Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Angela Conner 'Renaissance' water sculpture, Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, England 1.jpg

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Featured picture candidates/File:Angela Conner 'Renaissance' water sculpture, Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, England 1.jpg Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Angela Conner 'Renaissance' water sculpture, Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, England 1.jpg

• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Objects/Sculptures#Fountains
•  Info created & uploaded by User:Acabashi - nominated by User:Ikan Kekek.
•  Support I got mixed but mostly positive feedback at COM:Photography critiques, so I decided to try a nomination here and see how it does. I love the form and the dramatic juxtaposition of the partly sunlit metallic gray sculpture with the much more threatening dark gray and white thunderstorm clouds, a kind of commentary to me on the difference between the cheery fountains in which humans control water and the elemental forces that actually keep us alive, but on their own sometimes violent terms. (By the way, are fountains "Objects"? Please recategorize if you can do better.) -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:35, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

• FP cat fixed. --Cart (talk) 08:44, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. :-) -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:46, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

•  Weak oppose The cold light on the sculpture and water plus the clouds are gorgeous, but the very black shadows in the trees spoils the image IMO. Might be fixable from raw. --Cart (talk) 08:57, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

• I respect your measured criticism. To me, they seem to be part of the mood, although either way, they're secondary. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:15, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

•  Support I don't mind the dark trees enough for not supporting the image. --Podzemnik (talk) 09:36, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
•  Support I agree with Ikan, the mood definitely has something. Cmao20 (talk) 09:39, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 09:58, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
•  Support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 12:42, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Cart, it looks too unrealistic to me and doesn't create the mood. – Lucas 16:36, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Palauenc05 (talk) 17:44, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 21:06, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 21:23, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --BoothSift 22:30, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Although there is a slight tilt and a perspective correction would help, you were a bit too close to the scultpure, too --Poco² 07:16, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose The sculpture and the sky do work, but I'm finding the trees and the garden furniture to be a bit distracting and awkwardly positioned. -- Colin (talk) 17:41, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

•  Comment - I understand your reaction. Thanks for looking at the photo. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 03:50, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

•  Oppose As already explained at COM:CRIT, I don't really dig this. --El Grafo (talk) 09:20, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
•  Weak oppose per Cart. Daniel Case (talk) 14:46, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
•  Neutral As per Cart and others, the darks/shadows on the right side in the trees are maybe too dark that you're loosing some details. Love the composition though and the trees are not major focus of this photo. -- Jakub Fryš (talk) 04:09, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- Eatcha (Talk-Page) 11:41, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 15:50, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Alchemist-hp (talk) 06:33, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 13 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Ikan Kekek (talk) 13:30, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Objects/Sculptures#Fountains