Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Belgique Butte du Lion dit de Waterloo.jpg

File:Belgique Butte du Lion dit de Waterloo.jpg, featured

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•  Info created & uploaded by Myrabella - nominated by Tomer T (talk) 15:05, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Support -- Tomer T (talk) 15:05, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Support -- a piece of fine art. Saffron Blaze (talk) 15:10, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Kraft (talk) 15:51, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Support Nice! --Tomascastelazo (talk) 16:54, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Support --Villy Fink Isaksen (talk) 17:09, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Support --Cephas (talk) 00:11, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Support Thank you for this unexpected nomination! --Myrabella (talk) 00:26, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Support --The High Fin Sperm Whale 00:57, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Support Very artistic indeed. --Paolo Costa (talk) 02:44, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Support --Tamba52 (talk) 04:48, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Support Žiga (talk) 07:16, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Support--Cayambe (talk) 08:47, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Support Albertus teolog (talk) 12:00, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Support--David საქართველო 12:05, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Neutral Passed the art effect, the featured content and composition is average to me.--Telemaque MySon (talk) 15:24, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Oppose Sorry... Call me a buzzkill, but what's that outstanding here?? OK, it's a quite nice view on a cloudy sunny day, but not much more - could even bear more contrast and sharpness, and have the hill in focus instead of the beet. All in all that's really amazing about so much support votes within just one day for this shot. - A.Savin 15:40, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
  • What's so amazing? That's your personal opinion that it's not FP worthy. That shouldn't mean everybody thinks so. Tomer T (talk) 15:47, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Oppose +1, can only totally agree with A.Savin. The colours urgently need an adjustment; I don't understand why the first row of the plants, which are slain (dt. erschlagen...) the viewer [it fells that they occupy over 80% of the image], is in focus; the more interesting parts in the background are far away and out of fcous, unsharp, no details visible. --kaʁstn Disk/Cat 15:54, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Oppose As kaʁstn--Miguel Bugallo 16:59, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

• May I give some answers? About the colors: this shot was taken at the end of the day, at about 8 pm, while the sun was beginning to set; the colors are faithful. About the composition: the subject is not only the momunment, but the battlefield as a whole. To me, this view can illustrate the famous line by Victor Hugo "Waterloo ! Waterloo ! Waterloo ! morne plaine !" ("Waterloo ! ... Gloomy plain!") and I was interested to swhow that this former battlefield, with its memorial, has become an agricultural field nowadays. By the way this picture is used in WP articles about Waterloo, but also about beet or the economy of Belgium.--Myrabella (talk) 17:09, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

• Contrast is missing and the colours are too flat and yellowish, even for an evening shot. I already thought you want to show the battlefield as a whole, but still the two-thirds greens are too much, too dominant and too boring to me... However thank you for the explanation – it's just your composition doesn't work in my view, it may be a matter of taste. --kaʁstn Disk/Cat 17:31, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

•  Support Yann (talk) 19:46, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Support Support. -- Raghith 06:17, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Oppose Not too keen on the compositional choice, with the beets in the foreground taking up far too much space, and the eye of the viewer does not focus at a specific point at all at first. Perhaps a crop in which the bottom 33-40% of the image would be cut would be better? Freedom to share (talk) 11:20, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Oppose the main object is simply to small at the image. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 07:33, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Oppose The problem is: the interesting motif is too far in the back. --Yikrazuul (talk) 14:57, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Support --Pudelek (talk) 13:51, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Support "Et cette plaine, hélas, où l'on rêve aujourd'hui,

Vit fuir ceux devant qui l'univers avait fui !"

Bon, et Austerlitz, tu fais quand ?--Jebulon (talk) 15:22, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

•  Support --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 07:57, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Alternative

•  Info I tried a crop. Tomer T (talk) 12:49, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Support Tomer T (talk) 12:49, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Oppose The problem is: the interesting motif is too far in the back. --Yikrazuul (talk) 14:57, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
•  Weak oppose Almost - the one thing I feel it is really missing is the small tree at the right in the original. For some reason, a sweeping horizontal composition would be much more effective :) This one is definitely better though! Freedom to share (talk) 15:43, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 19 support, 6 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Tomer T (talk) 21:19, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

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

The chosen alternative is: File:Belgique Butte du Lion dit de Waterloo.jpg