Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:New Zealand bush during the rain, Mt Oxford area, Canterbury, New Zealand.jpg

File:New Zealand bush during the rain, Mt Oxford area, Canterbury, New Zealand.jpg, featured

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Crop suggestion (well, sort of, can be improved). --Cart (talk) 10:42, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Natural/New Zealand
•  Info All by me. It's a New Zealand bush in the rain. -- Podzemnik (talk) 05:18, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- Podzemnik (talk) 05:18, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Comment This is way more interesting than your other nomination but the rain idea is somewhat not in the pic itself, just in the description. I’d like to see some raindrops falling or something like that. --Kreuzschnabel 06:23, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

I see. I can try next time to get closer to the bushes. --Podzemnik (talk) 07:59, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

•  Neutral Very nice. But I am missing something like the ground at the bottom. -- -donald- (talk) 07:33, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

The idea was to look from a higher point so it provides a bit of an interesting angle. --Podzemnik (talk) 07:59, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

•  Oppose Sorry but I don't see the big wow factor. Perhaps someone who doesn't see woods like this one every day will be more excited.--Peulle (talk) 07:36, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

No worries. It's actually beech forest, native forest to New Zealand and these trees don't grow anywhere else in the world than here. So yes, "only" woods, but New Zealand woods! :) --Podzemnik (talk) 07:59, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

•  Comment As one who is constantly trying to capture the perfect rain photo, I know how insanely difficult it is to shoot falling rain (it always ends up looking like fog/overcast/mist to viewers). You can't get the drops visible enough if you don't have a counter light, so instead you have to go for the special light and colors that a pouring rain creates. I think this would be much better if you just went with concentrating on the light in part of the forest instead of the whole wet place. I would recommend a square(ish) crop to do this, see note. --Cart (talk) 10:35, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

Hmmm could do. Though quite a few users voted to support this crop so I feel like I missed my opportunity to provide an alternative early enough so users can decide before they vote. I think I'll leave it as it is for now. But, as usuall, you inspire me to do a square format for one of my photos that are waiting to get processed. --Podzemnik (talk) 07:59, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

No problem, it was a fallback plan in case people were iffy about this photo. Looking forward to the photo you mention. --Cart (talk) 09:41, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

•  Support Great atmosphere. --Hockei (talk) 10:36, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support per Hockei. Cmao20 (talk) 13:28, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Andrei (talk) 13:31, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Mist -- Basile Morin (talk) 15:34, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Ralf Roletschek 22:17, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support −-Llez (talk) 05:42, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 08:06, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Aristeas (talk) 10:21, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 15:20, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Isiwal (talk) 22:05, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --GRDN711 (talk) 02:12, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 03:48, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose ~ R.T.G 05:54, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

• Sorry RTG, you can't just 'oppose' a picture, per the rules you have to leave an explanation to why you 'oppose' with your vote. Please add one. --Cart (talk) 10:27, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

There is no subject. It's just a texture. There is nothing wrong with this image, it just isn't "the finest on Commons". Sorry about that. ~ R.T.G 15:13, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

•  Weak support Could do with a crop, but close enough for a support. --Cart (talk) 09:43, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Weak oppose Very well-done, but as misty forests go this doesn't quite reach my "wow" threshold. I'm also not entirely awayed by the comment that beech only grows wild in this part of New Zealand ... the beech trees I am most familiar with are the dominant species in many of the first-growth slope-hardwood forests of the Catskills where I have hiked a lot, and we have a category of similar images from all over the world. Did you mean this particular beech species, perhaps? Daniel Case (talk) 18:20, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

@Daniel Case Yeah that's what I meant. We've got 5 species of beech trees here, all native to New Zealand. --Podzemnik (talk) 06:07, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

•  Oppose Good, but not outstanding. —kallerna (talk) 05:44, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 09:14, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Tomer T (talk) 22:32, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Weak support It would indeed be even nicer with a prominent subject in addition to the moody forest, but even without I like it. --Domob (talk) 19:04, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 17 support, 4 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /--Cart (talk) 13:36, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Natural/New Zealand