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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, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and current month.

For another overview of our finest pictures, take a look at our annual picture of the year election.

Formal things edit

Nominating edit

Guidelines for nominators edit

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 – Raster images of lower resolution than 2 million pixels (pixels, not bytes) are typically rejected unless there are strong mitigating reasons. This does not apply to vector graphics (SVGs).
    • 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 color/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 images made from more than one photo, you can use the {{Panorama}} or {{Focus stacked image}} templates.
    • 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 color 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 edit

There are many different types of non-photographic media, including engravings, watercolors, 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 description page. Edit notes should be specified in detail, such as "Rotated and cropped. Dirt, scratches, and stains removed. Histogram adjusted and colors balanced."

Photographs edit

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). 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 one useful guideline. Horizons should almost never be placed in the middle, where they "cut" the image in half. Often, a horizon creating a top or bottom third of the space works better. 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, color, 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.
  • Color is important. Oversaturated colors 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 color AND texture, etc.
  • Noise refers to unwanted corruption of color 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 better 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 edit

Please nominate videos, sounds, music, etc. at Commons:Featured media candidates.

Set nominations edit

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).

Simple tutorial for new users edit

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NOTE: You don't need to worry if you are not sure, other users will try their best to help you.

Adding a new nomination edit

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}}

Galleries and FP categories: Please add a gallery page and section heading from the list at Commons FP galleries. Write the code as Page name#Section heading. For example: Commons:Featured pictures/Sports#Individual sports An image will only appear ONE time in the galleries. After a successful nomination, the image can be placed in several of the Featured pictures categories.

Optional: if you are not the creator of the image, please notify them using {{subst:FPC-notice|Your image filename.jpg}} -- ~~~~.

Note: Do not add an 'Alternative' image when you create a nomination. Selecting the best image is part of the nomination process. Alternatives are for a different crop or post-processing of the original image, or a closely related image from the same photo session (limited to 1 per nomination), if they are suggested by voters.

Voting edit

Editors whose accounts have at least 10 days and 50 edits can vote. Everybody can vote for their own nominations. Anonymous (IP) votes are not allowed.

You may use the 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 edit

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 a 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 edit

General rules edit

  1. 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.
  2. Nominations by anonymous contributors are welcome
  3. Contributions to discussion by anonymous contributors are welcome
  4. 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.
  5. Nominations do not count as votes. Support must be explicitly stated.
  6. Nominators and authors can withdraw their nominated pictures at any time. This is done by adding the following template: {{Withdraw}} ~~~~. Also, remember that if more than one version is nominated, you should explicitly state which version you are withdrawing.
  7. 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.
  8. Rules of the 5th day based on vote counts on day number 5 (day of nomination + 5)
    1. Pictures are speedy declined if they have no support (apart from the nominator).
    2. 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.)
    3. Once either speedy criterion is reached, the voting period is considered closed, and no more votes may be added.
  9. 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.
  10. Pictures tagged {{FPD}} (FP-Denied) may be removed from the list 24 hours after the tag was applied.
  11. 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 edit

A candidate will become a featured picture in compliance with following conditions:

  1. Appropriate license (of course)
  2. At least seven  Support votes (or 7  Delist votes for a delist) at the end of nine days
  3. Ratio of supporting/opposing votes at least 2/1 (a two-thirds majority); same for delist/keep votes
  4. 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, they 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 when the bot has counted the votes and before the nomination is finally closed by the bot; this manual review can be done by any user familiar with the voting rules.

Above all, be polite edit

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 edit

Table of contents edit

List may contain works considered Not Safe for Work (nudity).

Nominators are requested, out of courtesy, to include the {{Nsfw}} template with such images. Users may select the gadget in user preferences "Deferred display of images tagged with {{Nsfw}} on COM:FPC" to enable the template's effect of hiding the image until selected.

Refresh page for new nominations: purge this page's cache

Featured picture candidates edit

File:012 Wild Chamois Riederalp Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg edit

Voting period ends on 14 Nov 2023 at 11:07:52 (UTC)
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File:Orangerieschloss June 2023 01.jpg edit

Voting period ends on 14 Nov 2023 at 10:18:24 (UTC)
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File:Cobh Panorama at Dusk.jpg edit

Voting period ends on 14 Nov 2023 at 08:16:02 (UTC)
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  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture/Cityscapes
  •   Info created, uploaded, and nominated by Podstawko  Podstawko  ●talk  08:16, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Neutral. Abstaining from support as the author.
  •   Oppose The view and timing are nice but the I'm never a fan of a too long stripe format. On top, the processing looks a bit weird. I think you moved the clarity trigger quite far to the right. It strangely looks like a night and day shot at the same time. super tight framing doesn't help. - Benh (talk) 11:09, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    The choice of the wide panorama (in Wikimedia parlance any panorama of ratio of height to width higher than 1:4) is deliberate here. The purpose was to show the entirety of the town to replace the existing waterfront image in the Wikipedia article on the subject. My pano shows that expected "entirety" of the spectacular Cobh waterfront: further to the left, there would only be a boring train station; further to the right -- dull woods with scattered houses. The image also illustrates the sloping streets to the right (east), and the imposing "upper class" buildings to the left (west) of the cathedral, illustrating the contrast. This new panorama, after being centered and put across the width of that article, works quite well as an illustration.
    Surprisingly enough, this is a sort of "day and night shot at the same time", because I was hunting for the moment where the sky is still bright, but people have already turned their lights on. I really had only a few minutes for that which caused issues in itself, as the process of taking this panorama took more than a few minutes... Also, I didn't touch the clarity slider. I never do as I don't like the effect. Changes done were moves of the histogram curves on darks and whites (and maybe not in the direction you would expect), lots of spot removals, local brightening of the cathedral, adjusting black point on in woody areas, delicate unsharp mask applied in PS.  Podstawko  ●talk  11:32, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Albert Memorial, Londres, Inglaterra, 2022-11-25, DD 93-95 HDR.jpg edit

Voting period ends on 13 Nov 2023 at 21:51:19 (UTC)
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  Question Out of curiosity - What is causing the 'star trails' on left hand side? I would not expect to see trails with 1.3s exposure time --Virtual-Pano (talk) 00:47, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The longest frame has an exposure time of 30 sec. The problem when blending to HDR is that Lr takes for the EXIF data the first (instead of the longest, which is the last one) frame as reference. It has been a topic here before. Poco a poco (talk) 07:31, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support Thanks for the explanation. Beautiful motif, photographed very well in beautiful light. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:43, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support even though as a personal preference I would like more space in the top part above the cross.  Podstawko  ●talk  08:59, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support --ArildV (talk) 11:21, 5 November 2023 (UTC) Great image but please remove dust spotsReply[reply]
    @ArildV: I thought I cleaned them up already, is it a cache issue from your side or are there still dust spots? If you still see them, can you please add a note? I cannot see anyone. Poco a poco (talk) 11:38, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The newest version is from October 15. Did you forgot to uploaded the new version mentioned above?--ArildV (talk) 11:41, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Edifício na Rua do Comércio nº 11 - Santa Leopoldina - 20220813162529.jpg edit

Voting period ends on 13 Nov 2023 at 18:33:45 (UTC)
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File:Museo Guggenheim -- 2021 -- Bilbao, Euskadi, España.jpg edit

Voting period ends on 13 Nov 2023 at 12:33:51 (UTC)
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  •   Comment The same question applies to the building itself – it is certainly artistic, so if it was located e.g. in France this photo would problematic/illegal. But luckily, if I understand our article right, Spain has proper freedom of panorama, so the photo should be OK. --Aristeas (talk) 11:12, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:20181204 Warming stripes (global, WMO, 1850-2018) - Climate Lab Book (Ed Hawkins).png edit

Voting period ends on 13 Nov 2023 at 10:41:06 (UTC)
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  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Non-photographic media/Computer-generated#Other
  •   Info Warming stripes (sometimes referred to as climate stripes) are data visualization graphics that use a series of coloured stripes chronologically ordered to visually portray long-term temperature trends. Warming stripes reflect a "minimalist" style, conceived to use colour alone to avoid technical distractions to intuitively convey global warming trends to non-scientists. This data visualisation has had a notable, high impact on the world (see its article). Simple, but extremely effective. Voted as featured picture on english WP on 17 January 2021. Created by Ed Hawkins, climate scientist at University of Reading - image uploaded by RCraig09 - nominated by Effco -- Effco (talk) 10:41, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Proposed blurb: Warming stripes are data visualization graphics that use a series of coloured stripes chronologically ordered to visually portray temperature trends. Climate scientist Ed Hawkins designed the warming stripes in a minimalist style, using colour alone to avoid technical distractions and intuitively convey global warming trends to non-scientists. The progression of Hawkins' 2018 graphic from blue (cool) to red (warm) portrays Earth's average annual temperatures since 1850. — RCraig09 (talk) 18:41, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support -- Effco (talk) 10:41, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support --Yann (talk) 11:18, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support -- Very notable information graphic on an important subject, global warming. (Disclosure: I wrote most of the English-language Wikipedia article). RCraig09 (talk) 15:42, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support per RCraig09. We have now reached a point where most people are digitally addicted. Hawkins understood this, so to send a message that things are getting worse for the planet, he needed to send a digital message: There is so much work behind those colored stripes that this picture can be considered art. --Terragio67 (talk) 15:56, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Question Wow? ★ 17:01, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I don't know what "the gallery" is, but being computer-generated did not prevent its being "Today's Featured Picture" (POTD) on English Wikipedia's main page (archive). RCraig09 (talk) 18:25, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Gallery is fixed. BigDom is quite correct. The gallaries are simply a way of sorting and displaying our FPs. Being 'computer-generated' is not in any way diminishing this image's value or importance, it is simply the way we identify images that are made that way (as opposed to photographs or paintings/drawings made by hand). Not sure why a blurb is mentioned, such things are not relevant here at FPC, that will only be considered if it gets promoted and becomes a POTD on Commons. --Cart (talk) 19:18, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  Wikispecies has an entry on: File:20181204 Warming stripes (global, WMO, 1850-2018) - Climate Lab Book (Ed Hawkins).png.

PNG image. --SHB2000 (talk) 22:52, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  •   Oppose Only stripes without an explanation, right?--Ermell (talk) 23:08, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support "Only stripes" means I can vote for this, thanks for reminding me. (No photo with sharpness or contrast to conider, just colors and compo.) It is extremely difficult to design graphic images to convey a complex and important message in a way that transcends language barriers, that can be adapted into many forms of contexts, and that you remember from just one quick glance. This is graphic design at its best. --Cart (talk) 23:31, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 05:42, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Oppose. Many people are talking about this image, but IMHO it does not help understand global warming. The "minimalist" style actually removes a lot of important information (what are the axes? what is the range of values? what is the difference between the red and the blue?), and this image is confusing without a long caption. The image may show the skill and ingenuity of the researcher, but sounds to me art for art's sake, and for global warming visualization I much prefer the famous XKCD global warming strip.  Podstawko  ●talk  07:02, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Comment Yeah, it isn't nearly as meaningful as a temperature graph to me. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:44, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • If the image makes you ask all those questions, it has worked as a symbol for global warming. It has made you aware and wanting to know more. It's like when you see a radiation symbol, it doesn't tell you exactly what kind of radiation, from what material it comes, how strong it is or how much of it you can take before you get sick or die, but you get the message that something is wrong. --Cart (talk) 09:18, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    No, this image didn't make me ask any of these questions. I did not care for the image until I noticed it gained notoriety. The comic strip I mentioned above, as a contrast, made me pay attention immediately.  Podstawko  ●talk  09:39, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Cristo Redentor - Rio de Janeiro - 20230321172914.jpg edit

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  •   Info created and uploaded by Donatas Dabravolskas, nominated by me. RodRabelo7 (talk) 06:32, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support -- RodRabelo7 (talk) 06:32, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Neutral Kind of nom that would be easier to support than most boring ones over here, but it's a tad overdone. It's of course noisy but that's a tradeoff for having a drone that can be flown over many places. And I believe a more gentle processing would have made it acceptable for here - Benh (talk) 10:08, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Neutral Tilted Christ. ★ 17:02, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Oppose Brights are too bright and darks are too dark for this to be an FP, even if the uncorrected perspective is judged to be acceptable (and I think it won't be). -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:28, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Cesenatico - Canal port - Fishing house (Trabucco) 20230815.jpg edit

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  •   Info Fishing house machines called Trabucco, are popular on the Italian coast of the Adriatic Sea. As a rule, they were the places where retired fishermen enjoyed the last years of their lives. Created, uploaded, and nominated by Terragio67 -- Terragio67 (talk) 22:43, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support -- Terragio67 (talk) 22:43, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Comment The crop on the right is unfortunate. Do you have a version showing the net + house? --Tagooty (talk) 08:43, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    Thank you for your interest, I understand your point of view. Yes, I have other versions but, unfortunately, on the right there is only an uninteresting platform (it looks more like a work tool shed than a house). I will upload a second version where there are no disturbing objects on the right and where the network and support structures on the left are fully depicted. Terragio67 (talk) 11:52, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    Checking carefully, I found an even more interesting one, which depicts both structures. I'll work, for a 2nd version, on that last one... Thanks again. Terragio67 (talk) 12:04, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Alternative wider version edit

 

  •   Info Fishing house machines called Trabucco, are popular on the Italian coast of the Adriatic Sea. As a rule, they were the places where retired fishermens enjoyed the last years of their lives. Created, second version uploaded, and nominated by Terragio67 -- Terragio67 (talk) 14:30, 04 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Done @Tagooty: According to the above conversation, I uploaded a new version. Kind regards. --Terragio67 (talk) 14:30, 04 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Comment The left end is much better. The house on the right clutters the image and does not add value. I would crop it out, similar to the original nomination. --Tagooty (talk) 16:55, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    Yes, I agree with you, I'm currently extracting a new file from the RAW (but I'll keep this picture on Commons...). I strongly believe ArionStar will appreciate the third and last version too. Terragio67 (talk) 18:04, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support This is perfect now! ★ 16:19, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Alternative cropped version edit

 

  •   Info Fishing house machines called Trabucco, are popular on the Italian coast of the Adriatic Sea. As a rule, they were the places where retired fishermen enjoyed the last years of their lives. Created, third version uploaded, and nominated by Terragio67 -- Terragio67 (talk) 14:30, 04 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Done @ArionStar: , @Tagooty: Hello, as stated above, I've uploaded a new version. --Terragio67 (talk) 20:30, 04 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Comment I prefer the version above. ★ 00:22, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support Thanks for the edits. This shows the fishing nets in warm evening light. Incidentally, these nets resemble the Chinese fishing nets in Kerala, India. --Tagooty (talk) 02:44, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support --Harlock81 (talk) 09:07, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support --MZaplotnik(talk) 10:47, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support The best of the three. --Yann (talk) 11:06, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Small backwater. Kozachij island in the Dnipro river. Ukraine.jpg edit

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File:Real Monasterio de San Juan de la Peña, Huesca, España, 2023-01-05, DD 48-50 HDR.jpg edit

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  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Interiors/Religious_buildings#Spain
  •   Info Apse of the higher church in the Royal Monastery of San Juan de la Peña, Huesca, Aragon, Spain. It was one of the most important monasteries in Aragon in the Middle Ages. Its two-level church is partially carved in the stone of the great cliff that overhangs the foundation. San Juan de la Peña means "Saint John of the Cliff". The lower church includes some mozarabic architectural surviving elements, although most of the parts of the monastery (including the impressive cloister, under the great rock) are Romanesque. After the fire of 1675, a new monastery was built. The old monastery (built in 920) was declared a National Monument on 13 July 1889, and the new monastery in 1923. c/u/n by Poco a poco (talk) 21:30, 2 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support -- Poco a poco (talk) 21:30, 2 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support JukoFF (talk) 00:34, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support Interesting volumes -- Basile Morin (talk) 00:57, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support --imehling (talk) 07:04, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support -- Radomianin (talk) 09:17, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Neutral It's beautiful and there's wow but the framing on the sides and the bottom are very tight, with the side columns even cut off, which is a shame. - Benh (talk) 13:55, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 14:28, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support Ermell (talk) 18:29, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Weak support I'm torn between a passion for history and art and recognizing that Benh is right about the lower and side crop. In the end the first one wins.--Terragio67 (talk) 18:48, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Oppose Good picture indeed but unfortunately too tight for FP, sorry. --Selbymay (talk) 18:57, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Weak support like Terragio67. Still very impressive. 20 years ago when 24mm was the widest lens most photographers could afford we would have called this excellent. --Aristeas (talk) 20:14, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Weak oppose Excellent image, but unfortunate crop. --Tagooty (talk) 08:46, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support --Effco (talk) 10:58, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Comment Will upload a new version this night with an improved crop. I'd also like to stress that this place is a jewel of Romanesque in the world. Poco a poco (talk) 10:14, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Done I've uploaded a new version with more image on left, right and bottom. Also readjusted the vertical perspective correction on the left. I could offer a bit more of crop on the right, but there is a metal structure spoiling the image, so I'd rather leave it like this. @Tagooty and Selbymay: Better now? Poco a poco (talk) 20:53, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  Weak support Better, though not ideal. I've changed my vote. --Tagooty (talk) 04:42, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support ★ 17:02, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support the current version per Tagooty. I'd still like wider crops left and right, but this version has a restful composition that works much better for me than the original, and I love the motif and lighting. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:32, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 05:42, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Panoramica do Pico das Agulhas Negras.jpg edit

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File:Flussregenpfeifer im flachen Wasser 01.jpg edit

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File:Lake Chuzenji panorama 2018-7-15.jpg edit

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File:Catoctin Mountain and farm MD1.jpg edit

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Fixed, thanks. Acroterion (talk) 03:15, 2 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Neutral. I very much like the light here, the thumbnail catches attention that's for sure; also, the photo meets "informative" requirement, but there are a few flaws: the whites are blown on the house, and there's a roll problem: all vertical lines are leaning to the left (not only the leftmost structure, but also the house).  Podstawko  ●talk  10:16, 2 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I'll look at the lean tonight and see whether the highlighted house side can be recovered. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Acroterion (talk • contribs) 12:25, 2 November 2023 (UTC) (UTC)Reply[reply]
I've knocked down the exposure to recover the house siding texture and adjusted tilt. The hay barn and all of the telephone poles lean. Overall it's a little less contrasty. Acroterion (talk) 01:16, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support Thank you for the changes. Good for me now; the stark light/shadow contrast and the telephoto compression make this an impressive photo. --Aristeas (talk) 20:05, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Comment I like very much the photograph, and the whites had to be fixed, but now there is a texture that there was not before. Also the buildings in the foreground did lose sharpness. I don't know if the result will change much, but maybe you may try to repeat the processing from the begin. --Harlock81 (talk) 09:42, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I'll see what I can do, the balances between NR/blur and sharpening/artifacts are narrow and treating it like an HDR images loses much of its impact. Acroterion (talk) 12:29, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I've tried a different workflow and uploaded a new version. Acroterion (talk) 00:55, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  Support Thank you, very good work. --Harlock81 (talk) 09:05, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Oppose Nice, painterly photo that has various positive aspects, but no wow to me. I think I needed to see this view in different light with some special clouds for FP. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:35, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support Very dramatic lighting. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:45, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support There are still issues with this photo, e.g. the two white spots in the woods which add distraction instead of information (and thus should be removed), but the light does the photo for me, and the image is much better after the suggested changes. BTW the second silo from the left looks like the space shuttle tank with a booster rocket attached!  Podstawko  ●talk  07:10, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support --MZaplotnik(talk) 10:45, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support -- Radomianin (talk) 11:04, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Lissabon - Praca do Comercio - Arcades.jpg edit

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File:Durga Puja in Dinhata 3.jpg edit

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File:Lioness Collar Sitting Luangwa Jul23 A7C 06324.jpg edit

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File:Citizen SLD-100NR calculator.jpg edit

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  •   Comment Are we evaluating the sensor of camera or the picture itself? This picture is sharp, the subject is well lighted. And there are other FPs which present "ordinary product", for example: 1 2 --LoMit talk 10:50, 2 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Almost all modern equipment allows you to take high-resolution photos. If a picture is small, there should be mitigating reasons. Crop necessary due to long-distance for example.
Our guidelines state: "A bad picture of a very difficult subject is better than a good picture of an ordinary subject". And here it is an average picture of an ordinary subject, in my view.
The two examples you give were highly controversial (7-3 and 11-4) and I think both were more interesting with natural shadows, more original products, special angles of view -- Basile Morin (talk) 11:41, 2 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Maly Tkhach, Adygea, Поляны рядом с горой Асбестная, Адыгея.jpg edit

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For me, the ‘wow’ effect comes from a combination of cloud pattern in the sky, somewhat bizarre Triassic outcrop formations on the right and the general remoteness of the place. And also, to a lesser degree, from spring freshness (melting snow, fresh grass, condensed humidity), and the fact that it is a UNESCO recognized site. --Argenberg (talk) 16:32, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Muscovy duck head at golden hour in Don Det Laos.jpg edit

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  Support Thanks for answering --Wilfredor (talk) 18:53, 1 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Ring-billed gull (16241).jpg edit

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File:Eastern wood pewee (71095).jpg edit

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File:Schloss Philippsruhe (Westseite).jpg edit

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  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture/Castles and fortifications#Germany
  •   Info Philippsruhe castle in Hanau-Kesselstadt, west facade, seen from the park. All by me. -- Milseburg (talk) 15:55, 31 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support -- Milseburg (talk) 15:55, 31 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Oppose. The roof is not straight.  Podstawko  ●talk  17:02, 31 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Oppose no reason for a vanishing point on the (far far) right in my view here. - Benh (talk) 20:56, 31 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Comment This photo has many advantages – good colours, beautiful sky, the light emphasizes the three-dimensional parts of the façade, etc. I assume this image has been stitched from at least two shots. @Milseburg: Could you check the projection? I would not mind that the view is not totally symmetrical, but some of the horizontal lines seem a tiny little bit bent at the right, so maybe a small change to the projection could mitigate the objections. --Aristeas (talk) 11:06, 2 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Comment Thanks for the criticism. I uploaded a new version with a horizontal roof and a slightly changed alignment. --Milseburg (talk) 17:12, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support Thank you! In my eyes a very pretty and impressive photo and much better than all the others I have reviewed in Oct 2022 for WLM. Any remaining asymmetries etc. can easily be explained by small asymmetries in the castle itself; it’s old ;–). --Aristeas (talk) 20:09, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    • also by the photographer's position, a bit off, very noticeable on the central part's roof. Probably to avoid the right tree. - Benh (talk) 23:20, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support --Llez (talk) 10:06, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support --imehling (talk) 14:11, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support A nice FP. ★ 21:54, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support --MZaplotnik(talk) 23:56, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Oppose This is a very good, valuable QI/VI to me. It's a very nice Schloss, but the trees on the right don't help it and there just isn't anything else very interesting in the photo. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:39, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 05:45, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Oppose. After the alignment changes I'm still opposing. The problem is not really in perspective correction in pp, but in where you were standing -- you were not centered on the building, i.e. were not positioned exactly opposite the door. This skews the perspective and can be seen in the columns, the clock tower, etc.  Podstawko  ●talk  07:15, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:035 Uganda kobs mating at Queen Elizabeth National Park Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg edit

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File:Church of St. Anne, Shandon.jpg edit

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  •   Info created, uploaded, and nominated by Podstawko --  Podstawko  ●talk  06:40, 31 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Neutral. I'm abstaining from voting as the author. What you see is the north side of Cork City, with the conspicuous St. Anne's Church, aka Shandon Bells, aka "Four Faced Liar" because each face of the clock shows a different hour. The image was taken last Saturday (Oct. 28, 2023) morning, and is selected out of over a hundred frames I shot from before sunrise till 9am or so. The clouds had been building up in the background for a long while before taking the shape I found balanced enough. The decision for centered composition is deliberate here, and I carefully picked the vantage spot and positioned the camera with "pixel precision" using a geared head. There is no post-processing cropping. CPL filter was used to make clouds more pronounced. Curves, local adjustments, and cleanup of unwanted spots close to edges was done in post-processing. Most of my shots in this series were at ISO100, but I quickly switched to ISO800 (kudoz to Canon's Fv mode which rocks!) when I saw the Ryanair airplane approaching the Cork Airport, to freeze it. I think it plays well with the clouds. It had already started to rain when I took this picture, and then it poured... all my equipment was soaking by the time I found shelter.
  •   Strong support - ABAL1412🇻🇳🇸🇺🇷🇺 (talk ☭) 07:21, 31 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Comment very nice mood, but quality seems not up to FP standards in terms of sharpness and noise. Tomer T (talk) 09:48, 31 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Oppose Excess noise. --SHB2000 (talk) 11:13, 31 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • @W.carter and Podstawko: Glad we got everything sorted out. And I'm giving this image my   Support.   —Percival Kestreltail (talk) 03:14, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Info Text, comments and votes below this line may be related to the mistakenly created 'Alt'. Please cast (or move) your votes above it. --Cart (talk) 16:34, 2 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Comment Tomer T's and SHB2000's make sense in the Wikimedia informative context. The grainy "look" may be pleasing aesthetically but is not adding merit. I have now denoised the picture, and brightened (just a tad as not to lose the mood) -- please check it out.
  •   Oppose Underexposed, boring centered composition and weird colours. I think this image just hasn't the potential for FP, no matter how many fixes you'll add on top. - Benh (talk) 20:55, 31 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support Mr. Rasel Hasan (talk) 11:37, 1 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Comment Are you offering this verion as an 'Alternative' on your nomination? If so, you have to make this part a proper sub-section to your nomination, Look at how other noms with 'Alts' are made. This has to be done for voting clarity as well as for the FPCBot to be able to later close the nom correctly. If the version is just an example image, you can only show it as a link. Please fix this. Thank you, --Cart (talk) 12:37, 1 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Oppose Underexposed & per Benh. The plane is too big to be just overlooked but too small to make the composition. — Draceane talkcontrib. 12:53, 1 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Comment Thanks Cart, I have now marked the image as "Alternative version", I hope this fixes the problem, but please let me know if anything else needs to be corrected.
Thanks! Almost correct. See minor fixes in diff. --Cart (talk) 14:05, 1 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you @Cart!  Podstawko  ●talk  14:17, 1 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Ah! Thanks —Percival Kestreltail, you are perfectly correct. I didn't dig that deep. I just saw the two images and assumed they were two different files, my bad. A new version uploaded on top of the original nomination, is not regarded as an alterative. I'll restore this to a normal nomination. Podstawko is fairly new here and doesn't know all our procedural quirks. The option for an "Alt" is only for separate files, not versions uploaded on the same file page. I'm also 'pinging' @Mr. Rasel Hasan and Draceane: and Benh, who's votes happened to fall on the invalid 'Alt' to see if their votes still stand. (every time something is altered on a nom or image, previous voters should be informed.) --Cart (talk) 16:34, 2 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    Thanks @Kestreltail and @W.carter, looks like I totally messed up that Alt thing. Indeed I'm new here. I'll be more careful the next time I propose an alternative version.  Podstawko  ●talk  20:11, 2 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • You are allowed to mess things up – as long as you learn from it. ;-) Cart (talk) 20:16, 2 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Écomusée d’Alsace 12 - Hansi.jpg edit

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File:Interior of the library at Amantaka luxury Resort & Hotel in Luang Prabang Laos.jpg, featured edit

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  • Thanks, Podstawko for your comment. Hot pixels removed. Please could you sign your review to make it valid? Best regards -- Basile Morin (talk) 10:37, 31 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    Thanks for updating the image. Also, good catch with the signature. Signed now.  Podstawko  ●talk  12:48, 31 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Result: 18 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 05:46, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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File:Che Guevara - Guerrillero Heroico by Alberto Korda.jpg edit

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  Oppose Now the link seems to work, but I'm going to downvote simply because he is a character used politically by a movement that destroyed my country. --Wilfredor (talk) 14:00, 1 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Crater Lake October 2019 011.jpg edit

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File:Zicht op de Piz S-chalambert vanuit Val Sinestra 19-09-2023. (d.j.b) 01 02.jpg edit

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  • Thanks for your response. Question for you: what does WB off mean?--Famberhorst (talk) 18:23, 31 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Comment The grey-green colour banding is still faintly visible. But what bothers me most are the diminishing details on the right side. --Ermell (talk) 09:13, 2 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • It was almost invisible in the last version, but it's more visible in the new version. I have to cross out my supporting vote. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:50, 2 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Comment I've just been trying to further reduce the mentioned faint color banding. I reached the limits of JPG processing, the results were not satisfactory. Probably the best solution would be to re-process the raw file. Sorry about that. Best regards, -- Radomianin (talk) 22:02, 2 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Re-editing Dear reviewers @Famberhorst, Charlesjsharp, Ermell, Ikan Kekek, Sebring12Hrs, Kallerna, and ABAL1412: , this morning I removed as much of the banding in the sky as I could by using the second last version for a rework. Apologies for pinging again. Best regards, -- Radomianin (talk) 09:58, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Comment It's better again, but they are faintly visible and I'm uncertain this is one of the greatest photos on the site. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:14, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Weak support - ABAL1412🇻🇳🇸🇺🇷🇺 (talk ☭) 07:03, 31 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support I like the composition of the image combined with the favorable lighting of the mountain. In my opinion, the previous removal of the banding as well as the white balance improved the image. -- Radomianin (talk) 07:55, 2 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Oppose The editing is not bad but the whole picture looks a bit unreal. The visible noise reduction and the associated lack of sharpness bothers me the most. Sorry.--Ermell (talk) 18:20, 3 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Charles Henry Turner at Sumner High School, St. Louis, Mo. Aug. 9, 1921.jpg edit

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File:Silhuetas no Forte de Santo Antônio da Barra (cropped).jpg edit

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  • I hadn't noticed or checked for those, but compositionally, it breathes more. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:23, 29 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Oppose I simply find the composition of this cropped image very disappointing compared to the original. It's in-your-face and doesn't breathe. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:55, 31 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support --Palauenc05 (talk) 19:27, 29 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support--Princess 🍵 Rosalina 14711 00:06, 30 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Comment I was going to support, but looking at the original I'm not sure what's going on. The photo is less than the maximum resolution of the camera, so I don't assume they'd be stitching errors (though it's possible, of course). That makes me wonder what other kinds of manipulations might have caused those effects... — Rhododendrites talk |  13:25, 30 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    Yes, but the cropped version hasn’t stitching erros and the resolution is totally acceptable for FP. ★ 13:32, 30 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support --XRay 💬 16:26, 30 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support --Llez (talk) 06:40, 31 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support Going forth and back on this one, I think it’s original enough to deserve a star. (The uncropped version would be much more balanced, of course, but the problems are too obvious.) --Aristeas (talk) 10:24, 2 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Comment I feel like the stitching errors should have been dealt with in the full composition. I don't understand why this crop deserves a star, but obviously, a strong consensus disagrees with me. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:35, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    The consensus seems to realize that the crop also harmonizes with the diagonal composition. ★ 11:20, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
You're the only one to mention this, so you seem to be putting words in people's mouths. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 16:10, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I said "seems", so it's just a perception. ★ 16:21, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Roza-Hutor-001.jpg edit

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  • I react to the photo as a whole, not only whatever subset of the composition someone might define as the subject. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:56, 31 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Llantwit Major Beach, Oct 2023 06.jpg edit

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  •   Done Good spot. Have had a go at fixing those pixels. Cheers, BigDom (talk) 04:12, 29 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 07:40, 29 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support The man is okay inmy eyes. --Milseburg (talk) 21:02, 29 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support--Princess 🍵 Rosalina 10018 00:06, 30 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Oppose Good informative value, and sun is a capricious visitor on British Isles indeed (I too need to hunt for it here...). I'm opposing because the composition really bothers me here, with horizon very straight but awkwardly neither at 1/2 or 1/3, perceived heaviness at the bottom due to too much space taken by pebbles (was that deliberate?), the warning sign which spoils the otherwise peaceful content. Somehow this picture won't stand out for me, maybe it is idiosyncratic looking at how many support votes the image received...  Podstawko  ●talk  08:53, 30 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    @Podstawko Thanks for the detailed review, just replying since you asked a question and will address a couple of your other points (which are very fair) at the same time. The horizon, fair enough, I was aiming for 1/2 but looking again in Camera Raw it is about 50 pixels off halfway. I could happily lose 100px of pebbles at the bottom to get it more precise. The pebbles were deliberate because I liked their texture, but of course deliberate doesn't mean it was objectively a good idea! As for the warning sign, well, it was there and there's not much I could do about it, but actually I quite like it for its educational value and the way it adds some tension to the scene. Cheers, BigDom (talk) 10:06, 30 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Neutral IMO too much foreground. The sign is disturbing - but not a problem. Sharpness could be better too. --XRay 💬 16:28, 30 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Oppose Average composition, no wow. —kallerna (talk) 06:44, 31 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Alternative version edit

 

  • Just realised I forgot to   Support the alternative. BigDom (talk) 15:24, 31 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  Support Definitely better. I would still get rid of the warning sign (philosophical question: how far should we interfere?), but this new version is definitely something I'd support.  Podstawko  ●talk  17:31, 30 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Riomaggiore From Ferry Cinque Terre Italy Sep23 A7C 07414.jpg edit

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  • I indeed concur with Ikan Kekek here, nice view but lighting or detail are not exceptional and I agree that sharpness on the left is not good. Therefore   Oppose, sorry Tagooty Poco a poco (talk) 14:51, 30 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Museo de Historia Natural, Londres, Inglaterra, 2022-11-25, DD 50-52 HDR.jpg edit

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  •   Comment Yeah. I wish this view could be captured without people, or at least without blurs and with people that help the composition. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:16, 29 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I actually find the motion blur an advantage here. Adds to the feeling of people walking about, looking, reading, discussing about the whale skeleton. Living commotion around a dead-still (nomen-omen) object :)  Podstawko  ●talk  08:31, 30 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Support Well done with long exposure here. Also the composition is very deliberate, but you did make mistakes (what is that 2-pixel wide blue line next to the right edge?? Why the nose touches the bottom edge? Disturbing. Also, more light on the skeleton! Even in post-processing. Still, support for the hard work you put into this, good overall effect, and the informative value.  Podstawko  ●talk  08:53, 30 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Thanks for your feedback, Podstawko. I checked the imagen and cannot identify the problems you mention, could you add a note for both of them? I didn't see any blue line and there is some space left between the tip of the lowest bone and the bottom crop. Regarding the exposure of the skeleton and after so many favorable votes, I'd rather leave it like this. Poco a poco (talk) 09:50, 30 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    Look at the very right edge, as in the very last pixels, of the image.  Podstawko  ●talk  09:59, 30 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Conrad Las Vegas at Resorts World February 2023 HDR.jpg edit

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  •   Comment I was going to comment on that crop. I would like to see the whole lamp on the right. Is that possible? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:44, 27 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • I was flying relatively light and didn't have room to bring my gigantic 14-24mm. This was the widest I could go. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 23:13, 27 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  •   Oppose I totally understand, but ultimately, I find that that crop bugs me too much to find this more than a good QI. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:56, 28 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]


Timetable (day 5 after nomination) edit 

Tue 31 Oct → Sun 05 Nov
Wed 01 Nov → Mon 06 Nov
Thu 02 Nov → Tue 07 Nov
Fri 03 Nov → Wed 08 Nov
Sat 04 Nov → Thu 09 Nov
Sun 05 Nov → Fri 10 Nov

Timetable (day 9 after nomination, last day of voting) edit 

Fri 27 Oct → Sun 05 Nov
Sat 28 Oct → Mon 06 Nov
Sun 29 Oct → Tue 07 Nov
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Closing a featured picture promotion request edit

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  1. In Commons:Featured picture candidates/candidate list click on the title/link of the candidate image, then [edit].
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Closing a delisting request edit

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Manual archiving of a withdrawn nomination edit

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    not featured
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