Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Sunset at Ocean Beach in San Francisco.jpg

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File:Sunset at Ocean Beach in San Francisco.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Sunset at Ocean Beach in San Francisco.
"One could see" the extent of the tide only in the file description though, there's nothing in the image which would allude to that. --Elekhh (talk) 05:52, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Incorrect, only with a very low tide one could see the reflection in a wet sand.--Mbz1 (talk) 05:25, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- That may be true, but it isn't obvious, especially to people that live inland such as me. A land-dweller like me would also figure that the reflections are seen because of the lighting, not the tide (it doesn't take a low tide to get sand wet). A better representation of low tide is found in the top two pictures of this article. The second picture alone shows that the sea is at low tide. This is because the boat serves as a visual indicator of tide for the viewers. As such, I agree with Elekhh: there's nothing which would allude to it. LeavXC (talk) 07:02, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
IMO it is a wrong statement. If you live inland, and do not know how to decide, if a tide is low without a boat present, wikipedia is one of the places to learn it. I could say, if a tide is low without boats, and hopefully now you will be able to do it too. Learning things about oceans could me a matter of life and death sometimes. For example, what is the obvious sign of approaching tsunami? Of course it is a huge incoming wave, but when one sees this wave it is usually too late to run from it. What is not so obvious sign? It is a receding ocean, the ocean that goes back so much, that the bottom is exposed. When there was tsunami in Thailand hundreds of people saw that warning sign and did not recognized it. They got killed. Only one small girl, who instead of complaining she lives inland, and the sign is not obvious, did recognize the warning because she learned about this before. This girl was able to save not only her family and herself, but also a few hundreds people from the same hotel she was vacationing in.--Mbz1 (talk) 13:09, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose This is an aesthetically beautiful photograph, but it has no main focus (not referring to camera focus) on anything with educational value ("beautiful does not always mean valuable"). Sure it could be used for sun glitter, but it would be rather ineffective because only a very tiny bit of sun glitter is found near the right edge of the photo (unlike this photo, where sun glitter is clearly seen). Sorry. LeavXC (talk) 01:44, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Info So in your opinion this image should not have been uploaded to Wikipedia at all? For comparison this image is not only FP, but also so called the most valued image in the scope Sunsets over sea. Anyway...--Mbz1 (talk) 02:30, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Not necessarily; I have no problem with sunset pictures being uploaded to Wikipedia, but as candidates for Featured Picture nomination, I will generally oppose them on the grounds stated in the FP nomination guidelines that "almost all sunsets are aesthetically pleasing, and most such pictures are not in essence different from others". The FP that you compared is a great photograph, possibly deserving of its FP status, but I take a neutral approach on whether or not that it is the best in its category (I haven't looked through and compared the many sunset pictures on the Commons). I also took no part in that picture's nomination, and I have no solid reason to nominate it for delisting. However, here, Featured Pictures should be the cream-of-the-crop of the Commons, both in technical quality and educational value. While this is a great picture compositionally, I feel that it lacks the EV to be a FP. LeavXC (talk) 04:03, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Disagree. This is a special image of sunset, and not because of the sunset itself but because of the way it was taken. Sunset images could be divided into two categories: sunsets with the sun seen and sunsets with only the sky with colorful clouds seen. My image belongs to the first category. If you are to look at the sunset images with the sun seen, you will see that most of them have the sun in the middle of the image. My image has the sun in the right, and it makes this image to stand out, and to be more valuable among other sunset images. Also because of the special composition one could see how the brightness of the sky is changing the farther of the sun the clouds are.--Mbz1 (talk) 05:22, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 6 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /The High Fin Sperm Whale 18:15, 3 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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