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Original - "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" from a 1901 illustration by William Wallace Denslow.
Reason
Another Denslow illustration of a famous nursery rhyme. It turns out this rhyme has added encyclopedic value as an example of 1980s revisionism. Restored version of File:Black sheep Denslow.jpg.
Articles this image appears in
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, William Wallace Denslow, Nursery_rhyme#Nursery_rhyme_revisionism, List of fictional sheep, Black sheep
Creator
William Wallace Denslow

Promoted File:The Black sheep illustrated by William Wallace Denslow.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 02:53, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Jumping spider courtship display (male Phidippus clarus)
Typical posture (not for voting)
Reason
I have dozens of jumping spider photos that are technically far better than this one, but none of them come close to being as valuable. This photo is not for illustrating a particular jumping spider, but to illustrate the section on jumping spider courtship dances in the article jumping spider. Obviously the sharpness is not comparable to most other featured macro shots. For shooting jumping spiders (which are quite tiny) I usually have to open up to f/8 or so to avoid diffraction softening. In this case, however, it was important to get the legs in the focus plane (as they are an important part of the display) so I stopped down to f/13. At full res the diffraction softening is obvious, but IMO the trade-off was worth it and I would shoot it at the same aperture if I did it again. The other flaw is that there are 21 blown pixels on the leg and 5 in the eyes where the specular highlights are. There are no totally blown areas, however, just pixels, and otherwise the levels and curves are pretty nice. Since this was shot hand-held on an overcast day, obviously a strong flash was required (not to mention the fact that it's dancing). The primary selling point for this images is obviously it's encyclopedic value. The description of jumping spider courtship behavior needed a good photo and this one fits the bill nicely. There are only a handful of similar photographs on the internet and none that are free license.
Articles this image appears in
Jumping spider#Reproduction
Creator
Kaldari

Suspended for editing. Could also close if preferred, and you can nominate the new version later, but I don't want to discourage work being done on an image by a hasty "no quorum" close. Shoemaker's Holiday Over 201 FCs served 00:36, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • Edit now done so I'm Unsuspending. Zoofari could you strike your previous vote please since you've now voted twice? Also renamed edit from Alt to Edit per conventions (an alt is a completely different image). Note: I'm just putting this back to the 'decision time' section - if you want to run it right from the top again, go ahead but I don't think it needs it. --jjron (talk) 07:21, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support alt see the thumb for changes. I'm not a wizard so I couldn't bring the leg into focus :-( ZooFari 05:05, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • I appreciate the effort, but I have to say I prefer the original. The alt is over-sharpened - the areas where the hairs overlap the background are quite noisey for example. Also, all of the white areas are blown in the alt, so there is actually less detail rather than more. As you said, it would take a wizard to fix it (without being able to focus-stack), so maybe it's just not good enough to feature. Kaldari (talk) 16:38, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Promoted File:Phidippus clarus courtship edit.jpg --Pmlineditor  Talk 14:55, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted - no consensus. My apologies for this but this is the best I can make of this now. We were leaving it open to give the edit some time, but we have been pre-empted and I suppose must now make a decision. I would tend to encourage a renomination (or alternative decision here). --jjron (talk) 08:24, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Original - Male Magpie Lark in a suburban garden
Reason
High quality and good EV
Articles this image appears in
Magpie-lark
Creator
Fir0002
  • Support. Given these birds are "...common and very widespread bird both in urban and rural areas", I don't think it's inappropriate for it to be sitting on a rail in a suburban garden, as it is part of the representative environment and possibly even adds to EV. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 08:15, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Male magpie lark in suburban garden.jpg --jjron (talk) 08:35, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Sunflower, Sunfola variety, against a blue sky. Specimen is approx 15cm in diameter
Reason
Aesthetic and plenty of EV
Articles this image appears in
Sunflower
Creator
Fir0002

Promoted File:Sunflower sky backdrop.jpg --jjron (talk) 08:34, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Cabbage and its cross section on white.
Reason
High quality + high EV
Articles this image appears in
Cabbage
Creator
Fir0002

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 08:15, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - RAN Squirrel Helicopter at the Melbourne Grand Prix
Reason
Renom of a previous attempt - comments there indicated a single image would be better
Articles this image appears in
Fleet Air Arm (RAN)
Creator
Fir0002
  • Support as nominator --Fir0002 10:38, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment The angle is slightly unhappy because it leads to one of the rotors overlapping the tail as well as over underexposure of large parts of the underside and sides - the farther landing skid has been reduced to a mere silhouette. This all leads to a snapshotty feel overall imo. Approaching the aerospace industry and military with requests for pictures may yield much better material than this. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 09:34, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • On the other hand the angle is slightly happy because it makes the object 3D rather than 2D-side-on-portrait. It's also from a top down rather than a overhead angle which elevates it from snapshot level IMO. I'm assuming you mean under exposure right? Still plenty of detail there - I'll run the standard suggestion of getting your monitor calibrated. If you don't believe me bump up the gamma or something in your image editor of choice. --Fir0002 13:52, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Great angle. The farther landing skid is not a problem even if underexposed since you can see perfectly the other one.  Franklin.vp  15:28, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support well done. Cacophony (talk) 04:09, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support upstateNYerformerly wadester16 21:23, 30 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:RAN squirrel helicopter at melb GP 08.jpg --jjron (talk) 08:34, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Cowboy Beetle, Chondropyga dorsalis
Alt 1
Reason
Another renom - now sitting in an expanded article
Articles this image appears in
Chondropyga dorsalis
Creator
Fir0002

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 08:18, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - US President Calvin Coolidge (left) and Washington Senators pitcher Walter Johnson (right) shake hands.
Alt1 - More typical crop, per gren
Reason
High quality and resolution image of significant EV and historical value, a US president and one of the greatest pitchers of all time shaking hands. Crop style was Durova's idea, I like it as it catches the full image and the feeling of the crowd whilst losing the intrusive barrier of the original.
Articles this image appears in
Calvin Coolidge, Walter Johnson, 1924 in baseball, Minnesota Twins, Sports diplomacy#Sports and politics in the United States
Creator
National Photo Company Collection, edited by Staxringold, Durova, and Shoemaker's Holiday.
  • Support as nominator --Staxringold talkcontribs 00:40, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I'm unsure about the crop... I see its purpose although I am slightly uneasy about losing some of the the bottom right. But, if we agree cropping is a good idea why did you choose to keep so much on the right and left? I don't have an answer to this, of course, but it's what came to mind when comparing to the original. I'm not sure it's the best crop for all of the articles, especially the two biographies. gren グレン 06:33, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Great EV. — Jake Wartenberg 01:47, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support revised version. Staxringold and I discussed several possible crops and agreed this was the best solution. Minimizes the intrusive barrier on the original while retaining the handshake and crowd presence. Durova306 02:03, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Oppose alt one. Cuts off figures at both left and right. Loses sense of crowd, including appauding figure at far right and the dynamic diagonal slope from the upper background. A more typical crop isn't necessarily a better one. Durova306 00:45, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support original, Oppose Alt as auxilliary dirtzapper. The crop is more typical, but seems to lose a lot of the dynamism of the original.

Plus the 1920s fashions visible in the crowd are an additional source of appeal. Shoemaker's Holiday Over 201 FCs served 03:34, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • There's the biographical value showing what they look like, it shows the interrelationship of politics and sports in the US, it came after one of the lone bright spots in the history of the Washington Senators, and perhaps most important directly displays the friendship briefly mentioned in the Walter Johnson article ("A life-long Republican and friend of President Calvin Coolidge...") which will need to be far expanded for the article to properly reach FA status (but this image goes to that friendship). Staxringold talkcontribs 07:53, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oh, I didn't see that about them being friends. That's interesting. Anyway, I think this picture would be best used for an article discussing the "American League diploma" mentioned in the image description. Unfortunately, I can't find any more information about that. Was it common for a president to present that to the team? Do we have any more info on this specific meeting between Johnson and Coolidge? Makeemlighter (talk) 11:11, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • I have no information on that thing, though given that this photo is from 1925 and the Senators won the World Series (and thus the AL pennant) in 1924 and WJ won the League Award, it's probably something to do with one of those things. Staxringold talkcontribs 15:35, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Walter Johnson and Calvin Coolidge shake hands FINAL.jpg --jjron (talk) 08:34, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Sarcophagid fly Portrait.jpg

Original - General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, Chief of Staff of the United States Army by Nicodemus David Hufford III.
Reason
This image is a high quality and unique painting of General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower by Nicodemus David Hufford III, which I believe meets the Featured Picture criteria. The image well illustrates Eisenhower as a General of the Army and Chief of Staff of the United States Army prior to his election to President.
Articles this image appears in
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, 1952 Republican National Convention, Military career of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Commanders of World War II, Portal:United States Army/Selected biography, Portal:United States Army/Selected biography/3, Republican Party (United States) presidential primaries, 1952
Creator
Nicodemus David Hufford III
Edit 1

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 08:15, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Original - The Castle of São Jorge occupies a commanding position overlooking the city of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, and the Tagus River beyond. The fortified citadel, which dates from medieval times, is located atop the highest hill in the historic center of the city. The castle is one of the main historical and touristic sites of Lisbon.
Reason
Quality+EV
Articles this image appears in
Castle of São Jorge and Lisbon
Creator
Massimo Catarinella
  • Support as nominator --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 20:39, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: I should say that this is not a picture of the castle, it is a picture of the houses next to it that manages to capture the whole castle. Sadly enough, cropping it, I think, either will eliminate some portion of the castle or make the picture ugly. I see that the castle has this sort of stairway that would be difficult to isolate from the houses if we want to include it in the picture. Except for this mistake of the composition, I think, for the Wikipedia purposes it is a good picture. Now it comes to my mind that maybe the houses are part of the castle. Maybe someone knowing about the Castle of São Jorge can explain this. If this is the case I have no objection about the picture. Franklin.vp  21:12, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The castle is located in a citadel, which is quite big as you can see in the picture (look for the wall above the houses). You can only access the castle by first entering the citadel. The entrance to the citadel is on the other side of the one shown in this picture. Before you arrive at the gate, you have to make your way through a residential neighborhood, which is built around the citadel as shown in the panorama. Since the castle, citadel and surroundings are so much woven into one another, I think it is best to show them all in one panorama. Also, the composition would be damaged if I would crop the picture otherwise. Some of you have expressed to see more of the surroundings as stated below at the nomination for the Jeronimos Monastery. I only found two good vantage points to take this picture from. One was where this one was taken from and the other one the top of the Santa Justa Elevator (use Google Maps and Street View).--Massimo Catarinella (talk) 21:44, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I couldn't find a good spot to insert it in the article of Lisbon, but if you know of one then please do so. --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 21:44, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I have also inserted the image in the Lisbon article as requested, after rearranging the history section. --17:42, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Not promoted - no quorum. --jjron (talk) 07:36, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Lace monitor, Varanus varius, up a tree
Reason
Quite a striking illustration of the length of this animal. Yes part of the tail is partially obscured by some leaves which were in the way, but there wasn' much I could do about it and it doesn't detract much IMO. Good quality + good EV
Articles this image appears in
Lace Monitor
Creator
Fir0002

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 07:37, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Rufous Whistler perched on a twig
Reason
Good shot of an attractive small bird
Articles this image appears in
Rufous Whistler
Creator
Fir0002

Promoted File:Rufous whistler.jpg --jjron (talk) 07:48, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Silver Gull, Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae
Reason
Aesthetic composition of this bird on the beach with the ocean behind it
Articles this image appears in
Silver Gull
Creator
Fir0002

Promoted File:Silver gull jan 09.jpg --jjron (talk) 07:46, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Brown Treecreeper calling
Reason
Good quality shot with good EV
Articles this image appears in
Brown Treecreeper
Creator
Fir0002

Promoted File:Brown treecreeper jan09.jpg --jjron (talk) 07:46, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Female Golden Stag Beetle, Lamprima aurata
Reason
High quality shot of an interesting insect showing its highly iridescent shell
Articles this image appears in
Beetle, Iridescence
Creator
Fir0002
True, but I think it's valuable as an example of biological iridescence. The other images don't show that quite as well. The one that's an FP is certainly excellent, but I'm not sure it has as much EV for this topic as the current nom. Makeemlighter (talk) 02:25, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted - no consensus. --jjron (talk) 07:37, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Blue bottle fly (Calliphora vomitoria) Portrait, Austin's Ferry, Tasmania, Australia.
Reason
Really detailed, adds enc to a number of articles. 3.5:1 magnification. Handheld, all natural light ;). Compliments the other Calliphora vomitoria FP with the nasty crop.
Articles this image appears in
Blow-fly, Calliphora, Blue bottle fly, Calliphorinae
Creator
Noodle snacks

Promoted File:Calliphora vomitoria Portrait.jpg --jjron (talk) 07:45, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - The first published image of Jane Austen, from A Memoir of Jane Austen, revised an unfinished watercolour by her sister Cassandra Austen, in the process tweaking various details to make her appearance a bit more compatible with Victorian sensibilities. Subsequent images were generally based on this one.
Reason
First published image of her, and the one which almost all subsequent depictions are based off of. The revisionism of this image compared to Cassandra Austen's original sketch is a major subject of academic discussion, and, indeed, is discussed in both articles this engraving is used in (it replaces a low-resolution image). Could reasonably be used in the main Jane Austen article, but I'd rather let the editors there decide where to put it in.
Articles this image appears in
Reception history of Jane Austen, A Memoir of Jane Austen
Creator
From a watercolour by James Andrews of Maidenhead based on an unfinished work by Cassandra Austen. Engraving by Lizars.
Restoration by Adam Cuerden and Staxringold

Promoted File:Jane Austen, from A Memoir of Jane Austen (1870).jpg --jjron (talk) 07:43, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Illustration from a manuscript grant of arms by Philip II of Spain to Alonso de Mesa and Hernando de Mesa, signed 25 November 1566.
Reason
A good period example of heraldry: this comes from a sixteenth century manuscript grant of arms signed by the king of Spain. Restored version of File:Grant of arms.jpg.
Articles this image appears in
Grant of Arms, Law_of_Arms#The_right_to_bear_arms, Spanish_heraldry#Origins_and_history
Creator
Anonymous illustrator employed by King Philip II of Spain

Promoted File:Grant of arms2.jpg --jjron (talk) 07:39, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Ty Cobb, an early 20th century baseball center fielder who ranks second all-time in career triples, slides safely into third base.
Edit1 by jjron - cropped version to emphasise play and remove some of the dead background
Reason
High resolution and quality image that clearly displays the triple, featuring one of the all time greats at achieving the triple. This is like a photo of Ruth, Aaron, or Bonds hitting a home run, a great doing what he's great at. The previous nomination fell flat due to EV issues, but in discussing this with Durova I pointed out that this isn't a great pure-EV image for just Cobb (although it is valuable in displaying his massive baserunning prowess and speed, it is not a portait) it also displays the triple itself.
Articles this image appears in
Ty Cobb, Triple (baseball), Slide (baseball)
Creator
National Photo Company, edited by Durova
  • Interesting discussion but inconclusive - one knowledgeable editor suggested it was the triple, another that "So as far as we know, it's Cobb stealing third...", and the weight of discussion seemed to feel it was a practice or staged shot (not just due to the empty stands, but due to the stance of the left fielder), though no one was really committed. --jjron (talk) 06:55, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • The main reason given for the renom was that EV was now better because it's illustrating a triple. Well surely if it's not doing this (and at best it seems we're unsure) the reasoning given and the EV isn't that strong? Only after voters are sure about that should they then be evaluating whether it's an FP quality illustration of a triple. --jjron (talk) 08:01, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Maybe a happier and higher EV home for this could be Slide (baseball)? Ty Cobb actually already gets a mention in that article. --jjron (talk) 08:04, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Is this not superior to some of the current images? I wonder also if this wouldn't benefit from a bit of a crop to focus more on the play - frankly that sky's not doing much for it. --jjron (talk) 08:13, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • I was also very suspicious about it being a genuine triple. It just doesn't look like a legitimate game situation, and as mentioned, it doesn't really illustrate a triple at all. It may have been a triple, but it just doesn't illustrate it. The only thing that properly does illustrate it is a video of the entire event from the moment of the pitch onwards, or a diagram. But as far as EV on slide goes, I think it's a pretty good historical example, and IMO the only article that it illustrates significantly enough. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 17:06, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Shouldn't matter really - Howcheng does a sterling job rewriting the captions for POTD anyway, he doesn't just use what's here, he ensures it makes sense to a general reader. --jjron (talk) 08:35, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Whether it's an in-game or practice triple it's a triple, and it's a perfect shot of a slide. How exactly else do you propose displaying a triple? As for Cobb, the EV is not as a portrait (for which this image would be less useful, as you say), but for displaying his baserunning ability. That's a minor part of the EV in this new FPC anyways, that's the whole difference from the original. Staxringold talkcontribs 21:06, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Ty Cobb sliding2-edit1.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 14:03, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Original - A rider jumps over the boat's wake while tubing on Pleasant Lake, Cass County, Minnesota
Reason
High quality, dynamic image, represents the subject well
Articles this image appears in
Tubing (recreation)
Creator
Peter Opatrny

Promoted File:Tubing_on_Pleasant_Lake_MN.jpg --jjron (talk) 07:39, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - the Mona Lisa
Alternative
Reason
The version in the last nomination (Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mona Lisa) was too small (Version 10:40, 16 November 2006). Now it has much higher resolution.
Articles this image appears in
See Pages that link to "File:Mona Lisa.jpg"
Creator
Leonardo da Vinci
How about the alternative one? Mikael Häggström (talk) 06:47, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 07:37, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Jacky Winter incubating its eggs
Reason
High quality shot of an interesting scene
Articles this image appears in
Jacky Winter
Creator
Fir0002

Promoted File:Jacky winter nesting.jpg --jjron (talk) 07:39, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Dusky Woodswallow about to feed its chicks a fly
Reason
High quality image of a hard to get scene with good EV
Articles this image appears in
Dusky Woodswallow
Creator
Fir0002

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 07:38, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - A Willie Wagtail incubating its eggs
Reason
High quality image with good EV
Articles this image appears in
Willie Wagtail
Creator
Fir0002

Promoted File:Willie wagtail in nest.jpg --jjron (talk) 07:39, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Original - White Browed Scrubwren
Alt 1 - Low sharpening
Reason
High quality shot of a small bird
Articles this image appears in
White-browed Scrubwren
Creator
Fir0002

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 07:37, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Juvenile Pacific Gull on a wharf
Reason
Good shot with high EV - juveniles look quite different to adults
Articles this image appears in
Pacific Gull
Creator
Fir0002

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 07:37, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Whistling Kite in flight
Edit 1 by Diliff - Dodged (brightened) the bird's shadow detail and burned (darkened) the background to allow the bird to stand out.
Reason
Interesting shot with good EV
Articles this image appears in
Whistling Kite
Creator
Fir0002

Promoted File:Whistling_kite_in_flight_edit_1.jpg --Staxringold talkcontribs 04:09, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Original - Australian Pelican in flight - "A layer of special fibers deep in the breast muscles can hold the wings rigidly horizontal for gliding and soaring"
Reason
Good shot with high EV
Articles this image appears in
Pelican
Creator
Fir0002

Promoted File:Australian pelican in flight.jpg --Staxringold talkcontribs 04:29, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Great Cormorant in flight
Reason
Interesting shot of this species
Articles this image appears in
Great Cormorant
Creator
Fir0002

Not promoted --Staxringold talkcontribs 04:43, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Original - Kangaroo licking its forepaws to assist thermoregulation
Reason
Kangaroo licking its forepaws to assist in cooling during a very hot summer day. High quality image of an interesting animal behaviour.
Articles this image appears in
Thermoregulation
Creator
Fir0002

Not promoted --Staxringold talkcontribs 04:47, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Eastern Yellow Robin, Eopsaltria australis
Reason
High quality with good EV
Articles this image appears in
Eastern Yellow Robin
Creator
Fir0002

Promoted File:Eastern yellow robin (Victoria, Australia 2008).jpg --Staxringold talkcontribs 04:50, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Jimmy Wales's face digitally merged into the William-Adolphe Bouguereau painting "Nymphs and Satyr".
Not for voting - Nymphs and Satyr by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1873)
Not for voting - A portrait of Jimmy Wales
Reason
A merge of two notable subjects that illustrates humor that is often associated with digitally composed montages in popular culture. Originals are here and here.
Articles this image appears in
Image editing, Photo manipulation
Creator
Originals by User:Kalyanvarma and William-Adolphe Bouguereau, edited User:Durova

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 12:10, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Sacred Kingfisher, Todiramphus sanctus
Reason
Great quality and good EV
Articles this image appears in
Sacred Kingfisher
Creator
Fir0002

Promoted File:Sacred kingfisher nov08.jpg --jjron (talk) 12:13, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Black Swan on the foreshore showing the bird's characteristic "S" neck
Reason
High quality + good EV
Articles this image appears in
Black Swan
Creator
Fir0002

Promoted File:Black swan jan09.jpg --jjron (talk) 12:13, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Cape Barren Goose in midstride
Reason
High quality with good EV.
Articles this image appears in
Goose. Could probably replace the existing image in the Cape Barren Goose article as it has better lighting and shows the bird from a slightly more representative angle (side on). Thought I'd raise this issue here to generate some greater consensus
Creator
Fir0002

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 12:11, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Australian Darter, anhinga melanogaster
Reason
Good quality + good EV
Articles this image appears in
Australian Darter
Creator
Fir0002

Promoted File:Darter - anhinga melanogaster.jpg --jjron (talk) 12:13, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - TheDom Tower in Utrecht, Netherlands is one of the best known landmarks of this country. This gothic tower is the highest church tower (112,5 metres/368 feet) in the Netherlands and was built between 1321 and 1382 as part of the Cathedral of St. Martin.
Alternative
Reason
EV+Quality
Articles this image appears in
Domtoren, Utrecht and the Netherlands
Creator
Massimo Catarinella
Uploaded an alternative --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 22:46, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I appreciate that; however, what you gain in one area you lose in another - the tower is now slightly bleached in the Sun, and there are some distracting shadows in the lantern. Also, looking at both, it appears that the tower is leaning to the left. SilkTork *YES! 07:31, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I can't help the fact. that a 700-year-old structure is tilted somewhat. As for the image itself, there is no overexposure. Shadows will always be there. This building is very large and has a lot of nooks and crannies, which can't be evenly lit at the same time. It's either this or that. I've now offered you an image in the early and late afternoon. If I would have taken this in the morning, the sun would be in my face. --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 10:47, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
As the tower leans slightly more in the first image, I think it's the camera angle rather than the age of the tower that is at fault. This is bourne out by looking at the modern white building in background (the one in front of the ASR building) as that also leans in both, and leans more in the first than the second. As for solving the shadow/bleaching problem, try shooting it on a day with good light, but no direct sunshine. SilkTork *YES! 17:33, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
This one File:Domtoren vanaf de Stadhuisbrug.JPG has a more interesting angle that gives more detail and overcomes some of the shadow problems. Also it doesn't lean! I'm not offering it as a substitute, but a suggestion of a better angle to take the tower. SilkTork *YES! 17:42, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Apparently I haven't convinced you, but you have to believe me when I say this tower is tilted. First of all, I've seen the tilt with my own eyes. I also took different pictures that day from different viewing points, which also show the same tilt. I use a Manfrotto tripod with a built in measuring system, which uses a water bubble (don't know the English noun for it). Since this panorama was taken from a modern building, this simply eliminates every major tilt. Afterwards, I've corrected a small tilt of 0,2 degrees in Photoshop by drawing vertical lines using the modern office building in the background, which you mention, as a reference point (draw a vertical line over it and you will see there is no tilt). Another way to notice there is no tilt, is by looking at the chimneys and the small tower in the foreground. The alternative could contain a minor tilt, since I've that one quickly by hand. If it were to become a FP, I could always correct this afterwards. Oh, one more thing about the tilt-issue... every part of the tower is tilted in a different direction (the lantern for instance is less tilted than the part directly below it). As for the other image you showed, yes, that one was taken from the square in front of the city hall. That square is a very crowded place, so a panorama shot there wouldn't become a very nice one imo. I've uploaded the current panorama to Wikipedia, because it also includes the cathedral and not simply the tower. Therefore it can also be used in different articles. --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 03:13, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support with slight preference to the alternative. EV is high enough to offset minor lighting problems. Makeemlighter (talk) 16:14, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Neutral. I don't consider the lighting an issue (and laughed out loud at the fact that "I can't help the fact that a 700-year-old structure is tilted somewhat") but I don't like the distracting building at the bottom, cutting off the bottom of the subject. Compare with our other architectural FPs- a full shot of the whole building would be best. I appreciate how difficult that is, but right now this is slightly lacking. J Milburn (talk) 18:26, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I understand your argument, but would like to point out that the FP's of the Big Ben and Torre Agbar are also cut of at the bottom. I noticed that Wikipedia didn't had a decent picture of this structure, so decided to take on while being in Utrecht yesterday. At least now Wikipedia has one. Whether it becomes a FP is up to you guys (obviously). --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 18:36, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I thought of the Big Ben image when I made the comment- that is of the tower, rather than the building as a whole, and so serves its purpose well. The other one is a little cut off, but not nearly as much as this one. Please don't take this negatively; it's a great picture and a great addition to the encyclopedia, I just don't think it's FP material. J Milburn (talk) 23:10, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Don't worry, I don't take things said here (well, most of them ;) ) negatively including your comment. --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 15:02, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Alternate; Neutral on Original What was done to the shadows on the alt is clearly unnatural, especially the small roof in the bottom right corner. As for the other, I have yet to decide if it is worthy. Nezzadar (talk) 19:44, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Excuse me? I've done nothing to the shadows. The picture was just taken earlier on in the day (see the clock on the tower). --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 20:04, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted - no quorum. --jjron (talk) 07:44, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Original - A picture of the Eden Gardens stadium before the start of a match.
Reason
Fits the criteria and looks good to me. Better than the last nom. I made.
Articles this image appears in
West Bengal, Kolkata, Eden Gardens, Feroz Shah Kotla and many more, too large to mention
Creator
Peter Andersen (uploader) and Chippu Abraham (creator)

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 07:44, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Picture of Salt Lake Stadium - Yuva Bharati Krirangan , Kolkata ( Calcutta ). Picture was taken on afternoon of 27th May, 2008. The Football Match was between Bayern Munich vs. Mohun Bagan. It is known as the farewell match of German Goal Keeper Oliver Kahn.
Reason
Seems to meet the criteria. Above 1000px :) The picture is that of the second largest stadium in the world during a match which was the last of Oliver Kahn. Seems to be okay to me.
Articles this image appears in
Kolkata, Baichung Bhutia and Yuva Bharati Krirangan
Creator
Lovedimpy

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 07:44, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Hurricane Jimena as a powerful Category 4 hurricane on August 30, 2009. The storm has a small, well-defined, pinhole eye, a feature of intense tropical cyclones, and large outer bands as well as good outflow. At the time of this image, the hurricane was situated off the western coast of Mexico, seen on the right side of the image, and tracking towards Baja California, seen at the top of the image.
Reason
The image shows an extremely powerful tropical cyclone with classic features. It shows a textbook example of a rapidly intensifying system with a pinhole eye (a pinhole eye being an eye less than 10 nautical miles in diameter).
Articles this image appears in
2009 Pacific hurricane season and Hurricane Jimena (2009)
Creator
HurricaneSpin (uploaded by) Image produced by NASA
WIAFP #3. MER-C 07:42, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Detailed Oppose The storm is cropped, particularly the southern/western outflow. The storm itself is also rather ragged, with very broken banding. This is not a prime example of a tropical cyclone, also a further pulled back image would give more of a sense of scale, particularly it should have more of the Baja peninsular, preferably with the connection with mainland mexico further north. It is clear that the argument it not that there are similar images of tropical cyclones, but that there are better images of tropical cyclones. Seddσn talk|WikimediaUK 00:45, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
And.. the image is no longer in use in the article. Seddσn talk|WikimediaUK 01:28, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
P.S. YOU try taking a photo from space, then you can comment on it being framed poorly. There just aren't that many alternitives. Nezzadar (talk) 19:50, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
If we were talking about Mars or another planet, then your argument would stand and if fact I would totally agree with you, as I have before. But it falls apart when we have all of these, and these are just the ones that have been categorised properly. It has a viewing width of 2,330 km and views the entire surface of the Earth every one to two days. It is an almost statistical certainty for a storm to be captured. I think we can be picky with what we can promote or not. There are a swathe of these images so please people, lets start applying better standards than Ooooo they're pretty clouds from space, that'll do. Seddσn talk|WikimediaUK 03:42, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per Seddon. Unless we decide that each storm is sufficiently different than the other tropical storms that each one can have its own FP, so to say, we should really only choose the best of them (of which this is not one, per Seddon). NW (Talk) 03:40, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
For the record, this...
...this...
...this...
...and this all look like the same bird to me.
  • Neutral A very nice photo (after all, GOES is a professional photographer :-D), but for FP I prefer that there be no ambiguity about what the cyclone is (to a non-expert). Here there is a lot of convection and convective debris all around the storm, especially over land, which takes the focus away from the cyclone itself. I like tropical cyclones with a nice moat around them, so it is clear what is the storm and what is not; we can't all be experts in hurricane structure, after all.
As for whether a separate storm is a separate subject as far as FP is concerned, I like the example used above. Two birds look similar: what is preventing them from having their own separate FPs though? We can't use a picture of a raven on the crow page (even if they look the same to the untrained eye) any more than we can use an image of Hurricane Katrina on the article for Hurricane Ike.-RunningOnBrains(talk) 03:12, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted - no consensus. --jjron (talk) 07:44, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Emu feeding in grass near a dam
Reason
Not entirely sure, but I think FPC is still the venue for movies. At any rate here's a sample of the Mk II video. Unfortunately I've got very slow uploads (~10kb/s) and wasn't sure whether the media wiki software could handle 1080p, so I've downsampled to 720p and reduced quality from 44,000kbps to 9600kbps. So not quite as amazing as the original footage, but still pretty good. Shows interesting feeding behaviour which IMO couldn't be shown in an image half as well.
Articles this image appears in
Emu, High-definition television
Creator
Fir0002

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 07:43, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Australian White Ibis in a tree
Reason
High quality with good EV
Articles this image appears in
Australian White Ibis
Creator
Fir0002

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 07:43, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Meerkat, Suricata suricatta
Reason
Well this is it boys - the last one! One full res 5D shot to bid WP and FPC farewell as I retire. High quality and good EV showing the entire tail
Articles this image appears in
Meerkat
Creator
Fir0002

Promoted File:Meerkat feb 09.jpg --jjron (talk) 07:46, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Danny Lee Wynter, British actor known for his work on dramas Joe's Palace and Capturing Mary.
Reason
High quality, emotive portrait. An excellent example of how our submissions system should work- though an image was not even actively requested, Wynter was happy to contact us with this photograph to be released under a free license.
Articles this image appears in
Danny Lee Wynter
Creator
Publicity photo supplied by Wynter himself. Johan Persson

Promoted File:Danny Lee Wynter.jpg --jjron (talk) 07:33, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - 7 lions spotted along the road in the Masai Mara National Park in Kenya.
Reason
Clear and good shot, seems to meet the criteria. We have many pics of Lions featured, but this looks ok to me.
Articles this image appears in
Lion
Creator
Tekken50

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 07:33, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Reason
Looks like a good picture to me. Not at all grainy and meets the size requirement. Hopefully, this one is ok.
Articles this image appears in
Arabian Sea, Kannur District, St. Angelo Fort
Creator
kjrajesh

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 07:33, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Chicago White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh, the MLB career record holder in earned run average.
Reason
Very high quality and resolution portrait of a very intense looking Ed Walsh. Restoration of this image. The career record holder in ERA the subject is a hugely notable, Hall of Fame pitcher who holds the all-time record in one of the game's most fundamental statistics. This careful restoration very clearly displays Walsh in traditional portrait-EV style, but the intensity of his gaze also creates a very engaging image.
Articles this image appears in
Ed Walsh, Chicago White Sox, Earned run average
Creator
Paul Thompson

Promoted File:Ed Walsh portrait 1911.jpg --jjron (talk) 07:34, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - The Arcade in Cleveland, Ohio, 1966
Reason
Stumbled upon this when wikilinking an article to arcade. Found the composition to offer stunning beauty and the steel work just amazed me (as a structural engineer by education). Wasn't originally in Cleveland Arcade, but that has now changed and it is now the lead image, for which I believe it is warranted. This is the kind of photograph that just shouts "MAIN PAGE!" to me.
Articles this image appears in
Arcade, Cleveland
Creator
Martin Linsey (HABS photographer)

Promoted File:Cleveland Arcade, 1966.jpg --jjron (talk) 07:34, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Pyrocumulus clouds over Yellowstone National Park
Edit1 by jjron - adjusted shadows and colour balance; any better?
Edit2 by jjron - as per Edit1, but cropped - I think this is what Franklin is suggesting
Reason
Buy one stunning shot of an unusual and interesting weather phenomenon, get an incredible landscape of a national park for free!
Articles this image appears in
Pyrocumulus cloud
Creator
Mbz1
  • Support as nominator --SnurksT 06:54, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Support Stunning, if surreal image, however I am sure the colouring of the sky above the cloud formation is not accurate - above looks very very dark, almost too dark as if the colour settings of this picture have been adjusted... Plus coulds look orange? Will change to full support if anyone can explain and verify that this is the true colours... Thanks... Gazhiley (talk) 10:44, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - Was this reproduced or downsized at all, it's way too dark for my taste, and this leaves me to wonder why? ceranthor 11:16, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Beautiful and high EV. To me it looked like the darkness was because of the smoke from the fire. — Jake Wartenberg 21:13, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak support Difficult to oppose such a dramatic image with such high EV. Slightly heavy-handed filtering (but it has brought out the subject very well) slightly pointless foreground (but the width is necessary & good) not tremendously sharp (but not poorly-defined either) I think it's a worthy FP, on balance. --mikaultalk 22:34, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment This picture has been filtered, I should say too much. On the other hand changing that I-totally-faked-my-sky effect will reduce a lot the attention over the clouds and sky. I suggest cropping a good deal from below (almost before the woods) while leaving the sky that way. The reason is that in this picture the viewer is attracted both to the first plane and the clouds. This dichotomy is subconsciously uncomfortable for the viewer. You can see that there are two hard lines in the picture (the horizon and the one right after the foreground and before the woods) that divide the picture in three bands. The first and the third are highlighted in the picture while the middle (the woods) is not. The viewer's attention is split in two. Try now covering with your hand the foreground. All the attention is gathered by the clouds. At this point (after the cropping) I would try the filter of the sky in a more subtle way. The better composition now brings the sky as the point of attention without the need of 'touching' so much the colors. Maybe a little 'touching' is good but if people are noticing it is because it was too much. This is an example that tells us once again that cropping and good composition are far better strategies to get a good picture through edition than filters. Blurring is also quite useful but this picture (I think) doesn't require it. I hope this is useful Frank cheValier on a Pc (talk) 17:17, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per Frankche. Very odd filter. Staxringold talkcontribs 23:43, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Support High EV makes up for technical deficiencies. Makeemlighter (talk) 07:13, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Edit1 added. --jjron (talk) 15:22, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Jjron, do you have access to the original? Could you please also upload an edit cropping from below between the first line of trees and the second? If you have the original more can be done for the colors. It is good to to the filtering after the cropping. Thanks  Franklin.vp  16:25, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • No I don't sorry. I was just editing off the 'original' version here. If I had the original original (as it were) I would do a less cooked version, as is I was basically just trying to undo some of the possibly excessive work done (as per Diliff's and others comments) - as a side effect, and not necessarily a bad one IMO, I think it brought out a bit more yellow in the clouds. BTW, while I was editing I tried cropping as you suggested but just couldn't make it look good - I see what you're suggesting, but it just made it too long and thin for mine, I ended up basically agreeing with the sentiments Mikaul expressed about the pointless foreground but it being necessary for the width. BTW also tried a minor sharpening, but for mine it brought out excessive noise in the sky. --jjron (talk) 07:01, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Giving a little time for the edit to be considered. --Shoemaker's Holiday Over 201 FCs served 00:43, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • Weak support per Makeem & Mick. Preference to Edit1. --jjron (talk) 08:06, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Edit2 added.--jjron (talk) 08:16, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose all Unrealistically overprocessed. Lycaon (talk) 11:50, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment The edits look better to me. I don't really have a preference between them. Makeemlighter (talk) 07:31, 30 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Origional, Oppose Edit One, Neutral on Edit Two I just don't like the massive chunk of land at the bottom of the first two versions, concidering the focus is on clouds. As for the third, I Support it if the clouds naturally look that yellow, but Stongly Oppose if they were yellowed by the photographer, as has been stipulated. Nezzadar (talk) 20:20, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment What is always surpising to me is how reviewers, who have never seen a phenomenon are talking about it as if they have seen it many times and know what they are talking about. It reminded me how one of my first nomination was opposed and I was advised to use not a fisheye lens that I did, but 17 mm lens here. That image was of fogbow. Fogbows are rare, but few days ago I was lucky to see one and I used my 17 mm to capture it. Of course it did not fit File:Fogbow with 17 mm lens.jpg. The same with pyrocumulus clouds. How do you know what colors they should have been? They could be of a different colors [4] deppending of many things. I have crashed my hard drive, so I have no original image to upload. John, thanks for working on the image! mbz1
  • Neutral I tend to disbelieve unsubstantiated claims on this page that an image has been "over-processed", as personal experience has taught me that these are often untrue. Unfortunately the original photographer can not be contacted, but I am loathe to believe that the colors have been substantially altered in post-processing. I get a "dark sky" result like this all the time when using very fast shutter speeds, as would be required to resolve the details on the very reflective cloud tops in the direct sun. But again, it would be nice to get testimony from the original photographer. -RunningOnBrains(talk) 02:12, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Well, probably the original picture was a "damn good picture" but these clouds are a classical output of enhancing the colours in the picture:the sky with that dark blue, the clouds with the redish-yellow colour the whitening underneath and grainy looking water in the air. The composition of the original is not that great either. In a picture where the subject is the clouds you have a highly attractive foreground. I don't like the cropped version either because the filter applied didn't managed to recover the original. It looks like my shirts when I do the laundry myself, bleached. Franklin.vp  17:46, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Edit1, Weak Support Original and Strong oppose Edit 2 - I guess I'll vote. I just feel that Edit 2 absolutely ruins all artistry in the image, and makes it much less eye-catching. The reprocessing of Edit 1 is reasonable to make the camera's eye better reflect the human. Shoemaker's Holiday Over 204 FCs served 14:52, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose all Well, I have to oppose because I don't think the image has enough quality yet or could have, since the original is missing. The first posted image has a very distracting foreground. Distracting doesn't mean bad in fact it means that is too good for being there. It is only a mistake of the composition. You know what is the prettiest part of the picture? In the center-right and lower part, the contrast of the green, then yellow and then very green again of the grass; close to that light or pole over there. You have to fight not looking at that place. You can notice the presence of a color filter not just from the unusual colors but also from the look of the clouds when magnified a little. Enhancing the sky makes some very thin parts of the clouds to become more blue and then those that don't look like (visible) drops. (look at the left part of the clouds). Also the white halo under the clouds is very suspicious. For some reason all of my fake skies have this color features. The dark blue of the sky the yellow in the middle-lower part of the clouds and the white halo together with the visible "drops of water". I just noticed in the center it is even more noticeable this phenomenon.  Franklin.vp  16:45, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per above. Appears to have had a great deal of highlight reduction, leaving halos. Noodle snacks (talk) 07:58, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted Consensus is definitely not clear to promote this. --upstateNYer 13:37, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Original - The library of Bronx Community College, during the time when the campus was part of New York University. The Hall of Fame for Great Americans arcade is visible left and right of the library. Architect Stanford White, photographed 1904, digitally restored.
Reason
Period photograph of the main library of Bronx Community College before landscaping obscured the flanking Hall of Fame for Great Americans, which was the first hall of fame in the United States. Restored version of File:NYU library.jpg.
Articles this image appears in
Hall of Fame for Great Americans, Bronx Community College
Creator
Detroit Publishing Company
Alternate 1 Tighter crop.

Promoted File:NYU library2 crop.jpg --jjron (talk) 06:49, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Zack Greinke winds up to pitch.
Reason
High quality, nicely framed shot perfectly depicting Greinke in the act of pitching. Slight motion blur which is always going to be unavoidable as pitching is by necessity a very quick set of motions, certainly doesn't detract from EV. This is a test case to go along with this peer review on Allison's uploads to see what you all think.
Articles this image appears in
Zack Greinke, 2009 Kansas City Royals season
Creator
Keith Allison

Promoted File:Zack Greinke on July 29, 2009.jpg --jjron (talk) 06:49, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - A Camponotus flavomarginatus ant. About 7mm long, pictured in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: A Camponotus flavomarginatus ant. About 7mm long, pictured in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Reason
Good quality, EV. Very few ant FPs. Stable in article for more than 6 months now
Articles this image appears in
Camponotus flavomarginatus, Camponotus
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:00, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - The Madagascar Green-pigeon (Treron australis) is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is found in Madagascar, Comoros, and Mayotte.
Reason
Good quality and EV.
Articles this image appears in
Madagascar Green-pigeon
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:10, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Original - Musca sorbens a species of Musca. App 8mm long.
Reason
Good quality and EV
Articles this image appears in
Muscini, Musca (genus)
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:10, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - A carpenter ant drinking water. Pictured in Kibaha, Tanzania
Reason
Good quality and EV, showing an interesting behaviour. Could be added to other articles as well. Countering bias against ant images.
Articles this image appears in
Carpenter ant
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Not promoted No quorum --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:10, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - A common housefly, Musca domestica. App 8mm long. Pictured in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Reason
I have been practicing on houseflies since I first got my 150mm. Different lighting techniques and all, and this IMO is the best of them all. Good quality and EV. Subject deserves a FP.
Articles this image appears in
Housefly
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:09, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Egybolis vaillantina
Reason
Good quality and EV. Interesting view and good DOF on subject.
Articles this image appears in
Noctuidae, Catocalinae, Egybolis, Egybolis vaillantina
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Not promoted No quorum --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:08, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Culex sp. Mosquito. Pictured in Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania
Reason
Good quality, EV, lighting. Surprising that we don't have any mosquito FPs.
Articles this image appears in
Culex
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:08, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Coconut palm flowers. Pictured in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Reason
Good quality and EV. No other picture shows this.
Articles this image appears in
Coconut, Arecaceae
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:19, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Creek at the Uluguru Mountains which joins to form the Ruvu river.
Reason
Good quality and EV. Illustrates the Uluguru Mountains very well.
Articles this image appears in
Stream, Uluguru Mountains
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim
  • Support as nominator --Muhammad(talk) 02:12, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose I don't think it readily illustrates stream, the low viewpoint makes it look more like a tiny waterfall than the textbook definition of stream. On a side issue - holy crap the Stream article is ripe for a cleanup of images, it has way too many and a lot of them really cover other water features better than the article title. But getting back to this image, I am also left feeling it is a bit of a stretch to say it illustrates Uluguru mountains well as it doesn't really include enough context to place it there. It really looks like a great many places not even limiting it to one continent let alone a set of mountains, as the rocks and trees are not particularly unusual. Maybe this one is just not a very FP subject. Mfield (Oi!) 02:46, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose, nice picture, but doesn't seem particularly encyclopedic. J Milburn (talk) 17:00, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Agree, lacking EV. Sasata (talk) 19:32, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose I can agree with the above, and would add that the central problem would be that stream means different things depending where you are in the English-speaking world (and hence, anywhere, since it's not obvious which definition should apply to any given foreign country...). Possible that this can never be resolved based on Reliable Sources. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 21:28, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose, EV issues. Pretty picture though. And again, both Stream and Uluguru Mountains articles already have plenty of good pictures (the latter one by you). --Dschwen 14:31, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:19, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Hill's brown blowfly (Calliphora hilli), Austin's Ferry, Tasmania, Australia
Reason
High quality, detailed focus stacked image.
Articles this image appears in
Blow-fly, Calliphora, Calliphorinae
Creator
Noodle snacks

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:18, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Udders of a cow grazing. Pictured in Tanzania
Alt 1
Reason
Good quality, EV.
Articles this image appears in
Udders
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:18, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Zinnia flowers have a range of appearances, from a single row of petals, to a dome shape, with the colors white, chartreuse, yellow, orange, red, purple, and lilac.The leaves are opposite and usually stalkless (sessile), with a shape ranging from linear to ovate, and pale to middle green in color.
Alt 1 Square crop of a different flower of the same species.
Reason
Good quality and EV. Well focus flower and non distracting leaves add EV. Good lighting as well.
Articles this image appears in
Zinnia
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:17, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - An oscillating sprinkler watering a lawn.
Reason
Good quality, EV and wow. IMO well captured action shot
Articles this image appears in
Irrigation, Irrigation sprinkler
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:16, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - The Roman ruins of Viroconium Cornoviorum, photographed during excavation by Francis Bedford and digitally restored.
Reason
High resolution historic photograph from the excavation of the fourth largest Roman settlement in Britain. Contains more material in situ than a comparable modern photo. Restored version of File:Excavation at Uriconium by Francis Bedford.jpg.
Articles this image appears in
Viroconium Cornoviorum
Creator
Francis Bedford
  • Yes, but you used to include a thumbnail as well, which people got upset about for some reason, and specifically asked you not to, as I recall. Not that it ought to matter, since, you know, if you want to compare a subtle restoration with the original, you shouldn't be using the thumbnails anyway. Shoemaker's Holiday Over 204 FCs served 09:59, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Seriously, did you bother to click even once before complaining? Other versions of this file are hidden away in the evil-y named "Other versions" section of the image's template. DAMN YOU DUROVA YOU TRICKSTER, HIDING THE ORIGINAL FILE AWAY LIKE THAT! Staxringold talkcontribs 23:45, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Actually you don't even have to go that far. A link to the original is provided in the reason at the top of the nom, which should always be read before going any further. --jjron (talk) 08:49, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Demonstrating the chroma noise
  • Fwiw, one of the reasons the nominations receive links rather than thumbnails is to encourage close examination. These restorations are performed to hold up at scrutiny of 200% resolution and upwards (faces often get attention at 500% or more). It isn't possible to gauge very much about a restoration from a thumbnail view: thumbnails conceal poor clone stamping and fail to reveal whether dust and scratch removal was performed adequately. In this instance the most delicate part of the work was gleaning more information about the ruins from a very contrasty original. A bit more of the masonry emerges from the shadows, which is interesting because of subsequent alterations to the site. Durova310 16:07, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Alt 1 Version of the file with Smalljim's filter applied at preset settings (25 for each of the blurs, whatever that means).
  • Comment Increasing the saturation confirms what I thought I saw: the chroma noise is much worse than in the original. Since this adds nothing to the image, would it be possible to reduce it?  —SMALLJIM  11:14, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • The original suffered from a small amount of chromatic aberration. That's a scanner problem with limited options to fix in editing. I reduced the saturation by more than 30%; the shadow/highlight adjustment may have produced the effect you saw. It would be possible to get rid of it by editing from only one color channel or by grayscaling the image; either option has drawbacks. Durova310 14:14, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
There's a degree of CA, certainly - around the tops of the pilae for instance, but there's also an overall increase in chroma noise. The accompanying image shows 400% magnifications of part of the image: left - your version, right - original; top - as displayed, bottom - with saturation increased by 100% three times in gimp. While there's some chroma noise in the original it's well controlled and doesn't stray far from the base colour. However, the processed version seems to shimmer with subdued colour and increasing the contrast shows why: the whole image is covered with a matrix of sharply-defined multicoloured patches. I believe that noise reduction of the chrominance channels should get this back under control. Am I being too picky? I know you do lots of excellent restorations!  —SMALLJIM  16:28, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Update: this process seems to work.  —SMALLJIM  16:48, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yes there's a huge difference – the sky is now green! Really interesting observation but I'm not sure the problem would be so obvious in real-world viewing that it was worth attempting to correct. --mikaultalk 21:48, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • I had rather better success doing that process manually and slightly blurring just the A channel. But it got me thinking. Can we trust the short article Photo restoration? It sounds about right to me. This image has clearly acquired tainted colour information during the scanning and subsequent processing. So would it not be preferable to discard the colour channels, which don't appear to hold any spatial information relevant to the original image, and recreate what is thought to have been the original colour by "colorizing"?  —SMALLJIM  00:08, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Agree, what's the point of preserving bogus color information? It's a black and white photograph, so why not just change it to black and white and colorize it to match the tone of the original image? Kaldari (talk) 15:49, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted Seems after all that discussion, there is no quorum. --upstateNYer 05:00, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Female app 9mm long Baccha bequaerti hoverfly. Pictured in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Reason
Good quality and EV. Renom of this. Been stable in article for over 4 months now
Articles this image appears in
Baccha (hoverfly), Syrphinae
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Not promoted --upstateNYer 05:01, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Indian Palm Squirrel pictured in Bangalore, India
Reason
Very small and nervous squirrel. I had to squat and wait for minutes for it to get used to me, then move in inch by inch. And at the slightest movement (there were many passerby), the squirrel climbed back up the tree and the whole process had to be restarted. Good quality and EV.
Articles this image appears in
Indian Palm Squirrel
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Not promoted I know I'll be chewed out for this, but this doesn't have four full supports. Let the games begin... --upstateNYer 05:01, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - A muscid fly, Mydaeinae. Pictured in Tanzania. App, 7mm
Reason
Good quality and EV
Articles this image appears in
Muscidae, Mydaeinae
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Not promoted No quorum. --upstateNYer 05:02, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Pyrrhocoridae cf Scantius forsteri - Tanzania.jpg

Original - A camouflaged jumping spider with a captured male ant
Reason
The spider hid very well on a wall similarly coloured as itself. It could then easily capture the prey. After its feat, I quietly set up my tripod and took a shot. Since flash would have disturbed the spider and would have reduced the EV for camouflage, this is a natural light shot. Good quality and very good EV.
Articles this image appears in
Ant, Camouflage, Jumping spider, Crypsis, Animal colouration
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim
  • Support as nominator --Muhammad(talk) 00:47, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Support. I love this photo. However, I have a few questions and a suggestion. First, where was the photo taken, i.e. what country or region? Secondly, how did you ID it? If it is in fact, Platycryptus undatus, it is a pretty unique looking specimen. My suggestion would be to either rotate and crop or crop to a vertical (or square) orientation. Right now there is too much dead space in the photo. Kaldari (talk) 16:26, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support An interesting scene. EV is weak in Camouflage and related imo (dozens of images). The method with which jumping spiders capture prey is important however. I hope you can send it to a few people for any further ID info. Noodle snacks (talk) 05:15, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted No quroum. --upstateNYer 05:02, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Eristalinus fuscicornis hoverfly. App 15mm long. Pictured in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Reason
Good quality, lighting and EV. White balance is ok, the leaves had dried and for some reason, the fly decided to rest on them (camouflage?)
Articles this image appears in
Eristalinus, Eristalinus fuscicornis
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Promoted File:Eristalinus fuscicornis.jpg --upstateNYer 05:03, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Chalcostephia flavifrons is a species of dragonfly in family Libellulidae. Pictured in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Reason
Good quality and EV. Only image of the species available on wiki
Articles this image appears in
Chalcostephia, Chalcostephia flavifrons
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Promoted File:Chalcostephia flavifrons.jpg --upstateNYer 05:03, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Mating Archispirostreptus gigas millipedes. Pictured in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Reason
Good quality, ev and wow. AN addition to my collection of arthropods mating, shoemaker :-)
Articles this image appears in
Millipedes
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Not promoted --upstateNYer 05:07, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Tourists and worshippers at the Kempegowda tower in Lalbagh Botanical Gardens in Bangalore, built by Kempe Gowda I.
Reason
Good quality and EV.
Articles this image appears in
Lal Bagh, Kempe Gowda I
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Not promoted --upstateNYer 05:08, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Head of a carpenter bee showing the compound eyes. Pictured in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Reason
Good quality, EV and wow. Been stable in articles for over 2 months now
Articles this image appears in
Carpenter bee, Eye
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Not promoted --upstateNYer 05:08, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Male Chrysomya megacephala. Pictured in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Reason
Good quality, lighting and EV. Complements the female FP in the article
Articles this image appears in
Chrysomya megacephala, Blow-fly
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Not promoted No quorum. --upstateNYer 05:08, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - A male Lipotriches sp. bee of family Halictidae and subfamily Nomiinae, commonly called Sweat bee. The bee was about 6mm long. Pictured in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Reason
Good quality, Ev and aesthetics. Bee caught carrying pollen which is what most people associate bees with, after honey. No other pictures of the genus on wiki. Previously nominated, but failed to gain quorum.
Articles this image appears in
Halictidae, Sweat bee, Lipotriches, Pollinator
Creator
Muhammad

Not promoted --upstateNYer 05:10, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Original - A pentatomoid nymph of tribe Halyini
Reason
Good quality and EV. The nymph had just shed its exoskeleton and thus has the pink coloured appearance. Renomination as previous attempt did not get enough votes.
Articles this image appears in
Pentatomoidea, Pentatomidae, Pseudatelus
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Not promoted No quorum. --upstateNYer 05:10, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Litchis in a bunch as they are sold in Tanzania.
Reason
Good quality and EV
Articles this image appears in
LycheeRambutan, Nephelium
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Not promoted No quorum. --upstateNYer 05:12, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Eriophora heroine or Eriophora pustuosa
Reason
Another attempt at Eriophora heroine or Eriophora pustuosa (can't tell them apart from the photo)
Articles this image appears in
Eriophora
Creator
Noodle snacks

Not promoted No quorum --upstateNYer 05:13, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - The south porch of St Mary's, Yatton, England, described by Nikolaus Pevsner as the 'most highly decorated porch in Somerset'
Version 2
Reason
High resolution, decent lighting and perspective; interesting subject.
Articles this image appears in
Church porch, Church of St Mary, Yatton
Creator
NotFromUtrecht
  • Support as nominator --NotFromUtrecht (talk) 19:14, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak support There's undoubtable EV here and detail etc is really good. I'm a little concerned that the very slight variations from the vertical and horizontal might be down to Hugin and not the vagaries of 15th century architecture, ground settlement, etc. I find the lighting a little too high-key and the crop a little too tight, but they're less major concerns. --mikaultalk 20:25, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • It's certainly not the case that the proportions of the building itself are perfect: for example, I'm pretty sure that the roof actually does slope downwards from right to left, and that the angel carving is slightly off-centre. Beyond that, I can't see anything here that one might attribute to perspective/stitching distortion. As for the issue of the tight crop, I did the picture like this because there is a lot of clutter surrounding the porch: gravestones, a large churchyard cross, the church tower, and overhanging branches. The current version is cropped as widely as my set of pictures permit, although I might be able to go back and reshoot it. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 08:46, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak support I think its a great picture and I echo the comments above, it needs to be a slightly larger crop, is this possible? --Childzy ¤ Talk 00:34, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support ALT --Childzy ¤ Talk 23:23, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • oppose both. Uninspired composition, way too much downsampling (window grating just looks odd). --Dschwen 14:20, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Thanks for your comments. I didn't resize this image for any specific artistic reasons, but simply because working with large files makes GIMP very unstable on my computer. In this case I agree with you about the downsampling, so I'll persevere and try to replace Version 2 with a bigger image. I like the composition, but I respect your decision not to! NotFromUtrecht (talk) 15:03, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • That's great to hear, thank you. But your problems with GIMP surprise me a bit. What kind of computer do you have that GIMP is giving you a hard time with images above 5MP? My machine at home has only 512MB and I'm working on 50MP images there. --Dschwen 15:08, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        • It's a two year old Dell Inspiron laptop, with 2GB memory, fairly decent dual core processor and Windows XP. I've found rotating, cropping and perspective distorting images in GIMP the worst. A big image (say 40MP or so) would have maybe a 40% chance of breaking GIMP if I tried to perform one of those tasks. Saying that, I've updated it to version 2.6.7 now, and have had no problems so far. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 07:07, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 08:15, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Original - Two British jet aircraft in formation flight
Reason
A high resolution image of good quality which quickly and accurately demonstrates formation flight.
Articles this image appears in
Formation flying, Gloster Meteor, Hawker Hunter
Creator
Arpingstone

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 08:15, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - New York Yankees starting pitcher Andy Pettitte pitches against the Baltimore Orioles
Alt 1 minor local contrast and curves adjustment, as requested
Reason
A dynamic, high quality image of a modern and reasonably big name player. The third base coach/baserunning the background adds to the intensity of the moment, also. This is a slightly cropped version of the original image, cutting away a bit of crowd on the right to better center the photo. In addition, Allison uploaded this very different image of Pettitte, just FYI.
Articles this image appears in
Andy Pettitte
Creator
Keith Allison, this version cropped by Staxringold
  • You really end up losing a lot when you do that. If you crop too much crowd (I could see a case for losing a bit of crowd, though I don't think it needs it) you lose the game atmosphere and if you crop the left/right you lose the mound angle that he's pushing off from and the pressure the opposing player/coach creates. Staxringold talkcontribs 21:24, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I've scrolled past this twice and can't help thinking it looks underexposed, even though (I guess) its under artificial lighting..? which occasonally has a slightly dulling effect. --mikaultalk 21:30, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per nom, although I would be a more enthusiastic supporter of the uncropped original. An excellent action capture. The presence of fans and an opposing uniform (probably the third base coach) adds tension to the composition. Note how the diagonals of the pitcher's body seem to point to the third base coach and their feet almost meet, which symbolically connects them. Well worth featuring. Durova310 22:45, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support either --Childzy ¤ Talk 00:35, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Original I think the jersey color is closer to real-life in the original. Excellent quality and framing. Clegs (talk) 02:09, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Andy Pettitte by Keith Allison 8 31 09 pic2 CROP.jpg --jjron (talk) 08:19, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Lauren Anderson, American model and Playboy's Playmate of the Month in July, 2002
Reason
Another example of a professional quality free photograph provided by the subject through our photo submission system. Though I do not consider this as good as my other recent nomination, I still feel it is technically of a high quality, and extremely valuable as it illustrates an article about someone who has made a career out of their looks/being photographed. On such articles, the need for illustration is even higher than in most other biographies.
Articles this image appears in
Lauren Anderson
Creator
Work for hire owned and released by Lauren Anderson
Alt 1 A crop by Staxringold
  • Support as nominator --J Milburn (talk) 17:47, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Great image, however I would suggest a crop to get rid of the distracting knee (which appears to be giving off some odd light). My only concern other than that are possible slightly blown whites in her hair.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Staxringold (talkcontribs) 18:00, 3 September 2009
    • I actually considered cropping out the knee myself just after I'd made the nomination. I'd imagine the blown whites are a deliberate feature- compare to our other featured model pic where there is some crazy lighting in the hair. As this is a modelling shot, I'd imagine the "rules" of what makes a good picture are a little different. J Milburn (talk) 18:05, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Very weak oppose both Whilst applauding the releasing of such images for free use, and not doubting the image's value for illustrating the subject, I too find the framing on the original to be a little awkward, the brain want's to see more leg or no knee at all and as such it is distracting. Unfortunately the crop does really cure it, whilst it's better with the knee removed, the rest of the image then feels unbalanced to the point that the original remains a better complete image. Mfield (Oi!) 18:20, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak oppose Sorry, but Mfield sums it up nicely above. That is some weird reflection going on, the curvature matches that of the knee below it and not the outline of the bra on the other side. Sasata (talk) 19:18, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment per Mfield, the crop still isn't right. An even tighter crop might help but I'm not convinced it wasn't too tight top & right to start with. And I know it sounds daft but that gap in the wood behind her head might be contributing a lot to the lack of balance in the composition. LIghting is good, FWIW, very typical with good EV for glamour photography. --mikaultalk 20:44, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Alt 1 - I like it, good Ev for the new article its been added to. Shows a different sort of image to the one already featured. Good portrait, good composition (apart from hair chopped off) and i don't agree with regards to the crop unbalancing the image, its just a head a shoulders portrait shot now --Childzy ¤ Talk 00:43, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Alt 1. One more nice free shot of a celebrity and EV. Brand[t] 15:00, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per Mfield --Muhammad(talk) 15:55, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose regretfully, although I think it is among the best images of a living person on Wikipedia the framing of the image is just not up to featured picture standards. Guest9999 (talk) 03:32, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 08:16, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Train station with train and coal depot, taken by Gustave Le Gray.
Alternate 1 Without histogram or color changes.
Reason
Thanks to the Swedish WMF chapter, Commons recently obtained selections of high resolution nineteenth century photography by leading photographers. This would be our first Gustave Le Gray FP, probably made circa 1850 and almost certainly before 1864. Restored version of File:Train station with train and coal depot by Gustave Le Gray.jpg.
Articles this image appears in
Gustave Le Gray
Creator
Gustave Le Gray
Support High EV. I'd suggest a placement in History of photography, but that article's pretty full of images already. Sasata (talk) 19:53, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Question How is the technical quality evaluated in these cases? Is it the quality of the scanning process or the one of the original Le Gray's?  Franklin.vp  01:08, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • I do not find this picture very instructive. Just because it is old and taken by a certain person does not make it especially valuable per se. You can hardly make out anything in the darkish forground. I have no idea if this is how Le Gray intended the picture to look like, or whether the digital representation is just messed up. --Dschwen 20:02, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Re SH & Franklin: as with all scans, we have no evidence that the original image looked exactly like this. However the alt is straight out of the scanner tone-wise, and comes from a good quality source, so I'd be very inclined to accept this as a veracious copy. I'm also fairly sure that the tint here is the result of chemical toning, possibly selenium, based on its distinctive hue and the fact that Le Grey was know to be an early experimenter with image permanence techniques. EV is claimed here solely for Le Grey himself (a highly notable photographer) and is IMO a much better example of his work than the other images in the article. The signature should indicate that Le Grey was sufficiently happy with the image to make it equally notable. As the subject and what you might call literal content of the image isn't at issue here, I'd be looking for image quality, decent reproduction and authenticity, in that order. --mikaultalk 21:30, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Train station with train and coal depot by Gustave Le Gray1.jpg --jjron (talk) 08:19, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - a caption for the image, providing adequate context for voters on WP:FPC
Reason
Highly historically and culturally significant.
Articles this image appears in
Mongols Epicanthic fold, Mongol Empire, Borjigin, Paramount chief, Tribal chief, History of the Song Dynasty, Genghis Khan, History of Uzbekistan to 1876, List of national founders
Creator
Unknown

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 08:16, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - The "Carved Bridge" at Cassiobury Park
Reason
Striking picture taken of the "Carved Bridge" at Cassiobury Park
Articles this image appears in
Cassiobury Park
Creator
Tyw7  (Talk • Contributions)
The subject is the bridge. --Tyw7  (Talk • Contributions) 14:27, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
But how do we know this is a bridge? It could just be a railing close to the edge of a river... Gazhiley (talk) 08:46, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. Poor general quality: large areas out of focus, noisy image, unpleasant lighting. The subject has low encyclopedic value to the article that it appears in. The date stamp is unnecessary and distracting, and the image is not geocoded. Apologies for being so strongly critical, but since you have also posted this image to the Peer Review page, I think you might appreciate the feedback. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 14:13, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
What is geocoded? --Tyw7  (Talk • Contributions) 14:25, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted J Milburn (talk) 09:01, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Original - A view of Stafford railway station looking south on the West Coast Main Line.
Reason
Nice shot of Stafford railway station
Articles this image appears in
Stafford railway station
Creator
Tyw7  (Talk • Contributions)

Not promoted J Milburn (talk) 09:02, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Samuel Taylor Coleridge at age 42, engraving by Samuel Cousins from a portrait by Washington Allston.
Reason
An important poet in a good high resolution portrait. Restored version of File:Coleridge.jpg.
Articles this image appears in
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Cousins
Creator
Engraver Samuel Cousins, painter Washington Allston

Promoted File:Samuel Taylor Coleridge at age 42.jpg --jjron (talk) 08:25, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - The Brooklyn Eagle offices as seen from the street, 1916.
Reason
The Brooklyn Eagle was was a daily newspaper for over 100 years. To be candid, this restoration has been performed in hopes of promoting relations between the Brooklyn Public Library (which owns the defunct Eagle's archives) and the New York Wikimedia chapter. If a partnership develops between the library and WMF it would be a boon for Wikisource and possibly also for Commons. Restored version of File:Brooklyn Daily Eagle.jpg. Very high resolution; compressed courtesy copy also available for viewers with slow connections at File:Brooklyn Daily Eagle2 courtesy copy.jpg.
Articles this image appears in
Brooklyn Eagle
Creator
Harris & Ewing
  • Support as nominator --Durova311 18:19, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Good quality and high encyclopedic value. Lazulilasher (talk) 22:30, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Big, irreplaceable EV. Very high quality. Staxringold talkcontribs 04:03, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Sorry, but I can't see the EV here - wouldn't a front page from the newspaper covering a major event be a better lead image? There's also the awkward crop which cuts off the top of the building and the car obscuring the optician's(?) below - not to mention the cut-off car at the right. Time3000 (talk) 11:07, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support A street view of the offices provides plenty of good EV, though I wouldn't mind having a front page shot for the lead and moving this down to the Brooklyn Eagle#Demise of the original Eagle section. The restoration is of high quality. And a help in building a relationship with the Brooklyn Public Library is simply icing on the cake. NW (Talk) 19:05, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - great EV and I love the hat cleaning sign, shows how times have changed a bit --Childzy ¤ Talk 23:03, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Firefox 3.0.x says full scale image can't be displayed because it "contains errors". I'm also concerned that the noise here looks digital rather than like photographic grain. (Opera was able to display the image.) I was unable to determine at what stage this noise was introduced, since the image description says "See also File:Brooklyn Daily Eagle1.tif (partial restoration) and File:Brooklyn Daily Eagle2.tif (full restoration, uncompressed)." but these files don't exist on Commons. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 00:45, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • You're the first person to report a problem with opening the file in Firefox (which is my primary browser; been having no problems). LoC scanned the original at 16 bit; had to convert to 8 bit to save as a JPEG. After several tries at uploading the TIFFs, it appears that Brion Vibber didn't permit 16 bit format when he enabled TIFFS a few months ago. Been fighting a bad cold all week, which is setting back a lot of work (such as followup on that). Anyway, this isn't digital noise. When a 5"x7" negative gets scanned at 150MB, that extremely high resolution does reveal photographic grain.Durova312 01:26, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - GerardM (talk) 19:04, 9 September 2009 (UTC) it works for me using Ubuntu's firefox 3.0 ... Great restoration with fine annotations on the process[reply]

Promoted File:Brooklyn Daily Eagle2.jpg --jjron (talk) 08:24, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera pitches in 2007.
Reason
Likely first ballot Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera is perfectly captured here. No motion blur, a perfect frozen image of an all time great (probably) about to strike some poor batter out.
Articles this image appears in
Mariano Rivera, Closer (baseball)
Creator
Keith Allison

Promoted File:Mariano Rivera allison 7 29 07.jpg --jjron (talk) 08:24, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - This is a photo at the beach in Ventura, California
Reason
I think it’s a good photo.
Articles this image appears in
Ventura, California and User:D climacus/Photos by D climacus
Creator
D climacus / KODAK EASYSHARE C713 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA
  • Support as nominator --David - (Wikipedia Vandal Fighter). 12:09, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. Sorry David, but this isn't FP quality for a number of reasons which others may like to elaborate. And for the record your reason is insufficient, your userpage is not an article, the information on the image page is poor (and images should really be uploaded to Commons), and you don't need to list your camera as a creator. Can I suggest you try Picture peer review instead and spend a bit of time here seeing what is expected before nominating. --jjron (talk) 12:58, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the friendly advice.--David 13:36, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 08:03, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Picture shows in fine detail a bifid uvula, also known as a cleft uvula. Subject is a 25 year old Ukranian woman.
Reason
Really high-quality image of something not seen every day. Shows perfectly what a bifid uvula looks like.
Articles this image appears in
Palatine uvula
Creator
David Bernstein

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 08:03, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Original - A poster of a Cornell Big Red college baseball player.
Reason
High quality image that displays a whole host of things. This was previously nominated and fell with limited commenting due to EV. However, expanded now to include representation of athletics in the Ivy League and someone added it to History of graphic design to display it's notable creator. This one image simultaneously displays a specific school's athletics, that school's league athletics, that college sport as a whole historically, AND a notable graphical artist. Massive EV on a very high quality restoration.
Articles this image appears in
Cornell Big Red, Ivy League, College baseball, History of graphic design
Creator
Edward Penfield, restored by Durova
  • I'm having trouble with this, because it's not, as Makeemlighter imo correctly points out, encyclopedically valuable in the baseball articles, and we have no article about Edward Penfield, whose notability the inclusion in History of graphic design seems to depend on. I think if Penfield really is notable, then it's an embarrassment that we have so little evidence of it. Could we possibly get more? Just to be clear, I think the inclusion in History of graphic design is of a gallery nature (indeed, the "gallery" plugin was used!) and is therefore not an eligible component of this nomination. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 16:51, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Only mentioned the graphic design article because it was there, someone else added that (that article really is a mess). This image, to me, has massive EV as it simultanously displays 3 things (the school, conference athletics for that school, and the sport). Staxringold talkcontribs 17:15, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Since others have made it clear and there seems to be no remedy to my objections (whatever the reason may be), I'll also:
oppose. I don't see what special information this image conveys about any of the things Staxringold refers to (the school, conference athletics for that school, and the sport); also see my comment above and that of Makeemlighter. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 19:25, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose on encyclopaedic value grounds. I think photographs would better describe the topic of all of the articles it is in except for History of graphic design (to which I think it adds little value and its placement is frankly questionable - although it's hard to tell because of the general state of the article) and I don't see the historic value as enough - at least in its current context - to overcome that. Guest9999 (talk) 03:24, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support for encyclopedic value in Ivy League and Cornell Big Red. Mostlyharmless (talk) 05:40, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • (Conditionally Weak) Support: I think it's very encyclopedic, but an electronic crop looks much worse on the bottom than the original inclusion of a small white border. Any chance of including a little border? Shoemaker's Holiday Over 204 FCs served 14:46, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Staxringold pinged me about something requested here, and it turns out the request is a bit different from anticipated. As Shoemaker is aware, rotation and cropping are normally my first actions in restoration. I crop close when possible because nearly all viewers will see the image in thumbnail; a close crop maximizes the size of the pertinent data. The actual bottom border on this image is heavily damaged; it required patching at the corners to achieve the current crop. The figure's feet will not emerge if the image is recropped; cut off ankles are artistic intention. Basically, Shoemaker's Holiday is asking for the entire image to be downscaled in thumbnail in return for a handful of pixels. If he wants to offer an alternate crop I'll gladly supply TIFF files, but the rationale behind this request entirely escapes me. Durova312 16:26, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Oppose per Papa Lima Whiskey's last comment. -- mcshadypl TC 15:59, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 07:59, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - synthetic made gold crystals
Reason
a good gold sample, good DOF
Articles this image appears in
Gold
Creator
Alchemist-hp
Also, can we get a caption that's a little more descriptive? I'd like to see how it was made, without searching through the article. Also, I have another problem. The picture is only featured in the infobox and is very tiny. It's a very small part of the article and if this is to be a FP, needs to be fixed. (I still support it, if it's not changed, a weak support, sorry, but that's a major problem for me. FPs need to be FPs and need a larger focus in the article). Jerry teps (talk) 09:21, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Info: please place the image in the gold article to an other place. It is made via a chemical transport reaction: 2 Au + 3 Cl2 at ~300-350°C --> to 2 AuCl3 and decomposition at ~700-800°C return to: 2Au + 3Cl2. I add this fact also to the image description. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 09:58, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Gold-crystals.jpg --jjron (talk) 08:08, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter prepares to bat.
Reason
I was annoyed a couple days ago as I saw the lead image for the Derek Jeter article was this image. So sad and unfortunate, so close to a perfect image but he's not quite set yet and that leaves his arms obstructing his face slightly. So, given that my last few Allison nominations have been pitchers and that image was an Allison, I kept that goal in my mind whilst browsing his albums. I came upon this today, and I certainly think it's featured quality. EV as it displays a Hall of Fame quality baseball player in his batting stance, providing dual EV both in displaying how he looks (a traditional portrait) and how he looks performing his profession (you would want an image of a famous welder to be welding, right?).
Articles this image appears in
Derek Jeter
Creator
Keith Allison

Promoted File:Derek Jeter batting stance allison.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 00:15, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - A British competitor in the elite men's 26" division of the 2009 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships held in Canberra.
Reason
Demonstrates features peculiar to trials riding: executing the jump onto a wooden beam, good view of the bicycle - including lack of seat, extreme posture. The official in the background showing a closed fist (no penalty points) just tops it off. A few other niceties: you can see the rider's face, there is mud flying through the air, the event village can be seen in the background. Before I added this and a couple of other images, there were only a couple of fairly low quality images on the article (or indeed, on commons).
Articles this image appears in
Bike trials
Creator
User:Stevage
Comment - thanks for the comments all, they're really useful. Strangely, I didn't even notice the distracting background before, but I see what you mean. I definitely wouldn't edit out the flying mud personally - even if I did originally think it was dirt on the sensor and had to check :) Sort of agree about the DOF - I'll have to get a neutral filter, notice that the shutter speed was already maximum (1/4000th), so I actually couldn't get the aperture any wider. Pity, because that lens goes to F1.4. Also, it's doubtful whether fill-in flash would have made sense, as you can see the sun is lighting him well, it's just that in this particular pose his face is shaded by his helmet. (Also, I'd feel weird about firing flashes at a trials rider...) Stevage 13:26, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Nominate the image Noodle snacks suggested, thats very good --Childzy ¤ Talk 22:57, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Agree, a little bit less action, but way better composition. --Dschwen 14:11, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Heh, I find this one much more interesting, personally. Guess I'll nominate it due to popular demand.Stevage 13:27, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You can always use a longer focal length to get a lower DOF. --Dschwen 14:12, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:25, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Interior of the Pension Office, now the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., United States, ca. 1918
Reason
Nice and comprehensive shot of the Office's old interior. The right bottom corner was photoshopped a bit.
Articles this image appears in
National Building Museum
Creator
National Photo Company Collection, uploaded by Brandmeister

Suspended to allow editing and documentation fixes: Can also be closed and renominated later, as nominator desires, but I don't like upsetting ongoing work. Shoemaker's Holiday Over 201 FCs served 00:41, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't mind. Brand[t] 09:00, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Umm, so who's editing and fixing? --jjron (talk) 08:45, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Anyone who wants. Brand[t] 13:07, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
What if no one wants to? Kaldari (talk) 19:11, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I think SMH was assuming Brand was working on it - if not, and if no one else puts their hand up to do so, I'll close it. --jjron (talk) 13:32, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I already asked SH. If nothing ultimately happens, then yes, could be closed. Brand[t] 19:14, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted (has been suspended for over two weeks with no updates; would basically require nom to be restarted anyway, so if concerns are addressed it can be renominated). --jjron (talk) 12:44, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - A photochrom panorama of Edo (now Tokyo) from 1865 or 1866
Reason
Incredible picture with a really good EV. I know there is some stitching, but I think that is forgivable for a picture more than 140 years old.
Articles this image appears in
Edo
Creator
Felice Beato

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 12:52, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Perga sp, Austin's Ferry, Tasmania, Australia
Edit 1 Larger scale
Reason
Good compliment to the other saw fly larva shot. Considerably more detailed.
Articles this image appears in
Pergidae
Creator
Noodle snacks

Voting closed; waiting on Papa Lima Whiskey to respond to request for scale, which was fulfilled. upstateNYer 05:29, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Perga_sp._AF_2_edit1.jpg --Time3000 (talk) 17:04, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Parliament House, Canberra was opened in 1988, replacing the provisional Parliament House building opened in 1927
Reason
Restitch to fix some problems in the sky that diliff spotted in the original. I've also changed projections to make the actual front door more visible in the frame.
Articles this image appears in
Parliament House, Canberra, Australia, Australian Landmarks
Creator
Noodle snacks

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 07:18, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Cape Raoul
Reason
I shot a panorama but there isn't much more to see from this vantage point but ocean and it wouldn't stitch without significant errors. This was taken at the edge of a 350m high cliff. Cape Raoul is off in the distance, centre frame. Shipstern's bluff is maybe an hour walk from here. Cape Raoul is an important feature of the Tasman National Park.
Articles this image appears in
Tasman National Park, Tasman Peninsula
Creator
Noodle snacks

Promoted File:Cape Raoul from Lookout.jpg --jjron (talk) 07:22, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Original - An American infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia
Reason
A clear image demonstration an infantryman in action
Articles this image appears in
List of common World War II infantry weapons, Hand grenade
Creator
US Gov, from Library of Congress files.

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 07:19, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Odontomyia sp. Soldierfly. App 20mm long. Pictured in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Reason
Good quality and EV
Articles this image appears in
Stratiomyidae
Creator
Muhammad

Voting closed; waiting on Papa Lima Whiskey to respond to request for scale, which was fulfilled. upstateNYer 05:30, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Soldierfly.jpg --jjron (talk) 07:21, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Reason
An overall good photo of one of the most prolific singer-songwriters in the music business
Articles this image appears in
www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Marx
Creator
loaded by CyndeG, photo by Nels Israelson
The nominator also needs to tell us who the author of the work is, which is another criteria. Mostlyharmless (talk) 22:48, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Possible Copyright violation? Mostlyharmless (talk) 22:50, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Just found out who took the photo Jeremy (talk) 23:30, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 08:25, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Original - War gardeners in 1918, Washington, D.C. or vicinity
Reason
Nice and sharp shot in addition to victory garden posters, EV.
Articles this image appears in
Victory garden, United States home front during World War I
Creator
Harris & Ewing, uploaded by Brandmeister
I downloaded the unrestored 10,309x7,684 version, it's quite ugly and huge to work on. Brand[t] 17:25, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Shoemaker's Holiday Over 206 FCs served 17:06, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Golf star Tiger Woods follows through on his drive.
Edit 1 Sharpen, levels and Noise red
Reason
High quality and resolution portrait of one of the greatest golfers of all time. Note, the EV of this is NOT pertaining to the form for Woods' drive (he's already completed it), so the framing does not detract. This is a portrait, the frame allows for better seeing his face (and, like the Derek Jeter image where it's extra-nice because it's a great hitter hitting, here is a portrait of a great golfer golfing).
Articles this image appears in
Tiger Woods
Creator
Keith Allison

Not promoted --jjron (talk) 07:32, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Original - UK mountain bike trials rider Joe Oakley being penalised for "dabbing" in the elite division of the 2009 UCI world championships, held at Mt Stromlo, Australia.
Reason
By popular demand. Surprisingly EV photo: simultaneously shows a trials competitor committing a penalty (foot on ground), and being penalised for it (official's finger signals one penalty point, total). Good clear shot of the bike and obstacles, and depth of field is just about right IMHO - the official is slightly out of focus but not too much. No annoying spectators in the background, and the rider's outfit contrasts well with the background. As an added bonus, I've managed to identify[9] him from the number (4): Ben SlingerJoe Oakley. The pose isn't quite as interesting as the other one I nominated, but the official adds some interest.
Articles this image appears in
Mountain bike trials
Creator
Stevage
Good question. Coincidentally enough, it looks like he won[10] the event, so he's now junior world champion. But I can't find anything substantial written about him online, other than a few "Joe Oakley has won the xxx event" type paragraphs in various MTB newsletters. Stevage 23:01, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:MTB Trials 3 Stevage.jpg --jjron (talk) 07:36, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Female wolf spider carrying her young in an egg sac
Reason
Good quality and EV. She was so well camouflaged that I could only see her when she moved. And even then, I lost her after a few shots
Articles this image appears in
Wolf spider, Lycosoidea, Spider
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim
Which leg/in what way? --Childzy ¤ Talk 14:03, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Rear two are most obvious. Looks like some stacking artefacts to me. Noodle snacks (talk) 23:54, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Lycosidae female carrying young.jpg --jjron (talk) 07:36, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - A peeled and unpeeled rambutan on a white background
Alt 1
Reason
Good quality and EV. Better quality and EV than the other images in the article
Articles this image appears in
Rambutan
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Promoted File:Rambutan white background alt.jpg --jjron (talk) 07:42, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Original - Lauren Anderson, American model and Playboy's Playmate of the Month in July, 2002
Reason
Since a lot of people seemed to feel this would be a desirable image to feature (previous nomination), I'm nominating a tighter crop that might meet more tastes.
Articles this image appears in
Lauren Anderson
Creator
Work for hire owned and released by Lauren Anderson

Not promoted --Shoemaker's Holiday Over 206 FCs served 01:24, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Original - Chien-Ming Wang prepares to pitch.
Reason
Another high quality, action-but-not-blurry shot of a notable MLB player. The only issue is the edge of one toe being cut off, but it doesn't detract from the EV or overall shot IMO.
Articles this image appears in
Chien-Ming Wang
Creator
Keith Allison
  • For pitchers roughly this framing is going to give you the best EV on their pitching motion. Other versions you lose their legs or their arm is outstretched and you lose lots of other things. I have a more unique Allison shot that is I think the last of the FP quality stuff he has uploaded (that I've found, at least) which I'll nominate a bit later. Staxringold talkcontribs 14:28, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Chien-Ming Wang pitching.jpg --Shoemaker's Holiday Over 206 FCs served 01:44, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Original - An elaborate sandsculpting display at the Sand Sculpting Australia "Dinostory" festival
Reason
Long ago we had an FP of sandcastles that was sadly delisted for various issues. I think this is a worthy successor. Good quality, high interest, good composition for a busy scene. I particularly like how the Sand art and play article is illustrated in this picture by having the sand children playing to create the sand art dinosaurs.
Articles this image appears in
Sand art and play, Sand festival
Creator
jjron
  • Support as nominator --jjron (talk) 14:48, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Neutral. Possible copyright violation. According to the Australian Copyright Act of 1968, freedom of panomama only applies to sculptures permanently situated in a public place. Kaldari (talk) 17:26, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Unlikely, given sandsculptures aren't permanent for obvious reasons. I don't know a lot about legalities, but for what it's worth they certainly stated no restrictions on photography or use of said photos in any way at the festival (and I did look to see). MER-C may know more if he drifts by. Presumably a photo of a sandcastle on the beach would also be a copyvio in this case, unless I built it myself? Anyway, if you want to see if you can get it deleted, go ahead. --jjron (talk) 08:05, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Here is an interesting nuance from the Commons page: "Whether a work is installed at a public place permanently or not is not a question of absolute time, but a question of what the intention was when the work was placed there. If it was put there with the intention of leaving it in the public place indefinitely or at least for the whole natural lifetime of the work, then it is "permanent"." --jjron (talk) 08:12, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • I think that's a fairly sensible interpretation. It doesn't seem to be about how long the work will 'last', it's just about whether the intention was to move it to a non-public location during the life of the work, and that is clearly not possible for a sand sculpture. That said, how do you confirm intentions after the event, short of asking the artist (and even then, one can be disingenuous about the original intentions if it wasn't explicitly stated at the time of public presentation)? It might be obvious in this case, but it leaves the line drawn rather ambiguously for other works. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 10:25, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • For what it's worth I agree with the analysis however I'm not actualy aware of caselaw for this or related stuff like ice sculptures and the situation seems somewhat unclear.©Geni 17:02, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support pending the copyright issue. DEFINITELY featured quality image, the only question is the copyright status (obviously I oppose if it's not a free image). What an odd little gap in copyright law, not a permanent statue but a statue nonetheless. Because it's not permanent is there a chance the original artist cannot claim copyright (and thus this image, freely released by the photographer, is free?) Staxringold talkcontribs 18:45, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Again pending the copyright issue. I love this picture, it's a fantastic medium and the picture really conveys the fun that you get from seeing these along the beach. Hope we can resolve the copyright issue. Silvestra (talk) 23:55, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - I think this should just be passed regardless, it is a very shaky copyright claim --Childzy ¤ Talk 13:22, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Doesn't seem like a copyright breach to me, and has a good composition and illustrates the articles well. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 13:29, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. I think it will pass the copyright issues just fine, and it looks great. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 20:44, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Is this maybe a bit underexposed? Or is the sand just more yellow than I am used to? Noodle snacks (talk) 23:52, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Well sand varies in colour. And it's hard to know for sure, sand is a bit like snow, it can be hard to get right and it comes up differently depending on how the sun hits it, etc. The photos I took there even show considerable variation. For the record, in this case I tried to match the sand colour to the colours on an 'official' promotional brochure for the festival by Frankston City that I picked up at the time, assuming they would have tried to get it right. --jjron (talk) 07:54, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Per "Good sand sculpture sand is somewhat dirty, having silt and clay that helps lock the irregular shaped sand grains together.". So it is probably just darker sand. Noodle snacks (talk) 11:41, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Sandsculpting, Frankston, Vic jjron, 21.01.2009.jpg --Shoemaker's Holiday Over 206 FCs served 01:28, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - The Pentagon damaged by fire and partly collapsed after the September 11 attacks.
Reason
Technical quality is high, the EV goes almost without saying. Was previously nominated with two other images, this one received the most support.
Articles this image appears in
September 11 Attacks
Creator
Sgt. Cedric H Rudisill (US Military/DOD)

Promoted File:Pentagon_crach_site.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 02:35, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Roundhouse in Atlanta, Georgia following extensive damage from the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War.
Reason
Photograph from one of the most heavily damaged major cities of the American Civil War shortly after war's end. Restored version of File:Atlanta roundhouse ruin.jpg.
Articles this image appears in
History of Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta Campaign, Roundhouse, Atlanta in the American Civil War, Photography_and_photographers_of_the_American_Civil_War#George_Barnard
Creator
George Barnard

Promoted File:Atlanta roundhouse ruin3.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 02:48, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Joan Baez and Bob Dylan perform together in support of civil rights at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 1963.
Reason
This image captures evocatively the romantic and musical partnership of Joan Baez and Bob Dylan. It illustrates this section of their respective articles, their performance at the March on Washington where this photo was taken, and a number of articles that relate to the music they performed together. Previous versions of this file were of lower resolution, so I was pleased to find this version.
Articles this image appears in
Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Protest song, Music of the United States, American popular music, American folk music revival, Newport Folk Festival, It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, Counterculture of the 1960s
Creator
U.S. Information Agency. Press and Publications Service.

Promoted File:Joan_Baez_Bob_Dylan.jpg --Time3000 (talk) 09:47, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Original - Evening light begins to fade at NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility (later redesignated Dryden Flight Research Center), Edwards, California, as technicians begin the task of mounting the Space Shuttle Atlantis atop NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (NASA #911) for the ferry flight back to the Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Reason
High resolution of the Shuttle and the custom 747. Great composition, beautiful colours and a breathtaking sense of scale.
Articles this image appears in
Space Shuttle program , Shuttle Carrier Aircraft
Creator
NASA/Jim Ross

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 05:54, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - The space shuttle Discovery approaches the International Space Station.
Alternative 1 Based on the original upload (not original in this nomination), rotated, colours enhanced with a lighter hand than the previous editor
Reason
High quality, high resolution image which is difficult to obtain and will no longer be possible to obtain of the orbiter in question (retired September 11 this year). This image was previously nominated and no consensus was reached. Issues included it being washed out in the original (since enhanced, complaints then railed against this) and that it was rotated from the original which hurts its EV for rendezvous pitch maneuver, an article which it is no longer part of. In light of this change I think it still has outstanding EV for its current articles.
Articles this image appears in
Space Shuttle Discovery, Space Shuttle orbiter, Timeline of STS-121
Creator
NASA
Added a new edit based on the original file as per above comments. It uses a less heavy handed approach and has therefore less noise and more realistic though still pleasing colours. With regards to the tail, I think it is excusable as from this angle the tail would add little other than perhaps a sense of its size in relation to the body of the shuttle. --Cowtowner 01:19, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
I think that the crop is forgivable considering what we are missing--a piece of the tail, which, from this angle, is of no little benefit to the image. Not to mention the conditions this was taken in (I believe this is the original framing)--zero gravity with a lot of billion dollar equipment to worry about. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cowtowner (talkcontribs) 22:01, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 05:54, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - A small frozen waterfall in southeast New York, United States.
Reason
This was promoted to Quality Image at Commons a while back, and after speaking with Durova, who thought this might have a chance at FP, I've decided to give it a shot. It's of high technical quality as far as I can tell, and carries a fair amount of encyclopedic value.
Articles this image appears in
Ice, Waterfall, Red Oaks Mill, New York, Wappinger Creek
Creator
Juliancolton
  • Support as nominator --–Juliancolton | Talk 16:19, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Sorry, I just don't think the composition is good enough. The out-of-focus plants in the foreground are distracting and there isn't really a clear subject. You might have more luck with a careful crop, but a re-shoot would be better (but perhaps not very easy with something like this). Personally, I would have gone right down to the bank a yard or so downstream from the waterfall and crouched down to take the photo, looking along the waterfall, which would emphasise the structure of the icicles - but that's just me. Time3000 (talk) 17:43, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 05:54, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - NGC 6302 lies within our Milky Way galaxy, roughly 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. Image taken by the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) a new camera aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
Reason
Amazing photograph from the upgraded Hubble Telescope.
Articles this image appears in
NGC 6302, RCW Catalogue
Creator
NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team
This is using the brand new camera in the hubble, images of this quality of that object could not even come close this before. It's difficult to say "not Hubble's best work" when objects are varining distances, futher away objects are of course going to be more grainy than closer objects like the Orion Nebula (1,344 ly). Look at how improved the resolution this camera can produce. Although I respect your opinion, I thought I should point out the irony of saying not the best, when this object is much smaller and further away then the Orion Nebula and is using the most modern technology possible for the shot. — raeky (talk | edits) 19:08, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:NGC 6302 Hubble 2009.full.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 05:58, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - An attack on Beijing Castle during the Boxer Rebellion, September 1900
Reason
High quality, nicely colored (as opposed to all the black and white stuff for this period) image depicting an attack on Beijing Castle during the Boxer Rebellion. Big meaty EV, cool picture, good stuff all around. This is a restored version of this original. For those with slow connections, please check this courtesy copy but remember that that version is heavily compressed.
Articles this image appears in
Boxer Rebellion, Beijing, History of Beijing
Creator
Torajirō Kasai, edited by Staxringold

Promoted File:Beijing Castle Boxer Rebellion 1900 FINAL.jpg --Time3000 (talk) 16:26, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Coccinella transversalis The Elytra are in the open position.
Reason
Depth of field is thin, but this is at 3:1. It is in focus where important.
Articles this image appears in
Coccinella transversalis, Coccinella, Coccinellidae
Creator
Noodle snacks
  • Support as nominator --Noodle snacks (talk) 08:52, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak oppose Regretfully, IMHO the narrow DOF is just too much of a problem. Such a small part of the whole image is actually in focus. Essentially you've got the eyes (just), the head, half a front claw, a bit of wing, and some of the leaf it's on. I know DOF is tough for macro shots... Stevage 03:08, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • This is 3 times (or more) the magnification of most macro shots that go through here. Noodle snacks (talk) 06:44, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • Can you post examples? I'm looking through, and can't find any where there is so little in focus (cf this). Or maybe the problem is that the ladybug's head is relatively featureless compared to this or this, for example. Possibly exacerbated by front-on pose? Stevage 09:35, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        • In those examples the subject is much bigger. This entire beetle is just a bit bigger than the head of the Cetonia-aurata example. The fly is around three times as long as this. this, give or take, is the sort of difference in magnification between the fly and the beetle. Unfortunately depth of field starts getting very thin at high magnifications. Sometimes you can cheat, and stack, like File:Calliphora_sp_Portrait.jpg, but that doesn't work with a moving subject. For reference a single frame of that stack actually looks like this. Noodle snacks (talk) 10:05, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak support. The depth of field is adequate IMO. I'd rather see an unstacked shallow DOF than a focus-stack with lots of distracting artifacts and inconsistent sharpness. My support is weak, however, due to the harsh lighting and untypical pose. Kaldari (talk) 20:03, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted (No quorum) --Shoemaker's Holiday Over 206 FCs served 02:39, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Original - Hillary Clinton at Gallaudet University for the SEIU union forum in late January 2007
Reason
The photo is a great demonstration of its subject, very good quality and reminds me of this featured photo. It was nominated a few months ago but failed because of background noise. This was corrected following a request at the Graphic Lab/Image Workshop.
Articles this image appears in
Hillary Clinton presidential campaign developments, 2007, Hillary Clinton
Creator
SEIU International at Flickr
  • Oppose Too much Jpeg artifact noise,I shouldv'e zoomed in a little further. Seddσn talk|WikimediaUK 23:41, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment (not voting since I did the graphic modification) Due to the issues brought up here I took another look and instead of a quick profile I spent the time to mask out her face and hair, so now the new version shouldn't have any detail loss in those areas, but the noise in the background and clothes should be removed now. So please take a second look at it if you've already put your opinion in to see if this resolves your concerns in the denoise department. — raeky (talk | edits) 07:27, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak support. It's a reasonable picture now. Two further comments: (a) can we have more of foreign leaders? we seem to be fairly US-biased on FPs at the moment - this is pertinent in this case as the reason the image was under a free license was nothing to do with US government policies on image licensing, it was simply put on flickr by a third party; surely if we trawl flickr, we should find plenty of suitably licensed images of foreign political leaders; (b) can we have an encyclopaedic crop without the dead space, for use in articles? Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 09:58, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • We have what we have, theres no biased, I don't like her politics, but it's a picture. Promote more foreign political leaders if we have FP quality images of them. — raeky (talk | edits) 16:57, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • Define have [...] images of them. I'm arguing the images are already on flickr, and we just haven't taken the time to find them, submit them to the week's flavor of flickrbot, and clean up/nominate them. Any further comments to my talk page please, as this is not the place to discuss the issue. Thanks. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 15:55, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - poor contrast --Avala (talk) 13:40, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Shoemaker's Holiday Over 206 FCs served 02:37, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Original - 360° panorama near the summit of Goat Peak in the William O. Douglas Wilderness of the northern Cascades in Washington State. Photographed on a September Afternoon, this photo includes sweeping views of the Methow River Valley and the greater Cascade Range including glaciated Silver Star Mountain. High ice clouds create sun dogs on either side of the September Sun. The Goat Peak Lookout is prominent on the righthand side.
Reason
The image has a high degree of encyclopedic value in that it provides an unaltered 360° of the Methow River Valley and the northeastern Cascades of Washington State: a rather remote region. Goat Peak has a large prominence allowing for views not achievable from other overlooks. The difficulty in reaching this vantage spot adds to its value to Wikipedia, allowing many users who would otherwise be unable to experience this view an opportunity. This image also has a very high resolution along with excellent technical execution.
Articles this image appears in
Goat Peak, William O. Douglas Wilderness
Creator
Farwestern
  • Support as nominator --Farwestern (talk) 20:43, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Nice big image. But it seems the brightness/white-balance of the sky is undulating. --Dschwen 21:07, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • And remarkably well stitched for a handheld 360 with this much foreground. There is a disturbing artifact at the center bottom edge of the frame and also in the center there are visible stitching artifacts in the tree tops (darker oof frames, broken blending). --Dschwen 21:12, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support This last set of 3 nominated panoramas are just beautiful. Staxringold talkcontribs 04:13, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Support I can see the stiching errors Dschwen mentions, however I feel that they are unnoticable unless you are specifically looking for them, and even then the size of the file means that it takes ages to find! So weak support unless these can be corrected in which case I would change to full support. Otherwise fantastic image again... Gazhiley (talk) 11:07, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose In the right you can see the shadow of the photographer. Distracting. Can be eliminated with cropping from the right.  Franklin.vp  12:11, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • The price would be sacrificing a complete 360 view. This seems like a bad deal to me. MTV-Generation: easily distracted ;-) --Dschwen 13:29, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • I haven't watch any TV since 4 years ago and that was in Cuba, so no MTV at all. In any case we are criticizing the picture not me or you. The picture is supposed to be one of the summit of that peak and not of the photographer, and that shadow is a strong element in the picture. It is next to one of the areas of highest contrast in the picture (those rocks in the foreground) and is quite noticeable. In my opinion it is subtracting EV to the picture.  Franklin.vp  14:42, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        • I don't have much experience with 360 degree panoramas, but, logically, wouldn't a photographer shadow be more or less inevitable in strong sunlight assuming the photographer isn't moving while he makes the panorama? Also, support per above. Perhaps cloning out the lens flare would be of benefit here as well? Cowtowner 02:18, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
  • Weak oppose, mainly for the flaws Dswchen pointed out, especially the apparent shift in white balance for the sky. I don't mind the photographer's shadow, though.--ragesoss (talk) 02:53, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak oppose Its a nice photo and would be worthy if it were not for the joining issues across the top of the mountain range as well as the photographers shadow. Fix these and I will change my vote as soon as it is brought to my attention. P.o.o.r.P.h.o.t.o.r.e.m.o.v.i.l.s.t. (talk) 22:01, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted Can be changed to suspended on nominator's request. Shoemaker's Holiday Over 206 FCs served 02:43, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Polypore mushrooms growing on a Cedar log in the Tannurin Cedar reserve - Lebanon
Reason
picutre shows Polypores growing on dead cedar trunk in a compelling macroscopic view.
Articles this image appears in
Polypore
Creator
Eli+ 19:59, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Shoemaker's Holiday Over 206 FCs served 02:51, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - A Canadian CH-124 Sea King performs deck landing qualifications on board dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor during a joint and multinational training exercise.
Reason
This high resolution image clearly depicts a Canadian CH-124 Sea King helicopter in flight
Articles this image appears in
CH-124 Sea King, Sikorsky Aircraft
Creator
U.S. Navy photo by Lt. j.g. Brett Dawson
It's a nice photo. It has good EV. But I don't see any benefit to our listing it as a featured picture. I've raised this on the talk page in the past. Stevage 05:59, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak support. Cut off rotor isn't so much that I oppose it. Also, Staxringold's point above is completely right. FP is about recognition of high value content. Mostlyharmless (talk) 08:04, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose: What's the EV of this, we have approx 150 free Sea King pics. Ryan4314 (talk) 09:03, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Please provide a link to at least one better alt. I agree we have a lot of Sea King pictures, but i browsed them a bit and most of them don't compare to that one (for composition or EV reasons). Also, it doesn't seem any of them is an FP. So while I agree we should promote only the best pictures (and that may be more than one for the same subject), your argument is a bit weak without at least one clearly better image. Ksempac (talk) 11:50, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • As far as I can tell, there are only three CH-124 Sea King pictures on Wikipedia, its the SH-3 Sea King that we have a lot of pictures of. The distinction is important.- Trevor MacInnis contribs 03:09, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak support- as we have so many of this sort of image, the bar should be high. This isn't perfect, but it's good. Stevage's comment doesn't hold any water- FPC isn't about patting Wikipedians on the back, it's about gathering together some impressive free images that add significantly to our encyclopedia. J Milburn (talk) 10:02, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Why does the sea seem blurred around the helicopter ? At first i thought it was maybe due to exhaust gas/turbulation because i noticed near the rotor, but then i saw the same thing on different parts of the vehicle (for example around the front wheel). Is this some poor image editing ??? Ksempac (talk) 11:50, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • I can't be sure, but I would think it is heat from the engines. Since the helicopter is either taking off or landing, and heat would be pushed straight down by the downwash of the rotor in two columns, one near the back wheel and one near the front (at least, this is how it would look from our angle). - Trevor MacInnis contribs 14:17, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose: Too tight crop. Lycaon (talk) 05:37, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per Lycaon. Otherwise, I would support this. -- mcshadypl TC 15:22, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per above. While it may be argued that Stevage's reason isn't backed by the criteria, it is fair to hold these type of images to at least as high a standard as Wikipedian generated content (and I would tend to argue a higher standard, though sadly the opposite tends to be the case. Here for example one would presume the US Navy have pretty good regular access to the subject matter, which a Wikipedian would be unlikely to get, so should be able to generate a near 'perfect' shot). In this case I have little doubt most would oppose this if it came from one of our regular Wikipedian photo contributors due to it being too tightly cropped and partially cutoff, yet support it as being from an outside source. Weird. --jjron (talk) 13:46, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose as jjron --Muhammad(talk) 18:50, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Shoemaker's Holiday Over 206 FCs served 02:49, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Original - 360° panorama in the courtyard of Stadium High School in Tacoma, Washington as seen on an overcast summer day.
Reason
As a historic landmark of Tacoma, Washington, the image has good encyclopedic value, the resolution is high and the technical execution is very good.
Articles this image appears in
Stadium High School
Creator
Farwestern

Not promoted --Shoemaker's Holiday Over 206 FCs served 02:48, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Original - 360° panorama near the summit of Mount Ellinor in the Olympic National Forest of Washington as seen on an August afternoon. Mount Washington appears prominently on the far right. From the far left side are views of the Hood Canal, the Puget Sound, Lake Cushman and the lightly treed summit of Ellinor.
Reason
High EV as the panorama includes many important Puget Sound landmarks. The image has a very high resolution and is well executed technically.
Articles this image appears in
Mount Ellinor, Mount Washington (Olympics)
Creator
Farwestern

Promoted File:Mount Ellinor, Mount Washington Panorama.jpg--Shoemaker's Holiday Over 206 FCs served 04:00, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Original - Hakea epiglottis, Cape Raoul, Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia
Reason
Almost completely different to Hakea laurina in appearence, so a good contrast in Hakea. Has obvious enc in the other articles. Pictured in a natural environment (Tasman National Park)
Articles this image appears in
Hakea, Hakea epiglottis
Creator
User:Noodle snacks

Promoted File:Hakea epiglottis.jpg--Shoemaker's Holiday Over 206 FCs served 03:57, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Original - Canberra From Black Mountain Tower
Reason
Has just about every major landmark in Canberra. The FOV is 180 degrees. I started annotating it, but stopped when I realised that feature doesn't work on enwiki yet (see [11]). It is a little dark on the right side but this isn't an exposure blend.
Articles this image appears in
Canberra, Black Mountain Tower
Creator
User:Noodle snacks

Promoted File:Canberra From Black Mountain Tower.jpg--Shoemaker's Holiday Over 206 FCs served 04:02, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Clynotis severus, Female, Austin's Ferry, Tasmania, Australia. This jumping spider's main ocelli (center pair) are very acute. The outer pair are "secondary eyes" and there are other pairs of secondary eyes on the sides and top of its head.
Reason
A very useful addition to a number of articles. In some cases it has replaced another image. This one is better because it shows all eight eyes and is considerably more detailed. I am quite surprised that the subject sat still long enough for a stack or two. I would have liked the softbox a bit lower to get some catch lights in the front eyes. Was not physically possible however (front of lens was about an inch from the spider).
Articles this image appears in
Spider, Jumping spider, Simple eyes in arthropods
Creator
Noodle snacks

Promoted File:Salticidae sp. AF 2.jpg--Shoemaker's Holiday Over 206 FCs served 04:01, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Original - The Fort Baker, which borders the City of Sausalito in Marin County and is connected to San Francisco by the Golden Gate Bridge, served as an Army post until the mid-1990s, when the headquarters of the 91st Division moved to Parks Reserve Forces Training Area.The famous San Francisco fog is seen at the Bay
Reason
Hihg resolution and high quality image with a good EV
Articles this image appears in
Fort Baker
Creator
mbz1
Thank you for your comment. I added a link to the article to the image's caption.--Mbz1 (talk) 18:21, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It was all but impossible to have a different crop because of the cliff on the left. I tried to take the same image from a diffrent vontage point (Golden Gate Bridge), but the bridge is too shaky from moving cars, hard to take panoramas.--Mbz1 (talk) 03:16, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Fort Baker and Angel Island.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 04:51, 24 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - California Sea Lions have been always present in San Francisco Bay. They started haul out on docks of Pier 39 in September of 1989. Before that they mostly used Seal Rock for that purpose. Ever since September of 1989 the number of sea lions on Seal Rock has been staidly decreasing, while the their number on Pier 39 was increasing. Some people speculate that sea lions moved to docks because of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, but the earthquake was a months after first sea lions have arrived at Pier 39. Probably the most reasonable assumption is that sea lions feel safer inside the Bay
Reason
High resolution, high quality, high EV.
Articles this image appears in
Pier 39; California Sea Lion
Creator
Mbz1
I believe it is only perspective. --Mbz1 (talk) 16:52, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You mean perspective distortion? There may be some of that, too, but I think the main problem is that the horizon isn't level. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 19:11, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I might have used the wrong word. I meant "illusion" I guess. The image is FP on Commons, and nobody there complained about it spinning in one direction :)--Mbz1 (talk) 20:58, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well, lucky then that we have this extra step built in where people can flag problems that were missed on Commons. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 00:05, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I'll wait for a second opinion before rotating the image :)--Mbz1 (talk) 01:19, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You have not heard anything? Yes, it was the account I used, when I was not using my Mbz1 account. I use it no more.--Mbz1 (talk) 17:08, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Nope, haven't heard anything. Is there a good story? I always wondered how a new user knew so much and could take such good pictures :-) --Muhammad(talk) 17:12, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I'd say it is rather a very, very sad and a very long story that I'd like to forget ASAP.--Mbz1 (talk) 17:24, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment This image seems to be a bit warped and tilted. If you have a look at the bridge in the background it looks as though it is stretched to the right, is this how the bridge is supposed to look. Also the buildings in the background towards the left look kind of warped as well as many of the other features in the foreground, like the light house for instance. Would it be possible to realign this panorama, can I see the individual images . Adam (talk) 01:19, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your comment, Adam. I am afraid it is not possible to see individual images, because I do not keep them. Maybe I will try to reshot the images all together one day, and for now I withdraw the nomination. Thank you all for your comments.--Mbz1 (talk) 02:37, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn



Original - Aubrieta deltoidea growing in its natural habitat at 1100 meters above sea level in the mountains of Tartej, Lebanon
Reason
High resolution image clearly showing a purple rock cress growing in its natural habitat.
Articles this image appears in
Brassicaceae
Creator
Eli+ 11:12, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Shoemaker's Holiday Over 208 FCs served 07:04, 24 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Vestiges of the Mercatus Traiani (Trajan's market), a semi circular ancient market in Rome's historical city center
Reason
high resolution, unedited pictures street lights give it a nice warm taint
Articles this image appears in
Ancient Rome
Creator
Eli+ 15:43, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support as nominator --Eli+ 15:43, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose I'm sorry, but the big column on the right is completely distracting...is there another possible viewing angle? SpencerT♦Nominate! 19:35, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Composition needs work (we can't see much). Take it earlier in the day if you want to take it at night (in the hour after the sun goes down). Large areas that have gone to black don't look good and reduce encyclopaedic value (can't see in the shadows). Noodle snacks (talk) 23:04, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per above- the composition just isn't there. J Milburn (talk) 18:08, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support on the grounds my initial impression was that I liked it. I take the point made above about composition, but my initial reaction was that the photographer had cleverly composed the picture to give an impression of what was originally built while keeping out modern buildings as much as possible. Maybe this is not true, but I assumed the narrow scope and shady lighting was deliberate to hide modern intrusions and wear and tear. The big column similarly gives an impression of what presumably was once a complete collonade. Sandpiper (talk) 07:35, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Oppose Yes, it's a nice picture, but the angle isnt fantastic, although as Sandpiper states, it's possibly to hide more modern architecture on the site. The lighting isnt fantastic either, being too dark in some places and too bright in others. Silvestra (talk) 23:46, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • comment the pic was taken around 21:00, there was absolutely no light source except the faint street lights, as a hasty tourist i had no tripod and i had to place my cam onto a nearby rock and shoot with wide aperture and very slow shutter speed, ( wish the metadata show) as for the composition, i deliberatly cutt of the medieval towers and modern buildings in the backdrop. As for the column, i thought it was not obtrusive, i meant for the semicirclular market building in the background to look as if it was radiating from that coulumn. The pic may not much encyclopedic value but it depicts the market from a new perspective. Thx for your comments Eli+ 06:36, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Shoemaker's Holiday Over 208 FCs served 00:04, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Original - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha which led India to independence and has inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi. He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti and worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence.
Reason
This one will be a good choice as the Picture of the day on October 2nd, International Day of Non-Violence
Articles this image appears in
Hinduism in India
Creator
Yann

Not promoted --Shoemaker's Holiday Over 208 FCs served 00:08, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File:HUD view.jpg
Original - Head Up Display view from an FA-18 Hornet. Symbology clockwise from top: Aircraft heading 194 degrees true; Altitude 19,950 feet; Pitch Angle zero; Auto Throttle Control (ATC) engaged; AIM-120 AMRAAM Bravo selected, 0 loaded and Master Arm unarmed (x'd out); Time 22:48:50; Acceleration 1.0 "G"; Mach .55; Angle of Attack 7.1; Speed 251 Knots
Reason
The high quality image clearly depics an aircraft head-up display as seen by the pilot. High EV,
Articles this image appears in
F/A-18 Hornet, Head-up display
Creator
U.S. Navy. "Rasmussen"

Not promoted --Shoemaker's Holiday Over 208 FCs served 00:02, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Nardwuar the Human Serviette, Canadian interviewer and musician
Edit 1 Selective noise reduction
Reason
Fun pose/look for a high-res celebrity portrait.
Articles this image appears in
Nardwuar the Human Serviette
Creator
Photographed by William Jans
  • It clearly passes 3- after seeing the image, I wanted to know more. It adds as much value to the article as any portrait- they must add a significant amount, as we are willing to use non-free images for the same purpose when a free image is not possible. Furthermore, as I suggested in my support, this adds more than a simple candid snapshot, as it displays the subject in role- in this case, in his role as a comedic entertainer, rather than in role as, say, someone doing their shopping, or getting off the plane... J Milburn (talk) 18:11, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You're right, a comedian with an aggressive, oddball sense of humour really should be portrayed totally differently than wearing a brightly coloured suit, goofy grin and with raised fists. That tells us nothing about him whatsoever. Stevage 12:43, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Nardwuar1-photo-rgb NR.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:34, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Nominated edit - A bareback bronco rider at the St. Paul Rodeo in St. Paul, Oregon.
Original
Reason
I gave this a slight curve lift. I get the impression the photographer managed to catch the most testing moment here. If you follow the cloud of debris the horse has kicked up, you can get an idea how high it's jumping. It's drawn quite a crowd, too.
Articles this image appears in
Saddle bronc and bareback riding
Creator
Cacophony
Feel free. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 08:20, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I changed it. Cacophony (talk) 22:55, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I wouldn't say it's traditional. Doesn't really matter as long as there is clearly a version in the article, and PLW has identified both. Having said which, it certainly makes it easier for closers to have the nominated version in the article. --jjron (talk) 12:44, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Where are all these demonstrably superior images that you speak of? Not only is this one of the best available, there are only a couple in the the Commons cat. If there is a wealth of good images out there please upload them! Cacophony (talk) 22:55, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • While they are not free, do a google search or open a newspaper during the Calgary Stampede and you'll see the possible quality. While the season here is over come next year I will try and get out to a few more rodeos than I would normally and get some higher quality images. 68.147.59.209 (talk) 05:10, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak oppose. This is a very good image but a couple of things lead me to oppose. Firstly I find it too busy - to illustrate this topic I would prefer an image just showing the rider (something like but obviously of higher quality (don't guess you took one did you Cacophony?)). I find those other two guys too dominant and distracting in this one taking the eye away from the main subject. I would consider cropping this to remove them, but don't think there's quite enough size to do so. Another problem either way is that unfortunately the white clothes of the rider are right up against the white fence, blending in to it - I just wish this could have been taken a couple of steps later where the horse and rider would have just had the dirt for background - maybe he was off by then, but it is possible to get. Probably wouldn't have voted, and really only doing so as this isn't attracting much attention - thought perhaps others have similar minor quibbles or need a spur (so to speak) to get them voting. --jjron (talk) 12:44, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Astounding image. Shoemaker's Holiday Over 206 FCs served 02:50, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:45, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Redheaded Cockchafer, Austin's Ferry, Tasmania, Australia
Reason
A rather notable agricultural pest that didn't have an article surprisingly. Lots of references floating about for a bigger article ([12]). I'm told that it is currently invading Southern Tasmania, probably due to record rainfall.
Articles this image appears in
Red headed cockchafer
Creator
Noodle snacks

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 23:04, 26 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Offical White House photograph of Vice President Joe Biden, taken by Andrew Cutraro.
Reason
High quality. Public domain. Comparable to featured picture of Jimmy Wales.
Articles this image appears in
Joe Biden, United States Cabinet, United States presidential election, 2008
Creator
Andrew Cutraro, White House photographer.

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 23:04, 26 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Amidst the firing of bullets, the frequent suicide bombing and the noise created by the War on Terror, in a region considered to be one of the most dangerous places on Earth, silently stands the grandeur of the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, as seen from a nearby hilltop. These pencil shaped minarets don't depict missiles, but a call of hope for believers around the world, surviving the bloodshed and holding the promise of a better tomorrow.
Reason
Because it is catchy, portrays a beautiful of Islamabad, Pakistan and Islam (all of who are highly misunderstood in general terms), and depicts pure majesty.
Articles this image appears in
Faisal_Mosque, Haze#Obscuration
Creator
Raaid

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 23:04, 26 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Mounted police officers on standby at a peaceful demonstration at Hazelwood Power Station, Victoria. Note the facial armour that the horses are equipped with. This protects the animals from any indirect projectiles or attempted assaults to the face. The horses are also equipped with rubber horseshoes (yellow), and shin guards with reflective tape to aid visibility. The officers are wearing high visibility rain coats, as well as riot protection helmets to protect against both accidentally falling off or melee weapons and thrown projectiles.
Reason
It clearly demonstrates the type of equipment used by the Australian mounted police force. (note: This is an edit performed by jjron, the original is File:Australian Mounted Police Victoria.jpg)
Articles this image appears in
Mounted Police
Creator
Simpsons fan 66
The image was shot on a hill; I wasn't about to ask four officers to move and form in a line elsewhere. :D --Simpsons fan 66 11:33, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, having edited this I set the verticals of the fence behind to be vertical. That still left the fence tilting down horizontally indicating that indeed they were on an incline. Refer to its PPR review last week. --jjron (talk) 12:20, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support. The facial horse armour adds EV plus pleasant gamma. Brand[t] 07:12, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Australian Mounted Police Victoria-edit1.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 00:03, 27 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Original - Clynotis severus, Female, Austin's Ferry, Tasmania, Australia
Reason
This one goes in the genus article. Couldn't quite get a full stack before it moved. But depth of field is still pretty good considering.
Articles this image appears in
Clynotis
Creator
Noodle snacks

Promoted File:Salticidae sp. AF.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 00:20, 27 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - In this animation, the coloured bars beneath all of the 7 clients in the upper region above represent individual pieces of the file. After the initial pieces transfer from the seed (large system at the bottom), the pieces are individually transferred from client to client. The original seeder only needs to send out one copy of the file for all the clients to receive a copy.
Reason
Personally, I never understood how exactly the protocol worked until I saw this animated diagram. It explains it very clearly, and I was surprised myself to find it wasn't featured already.
Articles this image appears in
BitTorrent (protocol), Segmented downloading
Creator
Wikiadd

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:16, 27 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Russell Falls is 170 million years old. The plant life includes swamp gum and sassafras.
Reason
Easily the most notable waterfall in Tasmania. I nominated a different image ages ago but this one is better. It is a default for many people visiting the state, and appears in many tourist documents and so on. I hopped the fence to get a better photo. I can remember swimming in the water here as a child (before the fence).
Articles this image appears in
Russell Falls, Mount Field National Park, List of waterfalls of Australia, Tasmania
Creator
Noodle snacks

Promoted File:Russell Falls 2.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:19, 27 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Original - Mark Curtis is an American journalist and political analysist perhaps best known for his news reporting and anchoring on KTVU. His first book, Age of Obama, was released in 2009.
Reason
Another extremely high quality photograph that has been submitted to us by the subject and released under a free license. Professional quality, and, composition-wise, as good as a simple portrait is going to get.
Articles this image appears in
Mark Curtis (broadcaster)
Creator
Mark Curtis Media

Not promoted --Shoemaker's Holiday Over 208 FCs served 16:14, 27 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



File:Photo of Downtown Los Angeles, California.jpg
Original - Downtown Los Angeles, CA at night
Reason
There simply isn't a better picture of Los Angeles, California. This image provides a view of Downtown at night. I took this photo last night and I think it’s a Featured picture.
Articles this image appears in
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, Greater Los Angeles Area,
Creator
User:Zink Dawg

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 01:16, 28 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Original - Valetta, capital of Malta
Edit 1 - Rotated, cropped to rectangular. For balance, I cropped a little extra from the sky than the rotation absolutely demanded - it just looked unbalanced otherwise. I also fixed a little fringing in the upper left.
Reason
high resolution, public domain, excellent view of an island country
Articles this image appears in
Valetta, Malta
Creator
Myriam Thyes
Endorse this. Can we take the nomination as suspended in a practical sense, and give it one or two more days? Mostlyharmless (talk) 05:07, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I would be happy with that as long as it's exactly two days. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 17:16, 26 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Valletta-view-from-senglea-edit1.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:13, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - The edible bolete mushroom Boletus frostii. The stem shows the blue-colored bruising typical of this species.
Reason
Meets size requirements, high EV, clear and attractive picture
Articles this image appears in
Boletus frostii
Creator
Dan Molter at Mushroom Observer
The leaves and forest debris around the base of the stem have been removed to give a clearer view of both the stem and the whitish mycelium; during this process the photographer touched the stem, resulting in the bluish bruise marks that are visible. Rather than detracting from the photo, it adds to the educational value as it depicts a characteristic staining reaction and allows the reader to actually see the extent of the blue stain, rather than merely reading about it in the description. Sasata (talk) 04:55, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Shoemaker's Holiday Over 209 FCs served 10:06, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Original - Ramariopsis kunzei
Reason
High-res, hand-masked focus stack. Lit with only natural light to prevent blown highlights.
Articles this image appears in
Ramariopsis kunzei, Ramariopsis
Creator
Kaldari

Promoted File:Ramariopsis kunzei Kaldari 01.jpg--Shoemaker's Holiday Over 209 FCs served 10:16, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - The Princess of Wales Conservatory (opened by Princess Diana in 1987) is Kew Gardens' third major conservatory, and houses 10 climate zones, with the bulk of the greenhouse volume comprised of Dry Tropics and Wet Tropics zones.
Reason
It's very high resolution, aesthetic and a good architectural view of the Prince of Wales Conservatory in Kew Gardens in London. Yes, I know we have a couple of FPs of Kew Gardens buildings already, but this is likely to be the last for a while! At first glance, it seems somewhat obscured but I think this is the best possible angle of the building, short of an aerial view, having walked all the way around it looking for a good location.
Articles this image appears in
Kew Gardens
Creator
User:Diliff
  • Support as nominator --Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 15:30, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Fantastic shot--one of the better ones that I've seen on here. Great work as usual-- mcshadypl TC 17:09, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. Obvious HDRI effects. Not realistic looking. Kaldari (talk) 20:30, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • You're being very presumptuous to suggest it's 'obvious'. There are no HDRI effects, because no HDRI was used - this is a single image (in terms of exposure - obviously it's stitched). You could at least ask the question out of politeness before making a declaration like that :-P. Could you perhaps also be more specific about what is so unrealistic? Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 20:54, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • To set the record straight as I get a bit sick of having to defend my photos against this sort of accusation (apologies for singling you out), this is a screen capture straight from Lightroom. Hard to fit all the relevent tools on the screen but as you can see, the only adjustment whatsoever is the fill light to bring out the shadows and the tone curve is close to linear. The same development settings are applied to entire set for obvious reasons. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 21:16, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        • Setting the fill light to 44 would be the problem then. Anything over 20 is probably going to look unrealistic. I've never gone higher than 15 myself. The foliage especially looks flat. Without realistic shadows, it looks like a painting rather than a photograph. A very beautiful painting though :) Kaldari (talk) 17:20, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        • BTW, I apologize for so often opposing your photographs as unrealistic looking. Your photography is really beautiful and impressive, so I feel bad for criticizing them at all. I'm a strong believer, though, that Wikipedia photographs should be primarily documentary rather than aesthetic. Obviously this photo is going to pass with or without my support, but I would encourage you to at least consider striving for more realism (rather than perfect tone curves) in future photographs. Kaldari (talk) 17:35, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
          • I completely agree with you that a Wikipedia photo's primary purpose is documentary rather than aesthetic, but my opinion differs on what makes a photo 'realistic'. This is something that we clashed on with the Hong Kong panorama nomination too. My point was, and still is, that our eyes have a much better ability to see wide luminosity ranges than a camera does, and just because a camera will output photos with deep shadows by default, doesn't mean we should accept that as more 'accurate' - we should make a photo look like what our eyes see, not what the camera sees. Without some fill light, the shadows were too dark and detail was lost. I could have overexposed the image slightly to bring out the shadow detail, but then the highlights would have been blown which is even worse because they cannot be recovered. I certainly accept that there are limits to how far you can push fill shadow, but I don't think that it is over the top in this instance (and it would seem neither do others). On that subject I suppose we will have to agree to disagree, but I do think that you perhaps need to re-think the idea of realism and how it applies to photography, based on your fundamentalism on the subject. ;-) Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 10:09, 24 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
            • I understand the point of tone mapping. I adjust the fill light and tonal curve of virtually every photograph I upload. Tone mapping and HDRI are, however, imperfect solutions to an unsolvable problem, namely that the gamut and tonal range of camera sensors and computer monitors are far less than that of the human eye. Tone mapping is basically the effort to produce more realistic contrast levels (to human eyes) within a compressed tonal range. Since the tonal range on a computer monitor cannot be expanded, however, the way this is accomplished is to selectively adjust tones within the range to maximize local contrast (i.e. bring out the details). Since the overall tonal range is finite, however, every time you adjust a tone in one direction to increase contrast in a particular part of the image, you are actually reducing contrast in comparison with other parts of the image. If the tone mapping is done lightly, the secondary effect is not noticeable and the image looks improved. If the tone mapping is overdone, however, the image becomes over-compressed and it starts looking surreal. In other words, more tone mapping doesn't necessarily equal a better or more accurately perceived image. You have to balance making the details look more realistic with keeping the overall image looking realistic. For every degree that you increase one you are decreasing the other. The sweet spot is different for every image, but my perception of where it is seems to be very far from where your perception of it is. My sweet spot is right underneath the level where you can tell the image has been tone mapped (or fill-lighted etc), but clearly other people disagree. I think we'll just have to agree to disagree on this, as I suppose it is ultimately a matter of taste. Kaldari (talk) 17:05, 24 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
              • Yep, fair enough, and I agree with you about most of it, although I am confused by the way you keep referring to tone mapping when tone mapping was not used - at least, as I mentioned below, the fill light slider is not usually associated with tone mapping as it really just pushing the tonal curve rather than re-mapping local values. One final thing - I don't think it is necessarily that people disagree about the sweet spot being just below the threshold of perceptibility, it is probably more that they don't find it particularly perceptible. I don't look at the image and automatically think "oh, it looks overly processed". If you do, there is the possibility that your monitor is not well calibrated? Just a thought. Without looking at the same monitor (and having the same visual perception system!) it is hard to compare apples with apples. Thanks for your well-reasoned response anyway. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 11:24, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
                • Using fill light to bring out details in the shadows is a form of tone mapping, although it is not usually called that since "tone mapping" these days usually refers to HDR tone mapping specifically. "The normal process of exposure compensation, brightening shadows and altering contrast applied globally to digital images as part of a professional or serious amateur workflow is also a form of tone mapping."[13] I suppose it doesn't matter what you call it though, as we both know what we're referring to. I've recalibrated my monitor, which helped some, but the image still looks a bit flat/over-compressed to me. I have my monitor set to standard Mac gamma, however, which is brighter on the dark end of the spectrum than PC gamma is. Even on my PC, though, the trees look photochrom. Kaldari (talk) 15:27, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
                  • The ultimate result of filling shadows is not dissimilar to using fill flash imo. I think both are ok. I feel that as long as it isn't going at all overboard (eg [14]) then there is more enc to be had doing so than blown highlights or clipped shadows.
            • The digital "fill light" effect and overexposure are not your only options. Contrast reduction would also allow you to brighten the shadows while maintaining the highlights, without the surrealism of the fill light effect. —Darxus (talk) 18:25, 24 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment Tone mapping effects, not HDRI effects. HDRI has no "effects". (I'm not suggesting this image contains either.) —Darxus (talk) 04:57, 24 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • Good point - there is a difference, but I suppose it's implied that any image created through a HDRI process will be blended or tone mapped to be a viewable 8 bit image for the web. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 10:09, 24 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        • Comment Only if you realize that contrast reduction is (the simplest form of) tone mapping. The surreal stuff is local tone mapping (maximizing local contrast while "violating tonal hierarchy"). Contrast reduction and fill light are global tone mapping (the same modification is applied to the entire image). —Darxus (talk) 15:13, 24 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        • Comment Also, tone mapping, including very surreal local tone mapping, does not imply HDRI. You can tone map a single LDR image. —Darxus (talk) 15:15, 24 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
          • Agreed, but fill light is best explained as an adjustment of the tone curve rather than 'tone mapping'. All it essentially does is brighten the shadows by bumping up their luminance values, whereas most people's understanding of a tone mapping implementation is local tone mapping with all the trippy, haloey effects that are associated with it. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 16:31, 24 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - great colours and exposure control, and great effort with an unlikely subject for FPC. Only minor quibbles are the cloud behind those air vents, and the unsightly bin in the foreground, but whaddyagonnado. Stevage 02:31, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support, per nom. Mostlyharmless (talk) 03:29, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Franklin.vp  05:30, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support to good to be true – for some ;) – Wladyslaw (talk) 09:12, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Shadow on RHS foreground is a bit distracting, but who wants a dull overcast sky. Noodle snacks (talk) 10:48, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support The article is getting filled with FPs though. Did you use a polarizer (hope that's the right word) to get the sky come out so well? --Muhammad(talk) 13:27, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • True, but different buildings are being illustrated. It isn't the same thing as the same species of insect having multiple FPs. I can't actually remember if I used a polariser (polarizer if you use American spelling), but I probably did. The angle of view isn't very large so the polarising effect would be uniform. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 13:33, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • Yes, Diliff, could you please stop taking featured pictures? We have too many. :p Stevage

Promoted File:Princess of Wales Conservatory, Kew Gardens - July 2009.jpg--Shoemaker's Holiday Over 209 FCs served 10:24, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Original - Little Wattlebird (Anthochaera chrysoptera) feeding on a flowering Corymbia ficifolia, Austins Ferry, Tasmania, Australia
Too much fill, front-focussed and the head is obscured.
Pics or it didn't happen?
Reason
Renomonation. I was really surprised when this didn't pass. The image quality is there, and it is practically spewing in enc; The wattlebird feeds on nectar in the surrounding flowers. Therefore the flowers should not be considered a "distraction". Still the best image available of the species.
Articles this image appears in
Little Wattlebird, Corymbia ficifolia, Wattlebird, Honeyeater
Creator
Noodle snacks
On second thought, after seeing Mostlyharmless's opinion, I'm gonna support. I didn't know the plants were identified so that adds extra EV. ZooFari 03:51, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support, for encyclopedic value, particularly in Corymbia ficifolia, Wattlebird, and Honeyeater. In each of these cases it illustrates the bird feeding on a primary food-source, rather than the taxonomy of the bird. In Little Wattlebird there would be a higher expectation that it would illustrate the body of the animal more clearly, and I may have opposed on those grounds in the previous nomination. The quality is obviously there, so I won't deal with that. I also think that this image is "eye-catching to the point where users will want to read its accompanying article", which is one of the rationales for Feature Pictures. Mostlyharmless (talk) 03:40, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Reply I can recall another nomination that showed a bird "feeding" when no feeding activity could actually be seen in the photograph. The fact that there is no pollen around this bird's beak is actually pretty good evidence that it hasn't been feeding. I feel in our assessment we should stick to what the photo shows rather than some unverifiable story of what may or may not have happened when the camera wasn't looking. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 09:06, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - per last time it has EV, quality and passes my own private "would the HBW include it?" test. Sabine's Sunbird talk 19:13, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support original. I like the surroundings. upstateNYer 03:32, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Anthochaera chrysoptera.jpg--Shoemaker's Holiday Over 209 FCs served 10:26, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]



Original - Grant from West Point to Appomattox, an 1885 lithograph by Thure de Thulstrup. Clockwise from lower left: Graduation from West Point (1843); In the tower at Chapultepec (1847); Drilling his Volunteers (1861); The Battle of Fort Donelson (1862); The Battle of Shiloh (1862); The Siege of Vicksburg (1863); The Battle of Chattanooga (1863); Appointment as Commander-in-Chief by Abraham Lincoln (1864); The Surrender of General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House (1865)
Reason
We now have an article on the artist, which seemed to be the only thing stopping this from being promoted last time. Original image: File:Ulysses S. Grant from West Point to Appomattox unrestored.jpg
Articles this image appears in
Ulysses S. Grant, Twelve-pound cannon, Thure de Thulstrup
Creator
Thure de Thulstrup
Previous Nomination
Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Grant from West Point to Appomattox

Promoted File:Ulysses S. Grant from West Point to Appomattox.jpg  GARDEN  20:50, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]