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Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 27 Nov 2011 at 16:56:04 (UTC)
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Info created, uploaded and nominated by Carschten. The picture show the entrepreneurial villa Haus Hartenfels in Duisburg (North Rhine-Westphalia), an impressive building of the industrial history at the Ruhr. Please notice the building is usually not publicly accessible, and the picture was made at the German part of European Heritage Days (an exception). That's the reason for so many people, but I hope they are not too disturbing. --kaʁstn Disk/Cat 16:56, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
Comment I added a note on the image, if this man will be removed the general composition will be better. Ggia (talk) 17:47, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
Oppose Dull lighting and a bit too many tourists for my taste. Not a big wow for me. - Benh (talk) 09:53, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
- Comment Maybe some other light would have been better, but as mentioned in the preface I couldn't wait for an other. But I don't think the lightning conditions were un-featurable. With such a cloudy weather you will never have harsh shadows and the difficulty to take a attractive photo is higher. With sunshine, everybody can take a photo (figuratively). Hm, the wow effect. IMHO it is an impressive building which is really remarkable for the region and its history. Comparing with your images and all the places you already have been, it isn't incomprehensible you cannot see a huge wow factor here, but it's a bit unfair to me, too; it's difficult to compare such different places (but I don't know how you consider what's special to you). Or perhaps you have tips for me how to take a photo of such a building in such a situation with more WOW? Thanks. --kaʁstn Disk/Cat 21:38, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
- As mentioned by Slaunger, I understand you couldn't do better. But mitigating reasons don't always mean we can feature it. I have similar pictures taken during similar events in France, that I won't even upload to Wikipedia. As for the wow effect, it has lot of subjective part, so I can't really tell. But usually, I'd say it's a matter of shooting from right angle, and waiting for the right lighting. And IMHO not everyone can do well on sunny day. Sun doesn't mean featurable to me (I've often opposed based on harsh flat lighting). - Benh (talk) 00:08, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
- Oppose I understand, that given the circumstances, this is probably as good as you could do, and there were not any other chances. So I would say that it is very valuable for that reason, given that normally there is no access for the public to this place. Regrettably I really find the lightning conditions dull. I agree on your comment that everyone could do well on a sunny day. The (unavaoidable) crowd is also distracting, and I agree with Ggia about especially one of the persons, which could perhaps be cloned out to improve the situation a little. But all in all, due to you unluck with the cirucmstances, I must oppose, sorry. --Slaunger (talk) 22:42, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
I withdraw my nomination.
I discuss with two experts from the German Wikipedia and we try to correct some things (so far as necessary) and maybe I'll renominate the picture after a while (if I think it makes sense). --kaʁstn Disk/Cat 20:30, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
