Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Australian Mounted Police Victoria

Australian Mounted Police Victoria

Original - Mounted police officers on standby at a peaceful demonstration at Hazelwood Power Station, Victoria. Note the facial armour that the horses are equipped with. This protects the animals from any indirect projectiles or attempted assaults to the face. The horses are also equipped with rubber horseshoes (yellow), and shin guards with reflective tape to aid visibility. The officers are wearing high visibility rain coats, as well as riot protection helmets to protect against both accidentally falling off or melee weapons and thrown projectiles.

Reason: It clearly demonstrates the type of equipment used by the Australian mounted police force. (note: This is an edit performed by jjron, the original is File:Australian Mounted Police Victoria.jpg)
Articles this image appears in: Mounted Police
Creator: Simpsons fan 66

Support as nominator --Simpsons fan 66 08:15, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support. A solid image- technically sound, good composition, valuable as a means of illustration. It's not perfect, but it's good. J Milburn (talk) 10:26, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I think the background line is still tilted from straight, most likely due to camera lean. Brand[t] 11:09, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The image was shot on a hill; I wasn't about to ask four officers to move and form in a line elsewhere. :D --Simpsons fan 66 11:33, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, having edited this I set the verticals of the fence behind to be vertical. That still left the fence tilting down horizontally indicating that indeed they were on an incline. Refer to its PPR review last week. --jjron (talk) 12:20, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support. The facial horse armour adds EV plus pleasant gamma. Brand[t] 07:12, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Weak support as per Milburn. Lacks a bit of wow, but is generally technically sound and informative. --jjron (talk) 12:22, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support - no wow but good.--Avala (talk) 22:27, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Later on there were some people trying to rip down the secutrity fencing but framing a photo then would have been rather tricky. ;) This was the best that I could get. --Simpsons fan 66 07:06, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose the railings directly behind really wreck this for me.--Otterathome (talk) 09:44, 26 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Australian Mounted Police Victoria-edit1.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 00:03, 27 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]