Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Autumn Oak - Broadhall Way - Stevenage.jpg

File:Autumn Oak - Broadhall Way - Stevenage.jpg, featured edit

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Info created by Colin - uploaded by Colin - nominated by Colin -- Colin (talk) 23:24, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Colin (talk) 23:24, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Excellent colors and resolution. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 23:35, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wonderful composition and quality. --Alex Florstein (talk) 08:12, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Nice image, but a huge so what?-factor. Kleuske (talk) 10:21, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If this were Wikipedia vice Commons that question might have merit. Regardless, not all landscapes need be of a pretty lake or mountain range. 131.137.245.206 11:07, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
This is British urban landscape. It's not the Champs-Élysées or Mount Fuji or a bird of paradise. Yet it can have beauty and educational value without there being a notable subject or being the lead image in a Wikipedia article. Here are the vivid colours of a sunny autumn day with the sun low in the sky. Here is the magnificance of an oak tree, with enough detail to see every crinkly leaf and each ridge in the bark. Here is a contrasting composition balancing the huge tree and hedge against the tiny dog walker in a bold red jacket. If your response to that is "so what?" then I ask if you are really living? Colin (talk) 13:26, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Excuse me for the non-standard reply.No wow is perhaps a bit more appropriate. Composition is nice but the subject is rather pedestrian. With a subject like that nice doens't really cut it. And yes i'm really living, but geoghraphically a bit spoiled when it comes to summer, winter, spring and autumn oaks. Kleuske (talk) 16:47, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Funny how people can have such varied opinions, as I see this as the only work of art up for consideration on this page. It is quintessentially English and quite striking in its composition. It also has a simple beauty about it. As for being pedestrian, well, that quip I suspect is unintentionally ironic. Saffron Blaze (talk) 17:18, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support --heb [T C E] 13:49, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tomer T (talk) 18:13, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Pine^✉ 20:11, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Very nice picture! --Ximeg (talk) 22:50, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- JDP90 (talk) 05:03, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Dey.sandip (talk) 06:18, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thanks Colin for this high resolution Christmas card. I'm not from the "pictures with EV only school; happy to occasionally support pictures with big wows and limited EV. JKadavoor Jee 07:17, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
~~Oppose~~ Neutral Good large image but no wow for me. Also missing essential information (panorama construction?). B.p.
- I've added the panorama construction info. -- Colin (talk) 18:36, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  - Thank you for the info update. B.p. 18:42, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Mainly because of the shadows in the lower part of the image. But WOW what a files size! took ages to load. - Uberprutser (talk) 14:41, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- My original intention was to take a picture of just the tree in great detail -- hence a large stitched image -- but a better composition presented itself. I could have downsized it but felt it was sharp as-is and so would only lose detail. I think the shadows at the bottom act like a natural vignette, keeping the eye away from the relatively boring road and focused on the subjects: the tree and the dog walker. -- Colin (talk) 18:36, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support I am not convinced the shadows add to the composition but I wouldn't consider them a distraction. The gestalt is exceptional. Saffron Blaze (talk) 00:17, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The shadows give me a good feel. Here in India, people (and animals too) prefer to rest under the tree-shadows when the sun is too hot. -- JKadavoor J e e 05:17, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Jee, here in England we have had three blue sky days since May. Shadows are not on our list of desires when the temperatures have not hit 25 all year. :) Saffron Blaze (talk) 16:28, 16 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support Excellent composition and colors --HK Arun (talk) 18:46, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Tamba52 (talk) 15:25, 16 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support - A.Savin 10:52, 17 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Michael Gäbler (talk) 00:45, 18 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Beautiful fall colors! Michael Barera (talk) 19:23, 18 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Kürbis (✔) 20:52, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 17 support, 2 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /A.Savin 21:50, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Natural