Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Tugboats Boss and Svitzer Hymer leaving Lahälla 4.jpg

File:Tugboats Boss and Svitzer Hymer leaving Lahälla 4.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Objects/Vehicles/Water transport
•  Info Tugboats Svitzer Hymer and Boss in Brofjorden setting out to assist a tanker entering the fjord and the oil port at Preemraff oil refinery. The fjord is so deep that the tankers have no problem going right up to the berths and cliffs along the shore, but when the wind is strong (as it was this day), an empty tanker lying high in the water can drift when it's going at a low speed. That's where the tugboats come in. The tugboats are stationed at Lahälla, across the fjord from the oil port. I was there to photograph Ryxö island for sv-wiki, so I had a front row seat and camera ready when the boats set out. I got a whole series of shots and I like this one best because of the relatively clean background and also because the distance from the camera makes the two boats appear in more similar size in the photo. There is something very wow-y seeing such powerful boats making good speed across the water, even if you can't hear the sound in the photos. All by me, -- cart-Talk 19:39, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- cart-Talk 19:39, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support - I can almost hear them. Atsme 📞 20:24, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Good arrangement, with uncluttered background. -- Colin (talk) 20:38, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support - Love it, especially all the rich vibrant blues. PumpkinSky talk 20:46, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --LivioAndronico ^(talk) 21:55, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 01:26, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Jee 02:58, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 04:06, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Pudelek (talk) 04:55, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Weak oppose Sorry, but the focus is a bit too soft for me, especially on the top half of the left boat.--Peulle (talk) 11:54, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

• Please don't use the {{weak oppose}} or similar templates as the Bot can't count these. Use the piped version of {{o}} and {{s}} instead. I have fixed that for you now. :) As for the focus, well, in this case it was either sharper boats when they were closer but with a cluttered background, or boats further away with better background but softer focus. See the series on the file page. I chose the better compo. --cart-Talk 12:24, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Ah, I didn't know that about the bot. Thanks.--Peulle (talk) 14:27, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

•  Support Daphne Lantier 18:34, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Photographers don't often take a stern view of boats (I guess they like them too much ). Good for you for making this one work so well. And how helpful that one of them has its IMO painted on its stern! Daniel Case (talk) 20:03, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

• Thanks! The stern is sort of the "business end" of a tugboat so more interesting than the bow. I also like the "going away on a mission" feeling you get from a stern view. --cart-Talk 20:18, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

•  Support --Llez (talk) 20:13, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 17:36, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Basotxerri (talk) 15:54, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 04:50, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 15 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Jee 03:31, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Objects/Vehicles/Water transport