Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Lamps EM Belysning Viborg Denmark 2016-12-30-.jpg

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•  Info created, uploaded and nominated by Slaunger -- Slaunger (talk) 15:30, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Info In the town I live in, we have a peculiar lamp shop, hidden in an industrial area in the outskirts of the town, called EM Belysning. Since 1990, they have specialized in lamps, and according to their web page, the owners claim to have collected 40,000 lamps over the years! The area of the shop is quite small, and the lamps are incredibly crammed. In every direction you look, there are lamps, lamps, lamps, it is like entering a cave of lamps. The aisles are narrow, and you easily bump into a lamp when going around, triggering a chain reaction of bell-like sounds. I asked and got permission to make a photo shoot in the shop the other day. The results are here. After careful consideration and after receiving some encouraging remarks from cart, I now nominate this one. Let's see what happens. -- Slaunger (talk) 15:30, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Slaunger (talk) 15:30, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Support - This is a daring nomination, because this is the kind of picture that I'm expecting at least a few people to call "too busy". Busy it indeed is, but what it doesn't lack is interest and places to move around for the eyes. If you want to compare any photograph from life with abstract painting, consider this one - but the comparison would be to complicated abstract paintings, not minimalist paintings. P.S.: I would be interested to hear from you, Slaunger, on how you decided where to crop the photo, as you undoubtedly had quite a lot of choice in the matter. What were your criteria? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 15:42, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
  • @Ikan Kekek: : Thanks for you detailed and encouraging review. I did put a lot of consideration into the crop; Unlike the usual convention used by most including myself, I deliberately cropped it such that you get the impression of an abstract 'sea of lamps', by cutting as many lamps as possible and maximise the clutter. The original format was portrait, and I have cropped a lot below as it showed some of aisle area and boxes with lamps. It was either that or showing an aisle in its entirety, that made the most sense for me if I wanted to convey what it feels like to enter that shop. -- Slaunger (talk) 16:00, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
    • Those are both interesting photos. If you decide to nominate the other one later, I'd suggest a crop on the left side to eliminate whatever is sticking out as a triangle toward the bottom. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 16:06, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
      • Ikan Kekek: The "triangle" is - of course - a lamp! But good point, it could be cropped. -- Slaunger (talk) 16:12, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
        • As I would have thought, indeed. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 16:36, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Support More congested than our typical scrapstores! Jee 16:08, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Support I love these crazy, cluttered lamp store shots! You can look at them forever and still find something new. --cart-Talk 17:44, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose Sorry, doesn't work for me. These "cluttered" shots are hard to do well, and here I just don't find the arrangement aesthetically pleasing. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 19:19, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Support I like how eclectic the subject is- there is a lot going on, in a positive way. Nice description too; I've been to some similar shops in the United States, along with flea markets, that have the same feeling captured here. In the set I also liked #8 and #9. WClarke (talk) 02:53, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Support It works for me amazingly. -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 06:50, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per King. This is not clutter that works for me. Daniel Case (talk) 07:28, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Support absolutely --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 08:18, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose Doesn't work at all for me. Charles (talk) 17:58, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Support typical lamp shop. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 20:05, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose In my opinion, the mess should be taken in more artistic way. — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 20:27, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Comment Thanks to all reviewers so far for taking your time to review the nomination. Uhh, a swing state nomination, exciting! But also thanks for another thing; I really appreciate that so far all reviewers have respected votes opposite to their own and not tried to put a pressure on a change of mind. That's how it should be, assessing photos is not an exact science, and all opinions are valid IMO. Not that discussion should be discouraged, but opinions respected. -- Slaunger (talk) 20:36, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Support lNeverCry 03:02, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 9 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /lNeverCry 22:54, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

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