Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Zaanse Schans LCD.jpg

Zaanse Schans windmills.

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Original - View of the windmills at Zaanse Schans. From left to right: De Kat (the cat), De Zoeker (the Seeker) and the Het Jonge Schaap (the young sheep). On the foreground: typical Dutch bicycle.

Reason

Good technical quality and very illustrative of the town of Zaanse Schans.

Articles in which this image appears

Zaanse Schans

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Landscapes

Creator

Murdockcrc

• Support as nominator --Murdockcrc (talk) 19:43, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
• I like the bikes, and they show that this land of windmills is also a land of bicyclists. Keep the bikes. TigerCherry 00:26, 1 April 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pattymooney (talk • contribs)
• Oppose -- Not the best depiction of the main subject: the windmills. Alvesgaspar (talk) 23:35, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
• Just chop off the bikes and it will be a lot better. Nergaal (talk) 00:08, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Alternative 2
I decided to add the bikes as an interesting element of the foreground, since these bikes are so Dutch, so much as the mills. I'm adding this second alternative without them for you to decide.

Original - View of the windmills at Zaanse Schans. From left to right: De Kat (the cat), De Zoeker (the Seeker) and the Het Jonge Schaap (the young sheep).

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Murdockcrc (talk • contribs) 06:34, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

• Weak Support I really think the bicycles add information here. I know the article doesn't say it now, but the photo suggests that bicycle touring is common in the region. Googling reveals that a number of companies appear to operate bicycle tours in the area. Its just a little annoying that they are out of focus. JJ Harrison (talk) 07:20, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
  • Bicycle touring is common all over the Netherlands. J Milburn (talk) 23:19, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
    • I think it's an interesting marriage of two different technologies - windmills which harness the wind, and bicycles, which harness human energy. Of all the photographs on this page, my eyes went to this one first. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pattymooney (talk • contribs) 01:12, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
• Oppose. I like the idea, but not the bikes cut off at the bottom. I would support it if the bikes were complete. --Avenue (talk) 01:24, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
• Oppose. The bicycles add a certain dimension that makes this a nice photo per se, but reduce the EV. The second one just looks like it has way too much sky. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 06:00, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 21:16, 8 April 2011 (UTC)