Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Matanaka - Granary, Privy & Schoolhouse.jpg

File:Matanaka - Granary, Privy & Schoolhouse.jpg, featured edit

Voting period ends on 9 May 2009 at 11:07:16

Info created, uploaded and nominated by Karora -- Ka ro ra 11:07, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Ka ro ra 11:07, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support nice shot, nice subject, composition works, technical quality very good. --Dschwen (talk) 12:04, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice to see that good noms are back. Excellent quality, composition not conform to classical rules but works Alvesgaspar (talk) 12:16, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support I like it. Good work. --Richard Bartz (talk) 12:22, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support would prefer to see the tree less centred (a bit more to the right) but the pic still works for me and quality is also good. --AngMoKio (talk) 13:06, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support ■ MMXX^talk 17:00, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lighting is good (despite relatively poor weather) and brings out the volume of the structures. —Notyourbroom (talk) 18:12, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Böhringer (talk) 21:09, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Albertus teolog (talk) 21:16, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Brackenheim (talk) 22:18, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support, mainly because of historical importance --ianaré (talk) 22:43, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- MJJR (talk) 20:43, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Tiago Fioreze (talk) 21:31, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Chrumps (talk) 22:00, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support, very nice. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 02:12, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose the composition is too centered, and in this particular situation it was possible to make it more interesting IMO.--Mbz1 (talk) 15:51, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Maybe nice picture technically but can´t really see relevenace of photographic merit. --Tomascastelazo (talk) 18:34, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice colour play, good quality. Lycaon (talk) 18:50, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Nothing special IMHO. —kallerna™ 17:10, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Sorry, not special enough for me. --Estrilda (talk) 18:11, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose As other opponents. --Karel (talk) 09:11, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support as above; love the colours & composition/framing Lx 121 (talk) 06:12, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I (obviously) proposed this because I do find it special. The buildings are the oldest surviving farm buildings in New Zealand, not that that is saying much - they're about 160 years old, but visitors will see few buildings of this age elsewhere in the country. In New Zealand wooden buildings probably survive longer than stone buildings because they are typically more resilient in earthquakes. I guess these are not much to look at, but their location on a bleak Otago coast is very austere, and I think this photo reflects that well. The other unusual thing about these buildings is that despite being New Zealand's oldest farm buildings they were prefabricated in Australia and shipped here. While this photograph doesn't fully reflect the bleakness of the whole landscape I think it goes a good way towards that, while still preserving a useful level of informational value in the details. No doubt there are better compositions if I just wanted a photo of some wooden shacks in a bleak landscape, and a composition which merely had less space on the right, or more on the left, might have worked better, but I believe this composition still works well, with the darker sky on the right, combined with the more vibrant colours of the Tasman Sea, somewhat balancing the strongly coloured buildings, and the barely surviving tree (which, curiously enough, is also an Australian import).
Support Eye-catching --S23678 (talk) 04:56, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support as above, and the image has the right "wow" for me. Finn Rindahl (talk) 18:23, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Aqwis (talk) 19:07, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

~~Support~~ clear composition --Mbdortmund (talk) 23:35, 9 May 2009 (UTC) Vote added after end of voting period. Maedin\^talk 14:42, 10 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

result: 20 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral => featured. Maedin\^talk 14:44, 10 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]