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•  Info Fortified Ingush military towers of Erzi in Armkhi Valley, Ingushetia, Central Caucasus. The height of the medieval towers is around 29 metres (95 ft), circa 16th century. The Armkhi mountain valley is illuminated by the rays of the setting sun glimpsed through the broken cloud cover. Created, uploaded, nominated by --Argenberg (talk) 11:59, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support -- Argenberg (talk) 11:59, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support -- Ivar (talk) 15:49, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support -- Radomianin (talk) 17:19, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Aristeas (talk) 18:09, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support Maybe the crop on the left is questionable, but this photo is sharp, the light is beautiful, and the layered composition is otherwise excellent. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:07, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

  Ikan Kekek, thanks for review. When I decided to do a second take on this image before posting it here, I initially felt the same way as you, that the left crop should be addressed. So I spent a few minutes trying different crops on the left, and every time it felt like the mass/geometrical/spatial balance of various elements in the composition and in relation to each other, with important space above the leftmost building, got somehow lost or affected. So after some playing around I ended up with just leaving it as is. --Argenberg (talk) 15:17, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

• Did you upload any of the alternate crops? It would be interesting to see them. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:13, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
• No, I was trying different crops on the go while re-developing this image in Adobe Lightroom. Working on framing a shot is very much like practicing w:Feng shui in real time. --Argenberg (talk) 22:37, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

•  Support Rosalina 🍵 459755 05:10, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support, though I wish the crop on the left was better. Still, I like the photo's sharpness. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SHB2000 (talk • contribs) 06:22, 27 January 2023‎ (UTC)
•  Support Striking dramatic weather with special light -- Basile Morin (talk) 07:56, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support Interesting subject and nice light Poco a poco (talk) 08:57, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 13:51, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Comment I think a little bit lower temp would be good. A bit too yellow despite sunset. --Mile (talk) 14:33, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

  Mile, it could be. But I don’t see any color casts here. Do you? There are all shades of green on the slopes, and clouds on the left seem sure enough blue. It says that the color balance is technically correct at the least. Please mind the very complex lighting conditions in the scene. With so many reflections and refractions and light scattering in and through the clouds it is almost impossible to decide what’s right in this type of light, even if you’ve seen it with your own eyes, so I guess it all comes down to a taste. I personally like the warm mellow tones here, and wanted to have them even warmer, albeit with some red hues, but I never apply any colorwork except for minor correcting changes to global white balance (temperature/tint). --Argenberg (talk) 15:17, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

•  Support -- IamMM (talk) 23:02, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 10:25, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Michielverbeek (talk) 10:41, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Wieggy (talk) 16:15, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support — Rhododendrites ^talk |  18:57, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Tempered support The highlights on the smaller tower might be tamped down a bit. Daniel Case (talk) 19:33, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 05:57, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 17 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:42, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Architecture/Castles and fortifications#Russia