Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Kalmar Castle

Kalmar Castle

Kalmar Castle in early August sunshine

Edit of original picture, has been cropped and straightened

Nominate and support. - I feel this is a beautiful picture of Kalmar Castle, Sweden, in early August sunshine taken in 2005. The colours in the picture are bright and pleasing to the eye and the tree in the foreground frames the picture well. Also has quite high definition picture quality. It appears in the English Wikipedia page for Kalmar. Electricmoose- Electrifying ^talk 17:54, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral The tree really dominates the image; kalmar is relegated to a small part of the frame, leaving no detail in the thumbnail. It's a pretty picture, but it could be better illustrative of the castle if it took up more of the frame. Also, the castle itself is blurry, tilted, and obscured by a branch. Night Gyr 18:22, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Update Thanks for comments, I have cropped and straightened original picture, I could also straighten the original too if anyone felt it necessary as well. Thanks again. Electricmoose- Electrifying ^talk 18:40, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The tree in the foreground does not frame the picture very well. It is just a distracting, unneeded object - especially for an illustration in an encyclopedia. Mikeo 19:00, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Interesting shot. But, as above, it does not illustrate the castle particularly well. bcasterline t 19:04, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Artistic, but not encyclopedic. ~MDD 46 96 21:31, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, It's not very upclose and whats with the tree? -- BWF89 02:07, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose as per MDD4696. --Janke | Talk 07:02, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. It is, quite simply, a (not very attractive) "artsy" shot. However, wiki is not an art exhibition, it's an encyclopedia, and this picture does not "exemplify Wikipedia's very best work" (to quote "Wikipedia:What is a featured picture?"). --Pharaoh Hound 12:21, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Opppose very poor image quality at 100% zoom. chowells 14:22, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, the castle itself is totally obscured, in shadow, and small. And yeah, the tree dominates far too much for an image which is meant to illustrate the castle. Stevage 19:11, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Too much tree and not enough castle - Adrian Pingstone 20:29, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Too much space taken by the tree. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 09:40, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Needs more cow bell. Mooveeguy 17:15, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted howch e ng {chat} 18:38, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]