Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Dülmen, Börnste, Eisenbahnlinie Dortmund-Enschede -- 2015 -- 9918.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Natural
•  Info created & uploaded by XRay - nominated by Tomer T -- Tomer T (talk) 15:15, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
•  Support -- Tomer T (talk) 15:15, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Super extraordinary mood. Overexposed sky doesn't bother me. 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 17:34, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
•  Comment Is the image tilted to the left a bit or is it just me? Charles (talk) 17:47, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

  Rails are always tilted in a curve... --Hubertl 01:59, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

•  Support - That's lovely! -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 17:49, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
•  Comment I realize that I'm party-pooping here, but I have to point out that this is a live railroad track with at least two trains per hour, speeds well above 100 km/h and light DMUs that are hard to hear. Unless all traffic has officially been halted, it is a very very stupid idea to linger in this place to take a picture. We should not encourage such behaviour. Too many people get killed because of mindless trespassing on railroad tracks. If the photographer had official permission to do this, it should be pointed out in the image description. --Kabelleger (talk) 18:32, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
  •  Comment ... it's especially dangerous on the curve with low visibility, like here. --Ivar (talk) 18:48, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
    • If the photograph was really taken while the photographer was on and not to the left of the track, I agree with both of you. XRay, please address this question. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 18:52, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
      • Does any answer from XRay change the appraisal if the picture is worth to be featured or not? I can assure you, XRay is not there right now and not endangered any more. Period. If you want to have a discussion about morality, this is not the place here. With the same arguments you can discuss any pictures of countries, where you can get easily into a dangerous situation. Even I have been in some questionable situation in my life. Does someone want to have a moral discuss about my travels to Guatemala and later Chiapas during the intestine war? Please, don´t fool yourself! --Hubertl 20:02, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
        • My original concern is not about XRay (no judging him, we all have done not-so-smart things), it's about promoting potentially (not proven but likely) reckless behaviour. I therefore strongly disagree with your implicit statement that this discussion is off-topic. --Kabelleger (talk) 20:18, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
          • Let's not kid ourselves. Morality is relevant to photography in many ways. I reject the suggestion that we ignore the moral implications of images, or how they're taken. But I don't think that war photography will encourage more amateurs to travel to war zones, whereas idiots walking on train tracks is more likely, because they're a lot easier to get to and I believe that a lot of people think there's less risk involved than in a war where the media shows things being blown up. Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:41, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
            • Nice problem. There was no risk. The picture was taken from a street at a railroad crossing. Please have a look to the geo location. --XRay ^talk 20:46, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
              • Thank you very much for addressing this. My original vote to support featuring this beautiful photo stands. But in order to avoid these kinds of questions in the future, would you be willing to state in the description that the picture was taken from a street at a railroad crossing? Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:57, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
              • Thanks for clearing this up.  Support it is, then. --Kabelleger (talk) 21:13, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Hubertl 20:05, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Medium⁶₉ ^{You wanted talk to me?} 01:03, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Thanks to Tomer T for nomination. --XRay ^talk 08:51, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
•  Support These sun rays are simply magical. -- Pofka (talk) 11:05, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 11:36, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose sorry, but I don't like the overexposed part of the sky. This will be a typical use of the HDR technique. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 15:39, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
•  Neutral Very nice mood, but blown up sky is too much for me. --Ivar (talk) 15:55, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose Sorry but for alche LivioAndronico ^(talk) 21:09, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Lovely mood, and thanks for clearing up the safety issue. Daniel Case (talk) 22:06, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per Alchemist.  Support After the correction of the sky. --Johann Jaritz (talk) 06:35, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose Overexposed sky.--Jebulon (talk) 11:28, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
•  Comment FYI: I just improved the sky a little bit. Sorry, it was a bright sky in real too. --XRay ^talk 12:04, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
•  Support The overexposed parts are acceptable in this case. That's not the situation in which you can set up your tripod to take three or five shots for an HDR. --Code (talk) 08:00, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
•  Neutral I can't make up my mind, its is a great mood but the overexposed sky are a problem for me. (not for technical reasons, but for aesthetic reasons)--ArildV (talk) 11:10, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Ralf Roleček 23:38, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Tremonist (talk) 13:56, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 16:48, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Wertuose (talk) 10:26, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 16 support, 4 oppose, 2 neutral → featured. /Laitche (talk) 06:30, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

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