Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/St James's Park Lake

St James's Park Lake

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Original – St. James's Park Lake. Looking east from the Blue Bridge towards the fountains and Duck Island. Various landmarks are visible from this popular viewpoint, including the London Eye, The Shard and the government buildings in Whitehall.

Reason: A popular London view which includes many landmarks (see annotated image description page & article for details). An attractive, high resolution image of the park's lake and surrounds.
Articles in which this image appears: St. James's Park, Parks and open spaces in London
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Urban
Creator: Colin

Support as nominator --Colin°^Talk 23:18, 12 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support. This is the most pleasing view of St James's Park, and it's about as high resolution as anyone could want. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 12:15, 13 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Diliff... nice picture... gazhiley 12:57, 13 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
support Although I'd like to know where you got an 80mm lens from.©Geni 16:33, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your support. I've fixed it to say a 50-150mm lens at 80mm. To me, it isn't really important whether the lens was a zoom or prime as far as the picture is concerned. A zoom becomes whatever lens you want it to be. I get frustrated when I see books and magazines say a pic was taken with a "24-70mm" lens without saying what focal length was when they actually took the picture. Colin°^Talk 16:38, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support – Meets FP criteria, and I like the ducks. Sasata (talk) 16:50, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The ducks were better arranged in this image, but overall the lighting is better in this version. --ELEKHH^T 00:56, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps I could photoshop Diliff's ducks into mine. He he. It would have been great to get a pelican in the shot - there was one in the west side of the lake. -- Colin°^Talk 08:16, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support Good composition. --ELEKHH^T 00:50, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Very nice, high EV. Cat-five t c ---- 13:15, 21 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:St James's Park Lake – East from the Blue Bridge - 2012-10-06.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:17, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]