Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Great alpine road

Great Alpine Road edit

Great Alpine Road, decending "The Gap", between Omeo and Swifts Creek

Captures the warmth of the surrounding landscape in Autumn, set in the context of the Great Alpine road. I've nominated this version with the truck in it as trucking is a key characteristic of the road. I've uploaded a second version: Image:Great alpine rd outside omeo02.jpg which was taken after the truck passed by (no cloning - promise!).

Support Self Nom. --Fir0002 10:15, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Technical merit as always with you. But the significance of the Mt. Hotham/Alpine Road/Swifts Creek region doesn't strike me high enough to to feature the twentieth (?) picture depicting it. And if this weren't a panoramic image would anyone consider featuring some truck on some road? --Dschwen 17:33, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support Lol, and here I am drooling over it - then again, I'm from Victoria but have been out of the country for the last year. I kind of have to agree - let's just all agree that yes, it's yet another stunning panorama of country Victoria by Fir0002, but we have enough for our collection. Actually, having said that, I just checked out Great Alpine Road, and it is everything we want in a FP - despite the fact only a small part of the road is visible (by necessity), the picture does a fantastic job of conveying the surrounding countryside. This is exactly what pictures about roads, rivers, regions etc should be. Stevage 22:15, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose I agree with Dschwen. Photography is not only about technicalities. I do not find any way that this picture add value to an article and help complete readers' understanding of an article in ways other pictures in the article do not.--Pedit 21:05, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User has only 7 edits, 6 of which are on FPC --Fir0002 22:14, 27 July 2006 (UTC) [reply]

It is irrelevant how many edits I made, also my contribution may as well be more to this page for the future as well. The essence of what I said is true according to the criteria for FPC Wikipedia:What is a featured picture? . There is a great need of a proper group of photo editors to comment on photos which appears on the front page of such a great project as wikipedia!!--Pedit 02:29, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It is common practice here, on RFA, on AFD, etc, to alert users when a brand new account is placing a lot of votes. — BRIAN0918 • 2006-07-28 04:24

Oh! I did not know. Sorry about that. I did not mean anything bad. Though I am new to contributing, I am have been using wikipedia for years, and I love this project. I thought starting with a newborn baby is a good idea! Thanks for guiding me.--Pedit 04:35, 28 July 2006 (UTC) [reply]

OpposeYah, this is nice and it makes me want to go to Australia but I just think that maybe we need to give the whole Australian panoramic thing a break.--Henry A-W 04:45, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was thinking about that, but in the end, disagree. If we have 50 articles about fairly obscure topics, and we have 50 excellent, high quality images to illustrate them, we should count ourselves exceptionally lucky, not reject them. I wouldn't want to see more than two FP's per article, but two seems acceptable to me. Stevage 08:52, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose great photo, but its not special, the article already has one FP which i personaly believe is better
Oppose The photo's subject isn't really the road. If anything, the road is the weak point of the photo.– Morganfitzp 00:05, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted Raven4x4x 05:51, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]