppose a feature for this one. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:33, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Not a good perspective of this building plus the tech flaws mentioned above. cart-Talk 21:15, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per others. INeverCry 01:52, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per others. Daniel Case (talk) 00:13, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose per others. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 06:22, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Schoenbrunn Palace as seen from Neptune Fountain, September 2016.jpg

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•  Info A somewhat different photographic approach to Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria, here as seen from (or rather through) Neptune Fountain; all by me --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 08:06, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 08:06, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - I had this on my list of potential FP nominations, too. Unusual and good. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:27, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - I like it! --Villy Fink Isaksen (talk) 08:37, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support What a refreshing palace picture! --cart-Talk 10:04, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Colin (talk) 11:18, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support wow --Alchemist-hp (talk) 11:26, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Uoaei1 (talk) 14:36, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Bijay chaurasia (talk) 17:03, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Albertus teolog (talk) 18:55, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 01:53, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Hubertl 05:49, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 06:59, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 20:40, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support A well-done something different that would make a great cover photo for a travel guidebook. Daniel Case (talk) 22:16, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support good idea and implementation --Milseburg (talk) 20:01, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Sgt Major Christian Fleetwood - American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient - Restoration.jpg

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•  Info Unknown photogreapher - restored, uploaded, and nominated by Adam Cuerden -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:39, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Info Any further darkening and information would start to be lost. One could change the midpoint, but this is probably the most accurate reflection of the original photo. Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:39, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:39, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - I'm satisfied, and it's a good photo to feature during Black History Month or on Memorial Day, etc. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:34, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 03:30, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Cayambe (talk) 06:07, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --cart-Talk 07:48, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:51, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Kruusamägi (talk) 22:17, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support As featurable for depicting someone of historic importance as it is for exemplifying military portraits of that time. Daniel Case (talk) 22:13, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:50, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Johann Strauss II by Fritz Luckhardt.jpg

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•  Info created by Fritz Luckhardt - restored, uploaded, and nominated by Adam Cuerden -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:36, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:36, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - Good photo and excellent restoration! -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:35, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 03:31, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --cart-Talk 07:47, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:51, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Bijay chaurasia (talk) 17:03, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I love that expression, or perhaps the lack thereof, on his face. Daniel Case (talk) 18:38, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Cayambe (talk) 19:57, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Kruusamägi (talk) 22:16, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

File:Polish-Saxony CoA in Festung Königstein.jpg

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•  Info all by Pudelek -- Pudelek (talk) 22:01, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Pudelek (talk) 22:01, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Decent capture of the coat of arms, though the background is distracting. I don't see this rising above the level of QI though. -- Colin (talk) 11:20, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Colin. Daniel Case (talk) 18:36, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

File:Holy Spirit chapel in Jabłeczna (Яблочина).jpg

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•  Info all by Pudelek -- Pudelek (talk) 17:51, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Pudelek (talk) 17:51, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose - The chapel is hidden in the shade and trees, and the extensive foreground of grass is not interesting. Maybe you could try photographing the chapel when more light is hitting it. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:56, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Neutral For me the lighting and composition are good, but it is just too small for a landscape photo. --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 00:12, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose per others. -- Colin (talk) 11:22, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Ikan. But with a tighter frame and different light, this might be different. Daniel Case (talk) 16:44, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  I withdraw my nomination --Pudelek (talk) 18:11, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Vanessa indica-Silent Valley-2016-08-14-001.jpg

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•  Info Vanessa indica, Indian Red Admiral, is a butterfly found in the higher altitude regions of India. Here it is in Silent Valley National Park, 1400 m a.s.l. C/U/N: Jkadavoor -- Jee 13:42, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Jee 13:42, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 17:00, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - Beautiful butterfly, really impressively photographed. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:01, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 03:32, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --cart-Talk 07:46, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:50, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Colin (talk) 11:24, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Question obviously super photographic quality and beautiful colours. I'm wondering if a tighter crop would bring out the colours even better? --SuperJew (talk) 13:10, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

• Good question, SuperJew. I prefer to maintain the 3:2 proportion whenever possible. So a bit from top and relatively from both sides can be removed. Does it make a difference? Jee 15:29, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Support Harsh light of the flash mitigated very well. Daniel Case (talk) 16:42, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 07:00, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support good. I too prefer 3:2 whenever possible. Charles (talk) 09:05, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Sadhu in Janaki Temple, Janakpur-September 22, 2016-IMG 7437.jpg

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•  Info created by Bijay chaurasia - uploaded by Bijay chaurasia - nominated by Bijay chaurasia -- Bijay chaurasia (talk) 08:22, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Bijay chaurasia (talk) 08:22, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment Is the file's name correct? Are these men called "Baggers" or did you mean "Beggars"? The description is all about a temple (there is no temple in the picture) and says nothing about the man in the photo. The categories also needs to be better. --cart-Talk 08:32, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

• He looks more like a Sadhu. Although many of them make a living from the donations, they are not beggars. Mendicant may be more suitable. Jee 08:43, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

• Thanks for your input. In any case, this needs to be clarified and fixed. cart-Talk 09:11, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Info Thanks for reviews.. @Jkadavoor: @W.carter:
  •  Done File renamed..
  •  Done Suitable description..
  •  Done Suitable category.. --Bijay chaurasia (talk) 09:45, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - It's quite arguable whether this photo should be featured - everyone should have a look at the Featured Pictures in Category:Sadhus and note that some of the photos are of better technical quality - but I think it should because it's a different kind of sadhu picture than any of the Featured or Quality pictures of sadhus on this site, it's of acceptable quality and it's moving. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:51, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 18:41, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 03:34, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Ivar (talk) 05:53, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Great, gritty docuumentary feel. Not perfect (the dust on his left shoulder seems to have posterized slightly) but that's a bit more effective here, actually. Daniel Case (talk) 06:44, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

• It is not dust; a kind of paste. Just sharing some info. Jee 08:41, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Support --cart-Talk 07:45, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Jee 08:41, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Impressive --Biplab Anand (Talk) 09:00, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support impressive indeed! --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 09:09, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Fort Jay New York September 2016 002.jpg

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•  Info created by King of Hearts - uploaded by King of Hearts - nominated by King of Hearts -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:57, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:57, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 06:21, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - This subtle composition felt borderline for FP to me, but what made me decide to support is the historical importance of the place. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:38, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  I withdraw my support in favor of alternative version. --Ivar (talk) 07:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --cart-Talk 07:54, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Johann Jaritz (talk) 08:19, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Not “wow” at all. The quality is good enough, but not perfect. IMO, there was no reason to take this photo towards evening. On the one hand, special atmosphere of the evening isn't “drawn” here, on the other, the evening light isn’t good and we have the rather dark, dull photo. (P.S. As a photo of an important historical place it can be nominated at Valued Picture Project). Dmitry Ivanov (talk) 08:34, 29 September 2016 (UTC).
•  Oppose As Dmitry Ivanov (more or less). Good composition, but very bad light, IMO.--Jebulon (talk) 09:20, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose The quality is ok but the shades prevent to see the details.--Zcebeci (talk) 12:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support On the whole, while the contrast between sides may be greater than desired I like this one better. Daniel Case (talk) 04:32, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Like others I think too much of this too dark (though I'm sure that's how it was, rather than just being underexposed). It's not a remarkable enough scene and the centred composition demands more symmetry than we have here. The grass is also not photogenic. -- Colin (talk) 11:39, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose per others --Hubertl 14:32, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

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•  Info @INeverCry, Ikan Kekek, Iifar, W.carter, Johann Jaritz: @Dmitry Ivanov, Jebulon, Zcebeci: I have made a brighter version. If you think about it, there is no better time to take this photo (which faces south) than sunset; mid or late afternoon would have created harsh shadows in the moat which could be resolved only by weakening light (i.e. waiting until few minutes before sunset), and noon and early afternoon would simply produce awful colors. The morning is just a mirror image of afternoon, and after sunset is not possible as Governors Island is only open during the summer, until 7 PM. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 02:23, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 02:23, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I like them both, but this one is perhaps a bit of an improvement. INeverCry 02:26, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - I prefer this one. Thanks. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 03:45, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Ivar (talk) 05:48, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Neutral The light has became much better; the lines of the fort make the great “diagonal-symmetric” composition; but, IMO, the photo has some shortcoming, too. Dmitry Ivanov (talk) 11:32, 30 September 2016 (UTC).
•  Oppose Per my comments above. It is hard to be objective when we know it was actually taken in darker conditions, and raising the exposure a stop might often be acceptable, but sliding the shaddow slider to +100 has resulted in a washed out look, and highlighted the noise in the shadows, which (combined with DoF limits) rob much of the image of sharpness. It's a QI though. -- Colin (talk) 11:39, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose sorry, not really better --Hubertl 14:31, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Nothing special, no wow. --Karelj (talk) 16:40, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Aularches miliaris-Silent Valley-2016-08-13-001.jpg

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•  Info Aularches miliaris. C/U/N: Jkadavoor -- Jee 04:33, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Jee 04:33, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - Great insect and the composition is quite acceptable. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:59, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 06:20, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Looks like something the props department for a SciFi movie would conjure up. :) --cart-Talk 07:59, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Johann Jaritz (talk) 08:20, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Zcebeci (talk) 12:18, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Colin (talk) 11:41, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 11:59, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 17:01, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 17:28, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Bijay chaurasia (talk) 03:05, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 04:30, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Ivar (talk) 05:53, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Cayambe (talk) 10:05, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Super capture --SuperJew (talk) 13:11, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Nice photo. Charles (talk) 09:07, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Great shot Jacopo Werther ^iγ∂ψ=mψ 09:33, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Nice. --Karelj (talk) 16:42, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Shrinika performing Abhinaya (Kede Chhanda Janilu Tuhi).jpg

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•  Info created by Mydreamsparrow - uploaded by Mydreamsparrow - nominated by Nikhil -- Nikhil (talk) 02:17, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Nikhil (talk) 02:17, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 03:09, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - Not big but good. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:11, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:59, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Mile (talk) 06:33, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Great little photo and great little dancer. A bit more thorough description on the file's page with things like where the dance is performed plus some links to appropriate Wikipedia articles would be appreciated though. --cart-Talk 08:06, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Johann Jaritz (talk) 08:20, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --The Photographer 11:17, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 11:59, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 12:10, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 20:28, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 02:51, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Mydreamsparrow (talk) 14:03, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Gersfeld, Panorama, b.jpg

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•  Info created by Rainer Lippert - uploaded by Rainer Lippert - nominated by Rainer Lippert
•  Support -- Rainer Lippert (talk) 20:55, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
• Mild  Oppose - I'm not feeling impelled to support this effort, although of course I respect it. The composition isn't very interesting to me, with nothing that striking and quite hazy light in the middleground and background, including the town of Gersfeld. I think that given the quality of the panoramas we've been seeing at FPC, this is not outstanding enough for a feature. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:40, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
• Mild  Oppose Per Ikan. INeverCry 03:10, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Ikan and INC. Looks like it sure was humid that day ... Daniel Case (talk) 20:26, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Code (talk) 04:25, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Eiche bei Graditz.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Natural
•  Info created by Rainer Lippert - uploaded by Rainer Lippert - nominated by Rainer Lippert
•  Support -- Rainer Lippert (talk) 20:42, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose - Nice oak tree, but not an interesting enough picture for me to support. Sorry. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:41, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per Ikan. INeverCry 03:10, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 05:03, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support nice tree. We need more nice images of trees! :-) --Alchemist-hp (talk) 06:44, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Good quality, but centered composition with midday light isn't very appealing. --Ivar (talk) 07:09, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support A very good and clean shot of an oak, hard to get since the good specimens usually are in dense groves or places with disturbing things. I like that the shadow in a way gives the oak a sort of "visible root". But please add latin name in the description and categories. --cart-Talk 08:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Centered composition, I'm sorry no wow for me --The Photographer 11:19, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Zcebeci (talk) 12:19, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Pedestrian composition, per others. Daniel Case (talk) 18:49, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support As per cart.. something new in FPC -- Bijay chaurasia (talk) 17:12, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Albertus teolog (talk) 18:56, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Karelj (talk) 16:44, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Centered composition, ordinary light. --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 20:41, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Mentha arvensis - põldmünt Keila.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Plants
•  Info created and uploaded by Ivar Leidus - nominated by Kruusamägi (talk) 20:30, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I really like the colors. Kruusamägi (talk) 20:30, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 22:58, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support thanks for nomination. --Ivar (talk) 07:13, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Crisp and fresh! --cart-Talk 08:18, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Johann Jaritz (talk) 08:21, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Jee 08:31, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Bijay chaurasia (talk) 14:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 18:43, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Enough of it's in focus, and the green tones work well together. Daniel Case (talk) 18:49, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose The green plant on a green background is not good contrast imo. --SuperJew (talk) 13:12, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

File:PL-PK Mielec, mural nad Wisłoką w okolicy parku Oborskich 2016-08-24--10-07-36-002.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Non-photographic media
•  Info created by Kroton - uploaded by Kroton - nominated by Kroton -- Kroton (talk) 19:03, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Kroton (talk) 19:03, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Question - Fun picture, but is there a reason why you had to crop it so close on top? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:12, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
  • The singer's hair is very close to the edge of painted surface. The picture with the background (green bushes and the piece of white wall) looks much worse. Please look at this photo --Kroton (talk) 17:55, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
    • Thanks for the explanation, and most importantly the link to the other photo. I had no idea this wasn't in a more urban environment. I find it interesting enough for a feature. Moderate  Support. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:05, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Nice texture, framing captures quite well the way murals interact with their environment and their medium; but I, too, would like an explanation for the tight top crop. Daniel Case (talk) 17:50, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Albertus teolog (talk) 18:57, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

File:Elisa Bonaparte with her daughter Napoleona Baciocchi - François Gérard - Google Cultural Institute.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Non-photographic media
•  Info created by François Gérard/Google Cultural Institute, uploaded by Zhuyifei1999, nominated by Yann (talk) 16:10, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Info Gigapixels image of a colorfull painting. The whole image is too big to have in one piece (around 3.36 Gpx(!), above the limit of 65535 for JPEG images).
•  Support -- Yann (talk) 16:10, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Question - Do you have a good suggestion on how to view this image at full size? The large image viewer showed me only a small part of the picture. I was actually able to view the picture normally by clicking on it, but attempts to zoom to full size failed. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 16:47, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
  Ikan Kekek plz use Mozila Firefox... -- Bijay chaurasia (talk) 18:01, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

• I always use Firefox. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:59, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

• @Ikan Kekek, Daniel Case, W.carter: I never try to see such huge images with a browser. I download it and open it with the local image viewer, or Gimp/PS/etc. Regards, Yann (talk) 11:53, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

• I can live with not being able to see it directly or doing so with a few friendly tips from users like you. What I meant was that I question if something this hard to get access to for the readers/viewers who use this site to see things and get some knowledge, should be featured. Our "best" is not only about the work and picture quality of it, it is also the documentation and accessibility of the files. A parallel: how good is a book if only a few select can read it? cart-Talk 12:32, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

• @W.carter: You may not be able to see the full size version with a browser, but you can still see a very high resolution version (5000x6637), which is already worth a star. Regards, Yann (talk) 16:56, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

• I'm willing to  Support on that basis, but it really is a problem for people to have to download such a huge file onto their local drive to view it in full. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:09, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Support --Bijay chaurasia (talk) 18:01, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 23:00, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Neutral per Ikan since I'm having the same issue at the moment (and I'm using Chrome right now, and I have never had that issue with any other images, even larger ones). Daniel Case (talk) 05:52, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

1.  Comment -- same issue in chrome but not in Mozila firefox. --Bijay chaurasia (talk) 06:53, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

 Comment - As I said, I have this problem in Firefox. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:17, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

@Dschwen: Is there a bug with zoomviewer? --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 07:45, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Support --Johann Jaritz (talk) 08:22, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Neutral Well I've tried it with three different browsers and even if I have a really good broadband, I still can't get any of these pics to open properly (they start uploading and showing only to blink out and vanish). I'm not voting on something this hard to see. The project is about easy access to good material and this is not like that. --cart-Talk 08:25, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

File:Panorama von der Milseburg.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Panoramas
•  Info created by Jörg Braukmann - uploaded by Milseburg - nominated by Milseburg -- Milseburg (talk) 12:35, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Milseburg (talk) 12:35, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - The crucifixion is really dramatic and dominates the picture, in my opinion, with the rock outcropping as the secondary focus. I find the overall composition good, the sharpness and resolution very good. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 15:12, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support sure --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 15:35, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose I don't feel the 360 panorama is producing a successful composition. I suggest your start and end points aren't the best. If you shift the centre to be on the cross then you end up with a 360 that makes more sense to my eyes, starting and ending with the rocky outcrop. That seems like a more typical 360 panorama, and worth uploading. But now the cross is centred and Christ facing left. So then I might crop the a bit off the left hand side to remove the rocky outcrop, and more off the right hand side to place the cross roughly one third or one quarter in from the right. That to me is a better composition -- it makes sense that you are then standing on the same hill as the cross, and have some context/scenery either side, but Christ is facing into most of the frame. -- Colin (talk) 17:10, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Comment - I think Colin's suggestion is a good one, and I'd like to see the result if you choose to try it. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:35, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Comment I will upload the proposed composition sometime. In my opinion a centered cross is suboptimal. Christ should look into the hole panorama from the right. He shouldn´t divide it. On the other side Wasserkuppe (highest mountain of Hesse) is good to be in the starting-image. --Milseburg (talk) 20:28, 2 October 2016 (UTC) @Colin:@Ikan Kekek:, I´m not sure exactly, where you suggest the 360-cut. Please make a note. It´s ideological problematic for me to remove the rocky outcrop, because the pano loses authenticity then. --Milseburg (talk) 07:07, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Oppose Too many blown areas on clouds, common to exposures made at ISO 80 in my experience. Daniel Case (talk) 05:49, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
  • I don't have any problem with the bright areas on some clouds. The clouds are one of the best features in the photo, and it is a shame there isn't a bit more vertical room. -- Colin (talk) 08:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

I like clouds like this too; I just find that when you shoot them at 100, you get something more realistic, clouds that look like what you actually see, rather than toothpaste globs. Daniel Case (talk) 17:31, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Oppose Per Colin & Daniel. INeverCry 06:23, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose the scene at lower half part is darky because of the clouds' shades --Zcebeci (talk) 12:25, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

• This is natural, I think. --Milseburg (talk) 20:28, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Utö kyrka October 2015.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
•  Info created &uploaded by ArildV - nominated by User:Ikan Kekek -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:58, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - I love this composition, the light, and the counterpoint between the clouds and the autumn leaves. The church is sharp. There's some unsharpness at the left, but I don't think it ruins the photo at all. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:58, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 09:38, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Ezarateesteban 12:00, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Milseburg (talk) 12:28, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 13:06, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Sorry, a very good QI with no doubt, but nothing special enough for a FP in my opinion. Especially the church is just common.--Jebulon (talk) 17:08, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Comment - If this were just a picture of the church in a dull or blue sky, I might agree with you, but not with these clouds and autumn leaves. Mais chacun à son goût. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 17:38, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Support I like the autumn colours of the leaves, the interesting sky and the painted church in between. There are subtle features also leading the eye towards the church. The wide-angle view over-exaggerates the perspective of the church a bit perhaps. -- Colin (talk) 17:15, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support The whole is greater than its parts, and that's saying a lot considering how strong the parts are—the church steeple severe and solitary against the mackerel sky, the leaves on the ground accentuating the message the gravestones around them convey of the impermanence of life. You could not do better if you were to pick a scene on which a hypothetical Bergman movie were to begin. Daniel Case (talk) 22:08, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 05:03, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Ivar (talk) 07:19, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Johann Jaritz (talk) 08:23, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Zcebeci (talk) 12:26, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 02:53, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Wladyslaw (talk) 05:30, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - per nom. Excellent lighting and nice composition. Nikhil (talk) 06:09, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Albertus teolog (talk) 18:59, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 23:51, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

File:Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) attacking, Amsterdam island, Svalbard.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds/Charadriiformes#Family_:_Sternidae_.28Terns.29
•  Info created, uploaded and nominated by AWeith -- AWeith (talk) 08:36, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment When breeding, these guys are extremely aggressive and protect their nest or hatchlings from the air by painful strikes with their beaks. The only way to protect oneself is either to stay at a safe distance or to lift something like a walking stick (or the telelens) above the head. I'm trying to explain that this image resulted from a risky departure... -- AWeith (talk) 08:36, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - Great capture, and the areas that are blurred by motion are quite OK, under the circumstances. I didn't realize when I first saw this photo that you were the object of the attack! -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:04, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

• There were three of us and we've all been victims; one after the other. --AWeith (talk) 09:42, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Support Going by our usual (extremely high) bird-standards this is a rather small and not as-sharp-as-usual photo, but as an action shot of a bird protecting its own, it's superb. The action is embedded in the motion blur of the slightly distorted feathers, creating a beautiful silhouette. (Being picky, I could ask for a few extra lines of pixels at the top since the wing tip is rather close to the edge.) That is one angry bird... --cart-Talk 10:14, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 13:05, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support 6.6 megapixels is fine for a bird-in-flight photo and the head is sharp. Behavioural shots of wildlife are especially valuable and uncommon. -- Colin (talk) 17:18, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Strong support Per Ikan. I will add for myself that having seen similar behavior from Arctic terns in the Arctic, and having made a few attempts to photograph them in normal flight, this is no mean feat. Image's technical deficiencies are more than adequately compensated for by what it captured. Daniel Case (talk) 22:02, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Jee 04:49, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Uoaei1 (talk) 05:05, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 06:25, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- -donald- (talk) 07:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Ivar (talk) 07:20, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Johann Jaritz (talk) 08:23, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Zcebeci (talk) 12:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Great bird in flight shot. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 02:54, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

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Result: 13 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /FPCBot (talk) 13:01, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Maria Taferl Basilika Kuppelfresko 03.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Interiors/Religious buildings#Austria
•  Info Fresco in the dome of Maria Taferl Basilica (Lower Austria) by Antonio Beduzzi (1714-1718): Life and assumption of Mary. All by me --Uoaei1 (talk) 06:47, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Uoaei1 (talk) 06:47, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 07:10, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - Sharp throughout and very pretty. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:05, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Milseburg (talk) 12:29, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 13:03, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 17:46, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Colors and contrast nicely handled and no distortion at corners. Wish those linear shadows weren't there but you couldn't have done anything about that. Daniel Case (talk) 20:33, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Johann Jaritz (talk) 08:24, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Zcebeci (talk) 12:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Albertus teolog (talk) 19:00, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

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Result: 10 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /FPCBot (talk) 13:01, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Sultan Pasha Al-Atrash2.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/People
•  Info 50px|link=User:ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2/Nomination of featured images on Arabic Wikipedia Project Featured picture on 2 encyclopedias.created by American Colony (Jerusalem) - uploaded by Durova - nominated by ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 -- ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 09:14, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 09:14, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Weak oppose the head is overexposed and a bit unsharp, not perfect for FPC Ezarateesteban 14:13, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
• Moderate  Support. This is a historical (and historically important) picture from c. 1925. The unsharpness of the head is regrettable, but I think a feature is not unwarranted. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 15:29, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Karelj (talk) 20:54, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Well-posed portrait, reasonably well digitized, of a historically important non-Western figure. Daniel Case (talk) 17:43, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 06:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Ezarate --Zcebeci (talk) 12:28, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

File:Fuerte Bordj el Kebir, Mahdia, Túnez, 2016-09-03, DD 34-36 HDR.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture/Castles and fortifications
•  Info Night view of the fortress of Bordj el Kebir and the moon over it, Mahdia, Tunisia. The fortress was built in 1595 over a squared Fatimid Caliphate palace by the Ottomans in order to resist the attacks of Spanish and Maltese vessels. All by me, Poco² 03:42, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Poco² 03:42, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment - Interesting composition, but would you consider making the stars untraily? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:37, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

  Ikan Kekek:  Done Poco² 21:14, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Comment - Well, making the stars almost completely invisible is one way to deal with the issue, but I find it very disappointing. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:16, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

• Ikan: I removed them all and took me a while to do so, editing each of them to make them look like spots is a request that I've never got so far and would take me much longer. If other reviewers agree with that I can do it, but right now I hardly have time for that, I could give it a try when I am back home and still I'm not 100% convinced about that approach. Sorry, as said, I only was able to do this change in the time frame I've now. Poco² 07:07, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

• OK, I understand. I think the stars improve the composition somewhat, but if the only way to get rid of the trails is to delete the stars, I still find the resulting picture featurable.  Support. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:16, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Support Nice colors; a little soft near the top left of the fort but ... it was a long exposure. Daniel Case (talk) 06:01, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Karelj (talk) 08:29, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Albertus teolog (talk) 19:03, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Ralf Roleček 22:03, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Code (talk) 04:28, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

File:NSB El 18 Hallingskeid - Finse.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Objects/Vehicles/Land vehicles
•  Info all by Kabelleger -- Kabelleger (talk) 21:17, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment This was a rather difficult shot to get. Apart from the good weather, which was just a lot of luck (and by "luck" I mean "LUCK!!!"), the location is hard to get to. It's inaccessible by car and the nearest train station is a one-hour hike away (which is a nuisance) and has very limited service (which is a problem). Our solution was to to rent two bikes at Finse and follow the Rallarvegen. My butt still hurt two days later, as I have not ridden a bike for like 10 years and the Rallarvegen is not in good condition in many places...
•  Abstain as author -- Kabelleger (talk) 21:17, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 22:36, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 23:22, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - I particularly like the reflections, and much respect to you for the great efforts you made to get this shot! -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:56, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Ivar (talk) 07:28, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support and for future treks: Norwegian roads are not made for bikes but for walking or Gå på tur. :D --cart-Talk 09:20, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 12:56, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Milseburg (talk) 14:09, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Jee 16:36, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose There is no embedded colour profile and the Colorspace EXIF tag is "Uncalibrated", which means "not sRGB" and so suggests the image might be in AdobeRGB colourspace. Is this an out-of-camera JPG and if so have you set your camera to AdobeRGB for JPGs? A colour profile is absolutely required for non-sRGB images to display properly for almost all users, and required even for sRGB images for those users viewing with wide-gamut monitors. If you are unsure how to fix the image, ping me. I can also insert the relevant tags (without affecting the JPG quality) if you know what colourspace it is. Other than that, it's a great photo. -- Colin (talk) 19:27, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
  •  Comment It's sRGB. I use sRGB everywhere because everything else is likely to cause problems sooner or later. However, I store the JPEGs (in current PS) without color profile because I found that it's not needed. Maybe that's not the best idea? As to where the EXIF tag comes from, no idea. --Kabelleger (talk) 20:05, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
    • Yes, if your software you use to develop your raw files can export a JPG with an embedded colour profile, that's excellent and needed to ensure accurate colours. User:Colin/BrowserTest explains the problem, though it is hard to appreciate without a wide-gamut monitor. Jeffrey's Friedl's Image Metadata Viewer is a useful tool, as is EXIFTOOL upon which it is based. -- Colin (talk) 20:21, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
      • I've uploaded a new version with color profile. Note that it has small changes in brightness, these are because I did some corrections after the raw import, and I don't have the exact values of those anymore. --Kabelleger (talk) 20:36, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Almost looks like it's on another planet. This and some of your other FPs have prompted me to create Category:Water reflections of rail vehicles Daniel Case (talk) 20:47, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Albertus teolog (talk) 19:06, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

File:Chertkov Mansion, left wing, windows.jpg

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•  Info created by Dmitry Ivanov - uploaded by Dmitry Ivanov - nominated by Dmitry Ivanov -- Dmitry Ivanov (talk) 20:25, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Dmitry Ivanov (talk) 20:25, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Unbalanced composition, hash contrast, lef column shadow is distracting --The Photographer 00:08, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
• Mild  Support - I like the composition. Of course it would be better if the column were on both sides, but I like the composition, anyway. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:47, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 06:55, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Great composition, but without that left harsh and bulky shadow please. cart-Talk 09:25, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per others. I think the two window arches and designs above/below make an interesting geometric abstract. But the statue on the left, and its shadow, detract. Not sure whether this is fixable at another time of day. -- Colin (talk) 19:41, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose per cart. Daniel Case (talk) 20:40, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Kruusamägi (talk) 20:26, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Albertus teolog (talk) 19:06, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Ralf Roleček 22:04, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per others. --Karelj (talk) 16:49, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Kalahari lion (Panthera leo) male 6y.jpg

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•  Info created by Charlesjsharp -- Charles (talk) 09:55, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Charles (talk) 09:55, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Question Can you add some more exposure? --Ivar (talk) 12:12, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
  •  Comment I don't understand your request. You want it darker or lighter? Charles (talk) 15:23, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
    •  Comment Add exposure compensation. --Ivar (talk) 15:39, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
• Very mild  Support - I like the head and body of the lion. I also like the composition, except that I don't love the crop on the right side or the unsharp foreground. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 03:01, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose as it is. The lion's head is absolutely beautiful at full size, but the photo is a bit too dark and the right crop is not good. As it is now it's distracting since I keep wondering what has been cut off; is it a tail, another lion, leftover from the dinner gasell or... cart-Talk 09:32, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose per cart. (a minor issue, possibly fixable is the sky is rather noisy especially chroma noise and a bit of posterisation). -- Colin (talk) 19:45, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose per cart, who as she often does says everything I was going to. Daniel Case (talk) 20:37, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment @Charlesjsharp: This is a great photo, but everyone seems to agree it is too dark. Could you please fix? --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 00:20, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Done Sorry, been away and not able to upload edited version. Charles (talk) 08:55, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Comment - You might want to ping everybody except me, as I still mildly support this version. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:33, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Royal Albert Hall - Gallery View.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Interiors
•  Info A 225 megapixel panorama of the Royal Albert Hall from the gallery. Taken when the hall is open to visitors on the weekend of Open House London 2016. The large purple mushrooms / flying saucers are fibreglass acoustic diffusing discs, installed in 1969 to solve an echo problem. They are lit by an array of LED stage lights. The stage is empty and strangely grey compared to the colour surrounding it. If you have problems viewing this image in your browser, use the interactive large-image viewer, or one of the smaller downsized versions, all of which are linked from the file-description page. It's a 16:9 aspect ratio, so viewing fullscreen is best (Press F11 on Firefox). All by me. -- Colin (talk) 22:36, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Colin (talk) 22:36, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support New size standard and excellent sharpening. Colors a bit purple aura, however, it look like reals colors. Maybe my favorite picture this month on FPC. The composition look also excellent, however, I would like to see more in the bottom, what happend?. Anyway, congratulations for this contribution --The Photographer 22:47, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. The purple colour is the result of the fairly monochromatic stage lights, which are a pain to photograph. Coloured stage lights are always artificial in their effect, but these LED ones seem especially unnatural. As for the bottom, well that's the lowest I've got. The balcony handrail prevents being able to see much more below and I wasn't prepared to dangle my camera over the edge to get a better view. -- Colin (talk) 22:54, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your explain --The Photographer 11:15, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Support INeverCry 22:48, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support very nice, but who need this size of an image??? --Alchemist-hp (talk) 22:58, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

The other day Slaunger told me he was proud to see one of his large panoramas on display as a huge poster. The interactive viewer makes it possible to explore the scene, rather than just look at it at 1980x1024. I think this is a rich enough scene to reward exploring in detail. It also looks great on a 5K monitor ;-) -- Colin (talk) 23:13, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Support Absolutely flawless. --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 23:10, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - Great achievement! -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:20, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Excellent. --Code (talk) 05:39, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- -donald- (talk) 06:18, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Cayambe (talk) 08:13, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --cart-Talk 09:05, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support stunning --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 09:12, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Very nice. I guess a lot of effort has been put into this picture. --Ximonic (talk) 13:29, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Size, sharpness and colors are impressive. But that's not all. Cut and composition are unbalanced und suboptimal. A full spheric projektion from a more central shooting location would have been the better choice here. --Milseburg (talk) 13:55, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
  • I have another panorama taken (but not yet processed) taken from a central box, lower down. I suspect it will have symmetry that is pleasing, but also contain a lot of the empty stage, which is less photogenic at this time. I felt this view showed more of the audience as well as the stage. While I won't argue about your opinion on the composition, I disagree that there is necessarily one best view -- a venue like this merits photographs from many locations A 360 projection like here would be wonderful but note that we were only given access on Open House day to a few boxes and to part of the gallery, neither of which are great for 360 views, and would be cluttered with fellow Open House visitors. Diliff told me has been trying for a long time to get photo access to the Albert Hall, and was not successful -- they are always busy setting up for performances and couldn't find a slot for him to be free to take photos. Category:Interior of the Royal Albert Hall shows this is not a frequently photographed venue, and most other photos are snapshots during a concert. -- Colin (talk) 15:59, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Laitche (talk) 14:17, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment Technically excellent, but the colours are not typical of the Albert Hall in normal lighting. Charles (talk) 15:30, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
  • Charles, as a concert venue, lit by whatever lighting the team wish to put on, I'm not sure what one would regard as "typical". See View from your seat and virtual tour for various examples (though since the JPGs on that site do not embed a colour profile, they appear way too saturated on my wide-gamut monitor with most browsers). Here's an example from Open House 2014 that has the discs coloured red. Here's one that is blue. Here's a single-shot photo take from a similar position with similar colours, though this time there's a red light on the roof and their saturation is higher. Do you have an example image that shows typical colours, or "normal lighting"? -- Colin (talk) 15:59, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
    •  Comment No I'm afraid not Colin, but I've been there 20+ times, hence my comment. The acoustic discs are off-white. Charles (talk) 17:04, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
      • Charles, Ha! Yes I know what the colour of the discs are when there are no stage lights on ... because halfway through taking photos for this stitch, they turned off all the lights. Thinking my stitch was ruined, I held my breath for 90 seconds before they turned them all back on again. Whew! The unlit discs are like this photo. Not pretty, and probably would work better in a photo taken from lower down where the discs are not so prominent. I too have been to a classical concert, many many years ago, where the discs were not lit. But all the photos on the Albert Hall official site show them lit colourfully. This older classical concert photo shows the neutral lighting one might expect (though it doesn't include the discs, there's not purple in the gallery or on the organ), yet this recent classical concert photo shows the purple stage lights in the gallery and a purple organ, so I suspect would also have purple discs. A Google Image search for "Albert Hall Interior" has coloured discs vastly outnumbering unlit discs. So I disagree that there is "normal" lighting for the Albert Hall, which hosts many concerts and events with differing requirements for light, and suspect that un-coloured discs are now actually the minority situation, rather than "normal". -- Colin (talk) 17:31, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Wow! A very hard to get to subject. Well done, excellent technique, very pleasing composition, very high detail level. Valuable. -- Slaunger (talk) 19:24, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I love the colors ... slightly surreal, perhaps, but they add interest. And they make those accoustic discs look like what I thought them to be at first ... some way of trying to figure out how many holes it takes to fill the building (Sorry; you knoew someone was going to try that one ). Daniel Case (talk) 20:07, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Karelj (talk) 21:52, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Johann Jaritz (talk) 06:11, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

File:Langkofelhütte Gherdeina.JPG

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•  Info All by Moroder -- Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 19:42, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 19:42, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Poor lighting; the sun seems to be right above the subject. Unfortunately this leads to dull colors. --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 19:57, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
  • I'd like you to pay a visit here. I'd be more than happy and honoured to give you hospitality--Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 20:05, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per KoH. INeverCry 20:48, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose no FP because the mountains are unsharp = false focus point!?! --Alchemist-hp (talk) 21:16, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I disagree both with KoH and Alchemist-hp. I find the place very beautiful, the composition good, and the picture more than good in general.--Jebulon (talk) 21:54, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support per Jebulon. It seems excessive to require mountains to be totally sharp when they're in the background or at least middleground. I think they're sufficiently clear to make sense in this picture. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:23, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
• Regretful  Oppose - beautiful scenery, but not sharp enough --Uoaei1 (talk) 11:13, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Sorry. Very striking perspective to the mountains but at first I though the lighting is somewhat bland. I think there has happened a little focus error. --Ximonic (talk) 13:32, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment Has an embedded AdobeRGB color profile. Some popular web browsers ignore embedded color profiles, meaning users of those browsers see the wrong colors for this image. For web use the recommended color space is sRGB. An AdobeRGB version is OK as an alternative as it may be slight better suited for making prints. -- Slaunger (talk) 19:48, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
• (Edit conflict) Deeply regretful oppose As much as I love Wolfgang's images of the Italian Alps, and really thought he had nailed it in entirely new ways with this one, the opposes are right: the summits are far too unsharp. Daniel Case (talk) 19:49, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Karelj (talk) 08:34, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

File:Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California LCCN2013633353.tif

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
•  Info created by Carol M. Highsmith - uploaded by Fæ - nominated by Fæ -- Fæ (talk) 17:41, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support This photograph is part of a batch upload project from the Highsmith collection at the Library of Congress. Motivated by the lawsuit against Getty Images, see Village Pump archive. As the TIFF is a large download, over 100 MB, the Commons full size jpeg version is a useful alternative to view. -- Fæ (talk) 17:41, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 20:49, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:58, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --cart-Talk 09:06, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 09:07, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --The Photographer 11:24, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 19:16, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Bijay chaurasia (talk) 21:03, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Neutral Good composition (but disturbing lower left corner), poor choice of aperture and lens. Yes I know, its a professional photographer but f/5.6 and a zoom lens is obviously not optimal. The quality (photo and camera from 2012) and depth of field s not impressive, not very high wow imo. --ArildV (talk) 21:07, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Albertus teolog (talk) 19:09, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

File:Cabo de Gata, Andalusia, Spain.jpg

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•  Info all by me -- Jebulon (talk) 17:26, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Cabo de Gata, a natural mediterranean site near Almería, Andalusia, Spain.-- Jebulon (talk) 17:26, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose No wow, rather dull light and boring "mediterranean" architecture, sorry--Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 17:47, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
  • Paw. aaaargh. I'm dead. Please call an ambulance (or the coroner, better).🤕🔫--Jebulon (talk) 19:06, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
    • Is it really necessary to make fun of a serious comment? Wladyslaw (talk) 19:28, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
    • Nothing is really necessary. Nor participating, Neither useless comments, neither lessons. Sadly. Only fun is necessary. Always.--Jebulon (talk) 21:43, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
      •  Comment I know, this is the way to kill candidates ;-) but, it's unfortunately (for you) the way I feel about your picture. Salue --Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 19:52, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
      •  Comment Salut ! Happy to see you understand what I mean. It is not the case for everyone here, as I can see... Well nothing "unfortunate for me", just a nomination of a picture in FPC. Nothing serious, then. Thanks for comment and vote, caro amico.--Jebulon (talk) 21:48, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I'd like to see some clouds, but otherwise I like how the shapes work together. Any other composition would've thrown it out of balance. INeverCry 08:48, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Moroder --Uoaei1 (talk) 11:08, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
• Mild  Support - The interesting landforms are really what make the difference for me. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:23, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

File:Westminster London June 2016 panorama 2.jpg

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•  Info created by King of Hearts - uploaded by King of Hearts - nominated by King of Hearts -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 06:18, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 06:18, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 07:41, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Technically perfect as always and kudos for getting up that early to get this place without any people, I bet it's packed a little while later, but the light is too dull in most of the picture and it does not give me a wow factor. One of those moments where it probably felt magical to be there but it doesn't quite translate to the photo. Sorry. cart-Talk 10:37, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 15:27, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per cart about the light, sorry.--Jebulon (talk) 17:35, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support nice for me. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 21:22, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose - This doesn't quite make it for me because of a combination of the light and its not being as sharp as I'd like. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:13, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per W.carter; an excellent job getting us there but not much there to get to. Daniel Case (talk) 05:14, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

File:Lifebelt on a small fishing boat.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Objects/Vehicles/Water transport#Boats
•  Info So, here is the new tweaked version of this picture. (Hope I did the nom right with all the formal things.) As I've said before at QIC, I sometimes think I'm partially blind when it comes to my own pictures. I miss things that I easily see in other users' pictures. So those second pairs of eyes this site provides are invaluable, this time it was Daniel who gave me a push in the right direction. And since it was he who did it, I got the idea for a square crop instead. :) Don't know if it is perfect, but I think it is far better than before. All by me, -- cart-Talk 22:31, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- cart-Talk 22:31, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose - This doesn't quite work for me as a FP. The vertical vs. diagonal is interesting but makes me feel a little off balance. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:36, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support since it's pretty much what I suggested. Daniel Case (talk) 07:02, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose In the original, the railing looks like you could lean on it; now it looks like you might have to climb it. I like the idea, but the proportion of the railing is off now. INeverCry 07:46, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose random crop and no wow for me. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 15:07, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

• Honestly, you really call a crop "random" when several lines end perfectly at the picure's borders in carefully chosen spots? I wouldn't mind if you call it "bad" but I don't think "random" is the right word here. cart-Talk 15:49, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

• I wrote: "random crop for me". So it is. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 21:24, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

File:El Paraíso tunnel main gate of Caracas.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture#Venezuela
•  Info All by -- The Photographer 19:03, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I like this much better than the other one that was featured a while back—the light's better, the centered point of view is more striking, and the picture as a whole makes it point much better. Daniel Case (talk) 02:07, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

Yes, however the other one has more merit IMHO, because @Rjcastillo: risked his life (leave the car to take a picture in the most dangerous city in the world[1]) --The Photographer 16:48, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Support per Daniel. The quality is very good considering you were on the road. --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 02:13, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support per others. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:44, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 07:50, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support per below. Great colors, they look almost poserized until you open the pic and see that they are actually true. cart-Talk 10:32, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Johann Jaritz (talk) 10:41, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 12:22, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Kasir (talk) 13:33, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 15:28, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Nothing new and no change since this 2014 failed nomination under another name.--Jebulon (talk) 17:39, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

I do not think it has been a bad nomination as the result of positive votes was 4 times higher than the negative. On the other hand, your comment on "under another name", makes me feel bad like I was hiding something that is quite public in the description of the image and I can't understand how you are able to see this other nomination but you are not able to view the file history of changes showing a selective noise reduction which was a huge job (it was not an automated tool) recently. --The Photographer 18:17, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

• Strong  Oppose Bad composition and denoise artefacts -- Dmitry A. Mottl (talk) 21:10, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
•  strong oppose per Jebulon and Dmitry A. Mottl: denoise artefacts! --Alchemist-hp (talk) 21:31, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

 Done I rebuild the image, please, let me know if the "denoise artefacts" is gone. Thanks --The Photographer 22:29, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

Sorry, but not done: this image is still ruined reworked. Take a look to the tree over the red car in your original and the newest version ... I also wrote: per Jebulon! --Alchemist-hp (talk) 22:41, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment and I think that the problem is gone (I uploaded another version). IMHO this last version is considerably better that the originally uploaded.  :) --The Photographer 23:15, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Comment - That may be, and I'm OK with the changes you made, but I think you should ping everyone who already voted and see what they think. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:27, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Comment Since we are heading into another one of these confusing edit wars with tweaking a pic during nomination, I'm withdrawing my vote and sit this one out. cart-Talk 09:14, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

I think that it's a valid recomendation and thanks Ikan Kekek for your idea. I'm pinging everybody King of, @INeverCry: , @Johann Jaritz: , @Martin Falbisoner:, @Kasir:, @ArionEstar:, @Jebulon:, @Dmottl:, @Alchemist-hp:. Please, feel free of change your vote if you think that this version is not in line with the version that you voted. --The Photographer 11:13, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Neutral Per W.carter. INeverCry 07:02, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

@INeverCry: and @W.carter:, This is not a completely different picture, is an alteration of the original photo, just noise reduction and performe small fixes pending a nomination is in line with the spirit of this section provide better quality images to commons and improve our quality as photographers and photo editors. If you are stopping someone improves a photo based on a valid criticism you are curtailing the ability of feedback, learning and improvement provided by this section and I'm not here to accumulate awards, I'm in this section primarily because of those negative votes that help me improve and I love that feedback and This is something that has been happening in the past and more drastic changes in the photos. Please do not limit the learning process. --The Photographer 11:00, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

• I'm not stopping you in any way, I'm simply choosing not to vote here due to too much confusion about what version I'm voting on. cart-Talk 11:16, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
• I'll switch to neutral, as an oppose is too harsh. Perhaps I should take a break and re-think my participation here if I'm getting in the way. I knew what I was doing with my Minolta XE7 and Mamiya RB67, but digital photography can be a challenge to understand. My votes and comments aren't very technical here, because I'm not that technically knowledgeable. I usually vote support for what impresses me and oppose for what doesn't. I may not be qualified to vote here. I came here for enjoyment of the images, but that doesn't take voting. I can just look but not touch in future. INeverCry 11:26, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

• @INeverCry: Please drop a vote now and then if you feel like it, a good healthy gut feeling about a picture is more vital than all the tech talk. I can keep up with the tech stuff, but I don't think those points have the final say in whether a pic should be FP or not. Btw, speaking of what we use to take the photos, I think you will find the 'Equipment' section on my user page of interest. ;) cart-Talk 19:53, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

@INeverCry: Well my camera has 10 years old and it was a gift from a globally locked user. Btw, you don't need have a D800E to became a good photographer, a good photographer need only a insatiable hunger for photographic knowledge and exactly like any wikimaniadict. And more important is be a good person and be polite with others users respect their work and contributions are crucial and I'm not the best example (I am very easy to irritate). --The Photographer 21:07, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Support Albertus teolog (talk) 19:11, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

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1. In Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list click on the title/link of the candidate image, then [edit].
   Add the result of the voting at the bottom (on a new line with a space first)
{{FPC-results-reviewed|support=x|oppose=x|neutral=x|featured=("yes" or "no")|category=xxx (leave blank if "featured=no")|sig=~~~~}}
(for example see Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:The Bridge (August 2013).jpg). See also {{FPC-results-reviewed}}.
2. Also edit the title of the candidate image template and add after the image tag
   featured or not featured
   For example:
   === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]] ===
   becomes
   === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]], featured ===
3. Save your edit.
4. If it is featured:
   • Add the picture to the list of the four most recently featured pictures of an appropriate category of Commons:Featured pictures, list as the first one and delete the last one, so that the number is four again.
   • Also add the picture to an appropriate subpage of Commons:Featured pictures, list. Click on the most appropriate link beneath where you just added it as one of the four images.
   • Add the template {{Featured picture}} or {{Assessments|featured=1}} to the image description page.
     • If it was an alternative image, use the subpage/com-nom parameter: For example, if File:Foo.jpg was promoted at Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Bar.jpg, use {{Assessments|featured=1|com-nom=Bar.jpg}}
     • If the image is already featured on another wikipedia, just add featured=1 to the Assessments template. For instance {{Assessments|enwiki=1}} becomes {{Assessments|enwiki=1|featured=1}}
     • Add the picture to the chronological list of featured pictures. Put it in the gallery using this format: File:xxxxx.jpg|# - '''Headline'''<br>created by [[User:xxxxx|xxxxx]], uploaded by [[User:xxxxx|xxxxx]], nominated by [[User:xxxxx|xxxxx]]
     • The # should be replaced by 1 for the first image nominated that month, and counts up after that. Have a look at the other noms on that page for examples.
     • You may simplify this if multiple things were done by the same user. E.g.: File:xxxxx.jpg|# - '''Headline'''<br>created, uploaded, and nominated by [[User:xxxxx|xxxxx]]
   • Add == FP promotion ==
     {{FPpromotion|File:XXXXX.jpg}} to the Talk Page of the nominator.
   • Add on the file page its respective categories for Featured pictures of... like Category:Featured pictures of objects, Category:Featured pictures of landscapes, of people, of Germany, of Paris, etc. This is the only part of the process that needs a user who is not a bot to complete it.
5. As the last step (whether the image is featured or not; including {{FPX}}ed, {{FPD}}ed and withdrawn nominations), open Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list, click on [edit], and find the transclusion of the nomination you've just finished closing. It will be of the form:
   {{Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:XXXXX.jpg}}
   Copy it to the bottom of Commons:Featured picture candidates/Log/October 2016), save that page, and remove it from the candidate list.

Closing a delisting request

1. In Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list click on the title/link of the candidate image, then [edit].
   Add the result of the voting at the bottom (on a new line with a space first)
   '''Result:''' x delist, x keep, x neutral => /not/ delisted. ~~~~
   (for example see Commons:Featured picture candidates/removal/Image:Astrolabe-Persian-18C.jpg)
2. Also edit the title of the delisting candidate image template and add after the image tag
   delisted or not delisted
   For example:
   === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]] === becomes === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]], delisted ===
3. Move the actual template from Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list to the bottom of the actual month page on Commons:Featured picture candidates/Log/October 2016.
4. If the outcome was not delisted, stop here. If it is delisted:
   1. Remove the picture from Commons:Featured pictures, list and any subpages.
   2. Replace the template {{Featured picture}} on the image description page by {{Delisted picture}}. If using the {{Assessments}} template, change featured=1 to featured=2 (do not change anything related to its status in other featured picture processes). Also, remove the image from all categories like Featured pictures of ....
   3. Add a delisting-comment to the original entry in chronological list of featured pictures in bold-face, e. g. delisted 2007-07-19 (1-6) with (1-6) meaning 1 keep and 6 delist votes (change as appropriate). The picture in the gallery is not removed.