Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Kiruna September 2017 01.jpg

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File:Kiruna September 2017 01.jpg, not featured[edit]

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  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places
  •  Info Aerial view of the town center of Kiruna with Kirunavaara and Kiruna Iron mine in the background. All buildings in the images will be demolished when the city center is to be moved 3 kilometers to the east. The mine undermines the current town center. Created, uploaded and nominated by -- Arild Vågen (talk) 07:31, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- ArildV (talk) 07:31, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose - Clearly valuable but not a compelling composition for me. The buildings that make up the town are cut off in the foreground, giving the view a sense of tension and incompleteness to me. If FP were the only way we could acknowledge a photo, I'd be torn, but we do have VI to acknowledge the importance of photos that are not among the most outstanding compositions but are important in other ways. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:11, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Comment Thank you for you review. I disagree for different reasons; 1) the street in the foreground is a border between the town center and much less urban buildings; 2) you always have to cut buildings when taking aerial photos of a town (unless you using some wide-angle lens but (see 3 and 4); 3) the point here is not only the town center but also the relation between the town center and mount Kirunavaara and Kiruna Iron mine (the only reason this town exists in the middle of nowhere 200km north of the Arctic Circle); 4) a wide angle shot would reduce the mountain and mine to an anonymous background.--ArildV (talk) 09:04, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Question Was it taken from an aircraft? ("Aerial photo" should mean exactly this) --A.Savin 12:19, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose per Ikan; it may well be historic and I would be interested in seeing Kiruna myself, familiar as I have become with another remote town 200 km above the Arctic Circle, but this just doesn't make it aesthetically. Daniel Case (talk) 17:21, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose It's neither/nor ... I think the image should either be zooming in, showing something in particular, or zoomed out, showing more of the town and surroundings.--Peulle (talk) 11:38, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 1 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--Cart (talk) 13:25, 10 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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