File talk:FGS-Frankfurt-Am-Main.JPG

Reverted to the more balanced image of the original. The sky, in its proper place, is an important part of the subject. The vessel needs to be seen in context, on the water, beneath a big sky. The vessel is not located in a box or a broom cupboard.

Freedom to reuse a photographer's copyrighted image elsewhere granted by the license is not the same as freedom to distort the image as photographed. Commons has a license to "use" the image, although the image is copyrighted and does not "belong" to Commons. The image is uploaded for the benefit of all users and potential users. Distorting the image in the manner done compromises the artistic view of the subject as seen by the photographer, and renders it into a non-standard image format, and compromises the ability of other users and potential users to access the subject in its original form. That in turn compromises the ability of other users to download and print the image onto standard print sizes.

Furthermore, the distorted image cannot be attributed to the photographer because that was not the image he photographed or permitted to be published on Commons. The distorted image is not the photographer's work, and other users who come across it by chance should not be misled into believing that it is. In that sense, the adapted distorted image is a slur on the artistic judgement of the photographer. Any adaptation of that nature should be published elsewhere, and properly attributed to the adaptor, with an attribution to the original image. George.Hutchinson (talk) 11:13, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

You should also be aware that images distorted in that manner into non-standard proportions can appear as thumbnails on Wikipedia pages squeezed by the page software to fit the vertical and horizontal limits of the thumbnail space. That results in an image grossly distorted in a manner similar to the fairground "fat lady" images in a mirror; with the vessel height unchanged, and the length compressed. Completely unacceptable IMO. George.Hutchinson (talk) 11:20, 13 March 2012 (UTC)