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The Cheremosh River, the Carpathian mountains, Ukraine.

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Imsouane beach, Morocco

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Plain vanilla muffin, newly baked and photographed on crumpled baking paper.

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Kalkkoora Bhagavathi Theyyam At Kunjimangalam (34)

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Common grackle

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Thank you I.Mahesh for fixing this! :-) --Cart (talk) 15:05, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think I do generally do this, but yes, sure, you’re right Cmao20 (talk) 16:41, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Kingfisher
Hold on a second, it says the voting period ends on april 6. I want to support this Henrysz (talk) 03:02, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry Henrysz but you are too late. Please read the rules regarding the 5-days closing at COM:FPC#General rules #8. It's always good to know the rules before you go in to express your opinion on a review page. --Cart (talk) 19:46, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Woman sewing hand fans in Bangladesh

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Woman sewing hand fans in Bangladesh

Pinging again, Basile Morin, Ermell, JukoFF, MZaplotnik -- Kaim (talk) 13:23, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
PetarM, Shagil Kannur, UnpetitproleX, W.carter, Yann -- Kaim (talk) 13:24, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The Masonic Temple in Orland, Butte County, California

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Pine Trees in Caldera de Taburiente

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Beach crossing De Kerf in the Schoorl dunes

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Rheinsberg Palace

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Gallusovo nabrežje in Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Singers from Constantine (Algeria)

 I withdraw my nomination Riad Salih (talk) 22:36, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Old woman with a Yellow Scarf

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Roofed section with shop signs of Fredsgatan in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Houses in San Sebastián de La Gomera, La Gomera, Canary Islands, Spain

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Ceiling of the Pantheon, Paris, France

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Live performance by Dr. Janaki Rangarajan, a celebrated Bharatanatyam dancer

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Yes, it was there.  Support --Harlock81 (talk) 08:38, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Dear *:@User:Poco a poco You call the subject of my photo ordinary small fruit. But there is no fruit in the photo at all. The photo shows a gall. A gall is a proliferation of a plant, caused by a parasite or symbiont, usually an insect (a gall wasp, gall midge, common fig wasp, fly, aphid or gall mite). How seriously should I take your assessment if you don't even bother to read the description of the photo?--Famberhorst (talk) 04:58, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Tufted titmouse

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Little tern (Sternula albifrons) male, Rajshahi, Bangladesh
  • Thank you for your valuable opinion.The picture was captured from padma rivrbad.Due to noise decreases,adding a bit cool tone and detail decreases it is looking like a bit more bokeh then the raw one. Princepauljoy (talk) 18:09, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thank you so much for your kind and detailed explanation about the bokeh! I truly admire your dedication and the passion you put into your photography. Personally, I feel the image is slightly overprocessed, so I won't cast a support vote - but that doesn't change my appreciation for your beautiful work. Wishing you all the best, and please keep sharing your wonderful photos :) Best regards, -- Radomianin (talk) 19:07, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Night view of the Victoria Theatre, Singapore.

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Lake of Serre-Ponçon viewed from Rousset (Hautes-Alpes, France)

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Yellow-footed green pigeon
 Comment FP Gallery can be specify with Commons:Featured_pictures/Animals/Birds#Family : Columbidae (Pigeons and Doves). ~Moheen (keep talking) 10:48, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Palace in Palermo, Italy

 I withdraw my nomination Riad Salih (talk) 20:53, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Punta Penia, the highest peak of the Dolomites

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A traditional Kinnauri house made in Himalayan vernacular architectural style in Sangla, Himachal Pradesh, India

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Restored portrait of a Daguerreotypist displaying daguerreotypes and cases

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Christmas morning view of church of the Exaltation of the Cross in Belogorsky Monastery, Perm Krai, Russia

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Lac d'Espingo in commune of Oô, Haute-Garonne, France

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Francis Xavier chapel in Sandhof (Oberhaid)

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Tiana (Barcelona) townhall

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  •  Info First of all, it's a black and white mangling of a sepia original, second, the sepia version says it's cropped from the original, and I don't know if it could be cropped better - the failure to get it at the time has meant link rot has lost us the chance - but it's a pretty bad crop. Absolutely no foot room. (Original nomination)
  •  Delist -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 01:28, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Delist I'm not sure about the customs of the 2006 vote. It seemed to be only a question of which of the pictures would be FP, not whether any would be. I also think there isn't one. Possibly VI. --Milseburg (talk) 11:37, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Delist per nomination. Cmao20 (talk) 12:24, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Delist The standard for FP is way higher now. --Yann (talk) 14:15, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Delist The customs were different in 2006, but the original nomination is still a bad joke. Five people voted on the sepia version (4 pro, 1 contra). Then somebody (not the original nominator) jumped in and added the b&w version, saying they would support that one. No one of the previous voters commented on the b&w version. Then the votes were counted in a completely arbitrary manner, claiming that 5 voters supported the b&w version – well, we only know that a single voter supported it, the one who had added it … Even if this was the greatest photo ever, we cannot say that it has been promoted correctly. – Aristeas (talk) 15:36, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I thought that looked odd, didn't realise it was THAT odd. Adam Cuerden (talk) 21:55, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 9 delist, 0 keep, 0 neutral → delisted. /-- Radomianin (talk) 06:52, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Looking from Schwarzenberg castle northward to Weichersbach in the valley of the Schmale Sinn. At the bottom left is the south portal of the Landrücken Tunnel and an ICE train.

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The statues of the three Wise Men on a historic boat.
 Comment It might be beneficial to crop 1100–1200 pixels from the bottom (and the same amount of empty sky). This would minimize the already incomplete reflection. --Milseburg (talk) 13:52, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your comment. Editing this photo is not possible, because the reflections of the subject collide with another boat next to me. I thought it would be better to upload a new alternative image from a different angle. Terragio67 (talk) 14:18, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm really Sorry, I misunderstood your suggestion because I read it hastily. I liked the result proposed updating the image, thanks. Terragio67 (talk) 04:59, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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@W.carter: Je te remercie. That's an excellent question! In vivo images are very beautiful, but they are not normative. For science, there are reference positions for different species (including Homo sapiens). For Homo sapiens, it is not necessary to insert a needle, but for insects, it is the norm for specimens. "In vivo" and "specimens" are not in competition; they are complementary. Descriptions of species and subspecies are often made on millimetric details. To answer your second question, you're not mistaken; what you say is correct. If you look at the specimens, you'll see that they're old, often very old. They're museum specimens, and they're recorded as such with references. It's up to museums to fulfill this role. You should also know that the specimens on display deteriorate over time, and we also have to replace them. As you can see, it's a bit complicated.

If you ever attend a specimen photography session in a museum, you'll be surprised by the methodology. Everything must be prepared with the greatest care, and opening a box is a great responsibility, especially if it's a collection of our prestigious elders. The Holy Grail is the red label with the word TYPE on it! It's the reference butterfly for the species. There, no mistakes are allowed. This is how, at the back of the museum, in a dark room, we can experience great emotion.--Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 15:52, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I understand that this is scientific and legal and made with great care at the museum, but the internet is full of idiots who will carelessly copy every behavior they think they can do better. Perhaps these photos of old museum collections should have a template stating that, and caution others to not trap and kill Lepidoptera unless they are supervised by a scientific institution. Might not do much good, but at least we can try to conserve the species we still have left. --Cart (talk) 16:22, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@W.carter: ::You have excellent convictions that I fully share. But you said a very true word: they are idiots! They don't care about warning banners at all. I'm old and I've had time to think. I try to show them beautiful images of Nature and make them love it. I believe more in love than in coercion.--Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 06:16, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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 I withdraw my nomination--Shagil Kannur (talk) 00:57, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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A Golden-crowned Kinglet at the Edwin B Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge.

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Adams Synchronological Chart. Twenty three foot long chart showing 5,885 years of history according to the Bible, from 4004 B.C. to 1881 A.D.

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Path though orchards during a snowstorm in Kamru, Himachal Pradesh, India
If you think that something has an almost monochromatic mood, it's sometimes worth a try to edit it in black & white. Just keep in mind that B&W requires a bit different editing than color. You are welcome to use my attempt as an 'Alternative' if you like. --Cart (talk) 16:54, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Portrait of a Cardinal
Gallery fixed. It's a portrait painting of man, so it's pretty straight forward. --Cart (talk) 10:31, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
My bad. Thank you for fixing it. Mahan (talk) 11:24, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Dark rain clouds departing over Brofjorden from the shore between Govik and Lahälla, Lysekil Municipality, Sweden.

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Hindu devotee in Lal Kach Festival, Bangladesh
Everything in its own time :-) Basile Morin (talk) 01:26, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Mosaics of the Shah Mosque in Tehran, Iran.

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Camel driver from Algeria

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Blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), Amboseli National Park, Kenya

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Before thunderstorm on the Ros river near village of Khreshchatyk, Ukraine.

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Crater of Pico Viejo

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Partial solar eclipse with some clouds in Tuntorp, Sweden.
  • I'm sorry, but I had to turn your example gallery into a list. You can't display other images on a nom since the FPCBot will read them as 'Alternatives' made by the nominator. And to answer your question: I think that this photo has a more aesthetically pleasing composition with the position of the second cloud, the little starbursts and the faint crepuscular rays, than the photos you mention as well as many other on this site. That's why I dared nominate it. --Cart (talk) 09:53, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Wildfire experiment, PNG version JPEG version

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  • Thank you Yann. This is much better and means that this nomination is no longer destructive to the potential of this image. I don't think FPC should waste time replacing existing png images with jpeg alternatives, though - there would be dozens to get through and it'd be a big waste of effort - so I'll keep my vote. Cmao20 (talk) 12:03, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks to Yann for the improved Jpg file! However, I feel compelled to add my perspective on Delist and replace nominations. Based on my modest experience, the maintenance work that follows a successful nomination is one of the most labor-intensive tasks, requiring about ten fifteen separate steps. Among other things, this includes creating a redirect page to ensure the correct functionality of the four-pointed star of the former FP ({{Assessments|featured=2}}). Unfortunately, the com-nom parameter reaches its limits here, as it redirects to the wrong page. For this reason, Delist and replace nominations should be chosen with great care - only when absolutely necessary. The first time I did this kind of maintenance, it took me a full hour. Given the minimal difference between the two versions of this nomination, I do not believe the effort is justified. Best regards, -- Radomianin (talk) 18:58, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yep, this is totally true. And to add to what Radomianin wrote, these delists can per the rules only be closed using the 5-days rule if no one agrees with the nominator. This means that in some cases the nom has to be kept open manually while the FPCBot is trying to close it based on counting the votes like in a normal nomination. When the 'Delists' were first added as a feature in the FPC, it was as a separate system. Later the 'Delists' were incorporated with the normal FPC nomination. However, the voting system here maintained by the FPCBot is not sophisticated enough to deal with delists, let alone delist & replaces, and it fell on the the users who frequent the FPC to handle this manually. This was not a problem then since most voters also did maintenance. But in recent years the numbers of maintainers has dropped drastically. People love to nominate and vote, but not so much taking care of all the "boring" work that follows. So please do not create delists for minor things, leave that to the things that really matters since they are a P.I.T.A. Or even better: Learn how to take care of this kind of nominations and help out. --Cart (talk) 20:15, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • I completely agree with you, and I also appreciate the historical background you provided on Delist and replace nominations. The lack of active maintainers is indeed a challenge, and I too wish we had more people handling the background work. Just thinking about the galleries - without your and Aristeas' help, they probably wouldn't be as organized as they are now. But that's just my personal opinion. Best regards, -- Radomianin (talk) 20:52, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Keep The difference in quality is barely noticeable, and I whole-heartedly support Cmao20's comment about not wasting FPC's energy with such minor replacements. For me, the 'Other versions' placed on the file is enough. --Cart (talk) 13:41, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Keep The reason JPG is better than PNG is subjective and not sufficient for deselection. --XRay 💬 07:26, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Keep for two reasons. 1) The general claim that “JPG photos are superior to PNGs” is nonsense. JPEG images are more practical for many reasons, but they are not superior; on the contrary, for archival purposes PNG images are superior because they provide a lossless compression. 2) If we accept this as a reason to delist-and-replace FPs, we may get many more pointless or even questionable delist-and-replace nominations; nobody would profit from the additional amount of work needed to process these nominations. – Aristeas (talk) 08:12, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 3 delist, 5 keep, 0 neutral → not delisted. /-- Radomianin (talk) 05:35, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Saddleback clownfish (Amphiprion polymnus) in a Mertens' carpet sea anemone (Stichodactyla mertensii), Anilao, Philippines

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Vodno Telecommunication Tower under construction, Skopje, North Macedonia

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Semi-frozen Gurudongmar lake in the Himalaya of Sikkim, India.

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[Portrait of unknown man]

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Roger Fenton

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Pine Cone and Eucalyptus Leaves by Ansel Adams, 1932

 I withdraw my nomination Thanks for all comments. Yann (talk) 09:24, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Abbot's box, Wieskirche, Steingaden, Bavaria, Germany.

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Blue-throated barbet (Psilopogon asiaticus), Naogaon, Bangladesh.

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Tropical Milkweed and Large Milkweed Bug - Oncopeltus fasciatus, Arthur Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, Boynton Beach, Florida, February 7, 2022

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Apple and walnut orchards after a night of snowfall in Sangla in the Kinnaur district of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh

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1907 Ultra High Relief $20 Saint-Gaudens double eagle (Inverted Edge Letters)(1216-4412)

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Tram in Halle

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View over Krötenbruck to the Kornberg at the golden hour in a special mood

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Eastern Subterranean Termite - Reticulitermes flavipes and Rove Beetle (Aleocharinae subfamily), Robert W. Duncan Wildlife Management Area, Ruther Glen, Virginia, May 18, 2023

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Grey reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) hidding in a reef, Red Sea, Egypt

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Sterling silver (925) and 18K gold scrap metal, due for recycling.
  • This was just enough scrap metal to make a fun Easter card with, not the entire 4 kilos in the boxes. I've added scale in the description, the two gold rings in the photo have an inner diameter of about 18,5 mm. --Cart (talk) 20:15, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Pine warbler

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Woman working on paper umbrellas in an umbrella workshop in Myanmar.

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An aerial view of the Velušina Monastery
  •  Comment Agree with Cmao20. @Деан, Kiril: Here is a brighter version; if you like it, you can upload it over the current version. But it could be better if you do the brightening yourself on the base of the original file from the camera (to avoid quality loss due to the repeated compressing). Or, if you like, give me access to the original file from the camera, then I try to edit it. Hope it helps, – Aristeas (talk) 07:28, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Lac d'Oô in commune of Oô, Haute-Garonne, France

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Smoke from the 2020 California wildfires tinting the sunset red on the Swedish west coast

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File:Osprey Fish Eye.png

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Bertice Redding by Allan Warren
  • Sorry, I expressed myself too short and in a clumsy way – now fixed. For an FP of a person, I'd like that photo to represent that person well, regardless of whether we have better photos of them on Commons or not. In this case I went online and googled her. There are plenty of good photos of her outside Commons, and in none of them does it look like she had a droopy eyelid, and since the look occurs only in this photo, I don't think it represents her well. I also went online to search for any mention of her eyes, and the only thing I could find was that her mother once hit her so hard she got a black eye. The reason I checked this, is because there are plenty of famous people with all sorts of eye conditions, and they have made that look part of their "brand" (as people say these days). For droopy eyelid we have notably Forest Whitaker, Maggie Smith, Paris Hilton, Kate Hudson, Ryan Gosling, etc. And for other eye conditions there are for example Marty Feldman, Jean-Paul Sartre, Peter Falk, Sammy Davis, Jr. all the way to Andrea Bocelli and Stevie Wonder. So before I blamed the photographer for a bad angle, I wanted to see if this was how she usually presented herself. I don't think we need to feature a photo just because it's the best one we have uploaded on this site. --Cart (talk) 17:36, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Btw, her name is misspelled in the file name. Her last name is Reading, not Redding. --Cart (talk) 17:48, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    OK, I will rename the file when the period is over. I still think that is how she looks like around 1981. Yann (talk) 18:04, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Eastern barn owl

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Haigerloch, Germany: view of the historic town centre with Haigerloch Castle from the Römerturm

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Ceiling in the Santa Maria in Vallicella church in Rome, Lazio, Italy

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Alexander the Great at the Battle of the Granicus against the Persians

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Weathered shutters, 1 Elias Street, Riga, Latvia

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A peacock butterfly on a cherry blossom.

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Our Lady of Sameiro sanctuary in Braga

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View across the Neckar with the "Schloss-Heidelberg" ship towards Heidelberg townhall

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View across the Franconian Saale into the Bad Kissingen rose garden
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured_pictures/Places/Architecture/Cityscapes#Germany
  •  Info created by Plozessor – uploaded by Plozessor – nominated by Plozessor -- Plozessor (talk) 06:53, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose This picture is perfectly pleasant and it looks like a lovely day but I am missing any great tension to the composition. Everything is straight parallel lines - the bank of the river, the grass, the row of buildings - and there's nothing to give the eye a bit of contrast, nothing to really invite us into the scene. Therefore for me this is QI but not FP. Cmao20 (talk) 15:16, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Sorry, technically good but this sort of photo works better if it includes less or more. If you crop it, you can let the viewer's gaze rest on something; if you make it larger, you get a full panorama. This in between looks random, especially with the cut fountain to the right. One idea could be to emphasize on the trees and call the new photo something like "Three kinds of trees in Bad Kissinger Rosengarten". See image note. --Cart (talk) 16:45, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thx, will consider that. --Plozessor (talk) 18:29, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 I withdraw my nomination

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Orange-headed thrush (Geokichla citrina), Gazipur, Bangladesh.

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Cape Burhan, Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal.
I think I can fix the tilt and put more sharpness into it. But what about the highlights? What do you mean by ‘toning down highlights’? The histogram is balanced, there is no overexposure or clipping. The midday light is a bit harsh but actually beneficial for a marble/quartz/graphite rock like this. Maybe by ‘toning down highlights’ you meant ‘raising up shadows’ or what? --Argenberg (talk) 12:30, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No, I meant that even though the histogram is fine, some of the highlight colors are rather glaring. Such things don't show up in a histogram since it only shows the color as other than white. Take a look at how rich it looks with only a 3% reduction of highlights in this example. The difference is most noticeable in things like the white sign with text. That version is also corrected for tilt. (Feel free to use it in any manner if you like.) --Cart (talk) 13:39, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have reprocessed the file according to your suggestions. --Argenberg (talk) 15:24, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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La Défense district seen from the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France.

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Pepper No. 14 by Edward Weston
  •  Weak support To give this candidate a little love: While I share Cart’s unease about the background etc., I also understand Weston’s fascination for the bizarre shape of this pepper. It looks like a carefully crafted little sculpture, and depending on your state of mind you can see in it a complicated sexual scene from the Kama Sutra, or a couple in protective embracing of their new-born child, or a pietà with Saint Mary weeping over the body of her dead son, etc. The lighting and perspective seem simple, but are perfect to emphasize the multivalency of this pepper. – Aristeas (talk) 09:19, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --MZaplotnik(talk) 19:14, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support per Aristeas. My own first instinct when I saw this was that it was a sculpture of two in embrace. --UnpetitproleX (Talk) 02:28, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Weak support Promotion because of the interesting shape and the historical value in the art of photography. It is a pity that the pattern in the background is irritating, we do not know if Edward Weston chose it deliberately or carelessly. -- Radomianin (talk) 09:30, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment They way I see it, is that we already have the best pepper from this series as an FP, File:Pepper No. 30.jpg, and that makes me more picky about a second photo from it. In most series of similar objects, there is one photo that stands out and represents the collection. --Cart (talk) 10:54, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Plum-headed parakeet in Bangladesh

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Lineated barbet in Bangladesh

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The Chapel of Saint Mary of the Snows, Kacwin
I would go with 'Places/Other' since everything except the mountains is agricultural fields with fences between them, and that is man-made land although covered with snow. --Cart (talk) 15:53, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think Natural is a better category. The mountains are a big part of the picture, and the land, even if cultivated by humans is still Nature. Yann (talk) 17:56, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It's the mindset that anything growing, cultivated or other, is 'Nature' that's got us in much of the mess the planet is in today. But that's a discussion for another time and place. --Cart (talk) 18:08, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Cart, please change it if you think that'd be for the best! You do a great job of organising the galleries and I won't insist on the gallery I initially chose if this one would fit better. Cmao20 (talk) 18:37, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hmm, yes I see what you mean but I wouldn't say a lot, it's there and visible mainly in the mountains in the background but I don't think it distracts from the composition and I don't find it noticeable except at full size. Cmao20 (talk) 18:37, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Unfortunately, it's in the chapel, trees and bushes too. I've made you a cleaned up version here. If you want it, you can do what you will with it. --Cart (talk) 18:52, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Your version is pretty obviously better (well done). But I'm not sure of the ethics of replacing a picture when the author is unlikely to see the replacement or be able to assent to it (seems only to be active at WLM time). Cmao20 (talk) 18:57, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    You can always make it an 'Alternative', but you have to do without me for a while. I twisted my knee on my walk through the forest this afternoon and it hurts like hell, so I'm grumpier than usual now and I obviously do not belong in polite society. Sorry! --Cart (talk) 19:17, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
     Comment Many thanks for the well-done editing, Cart – and I am so sorry for the accident, get well soon! Well, IMHO we should not upload the improved version over the current one, and maybe even the author itself should better not do that: This photo won the 1st price of WLM 2024 in Poland, and because exactly that version won the price, major changes are a no-go according to COM:OW. (Unlike the current wording of that page, I think that noise removal is a major change because it is a global manipulation and significantly changes the appearance of an image; at least I would not overwrite any of my own local WLM or WLE winning images with additional noise reduction). But there is a simple solution which has been used for many other FP candidates: Please, Cmao20, upload the edited version as a new file, linking it to the original one with {{Derived from}}. Then you, Cmao20, can either offer it as an alternative version or (much simpler) just exchange the candidate here with the edited version – whatever you prefer. I would appreciate it very much if you could do the one or the other, because this is such a wonderful winter scene and now, thanks to Cart’s editing, much improved. – Aristeas (talk) 19:22, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oh no Cart, that sounds really painful - I'm so sorry to hear it. I've only just read the section about your accident. Please take all the time you need to rest and recover. We'll miss your presence, but your well-being comes first. Wishing you a gentle and speedy healing! -- Radomianin (talk) 08:18, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Painkillers have also become my friends since the surgery, but please be careful that they don't do any harm in the end. I wish you a good recovery, especially that it doesn't get worse. All the best :) -- Radomianin (talk) 19:33, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]


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The Chapel of Saint Mary of the Snows, Kacwin

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Blackspotted puffer (Arothron nigropunctatus), Anilao, Philippines.

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View across the Achensee towards Pertisau
JayCubby I guess you're right, but now it should be fixed - please have a look! --Plozessor (talk) 04:06, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Plozessor Yes, you are right -- now changed! JayCubby (talk) 12:48, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Klay Nag temple, Lamothe dhar, Jammu, India

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Pyramid roof of Piramide Shopping Center (Blok 44, Belgrade)

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Koch tribal woman, Bangladesh
  • Thank you, Basile. I've contacted the author by email and asked if he could provide a higher resolution version of the original file. If he sends one, I'll be happy to update the image accordingly. I appreciate your technical observation! Best regards, -- Radomianin (talk) 05:38, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Update: @Basile – I've now received a kind and thoughtful reply from the author Nayeem via email. Unfortunately, he no longer has access to a high-res version of the photo. In agreement with him, I'd like to quote his words here: "Unfortunately, I don't have a higher resolution version of that image." I apologize that this update isn't more satisfying. Thanks again for your careful review. Best regards, -- Radomianin (talk) 09:29, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thank you very much for your constructive feedback, Poco. I actually discussed this image via email with a couple of fellow Wikimedians previously and had originally suggested a crop - cropping the left side and applying the rule of thirds on the right to add more visual interest, which would have resulted in a derivative work. But in the end, I decided to stick with the original composition. On the second look, the centered framing felt like it brought out the calm and light of the scene in a way that worked really well. I also wanted to stay true to the photographer's original intent. That said, I totally get where you're coming from - your take was actually my first instinct too. Best regards, -- Radomianin (talk) 18:00, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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A stall selling lavashak (Iranian fruit paste sweets) in the Darband district of Tehran, Iran.

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Antiopella cristata, or sea slug

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Bydgoszcz Waterfront

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Palm warbler

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Northern white-crowned shrike (Eurocephalus ruppelli), Tarangire National Park, Tanzania

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Abstract pattern on a tree stump (black and white)

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Xu Wei Flower Scroll

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Gold chain with gemstones and enamel, late 16th century, The Royal Armoury, Sweden.

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Sent, municipality of Scuol, kanton Graubünden

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Oriental skylark (Alauda gulgula), Lalganj, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India.

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The Gandhi Bhawan in Chandigarh, India.

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Children at rice mill
  • I couldn't agree more with Aristeas - thank you, Cart, for creating this new gallery section. As Homo Ludens, we discover who we are, process experiences, and unfold our personalities through play. It's good to see that spirit given a place within the gallery. -- Radomianin (talk) 15:38, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Achacha fruits and seed
  • I get where you’re coming from for sure. I like Ivar’s fruit because they always make me want to learn what this kind of fruit is like, and because the detail is so good. But as you say it’s more illustrative/encyclopedic rather than artistic/imaginative. Cmao20 (talk) 02:51, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Tadej Pogacar (Yellow jersey) in the peloton of Tour de France 2024.

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Columbine flower

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View from Verdinserstrasse over Schenna

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People using the revolving doors of the entrance to Torp shopping mall, Uddevalla Municipality, Sweden.
Not sure to understand why "Singapore", but there are too many dark parts, from my point of view, especially the top of the image completely black. Everything here is silhouetted, not just the people. And the image looks over-processed -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:43, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --MZaplotnik(talk) 13:08, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I don't see anything remarkable which would lead to FP status. 50% of the picture is only black. Yann (talk) 11:41, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I’m still undecided, but it’s actually a clever feature that most people are just silhouettes without any recognizable features. Otherwise the people in the revolving doors would be very easily recognizable and it would be a severe infringement of their personality rights to publish a photo without their explicit consent (cf. the European GDPR). There are exceptions for press photographs, but Commons is not press photography, and therefore the legal status of the photo would be quite problematic. By hiding their faces in the shadows Cart has completely worked around this problem while still showing the revolving doors in full action. – Aristeas (talk) 15:43, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    However you decide (or not) I'm really glad that someone has recognized what I'm trying to do in many of my photos with people. I love street photography and to document everyday life, hopefully in a cool or artistic way. But to comply with the rules on Commons, you need to be creative in how you depict people, especially for FPC. Using silhouettes is a clear favorite for me. I don't see the problem with the percentage of black in the photo, we have other FPs using the same technique, examples. --Cart (talk) 16:19, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support I am rather hesitant. But it does fit. I had to look for a long time to see what was so appealing about the photo. At first it looks a bit restless, but the strong contrast is the real strength of the photo. --XRay 💬 18:01, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support per XRay (and my own reasoning). After looking for a while at it I find the composition and the strong contrast quite impressive. The latter also even adds a touch of mystery to the image. – Aristeas (talk) 19:24, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Per XRay en Aristeas. To me, on closer inspection, this is a sophisticated photo where the dark areas are important details.--Famberhorst (talk) 05:01, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 09:03, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support It took me a while, but yeah, I see why this should be FP now. It's the fact that each of the silhouetted figures is framed within the 'openings' in the revolving doors. It's one of those moments that isn't easy to replicate, takes an artist to see (I don't think most photographers would have taken this shot at all), and it conveys quite a dynamic impression. Each of the figures is doing something a little bit different too - one has her back to us so we can't see, but of the others, one is carrying an ordinary plastic shopping bag, one has what looks like a gift bag, and one is looking at (I think her) phone. It's those little details that make this a piece of photographic art, not just a photo. Cmao20 (talk) 19:54, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  SupportVulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 16:22, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I understand the artistic intent, but it just doesn't work for me. Top third is almost entirely black pixels, the cluttered background breaks any hope for a pleasing symmetry, there are a lot of unintended reflections and glare, and the image is overall not very sharp. Side note, in many countries and Sweden specifically, you don't need consent to take and publish photographs of people in public places. AVDLCZ (talk) 17:20, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I know about not needing consent here in Sweden, I'm just trying to treat other people in a respectful way. I have some personal experience with how you can be treated if other people think they are entitled to do things, just because it's not against the law. Besides, photos uploaded on Commons are allowed for commercial use, and you do need consent for that in Sweden. --Cart (talk) 18:03, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Per Yann, I see nothing here that makes my heart beat faster Poco a poco (talk) 09:53, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral While I see the intent and the innovative way to capture people, the picture as a whole doesn't appeal to me. The contast would have worked for me with a less cluttered background, but of course that is out of the photographer's control. —UnpetitproleX (Talk) 10:00, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Fire breathing show at CUET, Bangladesh

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Paddy fields in Sikkim, India

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Reticulated sandperch (Parapercis tetracantha), Anilao, Philippines

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Paro Taktsang monastery in the upper Paro valley of Bhutan.

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Result: 1 delist, 3 keep, 0 neutral → not delisted. /--Cart (talk) 13:23, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Ertholmene aerial view

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Chestnut-tailed starling (Sturnia malabarica), Bangladesh.

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Kori bustard (Ardeotis kori), Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania

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United States Marine Corps Private Theodore James Miller is pulled aboard a Coast Guard transport after returning from battle on Eniwetok, 1944.

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Hermit thrush

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Pope Francis, 2024

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Camp: Notes on Fashion exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Callistocypraea aurantium (Gmelin, 1791), Golden Cowrie; length 9.2 cm; Originating from Balut Island, Philippines

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* Support ZarlokX (talk) 20:12, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Operating an aerial camera Wild Heerbrugg from a biplane Häfeli DH-5 for aeronautical photogrammetry

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Baroque crucifix in the protestant church of Bonfeld, Bad Rappenau, Germany, seen in candlelight

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Wrocław - Jahrhunderthalle

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Two trains are leaving the Hůrka Prague Metro station

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Faint aurora, a meteorite and some clouds over Tuntorp
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena#Aurora
  •  Info (No, not a scene from Wicked...) Despite the less colorful aurora, this is one of my own favorite aurora photos because of its spooky composition, incidentally shot during Halloween season. The aurora was rather faint, making it appear dark green against the black sky in a way that didn’t overwhelm the stars or the little settlement below, the wispy clouds adding to the atmosphere. And of course, the meteorite that made a perfect appearance for a couple of seconds.
The photo is made as a panorama, a trick I learned from another aurora photographer, and I thought I’d share with people here who might like to try similar shots. When you photograph the aurora, your camera is almost always tilted upward which results in leaning buildings and trees. Correcting that, you get those big pesky empty triangles in the lower corners. So you take your main photo and then add one on each side of it to fill in those triangles. That way you get a decent composition too. This is not something you need to think about if you shoot auroras in a landscape that doesn’t require perspective correction. For newbie aurora hunters, I always recommend starting at a beach or on a hill, where you can enjoy the show instead of thinking about the technicalities. All by me, -- Cart (talk) 13:22, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

* Oppose Only two active FP nominations per user are allowed. AVDLCZ (talk) 14:17, 22 April 2025 (UTC) {{FPD}}[reply]

Apologies, I didn't notice the other nomination was just closed. AVDLCZ (talk) 14:39, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That's ok, we've all been eager newbies here and learned from our mistakes. :-) --Cart (talk) 15:08, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Obergasse in Alsfeld, Hesse, Germany

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Fenestrelle Fort and Chisone Valley at sunset
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Portrait of electronic musician Kelly Lee Owens

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So-called "Mortuary chapel" in Bettenburg landscape park near Hofheim in Unterfranken

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View from the Pflerscher Scharte into the cirque with the Sandessee and the Italian Tribulaunhut. The striking rocky peak on the left side is the Goldkappl.

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Disused but not yet decommissioned tracks of "Steigerwald railroad" between Gochsheim and Grettstadt
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  •  Info created by Plozessor – uploaded by Plozessor – nominated by Plozessor -- Plozessor (talk) 04:44, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Nice shot, certain QI, but otherwise I cannot find anything special about it. Sorry --A.Savin 09:06, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Sorry but I think I agree with A.Savin here. The central vanishing point is not very interesting, it's all quite a bland composition. I also think the picture doesn't seem to have many shadowed regions, everything is quite bright and I'm not sure this suits the subject. Image quality is of course as high as ever and I like the motif but it doesn't feel like a featured picture to me. Cmao20 (talk) 12:20, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Nature returns. --Thi (talk) 12:28, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support I find the whole abandoned feel of the image eerily calm. Would've been better if the photographer had stepped slightly to the right, but still works for me. --UnpetitproleX (Talk) 23:38, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose sorry. Normally scenes like this one have problems like overexposed highlights, harsh shadows and some noise in the dark areas. We all try to mitigate these problems, but when we go too far a photo can get an unnatural, artificial look, and IMHO this has happened here. There are no (real) shadows in the image, and in areas with slight shadows (e.g. at the trunks of the trees at the left), the image has a painterly look, like some noise reduction tools produce it. Honestly when looking at these details I wondered first whether this is an AI-generated image. As it isn’t, as the Exif data state, I can only assume that the post-processing has caused this look. In any case, the result looks too artificial for my poor old eyes, sorry. – Aristeas (talk) 06:44, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thank you – I agree that the alternative is a big improvement. I would not oppose that version. In the meantime I have taken the liberty to take a look at the XMP data in the original image and the raw conversion settings explain the artificial look. Temperature 5800 is quite warm for a midday scene; Contrast -78, Highlights -100, Shadows +88, Blacks +30, Clarity +100, Vibrance +100 are very daring settings, to put it mildly. The new version reduces some of these values – Contrast +5, Highlights -100, Shadows +64, Blacks +30, Clarity +25, Vibrance +60. Honestly I think that reducing the highlights by more that 50 is almost always problematic (better use additional local reduction, if necessary); Shadows > 50 is rarely needed, but can be useful in rare cases; I almost never raise the blacks (only use negative values like -5 to -20 here if appropriate); I used to use values like Clarity +15, but today apply Clarity only locally, where needed; Vibrance +60 is still very daring and would already be sufficient to say that the result will very probably look quite unreal (typical values are around 10, rarely 20). Do with these remarks what you want; you can ignore them; I just want to give you a hint which settings may cause an artificial look.Aristeas (talk) 14:05, 25 April 2025 (UTC) @W.carter: I remember your excellent hints on such settings; maybe you could add a short comment on the tasteful use of Clarity and Vibrance? Thank you! – Aristeas (talk) 14:11, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Sorry Aristeas, I didn't get the 'ping' for some reason. Each toggle in Photoshop has its own specific and good area for their use, but to use them all in extremis like in this photo is too much for me, I wouldn't know where to start with it. I know there are parts of the photo community who like these dreamy photos, where all is beautiful, but to me it's an artificial look. Clarity can be used in big doses on clouds to get some shape in them, to clean up murky waters or define ice crystals or architecture, but for foliage only use very small doses. To go over 22 in Vibrance is never a good idea if you want to avoid psychedelic colors, and if you use a lot of it, you might want to tone down the Saturation. In a way Vibrance and Clarity are each other's opposites, Vibrance adds to bright colors and Clarity makes them grey. In this photo, I think you started with a too bright exposure. The exposure bias is 0. Leaves always reflect light, so the default would be -0.3EV, perhaps go down to -0.7EV with the sun at your back. Once you started to edit to compensate for the brightness, other values became worse and you tried to compensate for them, and it domino-ed into this result. Also keep in mind that Commons system displays photos differently than Photoshop does. What might look ok on your monitor can look weird when uploaded, especially with very processed photos. Hope some of this is helpful. --Cart (talk) 19:11, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you all for your comments! Sorry for not replying earlier, was busy taking pictures 😉 I appreciate your comments! Plozessor (talk) 16:45, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Roundabout interchange, Belgrade, Serbia