Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Launching a sailboat 17 - Fitting the mast.jpg
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File:Launching a sailboat 17 - Fitting the mast.jpg[edit]
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 25 Jun 2019 at 07:16:13 (UTC)
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- Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena#Sun
Info You can see the rest of the launching operation on the file page. All by me -- Cart (talk) 07:16, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
Support -- Cart (talk) 07:16, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
Oppose I could live with the large shadows since they accentuate the sun, but having so little of the boat itself visible is more of a detriment as there is the strong interaction with the tractor. Also several distracting elements (tire, some attachment block) further obscure. I don't like the hunched over poses of the workers. Ultimately I think this image doesn't showcase a special enough lighting situation involving the sun as I would expect in this category, I would have placed it under Objects/Vehicles/Land_vehicles#Other land vehicles instead, for the tractor. A different category would for sure change my review, but I can't guarantee support. – Lucas 08:33, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- I am certainly open to suggestions about the category. In this case it's really difficult. It's in a series about the boat, but there is so little "boat" in this photo. 'Other land vehicles' is another option, but then again there are better photos of this truck. So I went with the most dominating thing in the photo: the Sun and the shadows it creates (take a look at other photos in the 'Sun' category). Perhaps a category "Shadows" would be most appropriate, but it doesn't exist (should we create it or is Natural phenomena/Other enough?). This is one of the strange things about FPC, that an interesting photo can be dismissed because it doesn't fit perfectly into a FP category. Looking at the 'Natural phenomena' category, there are several photos that have ended up there for this reason. --Cart (talk) 08:54, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose For me, the sun is in the wrong place.--Peulle (talk) 09:07, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
I withdraw my nomination No point in prolonging this. Note to self: Only nominate things that fit into one specific category. --Cart (talk) 11:33, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
